Born in 1952 in Ordu, Turkey, he completed primary and secondary school in the Piraziz and Bulancak districts of Giresun. He graduated from Rize Lisesi, a boarding school he attended on a scholarship in 1969, then earned a Mechanical Engineering degree from Istanbul Technical University ITU in 1973. He is married with two sons, one a mathematics engineer and the other an industrial engineer.
He worked briefly in the public sector at Karabük Demir Çelik and Sümerbank-affiliated organizations before moving to the private sector in 1978. He held senior management roles across several Turkish manufacturing firms.

In 2000, he joined Hayat Holding as the Sales and Marketing Director of Kastamonu Integrated Wood Industry Company. In 2007, he was appointed as the General Secretary of Hayat Holding. Meanwhile, to manage Hayat Holding investments in fast consumer goods in Iran, he worked in Iran as the General Manager of Pars Hayat Company, based in Iran, which produces cleaning paper with Papia and Teno brands, diapers and sanitary napkins with Molfix and Molped brands, and detergent with the Test brand. He completed his duty in Iran on 15 March 2020 and was reappointed to his former position as the General Secretary of Hayat Holding.

Hayat Holding is a major Turkish organization founded in 1937 originally as a fabric shop in Istanbul, now spanning 6 sectors of fast-moving consumer goods, wood-based panels, real estate development, packaging, and finance, with roughly 67 companies with 17000 plus employees operating in 17 countries, 44 factories, and about 4.5 billion dollars in revenue. Hayat’s well-known consumer brands include Molfix, Molped Papia, Familia, Teno Bingo, and Evony, and its Kastamonu Entegre unit is the world’s 4th largest wood-based panel producer.
His current roles as of January 2026, DEIK elections, are Coordinating Chairperson of DEIK Turkey Africa Business Councils, overseeing coordination across 48 country-based business councils in Africa and leading Turkey’s commercial diplomacy efforts on the continent.
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