Mr. Buğra Baban was born in Istanbul in 1971. Upon graduating from the Austrian St. Georg High School, he earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Boğaziçi University in 1993, his MBA from the University of Texas at Austin in 1996 and his Ph.D. in Contemporary Management from Işık University in 2008. Dr. Baban’s career spans 28 years in investment banking and for the last five years, he has been the CEO of Tacirler Investment.