Pınar Akıskalıoğlu is a business activist who uses business as a tool to create a positive impact.

She started her professional career at the global youth-run organisation, AIESEC, and worked for the vision of peace and fulfilment of humankind’s potential. She was working as Global Director of Strategy before leaving the organization. Later, she joined a leading global consumer goods & technology company, Henkel. During her corporate career, she took various local and regional roles. Lately, she served as Head of Marketing.

Coming from big beauty, Pınar had an epiphany about the constant race to offer people new trendy products all the time. She then founded TAKK, an anti-brand personal care company that promises to sell people only what they need. Educated at the University of Oxford and Harvard Business School, Pınar has a clear understanding of the rules of the current economic structure, yet she is an optimist and believes humanity can build new systems that privilege wider society rather than the few.

Her articles about degrowth in the consumer industries have been featured in Fast Company - 'Why the Future of Business Must Be Anti-growth', and in Sage – ‘Why Purpose Matters for Every Small Business'. She has been interviewed for the Oxford Leadership 2050 Podcast with the title of 'Reinventing the rules of the game' and for Medium with the title of 'Meet the Disruptors'. Beauty addict magazines Vogue and Elle featured Pınar's work for TAKK as an emerging trend in the industry. Her thoughts about company culture and purpose have been further quoted by Fast Company and Forbes.

Pınar is also the founder of Punk Business School, working hard to put humanity at the heart of business education.