Ahmet Akyol joined the ASELSAN family in 2022 as the President of Microelectronics, Guidance, andElectro-Optics (MGEO) sector and Deputy General Manager. Since June 22, 2023, he has been servingas the President & CEO of ASELSAN. He continues to work towards strengthening the corporatestructure of the company, streamlining and digitizing internal processes, taking effective steps indisruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence, and strengthening ASELSAN’s global presence.Akyol leads the ‘aselsaneXt Transformation Program’ with the vision of making ASELSAN one of theworld’s top 30 defense industry companies by the end of 2030.

Before joining ASELSAN, he held executive positions at the Ministry of Industry and Technology, andthe Ministry of National Defense from 2007 to 2017. He undertook significant steps towardstechnological transformation in industrial production and the development of the Turkish ArmedForces in these roles.

Akyol graduated from the Computer Engineering Department at Kocaeli University. He is currentlypursuing a master’s degree in Public Administration at Yıldırım Beyazıt University. He has completedthe Innovation Leadership Program at Stanford University and technical programs in the field ofElectro-Optics and Communications at Cranfield University.

He served on the boards of various companies such as HAVELSAN, HTR, and Quantum3D as a boardmember and acting chairman. He is currently a board member at TÜBİTAK-SAGE, where Türkiye’ssignificant missile programs are carried out, and at SAHA Istanbul, Europe’s largest defense industrycluster. He also represents Türkiye as a member of the NATO Science and Technology Organization(STO).

He is married and has three children