Melih Yalcin

Melih is Head of Global Advisory at Artane Partners, bringing more than twenty years of strategy, M&A and corporate finance experience to the firm's client mandates.

Since 2011 he has been Senior Partner at Strategy Loop Advisory Services in Istanbul, a strategy, M&A and financial advisory firm, and since 2024 Senior Advisor to the Board of 1000 Yatırımlar Holding, a publicly listed conglomerate.

He was previously Managing Director, Advisory Services at TSKB (Türkiye Sınai Kalkınma Bankası), where he restructured and led an advisory division of more than 100 analysts, economists and engineers, and Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Committee member at Kale Group.

He began his career in M&A and corporate strategy at Doğan Holding, Garanti Bank and Cantor Fitzgerald in Istanbul and London. He holds a business degree from Yeditepe University, where he graduated top of his class, and a master's degree from the London School of Economics.