Selman Akbas

I'm an experienced quick learner talent and what I love most about my job is being a part of sustainable success. Currently, I work at Gais Security, where I both acquire new customers and manage existing customers. I am heavily involved in managing the sales and aftersales processes from proposals to agreements.

I have 15 years of experience in different companies and across a variety of industries. I've always had a customer-centric approach and in every role I've had my hand on customer related processes.

CEO at CLevel Services Consulting

Business Development, Projects and Sales Manager at Gais Cyber Security (Present)

• Increased customer base 50% by implementing CRM application.
• Executing projects, measuring sales closing rates, customer marketing strategies got easy, also supported business development efforts.
• Gained an increase in annual revenue by 50% through organizing and implementing direct strategies, decreasing process losses, effective pricing and cost cutting.
• Managed local & global partnership ecosystem.

Key Account Consultant at ODS Consulting Group

Serving SMEs and exporters with the professional perspective they need about grant procedures to upscale their businesses in the mean of local and global.

• Increased the customer base, and retention rate from %50 to %80.
• Coordinated customer success operations of over 100 projects, decreased process & coordination losses by almost %90.
• Explored additional verticals, like IT, Robotics and Entertainment industry and acquire new customers from these industries, increased by %50 of customer portfolio with new valued customers.

Sales and Marketing Specialist at Turkiye Is Bankasi

• Sales Incentive Projects Management on strategic products(Insurance, POS, Business Credit Card)

Marketing Specialist at Turkiye Vakiflar Bankasi

• Merchant Services & Credit Cards Product Management

Master of Arts in Regional and Strategic Studies – Galatasaray University (2013-06)

Bachelor of Arts in Public Finance (Including Tax, Accounting, Law and Business Management) – Marmara University (2007-06)

Bachelor of Arts-2 in Management Information Systems – Anadolu University (2022-01)