Nurcan Bicakci Arcan

Nurcan Bicakci Arcan has a diverse work experience spanning over two decades. Nurcan is currently serving as the CMO at Akinon since January 2024. Prior to this, they held the position of Board Member at the Mobile Marketing Association and served as a Founding Member at Teknolojide Kadin Dernegi.

Nurcan has an extensive career at SAS, where they held various roles including Regional Marketing Director for the Emerging EMEA region, Central & Eastern Europe, Russia, Middle East & Africa, and the Middle East, Turkey, and Eastern Europe. Nurcan also served as a Regional Marketing Manager for the Middle East, Africa, and Turkey, and started their journey at SAS as a Marketing Manager for Turkey.

Before joining SAS, Nurcan worked as the VP of International Business Development, Sales & Marketing at Promart and as a Marketing Manager at Argela Technologies (Turkish Telecom Group).

Nurcan began their career at Neomobile as a Country Manager and at Turkcell as a Category Manager/VAS and later as a Product Manager/Content Business & Partnering Management.

Nurcan started their professional journey as an Auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Nurcan Bicakci Arcan holds a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from Boğaziçi University, which they earned from 1997 to 2001. Nurcan also pursued further education and completed an online Global MBA program from Oxford Brookes University from 2014 to 2016. Additionally, in 2001 they participated in an intensive language study program at the Goethe Institute in Germany.