M. Alp Kural

Helped in the foundation of Turkey's most popular non-government free-tutoring platform Okul Destek Dernegi (okuldestek.org) in 2020 and acted as director in charge of performance analysis and also tutor in English.

• Analysed Environmental, Social and Governance projects before seed-capital stage for feasibility and scalability. Helped young entrepreneurs via business and financial advice.

• Set-up and headed institutional equities sales-trading product in a boutique Turkish investment bank including helping developers design and implement an extensive trading platform with front-back office integration.
• Designed execution-trading algorithms for precise needs of clients along with helping research team develop the first quant product in Turkey.

• Joined a long-established Turkish brokerage firm to restructure and develop the institutional equities product.
• Initiated corporate bonds issuance and sales product as one of the first-comers in Turkish corporate bonds market that expanded exponentially in a short few years.

• Performed as senior sales-trader in emerging markets team with Turkey as primary focus.
• Helped develop and fine-tune execution algorithms for Turkish equities.
• Also was active in sales, mainly with clients looking for local expertise.
• Had been covering over 40 actively paying clients, based in UK, US, EU, CEE and ME.

• Was hired among a small group of first choice candidates for the Turkish team as sales-trader for cash and derivative products.
• Also helped business development team design trading systems for cash, derivatives and stock lending.
• Brought in a Turkey specialist focus but also expanded client base with both hedge-funds and long-only accounts.

• Established and headed Turkish equities trading for Greek EFG Eurobank's institutional brokerage arm for cash and derivative products that grew to be one of the leaders in Turkish markets.
• Constantly developed trading systems for fast and reliable execution.
• Set-up the first exchange-traded equity derivatives team, well ahead of competition, that significantly increased revenues.

• Expanded client base as well as sharpening focus on key clients.
• Managed a proprietary trading book.

• Helped manage Turkish equities portfolio of a hedge-fund.
• Performed trend trading and stock picking

• Conducted research on listed Turkish companies.
• Covered Retail, Food processing and Brewery.