Murat Balaban

Murat Balaban is the founder and CEO of Sunny Valley Networks. Being a veteran in the industry, he spent over 15 years in building large scale commercial and open source products which are enjoyed by thousands of people around the globe.

Sunny Valley Networks being the fourth in the line, he previously co-founded three cyber security startups. He was the co-founder of Vizyon Arge Teknoloji, a high tech incubator which gave birth to two successful startups; Surgate Labs and Inseptra Systems.

Surgate Labs, which got acquired by Comodo Group, had been providing E-mail security solutions to large enterprises. Inseptra Systems, who attracted substantial investor interest with a Series A valuation of 18M USD had been providing enterprises with tools to visualize, optimize and secure their networks.

Being an active member of open source community, Murat is one of the founders of EnderUNIX Software Development Team which in the time was the most active and productive open source community in Turkey. EnderUNIX promoted the use of FreeBSD Operating System and was famous for its open source software projects. EnderUNIX was a real school for geeks, and many open source gurus and activists have graduated from this school. Murat personally created and contributed to many open source tools and papers within EnderUNIX.

Murat holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Information Systems from Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Turkey.