Our Executive Team

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Tolga Tatari Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder

Tolga is responsible for running all facets of the business. He has 20+ years of software and Digital Commerce experience. Prior Akinon, Tolga developed web-based software projects for large enterprises followed by co-founding Markafoni, designing and operating over 20 e-commerce websites in 5 countries.

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Ahmet Emre Sarı Executive Chairman

Ahmet gained extensive experience in Digital Commerce and finance through 20 years of practice. He has managed, founded and invested in International Digital Commerce projects such as Markafoni. Between 2010-2014 Ahmet was recognised as one of the most successful young entrepreneurs by CNBC and Fortune Magazine.

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Çağrı Orçan Chief Growth Officer

Çağrı has substantiated a track record of executive and sales management. Prior Akinon, he co-founded Markafoni, where he was entrusted as CSO and built a B2B network of 1000+ retailers from scratch and grew sales; over 750K items per month.

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Mümin Öztürk Chief Technology Officer

Mümin has 10+ years experience in software development. Mümin’s career led him to Markafoni in 2011 and in 2015 he co-founded Roomkita followed by Akinon where he became Co-Founder and CTO.

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Jason Smith Head of Growth

22 years of experience in e-commerce sales, marketing and partnership with ATG, Oracle, SAS, OmniCX and Elastic Path.

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Jamie Smith VP Composable Solutions and Technology

23 years of experience in e-commerce technology across all project levels and industries.

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Emre Uçan Chief Operations Officer

Emre is a seasoned leader who has worked in software development firms, academia and the marine industry. He is currently in charge of operations and resource orchestration. He has acquired a strong understanding of e-commerce applications and has strong problem-solving abilities towards client-based challenges.

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Zerrin Kırbaş Chief Finance Officer

Zerrin has 24 years experience in finance. Her background in the sector varies from audit in one of the big 4 (PWC), controlling and budgeting. Zerrin’s path also crossed Markafoni and is now CFO of Akinon.

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Tuğaçar Susin Chief People Officer

Tuğaçar has 14 years of experience in recruitment. He has worked in entertainment, consultation, retail, logistics and technology firms, gaining a broad knowledge of multiple companies and various industries. Tuğaçar has provided Akinon 2+ years of high level of People and Culture methods as CPO.