Mustafa Yılmaz, born in 1949, received a Chemical Engineering degree from the Faculty of Science of Ankara University in 1971. He started his business life as a Field Engineer and Laboratory Supervisor at Etibank, Ergani Copper plants between 1971 and 1973, and worked as an Accumulator Manufacturing Officer at Malatya Air Supply Maintenance facilities during his military service. After working in many positions at Aksa Akrilik Kimya Sanayi A.Ş. between 1974 and 2002, he assumed the position of General Manager in 2003. Mustafa Yılmaz, who completed his Executive MBA at Harvard Business School in 2003, was a Member of the Executive Board of Akkök Holding between 2012 and 2017. Mustafa Yılmaz studied doctorate at Istanbul Technical University between 2016 and 2020 and is married with two children.