Apr 2026 – Present · 0 mo · Palo Alto, CA · Hybrid

• ExDuco = Education = Vice versa.

Dec 2018 – Apr 2026 · 7 yrs 4 mos

• Study, parenting, systems thinking, founder reset.

Apr 2014 – Present · 12 yrs

Nov 1986 – Present · 39 yrs 5 mos

• Love. Truth. Freedom. Liberty. Justice. Learning. Communication. Decency. Virtues. Values. Moral Intelligence. Ethics. Social Manners. Growth. Self-actualization. Humility. Unity. Purpose. Vision. Mission. Life. System Design. Home. Development. Architecture. Building. Wisdom. Faith. Trust.

Apr 2014 – May 2014 · 1 mo · Istanbul, Türkiye

• Prof. STEFANO D'ANNA
• Founder of the Future Leadership of the World Program
• Author of 'The School for Gods and A Dream for the World'
• TEDxReset 2014 speaker: The Birth of the Individual - A Dream for the World.
• Stefano aimed to inspire specially selected students to be future leaders by guiding them with teachings about unlimited love for freedom, a sense of excellence, and being a part of an indestructible unity.
• https://profstefanodanna.com/about/
• https://profstefanodanna.com
• It was a TEDx Talk, and it was the moment we met my second-best mentor after my father. We met at "The Birth of the Individual - a Dream for the World: Stefano D'Anna at TEDxReset 2014 Talk in Istanbul on a beautiful spring day.
• He asked the audience what the meaning of "Külliye" was, referring to the old Ottoman Turkish education style of schools, and I was the first one with the correct answer.
• We spoke in the lobby after his talk at a break. I mentioned my passion, interest, and innate abilities, talents and skills for sociology, without having a formal education on the subject matter. And that I may have special gifts sociologically.
• He looked at me in depth with his shining eyes while embracing his beautiful smile and said, "That's the best kind."
• Our souls were connected immediately.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBApWTN-DH8
• https://www.futureleadersfortheworld.com/category/news-events/
• https://www.futureleadersfortheworld.com

Sep 2009 – Dec 2018 · 9 yrs 3 mos · Las Vegas, NV • Orinda, CA • Istanbul, TR

• I bought us a small guest house for our European vacations, and yet the title said “Wooden Mansion” in the type section.
• Found out that there was a huge mansion where they have demolished in 1957 with the rest of İstanbul, while widening and building main boulevards. “It was all part of the plan” as Agent OSO would say, not mine.
• Nine years of research, permits, and building without any bribes. Reconstruction of a famous historical missing landmark from the ground up, an art nouveau 18th-century hand-built wooden Ottoman Mansion.
• Most detailed research and original, factual reconstruction of any civil architectural restoration in Turkiye.
• Largest presentations, pitch decks of 20+50+220 pages with over 300 original photographs presented to the historical society and Culture of Ministry of Turkey.
• At legally paid little cost, personally, negotiating, unearthing, exposing, revealing, collecting, sorting, scanning, and donating thousands of 8"x8" Cold War era, top-secret pre-1957, 1937, and 1952 aerial photographs of almost every building in Bosphorus, central, walled old town, the golden horn and historic Istanbul from "The General Directorate of Mapping of Turkey under the Ministry of National Defense, General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces in Ankara, Istanbul Municipality's secret archives, secretly being used for personal gains, not since 2011 as I scanned most and donated them to related authorities. Overseas collections worldwide, local private collections, and my collection I have accumulated within nine months.
• https://kulturenvanteri.com/en/yer/ahmet-faiz-bey-kosku/#17.1/41.115334/29.062319
• https://kulturenvanteri.com/e5fa57f8-22e2-4d10-a6ef-ca0ddc6211eb/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20180824040304/https://ahmetfaizbey.com/

Sep 2004 – Dec 2017 · 13 yrs 3 mos · Las Vegas, NV • Istanbul, Türkiye

• Manufacturing/Export— Inventions of 12x24" cladding stones and modular wall panels in China and 24×24×1¼″ pavers in Turkiye; set US market standards.
• I invented, produced and had them installed 24x24x1 1/4" natural stone pavers and was the first to export-import any size pavers to the west of Houston, Texas. Having built a product standard in the USA, I innovated and produced unique natural stone building products in China, sustaining significant export success. These became building standards in the USA, especially for custom homes.

