Turan Sahinkaya

Turan Sahinkaya is a Senior Manager of Pricing in the Global Complex Pricing Group at AT&T. Turan Sahinkaya has been recognized as a strong leader throughout his tenure with AT&T, continually proving his technical and management expertise.

With an undisputed business-savvy style, Turan Sahinkaya earned the highly prestigious company-wide AT&T Global Award of Distinction for a sales tool innovation that resulted in cost savings of $1,000,000 to the company.

Prior to his time with AT&T, Turan Sahinkaya worked as a Staff Consultant for some of the globe’s most recognized industry leaders and Fortune 100 companies such as Accenture and Oracle Corporation.

Turan Sahinkaya has a deep passion for life that extends outside of the world of work to his family, soccer, rugby, coaching, entrepreneurship opportunities, and volunteer work.

Turan Sahinkaya played professional soccer in Europe at the age of 16 for Juventus Football Club for 5 years and Fenerbache Sport Club for 4 years. Turan Sahinkaya comes from a large family of professional soccer players from top European clubs and National teams throughout England, Italy, Russia, Turkey, and Germany.

In addition, as a youth growing up in Europe, Turan Sahinkaya spent his early childhood playing soccer for the prestigious Juventus Youth Football Club in Turin, Italy. Turan Sahinkaya’s parents named him after this great city in Italy.

Turan Sahinkaya is a graduate of University of California at Berkeley with a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, where he proudly represented his University playing 3 years Varsity soccer and 1 year Varsity Rugby. He was part of the championship rugby team that won the NCAA- defeating Army. This was an especially proud moment for his grandfather who was a renowned player for the New Zealand All Blacks for over 10 years and who went on to win several World Cups for New Zealand.

Turan Sahinkaya went on to earn a Master of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

During Turan Sahinkaya’s summers, he coached several youth select soccer teams in Northern California such as Ballistic United, Livermore Soccer Club, and Peninsula United Soccer Club in order to gain coaching experience.

Having coached his son’s Solar Soccer Club team based out of Dallas, Turan Sahinkaya led this team to an esteemed First Place World Championship at Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida in the boy’s competitive soccer division with his team going undefeated in all 8 games in the world’s largest 3v3 soccer event.

Knowing that giving back to the community makes the world a better place and is part of a successful life, Turan Sahinkaya donates his time and resources in helping his fellow man. He played an important role in mentoring troubled children through the YMCA, and working for Habitat for Humanity and Goodwill Industries International. Additionally, Turan Sahinkaya volunteers each year to help organize and work with the local Memorial Hoop Night basketball charity event fundraiser, whose proceeds go towards benefitting the American Cancer Society.

Turan Sahinkaya is the co-founder and developer of Timeless Keepsakes, Inc.tm, where he helped develop, research, and start the successful baby-related products business. Turan Sahinkaya was responsible for all facets of the corporation including international public relations, development of product, hiring sales crew, management of team, marketing, operations, sales, web-site development, vendor relations, and financial dealings.

Turan Sahinkaya is married to Lori Sahinkaya, a reporter, published writer, columnist, and recipient of the Texas Woman of Influence Award. They reside outside of the Dallas area and have four boys.