He graduated from Istanbul High School for Boys in 1990. He received his bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from Istanbul Boğaziçi University in 1996. With the encouragement of his entrepreneurial side and his interest in global trade, Hakan Akkoç travelled to Taiwan several times between 1992 and 1994 and established long-term commercial relations with Taiwan for the family business on automotive spare parts import. He started his career in 1996 as founder and CEO of Autodinamik Ltd (Sofia-Bulgaria), a company for the import and distribution of automotive spare parts, which started its activities in a 30 m2 retail store in Sofia and soon grew to a regular customer list of 3.000 buyers with 120.000 different products and a new warehouse of 6.900 m2 . With its online trade infrastructure, it has increased its cumulative turnover to over USD 50 million with its commercial activities extending to Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil and China. In addition to the investment projects in Bulgaria he started in May 2007, he's been an investor in different SPP projects alongside Smart Solar Technolgies Group (Sofia-Bulgaria) since April 2009. In 2016, Mr Akkoç joined Smart Solar Technologies Group and serves as Vice Chairperson of the Board of Directors. He is fluent in English, German and Bulgarian. .