Hüsnü Özyeğin

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Hüsnü Özyeğin (* 1944 in İzmir ) is a Turkish businessman and self-made billionaire. His group of companies, FIBA Holding , focuses on the financial sector.

biography

Özyeğin attended the private Robert College in Istanbul . After graduating in 1963, he studied civil engineering at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon . After completing his BS degree, he completed the MBA program at Harvard Business School .

After three more years in the USA, Özyeğin returned to Turkey, where he took up a position at the Pamukbank that belonged to his school friend Mehmet Emin Karamehmet . In 1977, at the age of only 32, he became the chief executive officer of the bank - a position he held until he moved to the larger Yapı ve Kredi Bankası in 1984 , which his school friend had taken over that year.

Özyeğin headed Yapı ve Kredi Bankası until 1987 when he founded his own bank, Finansbank , at the age of 43 . In 1990 he founded the non-profit Hüsnü Özyeğin Foundation, which also finances the university of the same name.

In April 2006 Özyeğin sold 46% of his shares in the Turkish branch of Finansbank , valued at US $ 2.774 billion, to the National Bank of Greece (NBG). The foreign branches of Finansbank, however, remained in the Özyeğin group of companies, which, however, continues to manage Finansbank.

The Turkish magazine Ekonomist voted Özyeğin “Businessman of the Year 2000”.

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SURNAME Özyeğin, Hüsnü
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish businessman and billionaire
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH İzmir