Simay Akar

Simay Akar is an entrepreneur with a corporate industrial background and experience in the energy industry. She specializes in photovoltaic manufacturing, battery storage for electric vehicles and renewable energy technologies and the clean energy market development. Akar is currently an IEEE senior member and the chief commercial officer and co-founder at Innoses.

Her past roles include sales and marketing director of EkoRE, Eko Renewable Energy; marketing and business development director of GoodWe Turkey; and head of overseas marketing at Talesun Solar.

Akar has worked in China and Turkey, mostly focused on international commercial activities, and has been employed by CSUN Eurasia, Schneider Electric, Arcelik (BEKO) and Lucida Solar.

Akar is a graduate of Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey and she participated in the energy innovation and emerging technologies program at Stanford University.