Burak Aydın was born in Ankara in 1975. He has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Middle East Technical University followed by an MBA degree. Burak worked for Siemens Business Systems as a Strategic Planning Manager and as a consultant at Andersen Consulting/Accenture in Germany and Austria prior to his work in Intel. Burak Aydın joined Intel as the education and SMB Business Development Manager in Turkey in 2006 and went on Business Development Group Manager Role for Turkey since 2008. He has contributed to Intel Turkey with creating/leading innovative, transformational programs. Beside his Turkey responsibilities, he also contributed META Strategic Long Range Planning and META Business Plan Initiatives. He took Intel Turkey General Manager Position to be effective from July 2011 till end of 2016. After Intel, he joined US based Smart Energy Company named Silver Spring Networks as a EMEA GM as of 01.01.2017 and led diverse team in a large geography and contributed to M&A strategy and execution. Burak Aydın joined Sabancı Group by August 2018 and leading Sabancı Digital transformation efforts by establishing/leading SabancıDx up until February 2021 when he joined Amazon Web Services as a General Manager.
He is a board member of TUBISAD(Information Industry Association). He is a member of TUSIAD and he is the chairman of IT Technology within TUSIAD.