GÜRAY EROL

Biography

Born in Istanbul in 1977, married with one daughter.
After graduated from Lycée Saint-Joseph in 1996, he graduated from Galatasaray University with a Bachelor’s degree in Public Administration and Political Science in 2001 and a MBA degree from Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain.
Mr. Erol began his professional career working at Doğuş Holding between 2002 and 2006, for various resposabilities in construction and tourism sectors. As of 2007, relating with foreign direct investments, he served as the Head Project Manager and Chief Advisor at The Investment Office of the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey.
In the years of 2010 – 2012 and 2015 – 2016, Mr. Erol was reintegrated to private sector, Turkerler Holding first as Business Development Coordinator and then as the Deputy General Manager of Energy to coordinate and execute project development, investment, project finance and M&A’s on wind, geothermal and hydroelectric projects.
Between 2012 and 2014, Mr. Erol became the CEO of Aksan Law Firm, one of the largest Turkish law firms. In the meantime, he was also the Managing Partner to Altarys Consulting, an international business development advisory company.
Between 2016-2021, he was the General Manager at RES Anatolia, the Turkish subsidiary of RES GROUP, a prominent global renewable energy company, expert on project development.

As the founder of İDEGER Energy Investment, he invests in technology ventures and  simoutaneoulsy he is the General Manager of ARTIBİR ENERGY holding wind, solar and biomass projects.

Mr. Erol acted as the Secretary General and then the President of TÜREB, Turkish Wind Energy Association between 2019-2021.