NANOIDENT Technologies AG, the world leader in the development and
production of printed semiconductor-based sensors, today announced
that Mr. Cenk Serdar, Chief Value Added Services Officer for Turkcell
A.S., was named to the company´s Supervisory Board in a recent special
shareholders´ meeting.
"We are pleased to welcome Mr. Serdar to the NANOIDENT board,"
said Klaus G. Schroeter, NANOIDENT CEO. "We are expanding our sales
and business development activities, and his extensive sales
management experience and global network of contacts to leading IT and
communications companies will be a definite asset. We look forward to
his knowledgeable guidance and insight as we continue to build our
company´s leadership role in the printed semiconductor industry and to
bring new applications to market."
Mr. Serdar is Chief VAS Officer for Turkcell, whose founding
shareholder MV Holding recently invested in NANOIDENT. An experienced
executive in communication technologies and IT, Mr. Serdar has a broad
background in strategic planning encompassing sales, marketing,
business development, and operations management, with a track record
of significant revenue and profitability growth. Having graduated from
the Industrial Engineering Department of Bilkent University, Ankara,
he later received his MBA from the Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania. He held several executive positions in various
industries, mainly in technology and finance, before being promoted to
Deputy CEO of Dogus Automotive AS in charge of Sales and Marketing. In
January 2005, Mr. Serdar joined Turkcell Group as General Manager of
its Mapco value-added services division, until persuading Turkcell to
combine Mapco with the company´s other VAS initiatives into a single
organization; since then he has established Turkcell as a pioneer in
value-added services both in consumer and corporate segments, which
include mobile broadband, mobile advertising, mobile payment, mobile
government, and an award-winning mobile signature service.
"NANOIDENT´s technology will enable highly reliable mobile- and
web-based security solutions, as well as cost-effective mobile test
systems for medical and environmental applications," Mr. Serdar said.
"I look forward to working with my fellow board members and the
management team at NANOIDENT at this exciting stage of the company´s
development, as it moves into sales and volume production of these
innovative solutions."
About NANOIDENT Technologies AG
NANOIDENT´s high speed, environmentally friendly manufacturing
process utilizes liquid nanomaterials and additive production
techniques. These liquids are used to print electronic circuits on a
wide variety of surfaces, producing products in mere hours for
prototype as well as high volume applications. The company´s printed
semiconductor devices can be bendable, disposable, light, ultrathin,
and large area. They have application specific spectral and electronic
properties, and can contain light sources and light detectors as well
as electronic circuits. These unique characteristics enable
cost-effective, custom designed devices for applications such as
industrial, chemical, biological, and biometric sensors.
Privately held, the company is headquartered in Linz, Austria,
with subsidiaries in Menlo Park, California; Nuremberg, Germany; and
Grenoble, France.
