Volkan Gürel is from Ankara, Turkey. He is 25 years old. He moved to the US in 2005 to study at MIT and graduated in 2009 with a double major in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Management. He joined the startup Hunch right after he left MIT and worked there for 2 years until it got acquired by eBay. Right now he's working at eBay on recommendations.

He is interested in running, biking, swimming and climbing.