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.
• 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.

• 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.
• 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..
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.).
• 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 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.

• 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