Avea Appoints a New CEO

Turkish mobile network operator, Avea has named Erkan Akdemir as its new CEO, replacing Cüneyt Türktan who had held the post since 2006. Türktan is to take up the role of strategic advisor to the chairman of Oger Telecom for new-generation wireless investments with effect from the end of this month.

Cüneyt Türktan was assigned the post of CEO of Avea during the re-organization of the company, having served as the CEO of Turkcell between 1994-2001 and later as the Chairman and CEO of Zapp, the joint subsidiary of Oger Telecom and Inquam in Romania between the years 2002 - 2005.

Avea's new CEO has served as the CEO of Cisco Systems Turkey since 2006 before which he was the Chairman of KabloNet. From 2002 until the post-privatization period, Akdemir acted as the Chairman of Türk Telekom and Eurasiasat. Having an undergraduate degree in Electronics Engineering from Hacettepe University, Ankara, Akdemir also holds a master's degree in Telecommunications from Colorado University, USA.

Avea is 81% owned by Turk Telekom and remaining 19% by Is Bankasi.

Posted to the site on 11th June 2009