Ersin Karaoglu joined the TPF board in June 2021. He has been a member of TPF’s Investment Committee since 2015 and currently chairs the committee. Ersin works as a portfolio manager at Brevan Howard, a leading global alternative investment platform. Ersin specializes in cross-asset investment and trading strategies in the US credit and equity markets.…
Nicholas C. Porcaro has been an early supporter of TPF and served as a Board Member. Mr. Porcaro is a licensed architect in Massachusetts and New York and has over 35 years of professional architectural design, project development and construction management experience both domestic and international. With reputable large companies such as Stone & Webster,…
Burcu Mirza joined TPF family in 2013 and is an active member of the international community in New York and a strong advocate for diaspora philanthropy. She has long been a supporter of girl’s education in Turkey and in rural Pakistan. In 2015, Mrs. Mirza received the Great Dome Award, the highest honor MIT Alumni…
Mr. Koc is an angel investor with the Keiretsu Forum and is a business strategy consultant to small companies and to non-profits. He was the founding partner in the establishment of the Keiretsu Forum Istanbul chapter in Sep 2012. From 2001-2007, Mr. Koc served as CFO of ChildCare Careers, a successful temporary staffing agency that…
Gamze Ateş is the founder of My Beachy Side, a fashion label which debuted in summer 2016 with accessories, ready-to-wear pieces, and its signature barefoot sandal designs. My Beachy Side’s social consciousness element gives Syrian refugees and Turkish women opportunities to better their lives. Ates works with established NGO’s to reach women in difficult situations,…
Murat Ağırnaslı was born in 1955 in Ankara, Turkey. He graduated from TED Ankara Kolej (A junior hight school and high school). He completed his undergraduate studies in Business Administration at the Bosporus University (Bogazici Universitesi) in Istanbul in 1979. That year he was admitted to the MBA program at the University of Richmond. He…
Erinch R. Özada is the Chairman of AZVA Overseas & Trading Ltd., a global trading, consulting and development company. Mr Ozada was born in 1959 in what is today Turkish Northern Cyprus. He completed secondary school in the United States (TC Williams High School, National Honor Society) and then attended Hamilton College (BA, magna cum…
Mustafa Kemal Abadan, is a retired design partner from the world renown architectural firm Skidmore Owings and Merrill LLP (SOM). Throughout his 40-year career in New York City, he practiced as an architect with a worldwide reach, completing many award-winning buildings on five continents. Amongst his most recognized projects are The Islamic Cultural Center, Time…
Özlenen Eser Kalav is the former Chairman, CEO and President of TPF. She is a founding partner and has been serving on the board of directors since 2007. Mrs. Kalav shapes, approves and executes the fund’s strategies and sets the overall direction of the organization. Mrs. Kalav’s professional life started at Citibank in Athens in…
Born in Bolu, Turkey Haldun Tashman is an entrepreneur who came to the United States, after graduating from Robert College of Istanbul in 1966, to study at Columbia Business School with a Fullbright Fellowship. Upon graduation, he worked at Deloitte in New York City for two years. Tashman moved to Phoenix, Arizona and became co-owner/manager…