CBOT Co-Founder and CMO
Çiler Ay is the Co-Founder and CMO of CBOT, Türkiye's industry-leading conversational AI company. A 2002 graduate of Istanbul Technical University's Department of Management Engineering, Çiler Ay held senior marketing positions in the FMCG, energy, and insurance sectors during her early career. Continuing her entrepreneurial journey for nearly 10 years, Çiler has transformed CBOT into Türkiye's strongest player and created a prominent global technology company.
With its enterprise conversational AI product, the CBOT Platform, CBOT has provided virtual assistant infrastructure to more than 100 large institutions and organizations. It also offers solutions that transform the customer experience through agentic AI, generative AI, and voice technologies. The company has formed strategic partnerships with global giants such as Meta, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI and was listed among the 27 leading conversational AI companies in the Gartner 2025 reports. Çiler, who frequently performs at national and international events, is known for her visionary speeches and articles explaining the human-centered transformation power of artificial intelligence in the business world.