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- Hüsnü Özyeğin ist ein türkischer Geschäftsmann und Selfmade-Milliardär. Ihm gehört die FIBA Holding, eine Unternehmensgruppe mit Schwerpunkt im Finanzsektor. Özyeğin besuchte das private Robert College in Istanbul. Nach seinem Abschluss 1963 studierte er Bauingenieurwesen an der Oregon State University in Corvallis (Oregon). Nach seinem BS-Abschluss absolvierte er das MBA-Programm der Harvard Business School. Nach drei weiteren Jahren in den USA kehrte Özyeğin in die Türkei zurück, wo er eine Stelle in der Pamukbank antrat, die seinem Schulfreund Mehmet Emin Karamehmet gehörte. 1977, im Alter von nur 32 Jahren, wurde er Hauptgeschäftsführer dieser Bank – eine Position, die er innehatte, bis er 1984 zur größeren Yapı ve Kredi Bankası wechselte, die sein Schulfreund im selben Jahr übernommen hatte. Özyeğin leitete die Yapı ve Kredi Bankası bis 1987, als er im Alter von 43 Jahren seine eigene Bank, die Finansbank, gründete. Im April 2006 verkaufte er 46% seiner Anteile am türkischen Zweig der Finansbank im Wert von 2,774 Milliarden US-Dollar an die National Bank of Greece (NBG). Der nicht-türkische Teil der Finansbank wurde umfirmiert unter Credit Europe Bank. Özyeğin bleibt Hauptanteilseigner und Vorstandsmitglied. Die türkische Zeitschrift Ekonomist wählte Özyeğin zum „Geschäftsmann des Jahres 2000“. Özyeğin führt die Liste der reichsten Türken an.
- Hüsnü Özyeğin is a Turkish businessman in the finance sector who created his own fortune. He is owner of FIBA Holding, a group of mostly finance companies in Turkey. He has a net worth of $US3 billion as of 2011. Özyeğin was born in 1944 in İzmir, Turkey. He graduated 1963 from the Robert College in İstanbul and claims that he went to the U.S. with just a thousand dollars in his pocket. There, he studied civil engineering at the Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, USA, receiving a BS degree. Being more interested in finance, he attended the School of Business at the Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts and obtained an MBA. Following his return back home after three more years in the USA, Özyeğin was offered a post in Pamukbank, which belonged to his schoolmate, Mehmet Emin Karamehmet. In 1977, at the age of only 32, he was appointed general manager of this bank and he held this position until 1984. Then he transferred to Yapı ve Kredi Bankası to become its general manager, a much larger bank in Turkey acquired that year by the same friend. Özyeğin led Yapı ve Kredi Bankası until 1987, when he decided to establish his own bank, the Finansbank at the age of 43. He expanded it to a bank with more than 200 branches operating in nine countries out of Turkey, mostly in Europe. He later founded several finance companies and brought them under the Holding Fiba, which has around 8,500 employees in 20 companies. In 1996, he entered the retail business purchasing the supermarket chains Gima, Endi, Spar and Greens. Furthermore, Özyeğin signed a franchising contract with the British retail chain Marks & Spencer, and then purchased also the Sakura Bank. In 2005, Özyeğin sold the supermarket chain named GIMA to Sabancı Holding, and acquired in exchange the five-star hotel Swissotel in İstanbul from its Japanese owners. In April 2006, he sold 46% of the shares of the Turkish branch of Finansbank, which is worth of 2.774 billion USD, to National Bank of Greece, the largest and the oldest commercial bank in Greece. He is expected to remain the bank’s chairman of the board of directors for two more years. The non-Turkish part of Finansbank was placed under the Dutch holding and rebranded into Credit Europe Bank. Özyeğin is the main shareholder and board member of this bank. At the end of 2008, Credit Europe Bank N.V. employed over 6,000 professionals working in the euro-zone countries Belgium, Germany, Malta and the Netherlands as well as in China, Dubai, Russia, Romania, Switzerland, Turkey and Ukraine, serving more than 3 million customers worldwide. Özyeğin was awarded the "Businessman of the Year" in 2000 by the Turkish magazine "Ekonomist". Özyeğin University located in Istanbul, Turkey was founded by the Hüsnü M. Özyeğin Foundation. Its establishment was approved by Foundation Act No 5656 published in the Official Gazette No 26526 on May 18, 2007.
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