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Born in İstanbul in 1960 he studied fine arts and business administration. During his school years he started his career in Istanbul’s Cağaloğlu district where all the newspaper headquarters where located and got a multi-dimensional experience in the communication sector. He also undertook various duties in the field of dubbing and publishing at TRT (Turkish Radio and Television).
In 1986 he founded Tür Tanıtım and continued to be the head of the agency for twenty years, achieving many successes both at home and abroad. He founded Espas Communications in 2006.
In 2013 he was invited to İlancılık Advertising Agency to collaborate by receiving the position of co-chairman where as he is currently pursuing.
He has published 15 books, participated to 60 exhibitions, panels and conferences. Many of his articles appeared in various magazines, blogs and also in newspapers.
He has been awarded with the Red Apple in 2013 and 2014 and with the Tracking Award in 2013 and with the Gold Compass in 2017 for his live program titled The Backstage of Advertisements (Reklamarkası Program). While the concept of the program belongs to him, he also continues to be the anchor man and the program producer. The program keeps on being a top one as a live program on Bloomberg HT since 2011.
He is married and has two children.

Founder Member of UN Youth for Habitat / Habitat Agenda 21 Youth Association and communication advisor between 1996-2011.
Representative of Advertising Marketing International Network (AMIN) in Turkey between 1998-2002.
Between 2002-2006 Yeditepe University Faculty of Fine Arts and since 2006, Marmara University Faculty of Communication lecturer.
Member of the Turkish National Olympic Committee (TMOK) cultural and Olympic education commission in 2009-2010.
In 2009, he was elected as a lifelong member by the Board of Advertisers Association.
He is a founding member and board member of International Advertising Association (IAA Turkey), Advertisers Association, Advertising Foundation, Advertising Creatives Association.
He introduced the İhap Hulusi Görey visual archive, which he started to collect in 1994, and donated to the Republic Museum connected to Marmara University during the 2010
Galatasaray Sports Club 100th year communication committee member and corporate communication director between 2010-2011.
He was awarded with the Special Honor Award in 2012 for the 129th anniversary of Marmara University.
Currently, he is a member of the Supervisory Board of the Advertising Foundation, the Trustee Member of the Kidney Foundation of Turkey, Member of the Advisory Board of the Marmara University Republican Museum, and Advisory Board Member of the Department of Visual Communication Design of Doğuş University.