Turkey

Ihsan Sürmeli joined the MBtech Group as a Sales & Marketing and Head Office Manager in 2011. He was appointed Managing Director of MBtech Turkey a year later, and has been managing the Turkish subsidiary of AKKA ever since. Before joining MBtech, Ihsan worked as a Business Development Manager for Mitsubishi Electric Turkey. He also spent more than seven years holding different positions in the Swiss financial sector for companies such as Man Investments, Citibank AG or Nomura Bank Ltd. Ihsan has a BA in Communications from Emerson College and is fluent in English and German.

Gülşah Deniz joined MBtech as a Project Assistant in 2012. She was appointed as its lead for Finance and Administrative Affairs in 2013. She was then promoted to the function of Finance and Controlling Manager in 2014 and later to Country Finance Director in 2019. Gülşah has a BS in Business Administration from the University of Istanbul and is fluent in English.

After working in in the R&D departments of Mercedes-Benz Türk, Daimler Trucks and TOFAŞ for several years, Ismet joined MBtech Turkey in 2017. He is responsible for the management of engineering and business development activities with Mercedes-Benz Türk.

Ali joined AKKA Turkey in 2019. Before joining AKKA Turkey, Ali worked 20 years in automotive sector for the companies such as Ford, Karsan, Iveco, Otokar, DAF. He had duties as a Product Development Engineer, Business Development Engineer, Trade Marketing Manager and Sales Executive. Ali has BS and MSc from İstanbul Technical University and is fluent in English.

Meral Kurt joined AKKA as a Recruitment Specialist in 2015. She was then promoted to the function of Business Manager in 2016 and later to Human Resources Director in 2020. She is responsible for the management of human resources, recruitments and administrative affairs activities in Turkey.