After managing private equity funds and executing mergers and acquisitions (M&A) for more than 12 years in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), Turkey and in the Former Soviet Union, Özgür Ömer GÜNER founded his corporate finance and investment advisory services company, European Growth Management (EGM), to better serve his primarily Turkish, French and generally European client base of Private Equity Funds and strategic investors.

GÜNER, a Turkish and French national, born in 1971, has lived in France and Turkey for the majority of his life.  He executed M&A deals being based in Prague, Sofia, Istanbul, Kiev and Moscow, where he developed a valuable regional experience and a network of local business partners. 

He managed a leading regional private equity and real estate fund’s investments in CEE and Turkey: Europa Capital Management (ECM; www.ecm.cz).  He has held numerous Directorships and successfully restructured many of the portfolio companies.  Among funds managed by ECM, was the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Post Privatisation Fund.  GÜNER also advised numerous leading international companies in their M&A and privatisation projects in the region.  He executed more than 10 successful deals in various sectors such as construction materials, food processing, healthcare, distribution, paper & carton board, utilities and real estate. 

GÜNER holds a BS in Finance from Syracuse University, New York and an MBA from HEC School of Management (I.04), Paris.

Today, he shares his experience and his contacts with his clients in order to assist them to invest and develop their business mainly in Turkey, but also in France, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Russia.