 He has been board member of Akbank since 1963, Turkey’s most valuable and profitable bank.Sabancı was born in Akçakaya village in central Turkey near the town of Kayseri in 1938, the fifth son of Hacı Ömer Sabancı, who laid the foundation of one of the greatest fortunes in the world, and Sadıka.Sabancı completed his secondary education at the Tarsus American College.