Selcuk Yorgancioglu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Turkish businessman, financier
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Place of Birth: Ä°zmir, Turkey
About Selcuk Yorgancioglu
- Selcuk Yorgancioglu (born May 20, 1967) is a Turkish businessman in the finance sector.
- Yorgancioglu currently serves as the founding partner in Tork Partners, an advisory and investment platform he founded in 2019 to invest with, advise and manage private and institutional funds into Turkey and regional emerging markets.
- Yorgancioglu also sits on the board of Acibadem Bupa Turkey, a full subsidiary of Bupa UK, as an Independent board member and chairman of audit committee. Previously, he was a partner with The Abraaj Group - Abraaj Investment Management Limited .
- The Abraaj Group (formerly known as Abraaj Capital) was a leading private equity investor operating in the growth markets of Africa, Latin America, Middle East, South Asia, South East Asia, Turkey and Central Asia.
- During 2018, the firm was hit by turmoil and was subsequently put in liquidation.
- On 23 February 2018, The Abraaj Group announced that it has re-organised corporate structure and appointed Selcuk Yorgancioglu and Omar Lodhi as Co-Chief Executive Officers on an interim basis to assist with the sale process of its Fund Management Business - Abraaj Investment Management Limited.
- Yorgancioglu served as the Co-Chief Executive Officer until June 2018 after which provisional liquidators were appointed to the Abraaj Investment Management Limited Board of Directors.
- Yorgancioglu served as an adviser, assisting provisional liquidators in the management and sales process of various funds within Abraaj Investment Management Limited until September 2019. Earlier, Yorgancioglu was most notable within the Turkish investment community for investment to Fibabanka, Abraaj's investment in Turkey's largest e-commerce website Hepsiburada.com leading e-commerce entrepreneur in Turkey, as well as Abraaj's multibillion-dollar exit from Acibadem Healthcare Group to Khazanah Nasional/IHH, the investment holding arm of the Government of Malaysia.
- As part of the deal, Abraaj got 50% cash and 50% shares in IHH.
- IHH was later floated jointly on Malaysia and Singapore stock exchanges.
- Year-to-date, it was the third biggest public offering in the world in 2012.
- In July 2017, Yorgancioglu's team announced the acquisition of a significant minority stake in Netlog Lojistik Hizmetleri AS (“Netlog” or the “Company”), a Turkish integrated logistics company with a strong presence in Europe and Asia. Before his private equity career, between 1992-2008 Yorgancioglu worked at senior roles for Deutsche Bank out of London and Istanbul, Finansbank Group in Turkey, and ABN AMRO Bank out of Amsterdam and London focusing on regional emerging markets.
- His activities focused on structured finance, M&A, debt and equity capital markets .
- His last position with Deutsche Bank was the Country CEO for Turkey. Being a member of Empea (Emerging Markets Private Equity Association), he authored various articles in media ranging from the FT to regional news as well as attending to speaking engagements to promote emerging markets investments. Yorgancioglu is a former member of Endeavor (non-profit)’s Turkey Board, a global non-profit organization for fostering entrepreneurship.
- Yorgancioglu also serves as a member of TÜSIAD (Turkish Industrialists’ and Businessmen’s Association).
- During 2012-13, Yorgancioglu served as a World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council member.
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