Empowered Startups Welcomes Gokhan Basaran to the Team

We are excited to welcome Gokhan Basaran to the Empowered Startups team as a Startup Leader. Gokhan brings with him a wealth of experience as an entrepreneur, a startup mentor and advisor, as well as international business development, and sales and marketing leadership. “Gokhan’s diverse experience in international markets will add great value to our entrepreneurs building Canadian businesses to compete on a global scale,” says Chris Lennon Empowered Startups’ President and General Counsel.

Gökhan is a marketing leader with 11+ years’ international business development and product marketing experience managing portfolios ranging from $15-$60M and leading sales and marketing teams. He is known for developing go-to-market and expansion strategies with hands-on experience in building and launching new brands in international markets. He has a proven track record as a brand builder and product marketer.

Before his role at Empowered Startups, he worked as a venture advisor at the Creative Destruction Lab – West in Vancouver. He mentored various scale-up companies on business development and establishing go-to-market strategies. He has over 11 years of experience in the electrical home appliances industry, where he held several roles in different business units like sales, marketing, brand and product management.

Gokhan is a mechanical engineer and has an MBA degree from the UBC Sauder School of Business.