Hakan Urhan
Hakan Urhan
Platform Art Co-Founder
Hakan graduated from Izmir Bornova Anatolian High School and Middle East Technical University, Department of Business Administration. Between 1988/7 and 1997/8, he worked as a middle and senior manager in the fields of sales and marketing at Unilever and UNICA-Unilever Central Asia / Turkic Republics. Then, Hakan worked in sales and marketing at Boyner Group Network Textile Merchandising Company between 1997/8-1998/2, and in the packaging factory installation projects planned to be realized in Turkic Republics within the body of Nuh Holding in 1998/6-1999/4.
Rising in his management career, Hakan served as Assistant General Manager and General Manager in 3 different companies of Ülker (Yildiz Holding) between 1999/4 and 2004/10. From 2004/11 to 2017/1, he served as a Member of the Board of Directors, Chairman of the Executive Board, and CEO at Doğan Media Company, Doğan Dağıtım-Yaysat. He also served as a member of the Smile Holding Executive Board, and in 2009, he merged Smile Holding and Doğan Dağıtım. Following 2017/2, he founded the consultancy department of Platform Art Education and Consulting, of which he was a founding partner and where continues to offer his consultancy and advisory services. He was born in 1964 in Izmir and has 2 children. Windsurfing, kitesurfing, sailing, volleyball, golf and tennis are his interests.