Murat Özyeğin (born January 10, 1976, in

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) is a Turkish businessman. He is a second-generation member of one of the wealthiest families of Turkey, and son of a self-made billionaire

Hüsnü Özyeğin Hüsnü Özyeğin (born 1944) is a Turkish billionaire. He founded Finansbank in 1987 and later sold the Turkish division of the bank. Nowadays, his financial investments are managed under Fiba Holding while non-financial investments are manage ...

. He is a member of the executive board of FIBA Holding and a member of the board of trustees of

Özyeğin University Özyeğin University is a private, non-profit university located in Istanbul, Turkey. History The university was founded by the Hüsnü Özyeğin, Hüsnü M. Özyeğin Foundation, and its establishment was approved by Foundation Act No. 5656 ...

Biography

He received his BS in Industry Management and Economics (double major) from Carnegie Mellon University in 1998 and MBA from Harvard Business School In 2003. He began his career as a financial analyst within the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at

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. He moved to their

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office in 2000 as a senior analyst. He established the Strategy and Business Development Departments of

Finansbank QNB Finansbank is a Turkish bank with headquarters in Levent, Istanbul. It was established by leading Turkish banker Hüsnü Özyeğin in 1987 and for a period was the Turkish bank with the largest network of foreign branches. In 2016 the QNB Gr ...

and FIBA Holding after his return to

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in 2003. He was elected as the chairman of the board of Endeavor Turkey for two consecutive terms. He currently serves as an executive board member of Hüsnü M. Özyeğin Foundation,

TÜSİAD TÜSİAD, the Turkish Industry and Business Association ( tr, Türk Sanayicileri ve İş İnsanları Derneği), is Turkey's top business organization. Founded in 1971, TÜSİAD is a voluntary, independent, non-governmental organization dedicated ...

, member of the board of trustees of Ozyegin University and WWF, Member of Global Relations Forum and Member of Global Advisory Council of

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

. On January 1, 2017, he was appointed as the honorary council of Singapore to Istanbul and to Izmir. Murat Özyegin has two daughters and a son.

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FIBA Holding

Özyeğin University
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