Mehmet Unsoy
Dr. Mehmet Unsoy is a Partner at Cartagena Capital, responsible for the North American market. He is a telecom technology leader, with 30 years of data, IP and wireless communication experience. Mehmet has extensive global market experience working with wireless and wireline operators in North America, Europe and Asia/Pacific, while being based in Ottawa, Tokyo, London and Dallas, during his career.
He was most recently CTO / VP Technology & Chief Architect for BT, BT Wireless and mmO2, a major mobile operator with operations in the U.K., Germany, Holland and Ireland, with total 19 Million subscribers. Prior to joining BT, he was with Nortel Networks, for 17 years, with senior management responsibilities in technology, product development, marketing and business development roles, in Nortel's enterprise, wireline and wireless divisions. He is currently or was serving as Advisor and Consultant to several large VC firms in the U.S., such as Vesbridge/St.Paul Venture Capital, Flagship Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, Atlas Venture, Kodiak Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. He is currently or has been also on the Advisory Boards of several wireless related technology companies, in the U.S., Canada and Europe, including Bridgeport Networks, mBlox, Roundbox, Mobile Wisdom, Kajeet, Teltier Technologies, Chantry Networks, Context Connect, Incucomm, Visage Mobile, Proquent Systems, Taral Networks (now Airwide Solutions) and Megisto Systems.
Mehmet has a BSEE degree from METU in Ankara, Turkey, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, Canada. 
