Engin Akıncı
Engin Akıncı, born in 1967, completed his high school education at Ankara Atatürk Anadolu High School in 1985. He graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Science, mahoring in finance in 1989. He studied performing arts, broadcasting & production in Winnipeg / Canada. After working at various tv, media and finance institutions such as Deloitte, TGRT, Hür FM, Show Tv and Cine 5. Later Akıncı moved into music business and started as the Marketing Manager at Sony Music Turkey in 1996.
In 1997, Akıncı continued his work at Sony Music European head office in London, England,. Later, as marketing director he managed Sony Music Turkey's local, international, strategic marketing, PR, and A&R departments for nine years. During his tenure as Marketing Director, Engin Akıncı worked with a wide range of local and international artists closely, from Ricky Martin to Celine Dion, J.Lo to Shakira, Anastacia to George Michael and many superstar acts.
In 2003, he handled all A&R, PR, and other marketing communication activities for Sertab Erener, who represented Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest and won the competition. Her hit song “Everyway that I Can2 became a global hit, charting in more than 20 countries that also led the artist release her first English language album which also charted in many territorries including Japan. Drawing on the experience and knowledge gained at Sony Music UK and Sony Music Turkey, Akıncı guided and supported many artists' careers and participated in numerous joint projects with international management, production, record companies, production studios, advertising agencies, and film companies.
In 2006, Engin Akıncı founded Zoom Music & Management, bringing a new dimension to his field in terms of artist development, coporate communications, digital marketing, advertisement and pr. In 2007 Zoom became the regional affiliate of Pixman, a nomadic media and advertisement company based in Montreal / Canada.
During his time with Zoom, Akıncı worked closely with top brands, nurtured and developed the careers of many superstar level artists including Mabel Matiz, Kalben, Ufuk Beydemir and run various ad campaigns, create new channels of income with multinational companies, advertisement agencies on entertainment and various music and performing arts based projects. In 2018 he also founded Zoom Creative, a brand new company focusing on the creation of multiple digital audio and video contents. Currently he is also working as the vice chairman of the board of BMYD ( Independent record labels association of Turkey ) representing Merlin, Impala and WIN in Turkish region.