Saner Ayar

Saner Ayar is one of the most senior media executives in Turkey and in the MENA Region. He is a serial entrepreneur who started his career in his early twenties. Saner established more than 30 radio stations in early 90s and then switch to television. Saner Ayar led Show TV and drove it to the most successful television channel in Turkey. After successfully establishing CNBC and NatGeo television channels in Turkey, he became the General Manager of Show TV. For Show TV, he commissioned ground-breaking shows including The Valley of Wolves (Kurtlar Vadisi), Ezel, Deal or No Deal? (Var misin? Yok musun?) and Magnificent Century (Muhtesem Yüzyil). In mid-2010s he focused on production and together with MBC Group founded O3 Media. In a period of eight years, he produced eight movies and 26 shows. The total number of hours of content produced by Saner Ayar during this period exceeded 1,200 hours. O3 Medya, under Saner Ayar's leadership, produced both Netflix's and Disney+'s launch productions in Turkey. As a producer, Saner is uniquely positioned as he can produced high quality sensitive content in commercially successful manner.