Leadership
Özkan Yıldırım - CEO
As chief executive officer, Ozkan helps clients solve their toughest and most vital challenges.
Ozkan Yildirim is the founder and CEO of The Street Finance. He ensures that the firm continue to meet the changing needs of our clients. He also chairs advisory board member of several start-ups and act as an investor in the start-up ecosystem.
Prior to establishing The Street Finance, Ozkan was a partner in Deloitte during the last ten years. He had served in several leadership positions within Deloitte, including Consumer Industry and Automotive Sector Leader between 2016-2021, head of Deloitte Bursa office between 2012-2018 where he established Bursa office in 2012 and lead of real estate sector between 2010-2012. Ozkan has worked extensively in the automotive, consumer, retail, healthcare, energy, and real estate sectors. His leadership on client service teams in Deloitte led to gain global recognition within Deloitte in more than 30 countries. His international experience includes working with high-profile clients on audit, merger and acquisitions, cost transformation, growth strategies, complexity reduction, and merger integrations.
Prior to joining Deloitte in 2007, he worked at PepsiCo more than two years as business development and sales budget senior manager. He also led operational compliance, efficiency, and revenue management projects.
He began to his career at PwC in 1997 as an audit associate. In 2001, Özkan was relocated to PwC New York Office. He gained extensive experience in the US business practices, US GAAP particularly in the consumer, retail, venture capital and private equity fund sectors based on the requirements of PCAOB and SOX 404 regulations for more than two years.
His Specialties:
- Business Strategy
- Merger and Acquisitions
- Financial Analysis and Valuation
- Due Diligence
- Capital Markets
- International Public Offerings
- US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (“US GAAP”)
- International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”)
- Risk Management
His Licenses & certifications:
- US Certified Public Accountant
- Turkish Certified Public Accountant (SMMM)
- CRMA, Certification in Risk Management Assurance
- IAC, Turkish Public Oversight Accounting, Auditing Standards Authority Certificate of Independent Auditor
Ozkan is also an author or co-author of numerous reports, articles, and papers about strategic business issues for the automotive, consumer, real estate sectors and market trends. Ozkan publishes frequently his articles in business periodicals and is a public speaker on various platforms.
Educated at Istanbul University, Economics BA in English where he was also lecturer about auditing and reporting standards between 2012-2016.
He is an enthusiastic sailor and also passionate about environment and sustainability.
Betül Yılmaz
Senior Associate, Financial Advisory
Betül, a graduate of the Department of Business Administration at Middle East Technical University, began her professional career in October 2021 as a Tax Consultant in the Indirect Taxes team at PwC Turkey.
During her time there, she provided consulting services to multinational companies operating in the FMCG, automotive, and textile sectors, ensuring compliance with tax regulations in foreign trade transactions. She was involved in long-term projects, focusing on client communication, project management, auditing, and reporting.
As the team leader in financial advisory projects, Betül is responsible for ensuring the efficiency of field team and delivering desired results with the highest quality and within the planned timeframe.
Eda Uzun
Associate, Corporate Finance
Eda Uzun, Corporate Finance Associate at The Street Finance, has started her career in investment banking. She worked with the Capital Markets Advisory team at the Development and Investment Bank of Turkey where she had to chance to work on IPO and DCM projects.
Besides her one year of Capital Markets Advisory experience, she also spent a considerable amount of time as an intern in different firms and fields. She has worked as an Audit Intern at EY, an Accounting Intern at DİTAŞ, a Finance Intern at Smart Energy, Financial Advisory Intern at Ataol.
Eda has graduated from Istanbul Bilgi University BcS. Economics and Finance (Honors) program with an honor where she studied the program with 100% scholarship. She was accepted to the LSE-UoL dual degree BcS. Economics and Finance program in 2020 while she was studying Economics and Finance at Bilgi University and graduated from UoL in 2023.
Meanwhile, she was an active member of student clubs. She was a board member of the Bilgi University Economy Club and successfully executed it for 2 years.
Pelin Çınar
Associate, Financial Advisory
Pelin Çınar works as an Associate Financial Advisor at The Street Finance and Blitzer Finance. During her undergraduate studies, she successfully completed her internships at Denizbank and QNB Finansbank (Banking), Smart Solar Technologies (Energy), Adastec Corp and Capoom Inc (IT).
She studied at Yeditepe University’s Business Administration program with a full scholarship and graduated from her school in 2023 with high honors as the second in her department.
Following her undergraduate graduation, she worked as a Finance Assistant at Adastec Corp., where she was a long-term intern. During this period, she gained experience in many areas such as start-up financing, investor relations, and preparation of financial statements.
She has been actively working at The Street Finance group since October 2023.
