Bengü Akman was born in Ankara in 1979. She graduated from Tourism and Hotel Management Department at Anadolu University.

Mrs. Akman started her career in Accounting Department at Sheraton Hotel and Convention Center Ankara in 1998 and she worked for eight years in different divisions of the department.

For two years, she continued to work as a Accounts Payable in the pre opening team under a ‘Marriott’ brand, Istanbul Marriott Hotel Asia.

In the following years, she worked as an Accounting Manager at Le Meridien Istanbul Etiler. During this five years period, Mrs. Akman joined Opening Audit Team of the pre-opening hotels in Turkey and she played significant role in following and auditing the brand standarts.

In 2017, Bengü Akman started to work as an Assistant Finance Director in the pre- opening team at Fairmont Quasar Istanbul for one year. She was responsible for ensuring that all the records and accounts are maintained accurately and fairly with generally accepted accounting principles and country legislations, maintaining and auditing the brand and core standarts.

As of today, she gives finance audit consultancy to the service industry.

Bengü Akman is married and has one child.