Gamze Akgüney graduated from the Business Administration Department at Boğaziçi University in 1994 and began her career as a consultant at Arthur Andersen. She later worked as the Treasury Marketing Manager at JP Morgan Chase, Department Manager at Garanti Bank, Director at Türk Ekonomi Bank, Industry Leader at IBM, and most recently, as a Manager at Accenture between 2013 and 2017.

In 2017, she was appointed as the Managing Director of DAHA Investment Advisory, a service aimed at qualified individual investors at ÜNLÜ & Co. In 2020, she was promoted to the position of General Manager at Ünlü Menkul. Since January 2021, she has been serving as the General Manager and a Board Member at ÜNLÜ Menkul.

Additionally, Akgüney is one of the mentees in the fourth term of the Women in the Boardroom Association, which aims to support social development by increasing female representation on corporate boards.