Mehmet Akcin

Country:	USA
Website:	[akcin.net akcin.net]
LinkedIn:	[mehmet Mehmet Akcin]
Twitter:	@mhmtkcn
Formerly a member of the ICANN Staff Featured in the ICANN 50 - London playing card deck

Mehmet Akcin is the Founder and CEO of Kapany Networks Inc. He is also working as an advisor to the Group CEO of Turk Telekom International and member of the board of advisors for Seaborn Networks Inc. He frequently attends ICANN Meetings and other Domain name industry events.

Mehmet previously held executive roles in various Fortune 500 companies such as Yahoo! , Verizon (Oath) and Microsoft. Mehmet worked as Chief of Staff and Senior Director of Global Network Infrastructure and Services Team in Yahoo!/Oath/Verizon from 2016 to 2018 before that he was the director of network planning and acquisitions in global network acquisition group at Microsoft. Mehmet also worked at ICANN as Manager of DNS Operations at ICANN and Chief Engineer from 2007 till 2013.

Mehmet is a distinguished inventor with 6 granted patents to his name in the areas of Domain Names , Content Delivery Networks and Internet Security. His innovations are commonly used inside Microsoft Windows Server , Windows 10 , Azure and other various Microsoft products.

Education

Mehmet is currently attending Columbia University Executive Education on Technology Management, and is expected to graduate in 2021. He received a B.S. in Computer Science from Inter-American University of Puerto Rico-Metropolitan Campus and studied in Harvard University Program on Negotiation executive education programs. He is fluent in Turkish, English, and proficient in Spanish.