Munir O.
London, UK
$1000 - $2000
2 reviewsOZAN M. OZKURAL
Founder and Managing Partner of Tanto Capital Partners
Prior to founding Tanto Capital Partners in 2014, Mr. Ozkural had a distinguished career as a senior investment banker, having spent most of his career at one of the most renowned global institutions – Merrill Lynch – out of London, serving clients across the globe. By the time he left investment banking to set up Tanto Capital Partners - a boutique investment bank in London, encapsulating asset management, advisory, and multi family office business’ under one roof - Mr.Ozkural had been running the emerging markets origination business for VTB Capital for 2 years, having been responsible for all of the firm’s advisory, fixed income/equity origination, commodities and financing businesses across all sectors. In this capacity, Mr. Ozkural was responsible for running over US$2.5bn of balance sheet and was also involved in a number of high profile cross border transactions.
Prior to joining VTB Capital in early 2012, Mr. Ozkural had spent over seven years at Merrill Lynch London (subsequently BAML), where in his last position he was responsible for the wider Emerging Markets high yield and structured financing businesses.
Mr. Ozkural had started his investment-banking career in the Global Structured Finance and Principal Investments team of Merrill Lynch, and was responsible for structuring and managing securitization/warehouse financing, special situation financing, real estate, and private equity transactions across multiple sectors, asset classes, and regions. Throughout his investment banking career, Mr.Ozkural originated and has overseen the execution of over US$50bn of transactions across both the global Emerging Markets and Western Europe. Mr.Ozkural spent his pre-investment banking career at Unilever, having joined as a management trainee, and held the position of a Business Group Finance Manager before leaving to join Merrill Lynch.
Mr. Ozkural holds a BA in Management Studies from the University of Nottingham (2001), and is a chartered management accountant (ACMA/GCMA charter holder). He has been appointed to the Foreign Policy Leadership Council of the Brookings Institution –a Washington D.C. think tank- in 2017 (ranked the Worlds most powerful think tank), and continues to serve on this council to date. He has also taken on a role as the William Pitt Group member of the UK based global think tank Chatham House in 2023, and also serves as an independent non-executive director on the board of the fast growing European fin-tech firm Openpayd, based in London. In addition to the above, Mr.Ozkural has been a member of YPO (Previously Young Presidents Organisation) since 2020, and has recently been elected to serve on the Executive Committee of one of the most prominent pillars of YPO – the Deal Network, and is the Co-Chair of the YPO Cambridge Executive Education programme, due to launch in 2024.
Mr. Ozkural is widely considered as an expert in global geopolitics, emerging markets and financing, where he has been interviewed on this subject by broadcasting legends such as Larry King, and continues to be interviewed regularly in Bloomberg, CNBC as well as periodically lecturing at the University of Cambridge. Mr. Ozkural is also a regular contributor to the Businessweek magazine, and has been featured in the front page of The New York Times. Mr. Ozkural is a regular participant in the Annual IMF/World Bank meetings and the Davos World Economic Forum, where in 2016 he became the only senior finance professional to hold an official 1-1 meeting with the President of Argentina H.E. Mauricio Macri – which was widely publicised both in local Argentinian and international press.
All of Mr. Ozkural’s media appearances, interview’s, pod-casts and appointments can be found at both www.tantocapital.com/media and www.ozanozkural.com
Please find the links to some of the key interviews/podcasts/articles below:
• Larry King interview: https://youtu.be/-TmzczlruZs
• CNBC International interview December 2021: https://youtu.be/ItS1_2MGsvw
• CNBC Squawkbox interview: https://youtu.be/wixikaf4Nx8
• CNBC SquawkBox interview: https://youtu.be/QHUceNFFKGk
• Private Equity News Magazine OpEd: www.penews.com/articles/the-traditional-investment-models-are-ripe-for-change-20190506
• TheNewYork Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/15/us/politics/ivanka-trump-charity-auction.html
• ElClarin(Argentina)interview: https://www.clarin.com/economia/ozan-ozkural-promete-inversiones-millonarias_0_HJ5TNa_Pme.html
• Pod cast with Cal Fussman – The Big Questions (aired after his podcast with Kobe Bryant): https://www.calfussman.com/podcasts/2018/5/15/ozan-ozkural-the-power-of-travel
- On-Camera Talent
- On-Air Reporter / Host