Ahmet Eti

Ahmet Eti, the CEO of SEBIT 100% subsidiaries of Turk Telekom and Chairman of Sebit LLC as well as the founder of SEBIT AŞ and Sebit LLC (Arizona), is the creator of the award winning Vitamin and Adaptive Curriculum.

Driven by a passion for education and cognisant of technologies potential role on it, he began his carrier in 1988 as a Researcher in TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey). There, he held a succession of positions culminating in his founding of the Computer Aided Education and Multimedia Research Laboratory. Between 1996 and 2002, he managed numerous award winning global projects including Akademedia and its Chinese version, Tian-yi which lead to the acquisition of Sebit by Siemens Business Services.  As the Global E-learning Director of Siemens, he implemented the Malaysian Education Ministry’s Math and Science Teaching Courseware Development Project and also spearheaded iClass, the largest educational R&D project of the European Commission’s 6th Framework Programme. After being spun off from Siemens Business Services in 2006, he founded Sebit before selling his stake to Turk Telekom at the end of 2007.

One of the masterpiece product of Sebit Vitamin www.vitaminegitim.com, is an online e-learning solution which covers the entire curriculum of preschool, primary, middle and secondary education.

Turkey’s one and only personalized university preparation product Raunt www.raunt.com, World’s first educational search engine Egitim.com, Turkey’s first educational online shopping site “Vittrin” and a unique teachers’ professional development portal with distinguished live services reaching 120.00 registered users “www.vitaminogretmen.com” are some of the other products realized by his lead.

Adaptive Curriculum, the most recent project under his management has been honoured with several awards including; the CODiE Awards by The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) as “The Best Online Educational Solution” and “The Best Virtual School Solution”, “Best Content Service” award in the World Communication Awards and “Distinguished Achievement Award” by the Association of US Educational Publishers.

Eti has also served as the Turkish delegate of UNESCO at the Computer Aided Education Commission in 1989, a member of the Turkish Education Ministry’s Educational Technology Advisory Committee in 1990. In 2001, Eti was chosen Turkey’s Most Creative and Innovative Young Entrepreneur in the World Junior Entrepreneur Businessman Contest and in 2004 was honoured by the Professor Mustafa N. Parlar Training and Research Association’s Technology Encouragement Award.

Ahmet Eti received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University. He developed and held many projects in various countries for both governments and NGO’s with his expertise in creating and modelling innovative education solutions and highly contributed to the transformation of education globally.