Kaan Ünver was born in 1970. After graduating from Hacettepe University's Department of Business Administration, he completed his MBA in Actuary at the College of Insurance in New York.

He began his career in 1993 as an Investment and Finance Specialist at the Undersecretariat of the Treasury. He served as Head of the Domestic Debt Department at the Undersecretariat of the Treasury from 2002 to 2004. He served as Corporate Relations Manager at Philip Morris International from 2004 to 2009 and as Head of the Corporate Relations Department at Turkcell from 2009 to 2011. He served as Head of the Turkish Representative Office of the German Metro Group from 2011 to 2017. He worked as Corporate Relations, Communications, and Sustainability Coordinator at Anadolu Group from 2017 to 2022. He served as a Board Member at Peyman from 2022 to 2024. He has been working as the Corporate Communications and Sustainability Group Director at Migros Group since December 2024. Ünver is a member of the Food Retailers Association (GPD), the Turkish Shopping Centers and Retailers Federation (TAMPF), the TÜSİAD Retail Working Desk, the TOBB Retail Assembly, and the Corporate Communicators Association (KİD).