Jul 2003 – Oct 2013 · 10 yrs 3 mos · Las Vegas, NV•Los Angeles, Orinda, CA•İstanbul, TR

• Design/Distribution — $10M net profit first 4 yrs; 300+ custom homes; UHNWI and HNWI clientele. I also became among the few self-made 1% at age 38 after the first year by working my way, HNWI as well.
• We designed and supplied all the natural stone needs, both interior and exterior, for hundreds of the largest custom homes in Las Vegas.
• Our direct clients have included homes of Celine Dion, Paula Abdul, Harry Reid and his son, Pierre Omidyar, Floyd Mayweather, many other celebrities, and high-end business figures.
• Created the largest natural stone distribution warehouse in Nevada, supplying high-end markets and significant projects.
• Still, an unbroken record, Nevada, USA, had an inventory of 1.7 million square feet of cut-to-size natural stone inventory at any given day for a decade.
• Invented, introduced, and manufactured unique 24x24x1 1/4" natural stone travertine pavers, pool copings from Turkey, and 12" x24" cladding stone modules from China, setting us apart in the industry.
• I sold %80, designed and purchased %100 of them in an industry with no knowledge nor experience.
• Architecturally Improved commercial and custom home building while providing climate and energy-consumption-friendly, safe, sustainable, reusable, maintenance, and user-friendly products, including wall cladding and coverings, mosaics, borders, sinks, vanities, interior staircases, pavers, planter caps, pool copings, pre or custom made.
• Major natural stone supplier to Las Vegas, NV, CO, UT, CA, AZ, TX, NJ, NY, FL, AL, ID, OR, WA, HI, and many other western and eastern US ports, with a 600-container-per-year volume for several years.
• Our products have graced the homes of global celebrities, politicians, and top business people, as well as iconic Las Vegas establishments like Mandalay Bay and The Venetian, and even featured on the set of Flipping Vegas, an American reality television series on A&E in the United States.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipping_Vegas

Jan 2003 – Jul 2003 · 6 mos · Las Vegas, NV, US

• Sales Associate in the flooring department. I finished learning the industry before founding Stone Emporium while bootstrapping in July 2003.

Sep 2001 – Sep 2002 · 1 yr · Las Vegas, NV, United States

• I learned about the flooring business before starting StoneEmporium.com, becoming the #1 or #2 sales associate.

Dec 2000 – Sep 2001 · 9 mos · Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

• Bootstrapping. Sales at Cingular Wireless.

Sep 2000 – Dec 2000 · 3 mos · Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

• Dell Inspiron and Latitude laptops technician at CoreLogic CRM center.

May 2000 – Sep 2001 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Goweekly.com
• Citizen Media Network — Seven years pre-YouTube/Twitter/Facebook global public media concept. Weekly Arts, Entertainment, Education, News, Blog, and Vlog is an international public media company.

Apr 2000 – Sep 2001 · 1 yr 5 mos

• TurkInternet.com
• Online media directory, tech news/analysis portal.
• https://web.archive.org/web/20020531152802/http://www.turkinternet.com/

Apr 2000 – Sep 2001 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Yeskart.com
• Marketplace/E-commerce Builder — Online catalog/commerce experimentation.

Apr 2000 – Sep 2001 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Kirkpinar.com
• Cultural Heritage Media Lead — Traditional sports/heritage content hub.

Apr 2000 – Sep 2001 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Mehter.com
• Music/Heritage Content Producer — Ottoman music/arts digital presence.

Sep 1999 – Oct 2002 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Turkishbaklava.com has corrected the misinformation about "Baklava" in the USA. Built the largest US and Turkish confections portal; brand distro, featuring 60 pages of products and knowledge. The most visited page was "History of Baklava," which drew visitors from K12 schools in the USA. Retail and wholesale, it is the sole distributor of a 200-year-old leader brand, Gulluoglu, from Türkiye. An agreement with no end date is still in effect today.
• A deceptive supplier, a dishonest and greedy owner of the factory.
• I fired him after designing and writing his entire packaging, followed by the rest of the country.
• Some of these included terms such as "Organic, handmade, and Aphrodisiac," which I coined and introduced to the Turkish confections industry.

Apr 1999 – Sep 2002 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Domainci.com
• Owner of 1483 unique and sectoral TLDs, the world's most extensive inventory of Turkish .coms in 1999. Ahead of GoDaddy.com with the same ideas and business models as the registrar.

