Yasemin Denari
Stanford MBA, Creative storyteller, and Multidimensional Thinker in Redwood City, CA, United States
Yasemin is a dynamic brand strategist, creative producer, and storyteller with a Stanford MBA and proven leadership across venture capital, tech, political campaigns, and documentaries produced alongside Academy Award and Emmy-winning collaborators.
Most recently, Yasemin served as Deputy Director of Digital for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Independent run for President of the United States. In this role, she oversaw the campaign’s prolific video production team, generating nearly 1 billion video views, managed relationships with third-party vendors (including the campaign’s digital advertising agency), and was responsible for the campaign’s weekly newsletter and virtual events. She also executive produced the “We The People” radio show on K-ABC, co-produced the documentary 48 Hours Inside RFK Jr.'s Campaign, and played an integral role in establishing the campaign’s policy team and priority issues, including managing a monthly Health Think Tank.
Over the past several years, Yasemin has consulted for a wide range of clients, including tech startups, family offices, music artists, and authors, providing brand strategy, business development, market research, and fundraising support, resulting in nearly $600M in funding. From 2014-2016, she led the creation of Moon Shot, the 9-part Google Lunar XPRIZE documentary series directed by Oscar winner Orlando von Einsiedel and produced by J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot and Epic Digital. She also produced the VICE documentary Sounds of Solidarity: Haiti's DJ Movement and has consulted for VICE on HBO.
Before Google, she was the BD Lead at the computer vision video search engine startup Baarzo (acquired by Google), and an Associate at Draper Associates. At Stanford GSB, she was elected co-president of the Entrepreneur Club, interned at AOL Ventures, Kitchit, and Hip Digital Media, and co-authored the book The Startup Game: Inside the Partnership between Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs.
Before this, she worked in international BD and marketing roles for Garanti Bank in Turkey & Romania, and also worked at NBC's Investigative Unit, EXTRA, and Celebrity Justice in Los Angeles.
She graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude from UCLA and has also attended Spain’s University of Salamanca and Turkey’s Bosphorus University. Yasemin is fluent in English, Italian, French, Spanish, and Turkish. She lives in Redwood City, CA, close to the heart of Silicon Valley.