Career
The Abraaj Group (formerly known as Abraaj Capital) is the leading private equity investor operating in the growth markets of Africa, Latin America, Middle East, South Asia, South East Asia, Turkey and Central Asia. The Abraaj Group currently manages United States$ 9.0 billion across 20+ sector and country-specific Funds, encompassing private equity and real estate investments. Yorgancıoglu is most notable within the Turkish investment community for The Abraaj Group"s recent investment to Hepsiburada.com in partnership with Doğan Group Companies and Abraaj"s multi billion dollar exit from Acıbadem Healthcare Group to Khazanah Nasional/IHH, the investment holding arm of the Government of Malaysia.
IHH was later floated jointly on Malaysia and Singapore stock exchanges.
Year-to-date, it was the third biggest public offering in the world in 2012. Under Yorgancioglu"s lead, The Abraaj Group recently bought 80% of the Turkish Dairy Manufacturer, Yorsan.
Yorsan deal was led by Yorgancioglu and his Turkish team, with another planned investment in horizon according to Bloomberg. Selcuk Yorgancıoglu was born in 1967 in Izmir, Turkey where he attended high school in Bornova Anadolu Lisesi.
He graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Economics and has an Master of Business Administration in Finance from University of New Haven, Connecticut.
Selcuk Yorgancıoglu started his career at İnterbank in Turkey as a management trainee in 1992. Between 1993 and 1998 he worked for Algemene Bank Nederland AMRO Group out of Amsterdam and London as part of the Emerging Markets Investment Banking Group. His latest position there was with Equity Capital Markets joint venture, Algemene Bank Nederland AMRO-Rothschild in London.
Throughout this period, Yorgancıoğlu focused on Emerging Europe, worked on transactions and built connections in Turkey, Russia, Kazakhstan, Poland, Czechoslovakian Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania.
Between 98 and 2000, Yorgancıoğlu served as an Executive Vice President and head of investment banking at Finansbank Group in Turkey where he also served on the board of the Group’s asset management business. Between September 2000 and March 2007, Yorgancıoğlu worked for Deutsche Bank in London as a part of the senior management for Emerging Markets Investment Banking Team.
In his last year at Deutsche Bank between 2007 and 2008, Yorgancıoğlu took up the post of Deutsche Bank Group Chief Executive Officer in Turkey overseeing banking, brokerage, asset management and mortgage subsidiaries. Between 2008 and 2013, Yorgancıoğlu led the investment and exit processes of various transactions in the Group’s portfolio in Turkey, including the United States$2 bn exit of Acıbadem Healthcare Group to Khazanah Nasional/IHH, the investment holding arm of the Government of Malaysia.
Yorgancıoğlu sits on the board of various portfolio companies, he is currently the Chairman of Yorsan Group and serves as the Vice-Chairman of Hepsiburada.com.
Yorgancıoğlu is a World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council member. Yorgancıoğlu is married with three children.