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. As of 2007, relating with foreign direct investments, he served as the Head Project Manager and Chief Advisor at ISPAT (the Turkish National Agency for Support and Promotion of Investments), after working in the different types of positions in building and tourism sectors.

In the years of 2010 – 2012 and 2015 – 2016, Mr. Erol was reintegrated to Turkerler Holding first as Business Development Coordinator and then as the Deputy General Manager of Energy division to coordinate 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.

Since 2016, he is working as the General Manager at RES Anatolia, the Turkish subsidiary of RES GROUP that is a prominent global renewable energy company, expert on project development and investments in wind, solar and energy storage activities with a portfolio over 12 GW.