TUBA GÖLCÜKLÜ

Ms. Tuba Golcuklu is a Partner with the firm. She is a decorated visionary and also a venture investor holding majority stake in certain new media and e-commerce concerns.  Ms. Golcuklu started her career in 1992 at Arthur Andersen Worldwide (now merged with Ernst & Young) and worked as a Business Advisory and later Corporate Finance professional at its Ankara and Istanbul Offices. In 1997, she joined Turk Ekonomi Bank as head of financial planning and later was appointed as the Chief Financial Officer of BNP Paribas /TEB Financial Holdings Inc. in Istanbul and a permanent member of the Asset/Liability Committee and M&A Task Board. In 2001, she left BNP Paribas /TEB to continue her education in the United States at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Ms. Golcuklu advised on a formal basis a number of local businesses in the Greater Pittsburgh area. Her direct involvement in a renewable energy venture project (corn based ethanol) won her the 2003 Manufacturing Entrepreneur of the Year Award and later praise from Hon. Ed Rendell, the Governor of State of Pennsylvania. She joined Accord Atlantic in the summer of 2004 and has been a key member of the team ever since.  She brings in a wealth of knowledge and experience in debt financing models, financial modeling, entrepreneurship fundamentals, marketing and product strategies, business modeling and e-commerce as well as a network of academia notables. Ms. Golcuklu received honors from TOBB (Turkish Union of Chambers and Exchanges) in 2008 and won the Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award the same year. Ms. Golcuklu holds an MBA with honors from Tepper School of Business of Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. She attended the American Academy, the junior college, and later Ortadogu Teknik University in Ankara where she received a B.Sc. degree in Business Administration with honors.