Levend Beriker is Alta Bering’s founder (1994) and managing partner. He has helped clients face the challenges and opportunities of an emerging market, by promoting the shareholder perspective on value and better alignment of interests between management and shareholders.
Alta Bering’s practice is built upon many years of hands-on business experience and cooperation with the best international practitioners of value management and corporate strategy. From 1980 to 1990 Beriker was part of an entrepreneurial partnership that delivered the product and service organization best identified with the brand Dusakabin.
He was managing director of a LSE listed UK company prior to founding Alta Bering. Mr. Beriker is a graduate of Cornell University School of Engineering and Indiana University Business School.
Mahmut Karayel is the head of financial analysis and a member of the US infrastructure team and US Real Estate team based in the San Francisco office. Mr. Karayel joined Babcock & Brown in 1997 initially focusing on cross border financing of power and real estate assets. More recently, Mahmut has been involved with B&B’s M&A process, financial modeling process improvement, and risk modeling efforts.
Throughout his career, Mr. Karayel has held various engineering, managerial, and academic positions. Prior to joining Babcock & Brown, Mr. Karayel was the Director of Investment Analysis at GATX Capital, prior to which he was the Manager of Pricing Policy at USL Capital. He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley where he received a Ph.D. in Operations Research.
Omer Bakkalbasi served as a director for several of i2 Technologies’ supply chain optimization products focused on supply chain design, transportation & distribution management, inventory replenishment and service parts planning. Omer also served as the director of the Advanced Solutions Center for rapid prototyping of decision support products at InterTrans Logistics Solutions. He also worked at Philips Electronics, North America, as a Business Manager for the internal supply chain consulting group and at Columbia Business School as an adjunct professor teaching Supply Chain Management.
Omer holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering and a Master of Science in Manufacturing Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, as well as a Master of Science in Business Information Systems and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from The University of Alabama.
He is a principal at Chainalytics.
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