Hakan Akbas is a Senior Advisor of Albright Stonebridge Group in Turkey and Founding Partner of Global Dealings Group in US with more than 25 years of progressively responsible, international experience directing as many as 5,000 employees with revenues in excess of $2.5 billion in Turkey, US, Europe, and China. Hakan Akbas provides advisory, mentoring,leadership training, board membership, speaker, and moderator services to C-level executives and leaders. Mr. Akbas is also an angel investor actively seeking new ventures and enterpreneurs with strong track records. Based in Istanbul and Washington, DC, Mr. Akbas brings to clients operating experience in leading companies with commercial diplomacy, strategic planning, marketing strategy, mergers & acquisitions, PPPs, joint ventures, and business development. From 2006 to 2011, Mr. Akbas was the Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy, Business Development, and Insurance Businesses of Sabanci Group. He also advised Güler Sabanci, chairperson of Sabanci Group and one of world’s top 3 most powerful women by Financial Times in 2012. Previously, Mr. Akbas was the co-founder and Managing Director of Business Development Operations for Xerox Global Services with sales of $10 billion. He serves on the boards of several public and private companies. Mr. Akbas earned an MBA from the Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester in US, and a BS degree in Industrial Engineering from Boğaziçi University in Turkey.