Born in 1969 in Istanbul, Ali Taşkın graduated from Pertevniyal High School and then Istanbul Technical University as an "Electronics and Communications Engineer". After graduation, he started his career at Türk Telekom (PTT) in 1991. Taşkın also attended the "Accounting and Financial Control in Management" master program at Istanbul University in the period of 1991-1992. After his military service in 1996, he continued his career in the private sector, Turkcell and Netaş. Mr. Taşkın went to the USA at the end of 1998 and served in managerial positions in various technology companies such as LCC Int, Nortel Networks, Comsearch until 2003. During this period, he also took courses on "Marketing" and "Human Resources Management" at Strayer University in the USA. Returning to Turkey in 2003, he continued his career at Türk Telekom's GSM company Aycell (Avea) as the Director in charge of network investments, installation and optimization. Taking an active role in the Aycell - Aria merger, Mr. Taşkın assumed the duties of Network Performance & Quality Director and Project Management Office Director at Avea after the merger. He joined Çalık Holding at the end of 2007 as the founding General Manager of Eagle Mobile, the GSM operator in Albania and held this position until 2011. Between 2011-2013, he provided management consultancy focused on e-Government, Telecom and Energy projects in Turkey and the Balkans. Taşkın started to work as Director of Technology, Operations and Strategy at İşNet, a subsidiary of İşbank, in 2013, and played an active role in the launch of new products and sevices and restructuring in the company until 2018. Joining BTK in 2019 as the Advisor to the Deputy Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Mr. Taşkın was appointed as the Deputy General Manager of PTT Teknoloji in August 2019 and serves as General Manager since February 2020. Mr. Taşkın also works as a advisor to the General Manager in PTT A.Ş.