Ahmet Akin

Ahmet Akin graduated from German High School in 1988. His undergraduate degree is from the Business Administration Department of Boğaziçi University and his MBA degree is from the Simon Business School of University of Rochester. He started his advertising career at Güzel Sanatlar / Saatchi & Saatchi and then held the position of Vice-President at TBWA which he joined afterwards. In 2009 he became the CEO of Leo Burnett Group in Turkey. He currently is the Founding Partner of Kramp Advertising Agency. Ahmet Akin was the President of Advertising Foundation in 2010-2012 and also served as the Board Member of Self-Regulatory Board of Advertising during that period. He also worked as an Instructor at the Graduate Program of Marketing Communications (Brand School) of Bilgi University between 2013-2017. Along with his advertising career he has completed Gestalt Coaching Program, Gestalt GroupWorks Program, Executive Leadership Coaching Program, Co-Active Coaching Program of CTI and the Organisation and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) Program of CRR Global. He is the designer and moderator of Co-Creation Workshop which he has been conducting for organizational teams. He also works as a trainer at the The School of Life program developed by Alain de Botton. In addition to workshop moderation he also works as a conference moderator. So far he has moderated panels at Marka Conference, Kristal Elma and ICF Coaching Conference. He also took the role of Master of Ceremony at Brandweek both in 2015 and 2017.