Since 2006, Aydın Şenkut’s Felicis has invested in over 100 companies, 47 of which have been acquired by industry leaders such as Apple, AT&T, Disney, eBay, Facebook, Google, Groupon, Intuit, Microsoft and Twitter. When Google was founded in 1998, Aydın Şenkut was hired as the first international face of the company. Şenkut joined Google in 1999 as its first Product Manager to launch Google’s first 10 international sites, its first online search licensing products and its first Safe Search. He then became the first International Sales Manager at Google, responsible for world-wide licensing deals.
In February 2007, Yalçın Ayaslı founded the Turkish Coalition of America. Since 2009, the TCA has organized 16 Congressional Delegation trips to Turkey and has taken more than 155 members of Congress and senior staffers to Turkey and surrounding countries. Beside TCA, Serpil and Yalçın Ayaslı family founded the Washington, D.C.-based Turkish Cultural Foundation in 2000 to support cultural projects in Turkey and share Turkish culture with the rest of the world. The foundation began working with the World Affairs Council of New Hampshire to send American teachers to tour Turkey in 2007. 
They were born and raised in Turkey in a modest environment, yet Eren & Fatih Özmen have come to embody the American dream and the ideals of universal entrepreneurship and innovation. The story of Fatih and Eren Ozmen is a remarkable one of two young Turks who wanted to make the world a better place for all humanity and took their dreams and their determination, first to the United States, then around the world, and now to space. 
Chairman and CEO Muhter Kent recently wrapped a busy, week-long market tour across several countries in Latin America. He visited Colombia, Ecuador and Peru last week, announcing a $3.5B in new investments across those countries, in addition to eeting with political and business leaders, bottling partners, customers and employees. Kent also opened a new bottling plant and state-of-the-art consumer interactive center.
