Kenan Sahin

Who is Kenan Sahin?

Kenan Eyup Sahin is a Turkish scientist and entrepreneur in the United States.

After graduating from Robert College of Istanbul, he received both his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the MIT Sloan School of Management and then taught on the faculties of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst until 1985.

In 1982, Sahin founded Kenan Systems with a $1,000 personal investment and no outside funding, a company that grew to employ more than 900 people by 1999. In 1999 Kenan Systems was acquired by Lucent Technologies. He then became President of Lucent's Software Products Group and Vice President of Software Technology at Bell Labs,. In December 2000, Sahin left Lucent, and in late 2001, Lucent sold the assets of the former Kenan Systems to CSG Systems for US$300 million In 2002, Kenan took over the Technology & Innovation business of Arthur D. Little, a consulting firm which was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1886 and transformed it into TIAX, a leading technology development company.