Sinan Sam Akyüz Akyüz

• INTER S.A. is a Swiss raw material/commodity supplier group with global offices around the world
•  I'm handling; product and volume-based market research through analysis of import-export data, search for new clients and distributors, finding sales agents and experienced representatives to create new potential business contracts, pricing, negotiating and doing client follow-ups; organizing trade fair and event participations worldwide, from Germany to Bangladesh to China to Colombia
• I have developed commercial relations and sales activities in the following markets; EUROPE (i.e. Spain, Portugal, Italy, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Serbia, Croatia) NORTH AMERICA (i.e. Canada, U.S.A.) EURASIA (i.e. Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan,Moldavia, Georgia), MIDDLE EAST (i.e. Lebanon, UAE), ASIA (i.e. Korea, Bangladesh), LATAM (i.e. Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador), and AFRICA (i.e. Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Ethiopia)
• In addition to my business development tasks; I have also worked and managed the developing of the Human Resources department of the company; posting job ads on various careers portals, reviewing large amounts of resumes, conducting one-on-one interviews with suitable applicants and choosing bright ones and even pre-training them for various departments ü As a result of my work, the company has penetrated and started selling in many new markets, countries and became a more well-known global player in its field

• Cornish Associates is one of the most well-respected urban planning and architectural design companies in the Northeast/New England region of U.S A.
• I have worked on the Downcity marketing campaign, aimed at developing the positive image of Downtown Providence, capital city of the state of Rhode Island.
• With the Marketing team and our Director, we have planned, organized and promoted special events and art festivals; written creative marketing posts daily on campaign's website and also managed its social media presence on Facebook and Twitter, in addition to designing colorful visuals using Adobe Photoshop

• RIIFF is one of the sixty-three film festivals in the world that qualifies for Academy-Awards(Oscars)
• I have worked on from organizing and categorizing the 3000+ film traffic to reviewing and selecting them according to the target audience and venues; from planning and orchestrating two sidebar programs, in addition to the main program, on my own and marketing and promoting the festival locally and internationally.
• I have been a memorable and strong member of the team and I'm still in touch with the executive level and industry contacts. 

A bachelor's degree in International Business and Marketing at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island, U.S.A. 

French high school diploma