Emre AKINCI
Emre Akıncı was born in İzmir, Türkiye in 1977. He graduated from the Faculty of Business Administration of Marmara University in 1999. He continued his studies with an M.B.A. at Istanbul Bilgi University and following that achieved his PhD in Ukrainian History at Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky University, Ukraine. He is fluent in Turkish as well as English and Russian.
Emre Akıncı started his career at Demir (HSBC) Securities and continued in dealing and investment roles at Sumer Securities, Meksa Securities and at Yapı Kredi Securities, a Koç Holding company (1997–2003).
He moved to Kiev, Ukraine in 2005 as the Managing Partner and Country Director of Design Time International. His responsibilities in this position encompassed managing the retail stores as well as a large-scale sales organization of Ralph Lauren Home, Henredon, Century, Hartman, Marge Carson, Stanley, Fine Art Lamps and other premium European and American furniture retail brands until 2013.
In the course of this venture, he completed many stores, offices, villas and residences projects of several reputable corporations, including ING Bank, Turkcell LIFE, Metro Cash & Carry, Credit Europe Bank, Renaissance Construction, Gloria Jeans Coffee and many private investors.
From 2013 to 2015 he led Arti Investment Holding CIS in Kyiv as Managing Director and Partner, reporting to the Chairman and leading the evaluation and execution of development and investment opportunities in Türkiye and the CIS.
From 2015 to 2017, Emre Akıncı served as Director of Sales and Marketing of Astaş Real Estate Investment & Tourism Holding, responsible for the Residences at Mandarin Oriental, Bodrum and Maçka Residences — interior design by Armani/Casa, managed by Kempinski — in Istanbul. He developed and implemented the company's overall sales & marketing activities for the domestic and international markets in Turkey, the UK, the Middle East and CIS countries.
From 2017 to 2019 he was General Manager, Eastern Europe at Tink Labs in London, leading investment and business development across Eastern Europe with luxury hotels, real estate developers and luxury retail brands.
Since 2020 he has worked through M2 Design Real Estate as an independent advisor and interim executive, providing sales, marketing and business development for luxury and branded residences to developers, investors and high-net-worth buyers in Türkiye and the CIS. Through it he has advised close to ten residential and mixed-use projects, including developments in Çeşme and Şile, and brokered luxury residential purchases for domestic and international buyers.
From 2023 to 2024 he served as Executive Board Member of TUYA Real Estate Development for Aman Bodrum, a €2.2 billion, 600,000 sqm branded hotel and residences project. He led its positioning, wellness-led lifestyle concept and product strategy from the early design stage, and built its sales system, team and turnkey sales offices in Bodrum and Istanbul from scratch; the structure remains operational.
In 2025–2026 he renewed the sales system of a USD 1.2 billion, 380,000 sqm mixed-use project in İzmir and led its AI-driven launch within two months, with a record first week of sales.
Across these roles, his particular strength is coordinating the full chain of a development — from the design stage through business development, sales and marketing — so that product, brand and sales strategy move as one. He also makes extensive use of current AI tools in this work, from market and pricing analysis to sales materials and multilingual content.