FEHMI BIRGE DEMIRKOL

Experienced CFO and Investment Banker

Istanbul, Türkiye

About

Experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the oil & energy and health industry. Strong finance professional skilled in International Business Development, Tax ,Accounting, Management, Structured Finance,Project Finance and Risk Management. Experienced Expat roles more than 7 years in Greece, Croatia and Belgium.

Experience

  • Deputy General Manager at Soyak Enerji
    Dec 2021 - Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Head of Project Finance & RealEstate Asset Valuation at Fibabanka
    Apr 2018 - Nov 2021 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • CFO of 4 PPP Hospital Projects at MR Meridiam -Rönesans Sağlık Yatırım A.Ş
    Aug 2016 - Sep 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos

    - Supervise and lead relations with local and international financial institutions for managing project finance loans. - Supervise the accounting team to structure daily , monthly and yearly local and IFRS reports - Supervise the tax management of the companies. Develop methods to monetize estimations for specific benefits of hospital projects including operational cost savings, risk analysis. -Preparation of a monthly reports to board and executive committee about the financial outcomes of the projects -Manage the relation with Ministry of Health on financial issues. - Reporting to CEO

  • Director- Corporate Finance/Business Development at PALMET Energy Group
    Apr 2011 - Aug 2016 · 5 yrs 5 mos

    - Process management on local and international M&A deals for Palmet developed projects on the field of energy (gas distribution, gas trade and energy generation) - Structuring new business areas for energy investments , solar, wind , coal fired power plants and energy efficiency while developing working economic evaluation models for analyzing the value of capital investment projects (in terms of NPV, IRR, B/C Ratio and Payback Period) - Manage relations with governmental authorities, technical consultants and suppliers. - Supervise and lead relations with a total of 15 local and international financial institutions for providing short term loans and manage investor relations activities. - Structure the process of maintaining project finance loans from commercial and multilateral financial institutions. - Structure and supervise relations for IPO with Capital Markets Board, MMK and BIST and audit firms. - Presentation of a monthly report about global economical developments and its effects to the Turkish Economy and Palmet investment to be presented to Board Members in order to monitor investment decisions. - Acting Board Member . Reporting to CEO Major Achievements ; - Structured project finance loans from 2 local banks and an international bank as a club with a total amount of USD 420 million for a hydropower plant with 283 MW capacity. - Structured project finance loan from JP Morgan /US Eximbank with a total amount of USD 75 million for a gas fired power plant of 126 MW capacity. Prepared financial economical models with scenario analysis on a commercial energy market. - Structured the first corporate bond for the gas distribution industry at the local market as a gas distribution company and managed to issue bonds 5 times during 2013-2016 with an amount between 30 mio TL to 65 Mio TL . - Developed additional cash and non-cash bank loan limits of the company TL 70 million cash and TL 150 million in non cash .

  • CFO at Turkerler Construction Inc.
    Dec 2008 - Aug 2010 · 1 yr 9 mos

    Job Description; - Process management on local and international M&A deals for Turkerler developed projects for fields of transportation, energy and construction. - Business generation for energy investments and construction in the new markets like Albania, Syria and China. - Supervise and lead relations with a total of 14 local and international financial institutions. - Structure the process of maintaining project finance loans from commercial and multilateral financial institutions. - Management of daily cash flow and budgeting on project bases. - Establish relations on project bases with legal, technical and financial consultants and funds. - Meetings with international potential equity investors in energy hydro, wind, geothermal, thermal, port, real estate projects. Major Achievements ; - Structure project finance loans from 2 local banks with a total amount of USD 214 million for 6 hydropower plants with 152 MW capacity. - Establish business relations and finalize a share transfer agreement of a joint venture cooperation with EDPR (Number 3 operator of wind power plants in the world with 6000 MW capacity) from Portugal for Turkerler’s 1000 MW total wind licenses applications. Lead all the due-diligence process on legal , technical and financial aspects. - Develop the cash and non-cash bank loan limits of the company from TL 22 million up to TL 48 million in cash and TL 200 million to TL 364 million in non cash. - Manage the utilization of project finance loan from Is bank with a total amount of USD 35 million for a 16 month period until the completion of a 22 MW run river type power plant.