WHO WE ARE ?

Born in 1982, Cem Karakuş comes from a family who cooks very well and started making his own omelet at the age of 12, and whose passion for cooking, eating, drinking, traveling and gastronomic discoveries never ends.

 

He graduated in 2005 from Istanbul University, Fisheries Engineering and completed his MBA at Beykent University in 2011. Afterwards, she studied marketing communication at Bilgi University and expression and communication techniques at Yeditepe University.

 

After 9 years of experience in customer relations, marketing, loyalty programs and CRM at Citibank, Turkcell and Joker Baby, he combined his interest in food and beverage with his skills in communication and entered the new media (social media).

 

In 2017, she became one of the three influencer partners of Xİletişim, a social media, influencer marketing, event and organization company.

 

Cem, who shows a sincere stance by reflecting life as it is on his Instagram account, also has a sincere Youtube channel where he gives advice and shares his experiences on travel, social media, technology, food and drink and relationships. In addition to X İletişim partnership and other digital platforms of his own, he is the partner of Muutto Anatolian Tapas Bar in Galataport and Fişekhane with Chef Umut Karakuş. He is also a partner of Kutumubu, which provides Photobooth service, and Studio Live, an online training academy, together with X İletişim.

Born in 1974 in Istanbul. She has a 20-year-old daughter. After studying Tourism at Muğla University, she worked as a manager in the Tourism sector for many years and then founded the Gezenayaklar.com platform and started writing about her travel and life experiences.

 

In this process, she took her place among the popular and followed digital content producers on Instagram with her @gezenayaklarcom / now @ebruayaslilar) account on social media. When she started collaborating with brands, she started to provide social media management consultancy services to many hotels.

 

Together with his partners Ahmet Faik Karanis and Cem Karakuş, they established X İletişim and started to provide services to brands in influencer marketing, social media management, influencer & celebrity digital communication management, launch, invitation, festival designs and management.

 

In 2020, she became a partner in Studio Canlı good life application and in 2022 he became a partner in Kutumubu.

 

At the same time, they opened X İletişim Dubai office in mid-2022 and put it into operation.

Born in Trabzon in 1988. After completing his primary and secondary education in Trabzon, he graduated from Bahçeşehir University - Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Then he studied Entrepreneurship & Technology and Innovation at Stanford University.

 

After his undergraduate education, he stayed in Trabzon for 3 years and ran his own restaurant. In this process, he discovered the power of social media and opened the page "@yiyelimguzelleselim" (now @ahmetfaik) on Instagram in 2013 and continued his journey as a digital content producer.

 

He started writing food, drink and travel articles in many blogs and magazines. After he started to make professional collaborations with brands, he established X İletişim, which also provides event, festival and production services with his partners Ebru Ayaşlılar and Cem Karakuş, and started to provide consultancy to corporate / global brands in the fields of social media and influencer & celebrity marketing.

 

In 2019, he founded the cocktail sets brand named Pique99.

 

In 2020, he became a partner in Studio Canlı good life application and in 2022 he became a partner in Kutumubu.