Ali Sabancı is Member of the Board of Pegasus Airlines and vice chairperson of Mars Sportif which are part of the Esas Private Equity portfolio. He also serves on the board of Esas Properties.

Ali is one of the co-founders of Esas Social, which was established to facilitate sustainable social investment. He focuses on increasing awareness of entrepreneurship in Turkey. As the president of the Young Entrepreneurs Board in the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB), he has led successful projects including Angel Investing Legislation, Global Entrepreneurship Congress, G3 Forum, Global Entrepreneurship Week and TIM Innovation Week - Born Global. He is also an angel investor in more than 25 start-up companies.

Ali is a member of the Turkish American Business Association and the Turkish Family Business Association. In 2018 he was awarded the Légion d'Honneur by the French government for his contributions to economic relations between Turkey and France.

Ali Sabancı earned his M.B.A. degree with a major in International Finance from Columbia Business School and B.A. degree in Politics and Economics from Tufts University.

Çağatay (Chaatai) Özdoğru oversees all of ESAS’ investment platforms/business lines including real estate, private equity, venture capital and wealth management, also serves on their investment committees. He is a board member of ESAS Properties, ESAS Wealth Management and various private equity portfolio companies including Pegasus Airlines. 

Çağatay joined ESAS in 2005 as an executive board member and has been the Group CEO since 2010. He played a major role in establishing ESAS Private Equity both in Türkiye as well as abroad. He led a number of ESAS’ private equity investments and exits of various portfolio companies including UN Ro-Ro, Mars Cinema Group, Mars Athletics and Peyman. 

Previously, Çağatay was the president of IT & Telecommunications Investments at Sabancı Holding. Prior to that, he held various positions in the tech & telecommunications industry, where he last served as the executive vice president of the MEA region at Global One, a member of France Telecom Group.

In 2020, Çağatay was appointed as the chairman of Türkiye - France Business Council at DEIK (Foreign Economic Relations Council of Türkiye). Çağatay is also a member of the Board of Directors at TUSIAD (Turkish Business & Industry Association) as of April 2022. He is also a current board member of the Turkish Basketball Federation. Previously, he served as the chairman of Türkiye - Sweden Business Council and Türkiye - Croatia Business Council, and board member of TBV (Türkiye IT Foundation) and TUBISAD (Türkiye IT Industry Association). He was also the president of Sigortamnet İTÜ Basket of Turkish Basketball League between 2018-2019. 

Çağatay Özdoğru earned his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from George Washington University, where he received the Hall of Fame Award for Alumni in 2016, and B.S. degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from Istanbul Technical University. 

Cumhur Kuşçuoğlu is a Senior Director and the Head of Turkish Private Equity and serves on the Private Equity Investment Committees.

Prior to joining Esas in 2009, Cumhur worked as a Director in the MENA Buyout Fund of the Carlyle Group. From 2002 to 2007, he was a Director at EY, supervising the M&A Advisory Services team in Turkey and Southeast Europe. Cumhur started his career in the Audit Department of Arthur Andersen where he worked for six years.

Mr. Kuşçuoğlu earned his B.A. degree in Economics from Boğaziçi University. 

Cumhur Kuşçuoğlu served on the boards of Mars Cinema Group, MAC and UN Ro-Ro until exit and sits on the boards of Ayakkabı Dünyası, Flormar and OPLOG.

Can Deldağ is an Independent Investment Committee Member of Esas Turkish Private Equity.

In his career, Can worked as Managing Director and Co-Head for Mideast and North Africa Operations buyout team at The Carlyle Group. Prior to his joining Carlyle Group in 2007, Mr. Deldağ was a Partner at Ernst & Young, where he joined in 2002, following the merger of Ernst & Young and Andersen, as a Head of Transaction Advisory Services for Turkey and Head of M&A Services for Southeast Europe. Prior to this, he was leading the mergers and acquisitions Division in Andersen. He began his career with Arthur Andersen in 1989. 

Mr. Deldağ earned his B.A. degree in Management Engineering from Istanbul Technical University. 

Göktekin Dinçerler is an Independent Investment Committee Member of Esas Turkish Private Equity.

He began his professional career in 1994 at McKinsey & Company in the Houston, Texas office and spent nearly a decade in management consulting, concluding this chapter as a managing partner at McKinsey’s Istanbul office. From 2004 to 2006, he served as the Deputy CEO responsible for sales, marketing, and customer services at Avea.

Between 2006 and 2021, Göktekin Dinçerler was a managing partner at Turkven. Since 2021, he has been serving as the Chairman of both the Board and the Executive Committee at Mikro Yazılım Group.

Göktekin Dinçerler earned his Bsc degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University, MSc degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.

Cumhur Kuşçuoğlu is a Senior Director and the Head of Turkish Private Equity and serves on the Private Equity Investment Committees.

Prior to joining Esas in 2009, Cumhur worked as a Director in the MENA Buyout Fund of the Carlyle Group. From 2002 to 2007, he was a Director at EY, supervising the M&A Advisory Services team in Turkey and Southeast Europe. Cumhur started his career in the Audit Department of Arthur Andersen where he worked for six years.

Mr. Kuşçuoğlu earned his B.A. degree in Economics from Boğaziçi University. 

Cumhur Kuşçuoğlu served on the boards of Mars Cinema Group, MAC and UN Ro-Ro until exit and sits on the boards of Ayakkabı Dünyası, Flormar and OPLOG.

Seçkin Tabak is a Senior Director in the Turkish Private Equity team. Since joining Esas, Mr. Tabak has been involved in various Esas investments including Getir, Insider, Flormar, Appsilon Enterprise and OPLOG. He currently serves on the boards of Appsilon Enterprise, Flormar and OPLOG and is a board observer of Insider.

Prior to joining Esas, Mr. Tabak was a Director at Actera Group, an Istanbul-based private equity firm, where he served on the deal teams of Mars Cinema Group (exited), g2m (exited), Mey İçki (exited), Gratis, Çelebi and MAC (exited). Mr. Tabak started his career at EY in the mergers and acquisitions department.

Mr. Tabak received his B.A. degree in Business Administration from Boğaziçi University.

Şahbey Teke is a Senior Director in the Turkish Private Equity team.

Since joining Esas as an Investment Analyst in 2007, has been involved in the establishment of all of Esas’s asset classes. He has participated in numerous acquisition and merger projects, including JAB, CCC, Air Lease Corp, Peyman, the international real estate portfolio, Ayakkabı Dünyası, Fuyao, AFM, MAC and Mars Cinema.

Mr. Teke received both his B.S. degree in Mechatronics and MBA degrees from Sabancı University. 

Şahbey Teke served on the deal teams of Peyman and Mars Cinema until exit; sat on the board of MAC and also held the role of CEO at MAC for two years.

Emin is a Vice President in the Turkish Private Equity team.

Prior to joining Esas in 2021, Emin worked at Koç Holding as Business Development Manager where he focused on M&A projects. Emin previously worked as an investment banker at Credit Suisse, Unlu & Co. and Mediobanca.

Emin Tuksal received his B.Sc. degree in Mathematics from Boğaziçi University and his Master's degree in Corporate Finance from SDA Bocconi School of Management.

Emin serves on the deal teams of Flormar, Insider and Appsilon Enterprises.