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I started my career as an auditor and consultant at Arthur Andersen Independent Auditing and Consulting Company between 1990 and 1996. I managed the public offering process of Escort Bilgisayar (1999 – 2000) and Arena Bilgisayar (1996 – 1999; 2000 – 2001) and served as Assistant General Manager for Finance. Between 2001 and 2006, I was the country finance director of Compaq Corp Turkey. At the time of the Compaq and Hewlett Packard merger, I was selected as the financial leader of the new company. After holding senior management positions at Atlas Jet, Praktiker and Baumax companies, I founded Argun Consulting in 2012. I provide consultancy services to companies on issues such as process management, restructuring, M&A process, strategic management, growth management. As the founding partner of Lima Ventures, a venture capital company founded in 2020, I invested in technology-focused startups. I also founded Alima Ventures BV and Limanext Ventures in 2021 and 2022. I am a member of the board of directors and executive board of companies. As a faculty member at BAU, I teach MBA students. I am a founding member and member of various NPOs. I am voluntarily serving as the Chairman of the Istanbul Erkek Lisesi Education Foundation and a member of the board of directors. I am a graduate of IELEV and Marmara University, Department of Economics in English.

I graduated from Beşiktaş Atatürk Anatolian High School in 2002. I studied in the USA with scholarship, in 2009 I graduated from Yeditepe University International Trade Department with the first place and International Logistics Department as a high honor student. Then I attended Yeditepe University MBA Master's program. During the courses I received, I learned English and French well. In 2012, I was in the promotion and marketing task of a children's workshop for a while, then I received various marketing and social media trainings. I have been working at Argun Consulting in various finance and marketing projects since 2013. In addition, I have been working on the evaluation of companies in investment areas at Lima Ventures since March 2020.

I completed my undergraduate education in industrial management in Vienna. Between 1998 and 2002, I worked in the financial reporting department at Siemens. Between 2005 and 2009, I worked in the Hamburg-based company TESCHKE, respectively, in the Financial and Human Resources Management department and as the Finance Manager. I worked as Financial Audit Manager at Baumax between 2010 - 2012, as Finance Reporting Manager at Intergest between 2012 and 2013, and as Finance and Accounting Manager at Skechers Turkey between 2014 and 2015. Between 2016 and 2019, I worked on Finance and Accounting Consultancy at Argun Consulting Company, and I have been working as CFO at Lima Ventures since 2020.

I graduated from Kadıköy Anatolian High School in 2002. After completing my undergraduate education at Yıldız Technical University, Department of Economics, I received my master's degree in International Finance and Commercial Law at Istanbul Bilgi University. I completed my doctorate education at Yeditepe University, Department of Financial Economics. My professional career started with Praktiker in 2006 and continued with Visteon Automotive, Assan Aluminum, Yıldız Holding, PwC, EWE Turkey Holding and CGV Mars Entertainment Group. In my personal entrepreneurship career, there are organizations such as Ronin Consulting, CÖ Comics and Field Line. Currently, I am a full-time academician at Yeditepe University, and I am a consultant in the field of financial technology at Lima Ventures Company.

I graduated from Istanbul University, Department of Business Administration in 1993. I worked as assistant manager at Grant Thornton from 1994 to 1998 and then as acting manager at Ernst and Young from 1998 to 1999. Between 1999 and 2000, I was the CFO at Tek Consumer Finance Inc., and between 2000 and 2001 in Arena Bilgisayar San. and Tic., I worked as a Financial Controller and CFO. Between 2002 and 2005 I worked at Kapital RSM and Grant Thornton as audit and corporate finance manager. Between 2005 and 2014, at Ata International Independent Auditing Inc. I worked as a partner and board member in the audit and corporate finance departments (Kreston International Turkey Representative). Since 2014, As Financial Consulting Services Ltd. I continue to work as a financial advisor. I am CPA and Registered Independent Auditor of Public Oversight, Accounting and Auditing Standards Authority of Turkey. During corporate finance transactions, I led public offering processes, the due diligence processes during privatization and company acquisition transactions, valuation, feasibility, buyer/seller party representation during M&A processes, project finance, financial restructuring processes.