
Erdem ACAY
AEA Consultancy
President
BIOGRAPHY
Erdem Acay was born in Erzurum in 1970. After completing his high school education at Saint Benoit French High School, Acay graduated from Istanbul Technical University, Department of Industrial Engineering in 1994.
Acay, who started his career as a project leader at Coşkunöz Metal Form in 1994, has held many different senior positions such as planning department manager, deputy factory manager, new projects manager, technical manager, mould group manager, assistant general manager for nearly 30 years at Coşkunöz Holding, which operates in different fields such as aviation, environmental technologies and informatics in addition to the automotive supply industry.
Erdem Acay served as the Founding General Manager of Coşkunöz MA, a joint venture of Coşkunöz Holding and Italian Magnetto Automotive between 2002-2014, and Coşkunöz Alabuga (Russia), the first overseas investment of Coşkunöz Holding, between 2013-2018. Coşkunöz Alabuga, under the management of Erdem Acay, received the Best Investment Project award from the Russian Automotive Forum in 2013 when it was established. In addition, Mr Acay received the Manager of the Year award in the official evaluation of the Republic of Tatarstan in 2017. Erdem Acay has been the CEO of Coşkunöz Holding since 2018. In this period when Coşkunöz Holding aims to increase its global footprint, a new investment was made in Slovakia as well as Coşkunöz Alabuga, SSC Alabuga, CETS companies operating in Russia and the Romanian factory.
On 24 September 2023, Acay was unanimously elected as the President of the Russian - Turkish Businessmen's Association at the IXth Ordinary General Assembly of RTİB held in Moscow and he is also the Vice President of DEIK - Turkey-Russia Business Council. Acay is also a member of the Chamber of Turkish Engineers, DEIK - Foreign Economic Relations Board and MESS Bursa Regional Representative Board.
Erdem Acay is fluent in English, French and Russian.
































