# Mehmet Umut Ermeç

> Mehmet Umut Ermeç is a Denizli-based game entrepreneur and tiplay co-founder. His career spans audio engineering, teaching in New York, Smart Professions and Mad Rooster. At tiplay, founded in 2019, he has advocated apprenticeships and support for emerging game studios through oFON. He was publicly identified as CEO during its early growth; newer profiles identify him as co-founder and president.

- **Role:** Co-founder & President at tiplay
- **Organizations:** tiplay, Mad Rooster, Smart Professions, Institute of Audio Research, New York Film Academy
- **Education:** MFA, Recording Arts and Technologies, Middle Tennessee State University, Snap Yellow Accelerator
- **Known for:** Co-founded tiplay in Denizli in 2019., Reported 36 people trained through tiplay’s apprenticeship program by May 2022, with graduates representing more than half the workforce at that time., Led tiplay as CEO during its acceptance to Snap’s Yellow Accelerator in 2022.

## Career timeline

- **2004** — Began freelance audio engineering, according to his public career profile.
- **2008-2011** — Studied recording arts and technologies at Middle Tennessee State University.
- **2013-2017** — Instructor at the Institute of Audio Research in New York.
- **2017-2018** — Founded and led Smart Professions, combining digital media outsourcing with talent development.
- **2019** — Co-founded game-audio business Mad Rooster and co-founded tiplay in Denizli.
- **2020** — Co-authored an HBR Türkiye blog with Gülcan Yayla on mobile games and social entrepreneurship.
- **2021** — As tiplay CEO, announced investment supporting studio and accelerator development.
- **2022** — tiplay joined Snap’s fifth Yellow Accelerator cohort; Ermeç reported 36 apprentices trained by May.
- **2025** — Listed as co-founder and president for HIT Games Conference; also listed on WN Conference Istanbul’s speaker program.

## Achievements

- Co-founded tiplay in Denizli in 2019.
- Reported 36 people trained through tiplay’s apprenticeship program by May 2022, with graduates representing more than half the workforce at that time.
- Led tiplay as CEO during its acceptance to Snap’s Yellow Accelerator in 2022.
- Helped develop the oFON studio support model with Rollic.
- Co-authored an article for Harvard Business Review Türkiye in September 2020.

## Latest updates

- **2025-06** — Listed among speakers at WN Conference Istanbul, held June 19-20, 2025; the program included a panel on moving from hypercasual games to Steam.
- **2025-01** — Coverage of DOYEB’s formation quoted him calling for knowledge and experience sharing across Turkey’s games industry.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/umutermec/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/umutermec

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Last updated: 2026-10-26