Who Am I
İlkyaz Yeşilşerit

The operator behind Anthos Consulting.

Seven years of turning early-stage chaos into working companies, one system at a time.

İlkyaz Yeşilşerit
I build the connective tissue of early-stage companies.
Investor Relations | Operations | Business Development | People & Culture
Profile
A bit about how I work

I'm an operator who builds the connective tissue of early-stage companies. Over the past seven years I've worked in the technology industry, taking companies from idea to market as the founding non-technical hire and owning everything outside of engineering: investor relations, operations, business development, legal, and people. My crypto experience spans five years, including early hands-on work on a Helium Network (HNT) crypto mining hardware product, and my last four years have been focused in the AI space, working and competing with companies like Anthropic.

I do my best work in lean, fast-moving teams where the job is to turn ambiguity into systems. I've stood up finance, legal, and hiring functions where none existed, raised and reported to investors, opened enterprise pipelines, and kept the day-to-day running so founders could stay focused on the product, all while holding a high bar for quality and catching the details other people miss.

I'm a seasoned team leader who has worked across international teams and multiple time zones throughout my career. I adapt to new situations quickly and turn complex, ambiguous situations into clear value for every stakeholder involved, communicating seamlessly across cultures and borders.

$10M
Total raise supported end-to-end across 30 investors
45%
Cut in monthly spend, from $200K to $110K in five months
7,000+
Qualified accounts built into an enterprise pipeline from zero
60+
People hired, onboarded, and offboarded, with time-to-hire cut to 30 days
Experience
Where this track record was built
Two companies, four roles, and a consistent thread: building the structure that lets everyone else move faster.
Process Manager & De Facto Chief of Staff, Dria (formerly FirstBatch)
Jun 2022 – Jun 2026 · New York, US
Product Manager, Customer Success Team Manager & Marketing/PR Consultant, Mimiq
Oct 2019 – Jun 2022 · Istanbul, TR
Education
Formal training and continued learning
Yeditepe University
BFA, Language Interpretation and Translation · 2015–2019

Alongside my degree, I've kept building formal knowledge in the areas I work in day to day: financial markets and leadership at Yale, program and project management through Google, IBM, Microsoft, and PMI-aligned coursework, and human resources through HRCI, plus specializations in private equity and venture capital, marketing analytics, and bookkeeping.

Beyond the Desk
A few more things about me
Languages
English and Turkish, native. French, elementary. Russian, beginner.
Mobility
10-year US visa and extensive Schengen travel history, with the ability to obtain additional visas on request. Fully comfortable with international business travel and available on-site when needed.
Interests
Oil painter and photographer, with a special interest in landscapes and nature.
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