Dr. Dogac Senol

Head of Technology, Research and Development at Tradesoft Business Services and its parent company ATP. Responsibilities: - Advisory to the CEO on emerging technologies and socio-economic impacts of them. - Key role in IT strategy development for both Tradesoft and its sister companies. - Managing software assets and intellectual property portfolio. - Managing the budget, process and teams of research and development projects. - New business development based on micro, macro and mega trends.

Group Manager at Financial Solutions department of Tradesoft Business Services, the clear market leader in Turkish capital market solutions. Main focus areas are: - Order management systems and FIX connectivity - Smart trading platforms (equities, derivatives and Forex) - Smart devices (Apple iPhone/iPad, Android, Windows Mobile) - Channel applications, financial systems integration and market data distribution - Mortgage credit scoring, financial services infrastructure and application framework

Technical and business lead at Financial Solutions department of Tradesoft Business Services, a subsidiary of Ata Holding. The software development team is specialized in managing several core components of financial business and investment banking applications around the world.

Efficiently designing financial information systems and supporting the analysis and software development teams on system integrations and financial operations.

- Analysis, design and development as a software engineer in the projects of Turkey's leader capital markets software ATP and GTP/Brokerage that is developed for global platforms. - Design, development, implementation, project management and deployment of Turkey's first FIX (Financial Information eXchange Protocol) project which aims order management in Istanbul Stock Exchange from abroad.

Behavioral Finance

High Honors Masters Thesis: Prediction of Stock Price Direction by Artificial Neural Network Approach Publications: Senol, D., Ozturan, M. (2008). Stock price direction prediction using artificial neural network approach: The case of Turkey, Journal of Artificial Intelligence, 1(2), 70-77.

- Graduated as the rank one student of the class. - Full scholarship, high honors. - Student/teaching assistant for 2,5 years. - Responsible for the management of department server. - Founding member of IT research labs.

Double major. Full scholarship, high honors.