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Mehmet Oguz - CEO and President Mehmet Oguz, a native of Turkey, received a bachelor of science degree from Bogazici University in Istanbul. He then received a Master of Business Administration degree from Georgia State University Robinson College of Business. He served several Fortune 500 companies such as Coca Cola, GE, and Citicorp as a business intelligence architect earlier in his career. Mehmet founded Dealcup in 2006. Mehmet's research interests include nonlinear algorithms, pricing and revenue management systems, social algorithms and bees. He is a fan of Sergey Brin's market basket papers but he is more interested in basketball, shoots over 60% from the three-point-line, and consistently wins free lunches this way.

Ozalp Ozer - Chief Science Advisor Ozalp Ozer is a faculty member of the Department of Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University. His general research interests are design and control of production and distribution systems, management and coordination of global supply chains, pricing and revenue management. He is currently researching and developing contract and pricing mechanisms for sales channel management systems. He is also developing efficient algorithms that prescribe pricing and inventory allocation policies.  Professor Ozer has received the Wickham Skinner Early-Career Research Accomplishment Award from the Production and Operations Management Society in 2004, and the Eugene Grant Teaching Award in Stanford's School of Engineering by vote of students in 2003. He is an active consultant to industries such as high technology, electronics, automotive and financial. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Columbia University where he also taught prior to joining Stanford University.