Rank #1849
Hamdi Akin & family
Net worth $2.3B
Diversified · Turkey
- Born
- Jan 01, 1955
- Age
- 71
- Source
- Diversified
- Residence
- Istanbul
- Citizenship
- Turkey
- Marital status
- Divorced
- Children
- 3
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Hamdi Akin is the founder of Akfen Holding, a conglomerate with investments in energy, real estate development and infrastructure.
- During college, he produced heating boilers and water and fuel tanks in his father's workshop. After graduating, he started Akfen as a contractor.
- Winning tenders for operating the Istanbul Ataturk Airport and Ankara Esenboga Airport led him to establish TAV Airports Holding.
- In 2012, he sold 38% of TAV to Aeroports de Paris Group for $874 million. In 2017, he sold his remaining 8% to Aeroports de Paris for $160 million.
- Today, Afken is mainly focused on renewable energy, building hospitals and developing and renting apartments to students.
- Akin has transferred ownership of Akfen to daughter Pelin and son Selim. They both serve on its board.
- In December 2015, he donated six flats he owned in a compound in Istanbul Beylikduzu to Syrian refugees.
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