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Aydin Koc currently consults on business strategy matters to small companies and non-profits and has been an angel investor with the Keiretsu Forum for several years. He is also a Board member of Turkish Philanthropy Funds, the first diaspora organization of the Turkish-American community employing the community foundation model to fund philanthropic activities and initiatives in Turkey. In the 2001-2007 timeframe, he was the CFO of ChildCare Careers, a very successful temporary staffing agency that was later bought by two private equity firms.

In the 1987-2001 timeframe, Aydin served in senior executive capacities in a number of semiconductor firms in Silicon Valley. He is a past President and CEO of BitBlitz Communications of Fremont, CA., a venture-funded semiconductor start-up. Previously, he was Senior Vice President and General Manager of ZiLOG’s Home Entertainment Group and the President of the Optical Storage Group at Oak Technology. Aydin also spent about a decade in increasingly responsible management positions at LSI Logic Corp., culminating in marketing responsibility for a $1.2B business worldwide.

During 1981-1987 periods, he worked as an international management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group and Booz, Allen & Hamilton, advising Fortune 1000 companies worldwide on their corporate strategies

Aydin is a valedictorian of Tarsus American College in Turkey, has received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electronics Engineering with high honors from Middle East Technical University in 1972 and 1973 and an M.B.A. degree from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1981. He lives partially in the San Francisco Bay Area and partially in İstanbul and is active in the California Turkish-American community for the last 30 years.