Okan Aybar

At Bilkent University, he earned his bachelor's degree in banking and finance in 1996. Then, in 1997 and 2001, respectively, he earned an MS in Investment Management from Pace University and an MBA in Strategic Management from Leichester University.

Ktisat Bank was where he began his career. Between 1991 and 2001, he continued his career in New York, working in a variety of roles with firms including ED&F Man Capital Markets, MAS FX, Impact International Trading Group, and Federal Home Loan Bank of New York. In October 2003, he established Anatolia Capital Global Investments Advisors LLC.

He shared his professional knowledge while working as a lecturer at ESC Rennes from 2015 to 2018 and at Coventry University from 2016 to 2017. Since 2004 he has been a professor at Istanbul Bilgi University.