Erhan Kılıçözlü

About

Erhan Kılıçözlü is a former investment manager with over 20 years of experience in emerging markets. Prior to founding ACT, Erhan worked for Technology Reserve, a global tech-transfer platform. He began his finance career as a trader at Peregrine, a Hong Kong-based investment bank covering South-East Asian markets, and later worked at Renaissance Capital in Moscow, Paine Webber in New York, and Global Securities in Istanbul. In 2002, he helped set up Meridian Capital in London, which reached USD 2.5bn in NAV during his tenure, investing and trading in various deals in Turkey, Central Asia, and Russia. Earlier in his career, he worked as an engineer for GE's Power Generation division in New York. Erhan studied mechanical engineering at Istanbul Technical University and SUNY Buffalo. He received MBA and M.S. (Finance) degrees from the University of Maryland, College Park, and completed the Investment Management Program at London Business School. Erhan is a Chartered Financial Analyst.