Birand Ardic

Birand Ardic has over 13 years of experience in the energy industry. In 2009, they began their career as an External Project Manager at Fbi Buildings Co. In 2007, they were an Intern at Ericsson Telecommunications. From 2010-2011, they were a Bilateral Agreements Specialist at Zorlu Energy. From 2011-2015, they were a Co-Founder & VP at Voltan Elektrik Toptan Ticaret A.Ş. From 2015-2017, they were a Strategy & Business Development Assistant Manager at ÖZGÜL HOLDING. In 2018, they were an External Consultant - Market Expert at Arthur D. Little. From 2019-2020, they were a Product Manager at Salix Digital. Currently, they are a Business Development and Sales Manager at smartPulse Technologies. In this role, they are responsible for understanding and following product team developments, acquiring new customers/business partners, providing market intelligence, interacting with compatible customers, overseeing customer billing, presenting the company to potential new leads, and presenting new products to existing customers.

Birand Ardic completed a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University between 2004 and 2009. Prior to that, they attended Robert College from 1997 to 2004. Birand also holds certifications from Coursera in Database Design and Basic SQL in PostgreSQL (2022), Using Python to Access Web Data (2019), Python Data Structures (2019), and Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python) (2019).