Mehmet is the Managing Partner and Co-founder of EMA.
After graduating from Boğaziçi University with a BA Degree in Business Administration in 1990, Mehmet joined Istanbul Office of the Arthur Andersen Worldwide Organization where he worked as an auditor and business consultant for about three years. Mehmet left Arthur Andersen in early 1994 and began his career in the financial services industry. Only four years later, he joined the Turkish operations of ABN AMRO Bank N.V. as a Managing Director in charge of asset-backed lending.
In 2007, his entrepreneurial spirit saw the overwhelming need to form-up a merchant banking platform to specifically serve the small to mid-sized enterprises in Turkey on a one-stop shop principle and joined a Turkish group to set up the first merchant banking platform of its kind in Turkey. His initiative being largely blocked by the global financial crisis, together with his two colleagues, he decided to set-up a boutique financial advisory services firm where he was responsible of deal sourcing and structuring. Since 2007, Mehmet successfully completed project finance, balance sheet restructuring and distressed debt management transactions and M&A deals for different clients of different size.
Mehmet is bilingual with fluency in English and French and has experience working with international finance and global business transactions. Furthermore, he holds the designation of Certified Public Accountant.
Mehmet’s extensive financial experience and market relationships provide the basis for EMA to advise, structure and secure a variety of financing and capital transactions for its clients, including lines of credit and alternative forms of equity capital. Additionally, he has extensive experience with advising on and executing corporate acquisitions and divestitures; balance sheet restructuring and distressed debt management.
Besides running his own boutique financial advisory services firm, Mehmet is currently and has been a member of Board of Directors, Executive Committee, Advisory Board and Board of Statutory Auditors of a number of private companies and NGO’s in Turkey and abroad.
On the personal side, Mehmet has been married to his wife and business partner, Ebru.