Seasoned business professionals with extensive web experience and complementary skills form the Netwise-Praksis management team.

Can Gurel, co-founder and managing partner of Netwise-Praksis, focuses primarily on the technological side of client solutions. Since becoming one of Turkey’s first Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers (MCSE) over 15 years ago, Can has stayed on the cutting edge of global IT developments. Under Can’s IT stewardship, Netwise-Praksis has developed into a leading web development and technology solutions provider with clients in Turkey, elsewhere in Europe and the US.

A web entrepreneur several times over, Can established e-commerce site Kilim.com – a purveyor of unique, handcrafted Turkish rugs and textiles for the home – in addition to a successful travel and real estate portal LetsGoTurkey.com. He also is behind tourism focused sites AegeanWorld.com and VisualTurkey.com. Prior to establishing Netwise-Praksis, Mr. Gurel worked within the financial services and consumer goods industries at Yapi ve Kredi Bank, Interbank and Bekoteknik

Can is a graduate of Harvard University with a BA in Economics. He is also an alumnus of Robert College, Istanbul, where he attended high school. In addition, Can is an active member of the Harvard Club in Istanbul, a passionate photographer (www.cangurel.com) and a coffee aficionado.

Hakan Ayer, is a graduate of Robert College, Marmara University Economics (undergraduate program), and Labor and Human Resources masters program, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University.

After working for Koç Holding in the human resources restructuring project, he worked as a specialist and then supervisor at Ford Otosan from early 1995 until late 1997. He spent two years in Boston and New York working on consulting projects and training workshops with Harvard, Columbia, Dartmouth, Ohio State, and consulting companies) in collaboration with Koç Holding’s consulting team in Istanbul.

After working for the IMF as a Human Resources Officer in 2001-2002, he returned to Istanbul to work for WWF Turkey as a management consultant for two years. From 2004 onwards, he took on head of human resources and member of the executive management team positions in Autoliv, Uzel Corporation, LG Electronics, and Allianz. He joined Praksis as a consultant in November, 2009.