Murat graduated from the University of Adelaide/Australia with a B.Com degree. He holds an M.B.A degree from Kellogg/USA and WHU/Germany and its network programs at Tel Aviv Uni/Israel and Hong Kong Uni of Science and Technology/China SAR. Murat further has a LL.M. degree from the School of Law at Northwestern Uni in Chicago and a Doctorate in Business Administration from IE Business School (Madrid) specializing in network analysis/science. His research interest lies in narrow AI (particularly the area of machine learning, natural language processing, autonomous vehicles/robotics), Human Computer Interaction, Platform Technologies and above all Network Science which plays a crucial role in complex systems, and will be a core building block for future breakthroughs in research.
Murat founded SONEAN in 2013 with his team, building on its sister entity Funds@Work AG (F@W)`s experience since 2002 in over 250 international projects in the wealth, and asset management industry with more than two dozens of international awards received for its consulting & unique intelligence. SONEAN was designated as „innovative young company“ in 2015 by the German Ministry for Economics and Energy and became part of Germany`s Excellence in Big Data campaign rolled out globally in 2016. At the beginning of 2020 Murat joined SONEAN full time to develop its unique potential, and focus entirely on its Ecosystem Intelligence related vision.
In 2013 SONEAN also established the SNA Lab (www.snalab.com) which in the meantime has become the Network Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab. In 2021, in its 9th year, numerous new and existing Lab members got together again to learn about the application of network science and narrow AI related areas (such as machine learning, natural language processing, and robotics) to organizational challenges, especially with regard to data driven decision making (moving away from just gut feeling). The Lab helps SONEAN in identifying future colleagues but also, and more importantly, develop a new generation of talents with a 360 degree, and interconnected view of the world.