Cagdas Devrim Kucukemiroglu Email & Phone Number

İstanbul, Turkey

•Consultant at Metals Focus; an independent precious metals consultancy, responsible of research and consultancy services across, Europe, Middle East markets and Turkey. •Responsible for building and maintaining relationships with key precious metals markets’ participants in Turkey and in the Middle East countries which includes regular travels to cities where contacts are based, to have meetings, collect information and discuss the latest trends in the market.•Uses the combination of information collected through field research and publicly available data to produce granular estimates of country-by-country precious metals demand and supply.•Contributes to Metals Focus’ regular publications (weekly, monthly, quarterly and other) as well as its bespoke consulting projects.•Represents Metals Focus in industry events and conferences.

Istanbul, Turkey

•Responsible of forming, implementation, reporting, workforce training and acting liaison for the independent audit companies of the Precious Metals Supply Chain Policy of the LBMA accredited Gold Refinery which involves running the KYC checks, preparing the due diligence reports for the existing and new clients and working to minimize the risk for the precious metals procured to be refined in the Atasay Gold Refinery.

•Project Director of the Scrap Gold Project working with the leading banks of Turkey assisting to collect physical gold from public to be assayed and invested in the gold deposit accounts.•Working with top management of Atasay Group on the market research, domestic business development and international expansion plans of the retail operations of the Atasay Jewelry Group through organic growth and key acquisitions. • Responsible of gold trading and arbitrage activities for the precious metals group companies with an annual turnover of over 5.2 billion TL in the domestic and international markets.• Responsible of the operations and business development activities for the products and services offered by the LBMA certified gold refinery.• Responsible of cashflow management of the company.• Responsible of account settlements, receivables, payables and reconciliations management of the company.

• As a joint task, acting as the Head of the Investor Relations Department of Goldas Jewelry since January 2009. Prepared and published 2008, 2009 Goldas Jewelry Annual Reports and 2009, 2010 quarterly financial reports. Prepared and presented various company and project reports and presentations. • Responsible of informing and liaising with investors and analysts and all functions related to the investor support solutions.

•Business Development Manager responsible of developing, identifying financing sources and implementing new investment projects in key growth sectors of today and the projected ones of the future. •Responsible of business development and mergers and acquisitions. Reporting to the International Relations Director and Board Members of the Holding Company.•Directly involved in the negotiations with foreign investment funds to secure capital funding for the company.•Prepared and oversaw various valuation, corporate appraisal, earnings and loss reports utilizing appropriate methods including calculation of net present value using weighted average equity cost and capital asset pricing model as an example.•Responsible of developing acquisition strategies and performing internal valuations of the target companies. Established relations and worked with external financial and legal due diligence teams and investment brokers on the acquisition projects.•Has worked on the cases of six acquisition targets in France, Spain, USA, UK, Italy and Switzerland in 2007 and 2008 mostly in retail sector as the project leader with the President, CEO and Executive Board Members.•Taking part in developing joint mining projects with select British and Australian Mining Companies involving tenements in Turkey and Australia, including listing of a jointly formed company in the Canadian and Australian Stock Markets.•Was responsible jointly with the Finance Manager on preparing the feasibility reports of electricity generation investment projects planned in Antalya and Denizli. •Lead the business development team members to form and develop relationships with Russian Banks in Moscow and Goldas Jewelry in Russia. Established valuable contacts among the top Russian Banks’ management teams.•Worked with brand valuation and consulting firm BrandFinance to measure the brand value of Goldas Jewelry and presented a strategy to the CEO advising the possible fields of improvement.

• Worked as finance, carrier payables, disputes, reconciliation and accounts manager. • Audited and oversaw telecommunications invoices of over 100 carriers including Telia Sonera, Sprint-Nextel, Qwest, Global Crossing, MCI Worldcom, Verizon Business, T-Systems (Deutsche Telekom’s company in U.S.A.), BellSouth, Williams Telecommunications, Televersal, Telmex, Level 3, Broadwing, and XO Communications for fixed, one-time, usage and variable telecom charges, totaling over $100 million dollars a year.• Recovered $35 Million in disputes. • Worked with the CFO and the auditor/advisor company Grant Thornton on the merger of Ntera Holdings and WorldQuest Networks which was called off at the final stage.• Worked with the CFO and the auditor/advisor company Grant Thornton on regular audits.• Prepared the weekly cash flow chart with the CFO and worked with the accounts payable department to coordinate payments to telecom vendors.• Worked with and managed finance and accounting groups to ensure the timely and accurate generation of the monthly closing accruals.• Worked closely with the MIS department and call routing department to ensure the accuracy of the carrier reconciliations and mapping of the traffic by the help of custom generated reports.• Was reporting directly to CFO, COO and CEO. Generated and submitted various reports to CFO, COO and CEO related to disputes, traffic, carrier balances and payment histories.• Worked closely with Sales and Procurement teams and performed relationship management tasks to ensure close customer and vendor relations and satisfaction. • Coordinated the communication meetings with top management of telecom vendors.

• Worked successfully as a proprietary trader and equity analyst for the company, trading securities listed in NASDAQ Stock Exchange. • Have top scores in Series 7 (License to trade securities in NASDAQ and NYSE and other stock exchanges in USA.), Series 55 (This is a securities license entitling the holder to actively participate in equity trading in USA.) and Series 63 (This is the license to become a securities agent who solicits orders for any type of security in USA.) license exams.

• Worked as a futures contract trader. Traded successfully various CBOT and CME contracts and German DAX index by using an effective semi-mechanical trading system. Performed also customer operations as a dealer.

• Worked on the International Markets Desk as a foreign exchange and money market dealer, managed the cashflow and on the Fixed Income Desk as a bond and repo dealer.

Bachelor Of Arts, Economics

Activities and Societies: •Member of Bogazici Universitesi Mezunlar Dernegi (BUMED). •Was a member of Bogazici University Rowing Team.

Executive Development Programm

• Participant of Turquality Executive Development Programme run by Koç University and Sabancı University designed to assist the leaders.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Managerial Economics I

Education record