Mar 1999 – Dec 2002 · 3 yrs 9 mos

• Venture Studio Lead — Parallel ideation, brand, and product prototyping.
• Creativity - imaginatio-onis, ingenium
• Universe - Versus-Unum
• Balance - Bilanx
• Education - Ex-Duco
• Culture - Cultura, colore.
• https://web.archive.org/web/20110917055243/http://www.cubec.com/profile.php

Sep 1985 – Dec 2018 · 33 yrs 3 mos

• I circumnavigated the globe at age 20 first, traveling earth since 18.
• 100+ countries; firsthand service and market insight.

Dec 1984 – Dec 2018 · 34 yrs

• Investing first homes at ages 17, 22, 26 with self made funds where now we will confirm the status quo with investment funds coming soon to a theater near you.

Apr 2000 – Jun 2003 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Hybrid

Mar 1999 – Apr 2000 · 1 yr 1 mo · Las Vegas, NV, US

• The Mansion at MGM is the world's most expensive hospitality property built per sqft. I was in the opening team, working with Mr. Kirk Kerkorian, R.I.P., Mr. Terrence Lanni, R.I.P., Mr. Felix Rappaport, R.I.P., Mr. James Murren, Mr. William J.(Bill) Hornbuckle and of course fantastic lady Mrs. Ly Ping Wu as part of the grand opening.
• Closed to the general public, invite-only guests with a $7,500/night rack rate where guests paid none, a requirement of gambling $1M per night, NBA team owners, celebrities like Barbara Streisand, Fairuz, who performed at MGM Grand Arena, like Charles Barkley, Bruce Willis, James Woods, Ben Affleck and many others who just would like to have fun.
• We have arranged our private planes to pick up guests from Hong Kong, Macau, China, Turkey, US and provided limitless services.
• Because of our success in bringing back the top %20 players of the Las Vegas market based on 80/20, vice versa rule, most of them from Wynn Resort's new Bellagio back to The Mansion, MGM Grand purchased Mirage Resorts, including Bellagio, in February 2000, becoming the largest hospitality company in the world, MGM Resorts International.

May 1998 – Oct 1998 · 5 mos · Seattle, WA • New York, NY

• I helped launch, run, and lead Showtime Pictures' operations at two iconic American landmarks — the Seattle Space Needle and the New York World Trade Center.
• At the Space Needle, I built and managed a talented team of fifteen and helped establish the tower’s first-ever photo-concession startup. From installing equipment to shaping the guest experience, my focus was on service quality, speed, and joy for every visitor.
• New York World Trade Center was to fill the GM role to put some fires out since the GM was jailed and had to run over 30 employees with a day's notice in Seattle. New York is where I wrote a check I am owed and walked off since I was promised a partnership in Anaheim, CA location as a startup, yet the owner lost the contract.
• Earlier, I coordinated logistics and supported operations across other U.S. locations — from Graceland (TN) to Sears Tower (IL) — ensuring consistency, training, and operational readiness.
• Ultimately, I chose to move on when I realized my values around honesty and culture didn’t align with the company’s direction, returning to California to continue my entrepreneurial path with integrity at the center.

Mar 1998 – May 1998 · 2 mos · Beverly Hills, CA

• The Best Hotel in the World in 1997 by the Gourmet magazine.
• I left home and LA for a promise of being a partner at Showtime Pictures, where I was lied to.

Dec 1997 – Dec 1997 · 0 mo · San Francisco, California, United States

• Royal Family of Brunei, H. Jefri Bolkiah’s Family

Mar 1997 – May 1998 · 1 yr 2 mos · Los Angeles, California, United States

• Transcendental Meditation
• https://www.tm.org/
• https://www.miu.edu/about-miu/transcendental-meditation-technique
• https://www.linkedin.com/school/maharishi-international-university/

Dec 1992 – Jan 1993 · 1 mo · Burdur, Turkey

• 3’ÜNCÜ PİYADE EĞİTİM TUGAYI
• http://www.kkk.tsk.tr/
• Founded BCE: 209
• Kara Kuvvetlerinin kuruluş tarihi olarak, Büyük Hun İmparatoru Mete Han’ın tahta çıkış tarihi olan M.Ö. 209 yılı esas alınmıştır.
• 58’İNCİ PİYADE EĞİTİM ALAY KOMUTANLIĞI
• BURDUR
• http://www.kkk.tsk.tr/egitim/3.P.EGT.TUG.58.P.EGT.pdf

May 1992 – Apr 1996 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Los Angeles, CA • Tokyo, Japan • World

