Talent
NonZero Ventures, founded by Mr. Mehran Farahmand. Under his leadership, we have assembled high integrity industry veterans dedicated to quality client service, sustainable, and innovative solutions. We form high performing teams with our clients, delivering sustainable values. Our work environment is collegial, and fun; committed to listening to the voice of our team members. While we draw upon the talent of our clients, network organization and alliances on each project, our day to day thought leadership is provided by a core team of seasoned professionals:
Mehran Farahmand, Managing Director and Founder
mehran@nonzeroventures.com
Mehran is an innovator, a client advocate, and a team mentor with over 23 years consulting experience globally. He has been a founder and leader of multiple organizations including Manugistics (JDA) Pricing Revenue Optimization Practice in Asia and IBM’s Retail Price Optimization Practice.
Mehran’s areas of expertise include customer strategy and profitability. He has created and led Business Process Redesign and Change Management Practices as well as a Professional Services organization for a Silicon Valley start up, involved in raising funds. Mehran has developed many business methodologies for assessing business processes, defining their technological requirements, and transforming organizations.
A true global consultant, Mehran has lived and/or worked in more than 20 countries. He is articulate in English, French, Japanese and Farsi. A firm believer in leadership through collaboration, Mehran brings out the best in people. He is passionate about serving clients and mentoring his teams towards a common goal, creating value for our clients.
Mehran has the following degrees:
- M.B.A. (emphasis on Organizations and Strategy)
- M.A. International Management
- M.S. Computer Science (emphasis on Artificial Intelligence)
- B.S. Computer Science
- B.A. French
Yosun Denizeri, Principal – Consulting Services
yosun@nonzeroventures.com
Yosun brings 15 years of experience in Pricing Revenue Optimization in various industries including Retail, CPG, and Travel and Hospitality. Energetic, with a contagious enthusiasm, Yosun has dedicated her career on working with cross-functional teams to better understand and address Customer Demand Management.
Yosun has led engagements involving Business Process Redesign, Change Management, and implementation of innovative technologies for merchandising, inventory management, demand planning, pricing, and promotions processes.
Before joining NonZero Ventures, Yosun led merchandising and inventory management initiatives at Gap Inc. where she worked with senior management and cross-functional teams in identifying opportunities for improving pricing strategies in competitive markets and localizing product assortment, size offering, promotions and markdown management for Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic and Outlet stores.
Prior to her tenure with GAP Inc. Yosun had a consulting career with Manugistics where she worked with clients in North America and in Europe to ensure successful implementation and adoption of pricing and promotions optimization systems.
Yosun obtained her M. Eng in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University at age 22, where she also received her B.S. in the same field.
Dr. Özgür Özlük, Principal – Decision Sciences
ozgur@nonzeroventures.com
Özgür has been an assistant professor in the department of decision sciences at San Francisco State University, College of Business since Fall 2003. He teaches courses in management science, operations management and statistics at the undergraduate, MBA and executive MBA level. He has also provided pro-bono consulting services for several for-profit and non-profit organizations.
Özgür is involved in the following research areas: practices of revenue management, ecological pricing issues, spreadsheet engineering, and general business applications of mathematical programming. In addition, Özgür is in the process of developing a portfolio of corporate education tools on topics varying from agile supply chain management to business analytics using spreadsheets. In the past, he taught in workshops on inventory management at large clothing retailers such as Gap.
Özgür’s educational background is in industrial engineering and operations research. He obtained his Ph.D. in operations research from UNC Chapel Hill in 1999. After getting his Ph.D. degree, he spent three years working as a quantitative modelling consultant for Caleb Tech, Texas (an airline scheduling company) and at the revenue management division of Manugistics, Inc (now JDA).
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