Ece Demirpençe completed her undergraduate degree in Urban and Regional Planning at Mimar Sinan University, Faculty of Architecture, and holds a Master's degree in Real Estate Development from Istanbul Technical University. She began her professional career as a Real Estate Development Consultant at Proje Yönetim A.Ş. from 2003 to 2005. In 2005, Demirpençe joined the Netherlands-based company Multi Development, where she spent 10 years working on the development and management of large-scale international real estate projects. During her tenure, she held several key positions, including Assistant Project Manager, Commercial Project Manager, Director of Investment and Operations, and Commercial Director. In 2016, Demirpençe established her own company in the United States in the online retail sector, where she achieved significant success in the entrepreneurship ecosystem.
After graduating from the German High School, Istanbul and Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Architecture; Cüneyt Baltaoğlu began his professional career in 1994 working at the construction of a hotel project in Tyumen, Russia for Gama Construction. Having involved in real estate development/investment projects at Koray-Enka JV between 1995-1998 in Moscow and further at Koray Construction in Istanbul. Baltaoğlu studied at the Rotterdam School of Management of Erasmus University between 1999 and 2001 and received his MBA degree. He subsequently worked as the Managing Director of Lycos-Europe of Bertelsmann Group in Moscow, Russia and has been working as the Coordinator of Akfen Real Estate Investment Trust’s investment projects in the Russian Federation since 2007.
Memduh Okyay Turan graduated from Bilkent University, Department of Tourism and Hotel Management in 1993. He began his professional career at Antalya Club Hotel Sera City & Resort and also at Antalya Dedeman Convention Center. He holds a Tourism Agencies Information Certificate granted by the Ministry of Tourism. Mr. Turan held managerial positions at the Front Office and Sales & Marketing Departments of Mega Residence Hotel and has served as the General Manager of St. Paul Tourism & Travel Agency and of the Mersin Hotel Chain Group. In addition, Mr. Turan served as General Coordinator at City Residence and at Kuşadası Mersin Beach Resort, both of which belong to the same group. Mr. Turan joined Akfen Group in June 2005 and has served as Deputy General Manager of Operations at Akfen REIT since 2008.
Yusuf Anıl was graduated from the School of Economics of Anadolu University in 1994 and began his professional career in 1988. After completing his military duty in 1995, he worked as the Accounting and Financial Affairs Manager at Tam Group from 1996 until 2000. Between 2000 and 2004, he opened his own Independent Accounting and Financial Advising office. He worked as the Accounting Manager Borusan Telekom and other technology companies of Borusan Holding from 2004 until 2007. He had worked as the Accounting Manager of Akfen Real Estate Investment Trust since February 2008 and Anıl has been working as Deputy General Manager since 2018. He received his independent accountant and financial advisor certificate in 2001 and Independent Auditor certificate of Public Oversight Authority.
Mustafa Emre Yılmaz began his professional career as an independent auditor in Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu advisory company in 2008 and till the end of 2011 served as a senior independent auditor in various production, real estate, FMCG, and energy sectors. Then he started working as an internal auditor in Global Investment Holding between 2011-2013, and between 2013-2016 in Turk Telekom he undertook the same role and was then promoted to a senior role, performing audits in both the main company and its affiliates in financial, compliance, performance, and fraud audit. Between 2016-2018 and 2020-2022, he served as Financial Controller and Investor Relations and Finance Manager in GSD Holding (open to the public) respectively. Between 2018 and 2020 he served as Finance and Controlling Manager in Enerco Energy. As of September 2022, He has been serving as the Director of Investor Relations in Akfen REIT married with 2 children, Mr. M. Emre Yılmaz graduated from Yeditepe University with an honor degree in the Department of Business Administration and also holds an MBA degree from the same university.
