Baglan Nurhan Rhymes, MSc
Baglan Nurhan
Rhymes, MSc is VP, Revenue, & AdOps at
AnchorFree.
Baglan runs the business operations and monetization of
AnchorFree, the world’s most
popular consumer based Virtual Private Network (VPN) which has been
downloaded by 50
million people worldwide. This VPN is enabled for security and privacy,
at the same time it helps bypass censorship. AnchorFree played a major
role
in the Arab Spring since the only way people could reach Facebook &
Twitter
during the revolution was through AnchorFree’s Hotspot Shield.
Prior to her work on VPNs, she was the Head of Media for a French ad
agency that represented Gucci Group in the US — one of the top
corporations worldwide.
Baglan earned her MSc in Economics at
Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey in 1992. She earned her Master’s
in
Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, USA in 2003.
She speaks Turkish and English.
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