Mehmet Akcin
# Mehmet Akcin

Mehmet Akcin is a distinguished internet governance expert, and the Founder and CEO of EdgeUno, a company that provides Edge, Cloud, and Connectivity experience across Latin America. He is fluent in Turkish, English, and proficient in Spanish.

## Career

Before founding EdgeUno, Akcin held executive roles in various Fortune 500 companies such as Yahoo!, Verizon (Oath), and Microsoft. He worked as Senior Director of Global Network Infrastructure and Services Team in Yahoo! (now Verizon Media) from 2016 to 2018, where he was responsible for global network planning and procurement. Prior to that, he was a director of network planning and acquisitions in the global network acquisition group at Microsoft, responsible for Microsoft's global cloud infrastructure build-out.

## ICANN Involvement and Internet Governance

Akcin also worked at ICANN as Manager of DNS Operations and Chief Engineer from 2007 to 2013. He frequently attends Internet infrastructure meetings, peering fora, security meetings, ICANN Meetings, and other industry events to speak about various Internet technologies, such as submarine cables.

## Patents

Akcin is a distinguished inventor with 7 granted patents to his name in the areas of Domain Names, Content Delivery Networks, and Internet Security. His innovations are commonly used inside Microsoft Windows Server, Windows, Azure, and other various Microsoft products.

## Education

Akcin received his M.S. degree from Columbia University in the City of New York. He received a B.S. in Computer Science from Inter-American University of Puerto Rico-Metropolitan Campus and studied in Harvard University Program on Negotiation executive education programs. Akcin has also studied at Istanbul Technical University.

