Our Team :

Ahmet Kayhan CEO/Founder Ahmet Kayhan is the Co-Founder and CEO of REIDIN.com. Prior to setting up REIDIN.com he was the Regional Manager of ISI Emerging Markets, A Euromoney Institutional Investor Company responsible for the MENA Region and Global Business Manager of IFIS – Islamic Finance Information Service. He has spent 6 years with ISI Emerging Markets and involved in different levels of this international online information businesses. He set the Cairo and Dubai offices and developed the MENA Regional Business Intelligence Services for ISI Emerging Markets. He also headed the team which launched IFIS – Islamic Finance Information Service for ISI, world’s first online information service focusing on Islamic Finance sector. Ahmet is a member of ULI – Urban Land Institute (www.uli.org) and APREA – Asian Public Real Estate Association (www.aprea.biz). He holds a BSc in Management Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey.

Mehmet Erkek CIO/Founder Mehmet Erkek is the Co-Founder and CIO of REIDIN.com. Prior to setting up REIDIN.com, Mehmet also worked for ISI Emerging Markets between 2000-2005 as a Technology Manager responsible for the online products covering Turkey, Sub-Saharan Africa and MENA Regions. After ISI’s acquisition of CEIC, he worked for CEICData as the Senior Project Manager based in Chile then Hong Kong. He speaks English, French, Spanish and Turkish and is member of IEEE, Turkish Informatics Association, PMI and Servas.

Charlie Nixon Regional Manager - Asia Pacific Charlie is in charge of REIDIN.com\'s Asian operations and is based in Hong Kong. Charlie brings to REIDIN.com seven years of experience in the online information and publishing industry with a career spanning Europe and Asia. Joining ISI Emerging Markets in 1999 he rapidly rose through the ranks to run the Western European sales operation before being transferred to Hong Kong and the emerging Asian region. Charlie also spent three years as Asia Publisher of EuroWeek, Euromoney’s flagship capital markets newspaper, launching several new titles across the region. Charlie is a graduate of Oxford University having studied his BA Hons degree at Keble College.

Mete Varas Head of Business Development, Europe Mete Varas serves as Head of Business Development, Europe. In this capacity Mete has regional responsibility for all operations across company’s all functions.    Mete has been a prominent entrepreneur in high-technology businesses for more than a decade, involved numerous ventures as a founder and/or executive. He is a co-founder and non executive Board Member of VY-Media. Previously, he was Country Manager of iSentry, a leading provider of intelligent products for digital signing and encryption. Before that, he was the co-founder of TurSign, Turkey’s first Certificate Authority and Datascope, one of Europe’s first electronic investment platform. Prior to that, he co-established Internet Securities Emerging Market Service (ISI) Istanbul Office in 1996 and served as Information and Marketing Manager until 1998.     Mete Varas was a speaker at various conferences and has several articles about e-business, electronic and mobile signatures. He holds a Bachelor degree  in Industrial Relations and Economics  from Gazi University and an Masters of Business Administration degree from Southern New Hampshire University.