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 Kyiv PK University, Ukraine. He is fluent in Turkish as well as English and Russian.
Emre Akıncı started his career at HSBC (Demir) Securities and continued as an Investment Executive at Sumer Securities, Meksa Securities and at Yapı Kredi Securities, a Koç Holding company (1997–2004).
He moved to Kiev, Ukraine in 2005 as the Country Manager 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 2014.
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.
In 2015, Emre Akıncı assumed the position of 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.
He founded M2 Real Estate in 2020, to provide luxury real estate sales, marketing and project consultancy services for high-income individuals, investors and developers primarily in Turkey and CIS countries.
Through his company M2 Real Estate, since mid-2022 he has been providing strategic and hands-on support — both in a consultancy capacity and in operational roles — for residential and mixed-use real estate projects. His responsibilities include project positioning, concept, branding and marketing, as well as structuring sales functions and operations. He also assumes responsibility for market-aligned product strategies and brand positioning for new premium residential developments. Some of these include a large-scale branded hotel & residences mixed-use project currently being developed by a private fund on a 600,000 sqm site in Demirbükü, Bodrum, as well as a 380,000 sqm mixed-use project in İzmir, Türkiye.
M2 Real Estate currently has representative offices in Istanbul, Bodrum & London, with local business partners for unique investment opportunities in these cities.