• Crystal Cruises is the World's most-awarded Luxury Cruise Line.
• Crystal has been recognized with top honors in the Condé Nast Traveler Readers' Choice Awards for a record 35 years, voted “World's Best" by the readers of Travel + Leisure for 20 years, and won the “Best Luxury Cruise Line" by Virtuoso for four years (2014, 2015, 2016 & 2018). Crystal is proud to be a platinum partner of the advisors of ASTA.
• I managed the customer service of the most expensive and extensive rooms on the floor at sea on the most luxurious ship in the World during the '90s, M/S Crystal Harmony.
• While being a team leader of the penthouse floor, we broke the departmental world record in customer service and friendliness, receiving 9.98/10 and 10/10 from 62 penthouses of 124 VIP guests during the Christmas cruise of 1995-1996, which helped us to continue being the best cruise ship in the World.
• Crystal Cruises has consecutively been the best luxury cruise liner in the World for 2-3 decades since its launch in 1990.

May 1992 – Jun 1992 · 1 mo · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

• Barcelona Summer Olympics VIP Service, including personal assistance to Evander Holyfield, Madonna, and many other celebrities, owners of Mars Corporation, Ms.Jacqueline Mars, several UHNWI clients, dignities, and gold medalists during the Olympics.

Dec 1991 – May 1992 · 5 mos · Bakırköy, İstanbul, Türkiye

• Crowd-sourced auto financing and marketing firm. Dad and brother-in-law as partners. Despite the unhealthy business environment, Dad was great and a delight to work with, but the brother-in-law was not.
• Although I sold 150 cars in the first two months, I left Türkiye again.

Feb 1991 – Dec 1991 · 10 mos · El Paso, Texas, United States

• Country, state, novelty 3’x5’ silk screen flags, textiles, patriotic and novelty wearables, caps, production, import, export, and national wholesale distribution.

Nov 1986 – Jan 1991 · 4 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco, CA • Oslo, Norway • World

• Best Cruise ships and the cruise industry leader of the world for two decades through the '70s and '80s, transferring the leadership to Crystal Cruises after Crystal Harmony was built.
• Royal Viking Sky and Royal Viking Star were each chosen to be the best cruise ships in the world in those years while I was also on board.
• I have traveled to over 100 countries and 1,200 cities, mostly between 1985 age 18 and 1996.

Sep 1985 – Nov 1986 · 1 yr 2 mos · Miami, FL • Ocho Rios, Jamaica • Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands • Cozumel, Mexico • Labadee, Haiti

• Age 18. The primary and only operator of all Casinos and betting in Austria and overseas concessions, including 60 cruise ships. Casino Istanbul @ Hilton Hotel
• M/S Song of Norway-RCCL, Miami, FL
• M/S Royal Viking Sky-RVL, Oslo, Norway
• M/S Royal Viking Star-RVL, San Francisco, CA

Apr 1984 – Sep 1985 · 1 yr 5 mos · Şişli, İstanbul, Türkiye

• Strategic planner at the headquarters of TGI International at age 18. I worked closely with Mr. Peter Wilton, the CEO and founder of the company, who is based in Australia.
• Together, we strategized TGI's Hilton Mersin, Hilton Ankara hotel partnerships, casino's real estate investments, cash count and reporting innovations, and much more at age 17, since I started to work in the casino at age 16 and after Hilton management interfered at 17 for me to be transferred to the headquarters while waiting to become 18.
• A private games dealer, #1 amongst 30 dealers, all older than me, at Casino Istanbul, owned by TGI Tourism Enterprises Int., operated by Casinos Austria first, later by itself at Istanbul Hilton Hotel.
• I have manually created Excel sheets, colored with colored pencils and inks, for forecasting, daily accounting, cage and floor operations, and the entire casino.
• Summarized two years of daily casino results in multiple currencies with dynamically input exchange rates into spreadsheets of 2 pages.
• Mr. Wilton offered me a brand new Aruba Island Casino Manager position and Head of Caribbean Operations, as well as a 5% stake in London, UK's new pleasure arm.
• I kindly declined; I wanted to travel on the love boats and see the world, life, people, animals, geography, countries, nature, oceans, underwater, and the whole earth.

Sep 1983 – Mar 1984 · 6 mos · Taksim, İstanbul, Türkiye

• Leader of Türkiye in fashion, design, media, Power FM radio, music, visual arts, sports, retail, production, philanthropy, etc.

