Erol Ozensoy (born 1953), a self-made
Turkish entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values t ...
,
industrialist and businessmen, who founded
Kimetsan, one of the largest chemical companies in Turkey today.
Biography
Ozensoy was born 1953 in
Hatay
Hatay Province ( tr, Hatay ili, ) is the southernmost province of Turkey. It is situated almost entirely outside Anatolia, along the eastern coast of the Levantine Sea. The province borders Syria to its south and east, the Turkish province of ...
,
Turkey
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. He was educated in
chemical engineering
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and
chemistry, at the
Ankara University. After having his master of science degree in Turkey, he won the scholarship of Turkish Government and studied
metallurgical engineering
Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are known as alloys.
Metallurgy encompasses both the sc ...
at the
Colorado School of Mines
The Colorado School of Mines, informally called Mines, is a public research university in Golden, Colorado, founded in 1874. The school offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees in engineering, science, and mathematics, with a focus on en ...
. After completing his second master's degree, he got his Ph.D. at the
Imperial College London
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in hydrometallurgy. He then returned home to teach at
Middle East Technical University and after 1986, he founded
Kimetsan company. Currently, Ozensoy is the chairman of Kimetsan. He is married to Hatice, and he has 2 children Elvin Merve Ozensoy and
Erdem Duhan Özensoy
Erdem Duhan Özensoy (born 1988) is a Turkish businessman and industrialist. Born in Ankara as the only son of one of Erol Ozensoy, he attended high school at Ted Ankara College. Duhan then studied at the Middle East Technical University and rece ...
.
References
* http://hurarsiv.hurriyet.com.tr/goster/haber.aspx?id=7073751&tarih=2007-08-13
*
External links
The Kimetsan Company official website
1953 births
Living people
People from İskenderun
Turkish chemical engineers
Turkish businesspeople
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