Incubation & Co-working

Sara Lerota is the Vice President of Strategic Partnerships in Ministry of Programming, a supercharged venture builder focused on supporting worldwide startups on their way to success. MoP was voted in the top 1000 fastest growing companies in Europe by Financial Times.

She is a startup mentor in Hackquarters accelerator (Istanbul and London) and cLab Ventures (London), a Western Balkans ambassador for Startup Ole (Salamanca, Spain) and has, over the years, supported and coached more than 60 IT startups, especially in the areas of partnership development and business modelling.

Ismail Haznedar is a Strategist, TEDx Speaker, Accredited SME Consultant, Certified Management Consultant (CMC) and Fellow Member of Strategic Planning Society (SPS). Presently he is Managing Director of Stratejik Isler, a management consultancy company and Founder of Gain Global, a network of action oriented supporters, investors and partners, commited to empowering starters in their journey to initiating new enterprises.

He speaks Turkish and English. Ismail Haznedar is Former President of Junior Chamber International (JCI), leading global network of active citizens. Haznedar was elected as 2015 President of the JCI, leading global organization during 100th Anniversary and served as 2016 JCI Senate Chairman. He is honored to be a life time member and Senator, is Foundation Member and Certified National Trainer (CNT).

Fadi works across multiple fields internationally in developing entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystems. He is a business consultant and mentor with many organizations across Europe, Africa, Middle East, and India.

Fadi is the Director of Business @Chemonics International – Lebanon Enterprises Development Project and Associated Partner @UPPERION.fr

He is a member of the Advisory board of Innorate, the European innovation rating platform. Also, a member of the Advisory board of InnORBIT, a project that supports Space industry start-ups and scale-ups to grow and commercialize their space solutions. 

I began my entrepreneurship journey back in 2004 when I was
merely 23 years old after graduating from Curtin University of
Technology in Perth. I used to run a creative media agency back
then mainly to serve numerous clientele ranging from industry
trade associations, government-linked agencies, public listed
companies and general SME owners for sizable corporate branding
contracts and project management work.