Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD)
Country
Türkiye
Sector
Banking
Languages
English, Turkish
About
He is currently working at the Banking Department as a Senior Team Member, responsible for deal origination from CIS and Türkiye at the Islamic Corporation for the Development of Private Sector (ICD), a private sector development arm of the Islamic Development Bank Group (IsDB). He is currently based at the Regional Hub in Istanbul, Türkiye. From a cross-sale perspective, he is also responsible for raising funds and serves as a team member for exits of ICD investee companies in the CIS and Europe region. In this role, he manages strategic partners and oversees the exit process by coordinating internally with product teams and externally with potential strategic investors. With over twenty-five years of experience as a business development professional in emerging markets such as Russia, Albania, Azerbaijan, Türkiye, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, he has gained extensive expertise working with major top banks, family offices, establishing private equity funds, and leasing (ijara) companies in the CIS and Europe regions since 2010. He has also raised funds for newly emerged businesses and the creation of SME development funds in the CIS region. This has provided him with rich cultural fluency, solid geopolitical awareness, and mastery of the choreography of influence in CIS countries. The Republic of Azerbaijan, via the Ministry of Science and Education and Durham Business School, awarded him a joint scholarship in 2009 for his full-time MBA program at Durham Business School, United Kingdom. He speaks fluent Russian, Turkish, and English with strategic partners and clients. He is the Chairman of the Board of Directors at Taiba Finance (Uzbekistan), a sharia-compliant financing company wholly owned by ICD. Additionally, he serves as a Board member at Ijara Company (Kyrgyz Republic), representing ICD. He is a critical team member and part of the task force responsible for establishing the first Islamic Bank in Uzbekistan (Taiba Bank) during 2026.
On September 11, 2025, he was honored with the "Upcoming Personality in Global Islamic Finance" award (Advocacy Role) by Cambridge IFA. In February 2025, he successfully completed the Cambridge Islamic Finance Structuring Master Program, organized by Cambridge IFA (UK) and Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance in Madina, KSA.