Harun's Vision
Harun Aral's vision is built around a simple idea: the future will not belong only to bigger technologies, but to smarter, more sustainable and more human-centred systems.
After witnessing multiple generations of technological transformation — analog media, private broadcasting, IVR, telecom, internet platforms, fintech, blockchain, nanotechnology, medical manufacturing and AI infrastructure — Aral now focuses on the next bottleneck of civilisation: energy, heat, intelligence and infrastructure.
Through Qubit Science, LIQ8 Immersion Cooling and related ventures, his current mission is to develop next-generation thermal management, liquid cooling and AI-driven optimisation technologies for hyperscale AI data centres, GPU infrastructure and future quantum computing environments.
The future of AI will depend not only on algorithms, but also on the physical infrastructure capable of powering, cooling and sustaining them.
Honours & Recognition
C. Harun Aral has been honored with gold medals, official recognitions, and distinguished awards by the Republic of Türkiye, as well as by various countries and municipalities, for his outstanding contributions to export growth, significant tax contributions, and long-standing social and economic impact.
A Life Engineered Across Eras
Cemal Harun Aral was born into a family deeply rooted in music, media and entrepreneurship in İzmir Karşıyaka. His father, İzzet Aral, was a musician, producer, manager and organiser who played an influential role in İzmir's music and entertainment industry for decades.
From an early age, Aral grew up inside recording studios, electronics stores, video clubs, concert organisations and broadcasting environments. At the age of seven, he was already surrounded by studio recordings and production processes. By eight or nine, he was helping with cassette duplication and operating small video club shops on weekends.
His relationship with technology also began early. As a child, he used Sinclair Spectrum, Atari and Commodore systems, writing simple programmes and games before his teenage years.
At 17, during the rise of Turkey's first private radio and television era, Aral began working as a radio technician at Kanal 99 FM under the Yeni Asır Group. He quickly became involved in transmitter systems, broadcast infrastructure, studio setup and live production technologies. He later trained in London through a BBC radio technology and broadcasting programme, where he discovered IVR systems, premium telecom numbers and interactive media technologies.
In the 1990s and early 2000s, Aral became part of Turkey's private broadcasting and interactive media transformation. As the internet emerged, he transitioned from traditional broadcasting into digital platforms, premium telecom systems, international audiotext, payment infrastructure and VOIP-based interactive technologies.
By the mid-2000s, his operations expanded across Europe, supporting interactive television formats, call-centre-driven broadcasting, telemarketing systems and live TV quiz infrastructure across multiple countries and languages.
In 2009, Aral founded Amstel Science in the Netherlands and shifted his focus toward scientific research, futuristic engineering, nanochemistry, biochemistry and advanced materials. These studies later contributed to his work in immersion cooling and advanced thermal fluids.
During the global pandemic, Aral rapidly scaled medical manufacturing operations through EkoMed Medical Technologies — growing into a multinational operation with approximately 12,000 employees across three continents, reaching annual production and sales volumes exceeding $1 billion before being exited through strategic transactions involving Canadian and global healthcare groups.
The future must be engineered before it arrives.
EkoMed Era — Medical Manufacturing at Scale
Scale of Impact
Years of Innovation
Spanning analog media to AI infrastructure across multiple technological eras
Employees at Peak
EkoMed Medical Technologies at its height across three continents
Annual Volume
Peak annual production and sales volume in medical manufacturing operations
Continents
Active operations spanning Europe, Asia and North America simultaneously
CEMAL HARUN ARAL