Arslan Kiran is acting as Head of Growth at The Sandbox Turkey and Mena and co-founder of Hungri Games and has been working in the gaming industry for more than 13 years. He initiates and executes local market entry strategies with local distribution stakeholders at high potential local markets. He was working as Head of Operations at Garena,  Head of Turkey and MENA at Yoozoo Games and worked  as Head of International Expansion at Bigpoint where he was in charge of expansion markets such as Turkey, East Europe, Korea and MENA region. In his previous role he was leading Asia Licensing Business at Bigpoint and established strategic partnerships with top Chinese and Korean game developers  and publishers. He has worked at Aeria Games Europe before as Product Manager and supported European Branch during their start-up phase for local market entry projects such as Latin America and Turkey.

Arslan holds an European Economics MA degree at the University of Tubingen in Germany, a
bachelor’s degree in Economics at the University of Istanbul and an associate degree in Business
Management at London School of Business and Management. He is fluent in German, English,
Turkish and Mongolian languages and he has published a policy paper book ‘’Quo vadis, Europa’’under Dr. Kovac publishing house in Germany.