Atilla BILER was born in 1974 in Ankara. He was graduated from TED Ankara College in 1991 where he attended primary, secondary and high schools. He received his undergraduate degree from the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at the Middle East Technical University (METU) in 1995, and his master’s degree (MBA) from the Department of Business Administration of the same university in 1998.

He started his career as a Research Assistant at METU during his master’s program, continued as a Product Planning Engineer at ASELSAN, had a short experience abroad and after returning back to Turkey completed his military service as an Information Systems Officer. He worked as a Senior Researcher at TUBITAK Information Technologies and Electronics Research Institute (BILTEN) for more than three years, and then started to work at TÜRKTRUST A.Ş. in 2004, where he has been involved since its establishment. After taking on many roles and responsibilities in information security, corporate management systems, operations management, project management, software development and information technology services in this company, he worked as a Business Development Manager and Advisor to the R&D Center for quite a long time. During this period, he had the opportunity to work actively in many sectoral bodies and non-governmental organizations as well.