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Biography
Through insightful talks Ozan crafts a comprehensive landscape of potential futures and translates these insights into actionable strategies for today’s business leaders. With a profound understanding of the human condition, Ozan emphasises the critical importance of mastering this concept to lead effectively according to varying circumstances. Drawing from a rich tapestry of experiences, he illustrates essential leadership pillars that resonate deeply with audiences.
Prior to founding Tanto Capital Partners in 2014, Mr. Özkural 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.Özkural 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.Özkural was responsible for managing and investing a balance sheet of over US$2.5bn.
Ozan is widely considered as an expert in global geopolitics, emerging markets and financing, where he has been interviewed on these subjects by important journalists such as Larry King, and he is a regular contributor for Bloomberg, CNBC, BusinessWeek, Harvard Business Review as well as periodically lecturing at the University of Cambridge. He was also the youngest member admitted to the Foreign Policy Leadership Council of the world renowned think-tank, The Brookings Institution, back in 2017.