FOUNDERS
Strong friendships of Güven Özcan and Serkan Özçelik goes back to 1990’s where they have graduated from same high school in their hometown. During this period, they have also worked in similar seasonal jobs in their summer holidays where they have mainly gained their communication and language skills. Somehow, they have also choosen the same degree for college study, Survey Engineering, which both will dedicate their professional lives more than 20 years in this field. Shortly after their graduation, they began working in Geotech Group, founded by Kamil Eren whom is one of the pioneers of the GPS Technology in Turkey and Saudi Arabia. This opportunity has added a new dimension to their friendship and they have started to lay the foundations of the EPOK Geomatics in those years. At the end of the three years he worked at Geotech Group, Serkan went to New Zealand with the aim of attending foreign language education and other short courses and with the completion of these courses, he decided to continue his Land Survey Engineering career in New Zealand. He has worked in reputable and multidisciplinary companies such as Davis Ogilvie and Babbage Consultants and specializes in Construction and Civil Sector Cartography. During his years at Babbage Consultants, he started his Master's degree on GIS and Remote Sensing. Güven has followed his interest in Geodesy and GIS and continued his career in Geotech Group and Yuksel Project International until 2008. During this period he gained necessary knownledge and skills to specialize in these subjects, thus successfully managed various nation-wide projects such as Establishment of National Geodetic Reference Networks, Establishment of Utility Network GIS, Consultancy for Precise Mapping for Highway Construction etc… In 2008, Güven and Serkan decided to continue their careers at EPOK Geomatics, which they founded in their hometown Mugla.