Jul 1983 – Aug 1983 · 1 mo · Levent, İstanbul, Türkiye

• Age 16. My first attempt to enter the media-entertainment industry was after deciding not to become a physician or a dentist. The first private and largest TV production studio in Türkiye was owned by my aunt Suheyla Minareci R.I.P., my uncle-in-law, Tahir Minareci R.I.P., and their daughters, and a small share by Uncle Tahir's brother, a crook gambler, Kazim Minareci. He later stole and bankrupted the whole studio with the help of Nuri Kantar from Kaynanalar, a famous TV show.
• As a member of the pre-opening team, I was deliberately mistreated because of my candid nature and because I did not fit into their deception plans. Wheel of Fortune Turkiye, hosted by my friend Tarik Tarcan, was produced there, as were many other successful productions that would have made us media kings. I moved on after a couple of weeks to become a DJ.
• Minareci Import Export Co., headquartered in Munich, Germany, was the first and sole distributor of most Turkish singers, actors, movie studios, and TV shows on beta video and music cassette tapes in Western Europe.
• The “Wheel of Fortune” was filmed in the Turkish market and many other international TV shows.

Oct 1982 – Mar 1983 · 5 mos · Ortaköy, Istanbul, Türkiye

• Age 15. I then started in fashion terry cloth socks retail at my high school of 3,000 boys to come up for half the cost of Adidas Top Ten, NBA, and National teams’ basketball shoes.
• As promised, my father suggested he would pay half of the cost after I devised an idea to earn the other half for the shoes purchased from Germany.
• I made enough to be able to buy at least 30 sneakers before I closed the shop when a competitor started copying the idea and lowering the profits. My purpose, task and wishes were filled with more than I could have ever asked for. Sold the rest of the stock at cost and moved back to schooling since it wasn’t just about making money.

Jun 1980 – May 1983 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bakırköy, Istanbul, Türkiye

• Age 13-16. Physiotherapist at my Dad’s private practice.
• Our beautiful forward thinking Father was also the co-founder of the first Acupuncture Association of Türkiye.
• An entrepreneur, a builder, a doctor, a teacher, a modern dervish, wonderful man, a great father, an angel on earth. F.I.P my father, a wonderful soul.
• He specialized in rheumatology, physical medicine, and internal medicine and was great at helping people unconditionally, including not accepting payments for some of the long treatments.
• I have witnessed him saving a few people’s arms and legs from being medically cut off due to the misdiagnosis while treating them, helping to get well and not charge any money, all free out of his time on earth. Random people we met on the streets or in public transportation.

Jun 1978 – Aug 1978 · 2 mos · Cihangir Caddesi. Cihangir, İstanbul, Türkiye

• Age 11. Fresh produce salesman in training.

Aug 1976 – Aug 1979 · 3 yrs · Üsküdar, Istanbul, Türkiye

• During summer breaks, I worked at my uncle Yılmaz Yükler’s F.I.P., LPG gas distribution businesses covering the Asian side of İstanbul.
• Provide service and deliveries to homes, covering most of the Asian side of the city.
• Marketing and selling Aygaz and Ipragaz LPG tanks and in-house produced side-products as he was the owner of Üsküdar Aygaz AS and Bağlarbaşı İpragaz AS, two of the largest distributors on the Asian side of the city.

Jun 1976 – Sep 1976 · 3 mos · Sormagir Sokak, Adnan Çakır Apt.No:54/4 Cihangir, Pera/Beyoğlu, İstanbul, Türkiye

• At age 9, my first business was the lottery of my older toys for cash in order to buy new ones.
• New toys at the 'Japanese Toy Store' in Beyoğlu, the largest in the city as well as ordering from my aunt living in Munich, Germany.
• I created and made all the lottery cards and the prizing system.
• Target markets were all of the streets in the neighborhood near home, including our own.
• The large drawer of my bed became the shop, and it walked everywhere in the neighborhood.
• The entire business and all of its details were my ideas.

Sep 1975 – Sep 1980 · 5 yrs · No: 77/B Sıraselviler Cad. Cihangir, Beyoğlu, İstanbul, Türkiye

• Age 8-13. Mom's, R.I.P., Mrs.Sabahat Yükler’s shop and co., named after my sister Aylin Keserkaya (Yükler), the Turkish Republic’s general election voting record holder, still at %96.2%, serving her seventh term as an elected government official.
• Our mother, Mrs. Sabahat Yükler, an entrepreneur, a chef, a painter, an artist, a sculptor, a great wife, a fantastic mom, great woman, was an angel on earth.
• She was the first and the only producer of %100 cotton female bras and custom-made corsets in Turkey for over 40 years before and after she passed away, saving my life in a tragic car accident in 1975.
• Logistics of production and our distributor retailers' account receivables collection every week, liaison between WFH remote workshop production and outsourced production of independent homemakers.