Hakan Akbas

Hakan Akbas has more than 20 years of progressively responsible international experience directing as many as 5,000 employees domestically and in emerging markets with revenues in excess of $2.5 billion. Hakan has led these
private and public companies through start-up, restructuring, turnaround and
growth modes.

Among his significant positions, Hakan served as Executive Vice President in charge of several portfolio companies of Sabanci Holding with 55,000 employees and $15 billion in sales. He was the youngest member of the Group’s Executive Committee as the President of Corporate Strategy & Business Development of Sabanci Group responsible for strategic planning, holding portfolio strategies, mergers & acquisitions, joint-ventures, divestitures, corporate IT and hands-on management of portfolio companies.

Mr. Akbas also advised Güler Sabanci, chairperson of Sabanci Group and one of world’s top 3 most powerful women by Financial Times in 2010.

Earlier, Mr. Akbas was Senior Corporate Officer and Chief Marketing Officer of US-listed Document Sciences Corporation, a $40 million market-leading global provider of enterprise software, solutions and China-based offshore services that was later acquired by EMC. Previously, Hakan headed new business development operations at Xerox Global Services as a co-founder of the division and instrumental in its acquisition of Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) to transform a hardware business into a global enterprise services and solutions business - Xerox Global Services is today a $10 billion division of Xerox Corporation. Akbas was also a strategy director at Accenture and Xerox Corporation’s high-profile start-up venture and previously served as trusted advisor to ex-CEOs of Xerox Corporation and his senior team.

Akbas is an active member of European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT) and World Economic Forum (WEF). He served on the European Advisory Board of CMO Council. He is a member of Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP), Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), Endeavor Global, M.I.T. Enterprise Forum, Imagine Nations Group and Turkish Industrialists’ and Businessmen’s Association (TUSIAD). He is a board member of Galatasaray Soccer Club.

He is married and father of three girls. He speaks Turkish, English and French.