Mr. Osmansoy has experience in corporate finance, private equity, structured equity and activist investing. He has been involved in nearly AED 10 billion worth of equity and debt transactions in the GCC and has spearheaded the expansion of TNI throughout the region. Prior to joining TNI in 2004, Mr. Osmansoy was a Managing Partner at Dexter Capital Group, a London-based investment firm that specializes in strategic block investments in Europe. In this capacity, he was responsible for the origination, evaluation, and execution of activist/special situations investment opportunities. Prior to joining DCG, Mr. Osmansoy was a Senior Investment Officer at J.H. Whitney & Co., a leading US private equity firm, where he focused on late-stage venture capital investments and leveraged buyouts in Europe and where he structured and negotiated various growth capital acquisitions. Before that, he was a Vice President at Morgan Stanley, where he was a key member of both the equity derivatives and corporate finance groups in New York and London. In this capacity, he structured and placed a number of equity-linked derivative products and worked on various financial buyer transactions including reverse LBOs/IPOs, public & private placements of equity securities and high yield debt offerings.

Mr. Osmansoy serves on the boards of Depa Limited, Colliers International and Gulf National Securities Center.

Mr. Osmansoy Graduated from the University of Virginia with a BSc. in Systems Engineering and received his MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.