Kerem brings over 12 years of experience in the software development industry.

Prior to joining Symmetrics as CTO, he spent 5 years at Microsoft, where he most recently led the ISV platform for the Windows Vista Shell and Desktop Search.  Before joining Microsoft, Kerem co-founded a Vancouver based software company called NCompass Labs Inc., which was acquired by Microsoft in 2001. Kerem joined Microsoft after the acquisition and shipped a Microsoft-branded version of their flagship product called Microsoft Content Management Server 2002. In the process of starting up NCompass Labs, he was also the brainchild behind the first ActiveX control enabled web browser, long before the term ActiveX was coined by Microsoft.

A graduate of North Carolina State University, Kerem holds a masters degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering.