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Turkish Entrepreneur : Hüsnü Özyeğin

• Hüsnü Özyeğin is a Turkish businessman in the finance sector who is a self-made billionaire. He is the owner of FIBA Holding, a group of mostly financial companies in Turkey. He has a net worth of US$3 billion as of 2015.

Background

• The son of a doctor, Özyeğin was born in 1944 in Konya, Turkey. He graduated Robert College, an elite academy in Istanbul in 1963, and claims that he went to the U.S. with just a thousand dollars in his pocket. There, he studied civil engineering at Oregon State University ,receiving a BS degree. Being more interested in finance, he attended the School of Business at Harvard University,and obtained an MBA.

CAREER

• Following his return home after three more years in the USA, Özyeğin was offered a post in Pamukbank, which belonged to his schoolmate, Mehmet Emin Karamehmet. In 1977, at the age of only 32, he was appointed general manager of this bank and he held this position until 1984

• . Then he transferred to Yapı ve Kredi Bankası to become its general manager, a much larger bank in Turkey acquired that year by the same friend. There he succeeded in leading the money-losing bank to a profit over the next two years.

• Özyeğin led Yapı ve Kredi Bankası until 1987, when he decided to establish his own bank, the Finansbank at the age of 43. He expanded it to a bank with more than 200 branches operating in nine countries out of Turkey, mostly in Europe

• He later founded several finance companies and brought them under the Holding Fiba, which has around 8,500 employees in 20 companies. Over the next few years, he invested in high-demand industries such as real estate, energy and retail, building condominiums and shopping centers across the main domestic business districts.

Companies

Industry Banking, Financial service

Founded 26 October 1987

Total assets 38.1 billion TRY

Number of employees

12,000+

Swissotel The Bosphorus İstanbul

Özyeğin UniversityÖzyeğin University

Established May 18, 2007; 7 years ago

Type Private- Non-Profit

Location Istanbul, Turkey

Campus Çekmeköy, Istanbul

Language English and Turkish

Website ozyegin.edu.tr

REFERENCES

• ^ The World's Billionaires - #221 Husnu Ozyegin

• ^ Özyeğin Üniversitesi Web Sitesi - Hakkımızda - Kuruluş Öyküsü

• http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%BCsn%C3%BC_%C3%96zye%C4%9Fin

• http://www.forbes.com/profile/husnu-ozyegin/