Ahmet Akyol joined the ASELSAN family in 2022 as the President of Microelectronics, Guidance, and Electro-Optics (MGEO) sector and Deputy General Manager. Since June 22, 2023, he has been serving as the President & CEO of ASELSAN. He continues to work towards strengthening the corporate structure of the company, streamlining and digitizing internal processes, taking effective steps in disruptive 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 the world’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, and the Ministry of National Defense from 2007 to 2017. He undertook significant steps towards technological transformation in industrial production and the development of the Turkish Armed Forces in these roles.

Between 2018 and 2021, he served as the Head of the Communication Electronics and Information Systems (MEBS) Department at the Presidency of Defense Industries, and later, from 2021 to 2022, he held the position of Head of the Electronic Warfare and Radar Systems (EHRS) Department. During this period, he played a key role in the implementation of critical defense industry projects such as the electro-optical cameras of our UAVs, national friend-or-foe identification systems, AESA-based radars, and integrated electronic warfare systems for ground-based or airborne platforms.

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

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

He is married and has three children.