Çağatay Özdoğru oversees all of Esas’ business segments including real estate, private equity, venture capital and wealth management, and serves on their investment committees. He is a board member of Esas Properties and various private equity portfolio companies including Pegasus Airlines, Mars Athletic, Korozo and Ayakkabı Dünyası.Çağatay joined Esas Holding in 2005 as an executive board member. He played a major role in establishing Esas Private Equity where he served as CEO since 2010, until transitioning to his current role in 2019. He led a number of Esas’ private equity investments and exits of various portfolio companies including UN Ro-Ro, Mars Cinema Group and Peyman. In 2020, Çağatay was appointed as the Chairperson of Turkiye - France Business Council at DEIK (Foreign Economic Relations Council). Çağatay is also a member of the Board of Directors at Tüsiad, Turkish Business & Industry Association as of April 2022. He is member of TBV (Turkish Informatics Foundation) and TUBISAD (Turkish Informatics Industry Association). Çağatay Özdoğru has been elected to the Board of Turkish Basketball Federation in 2024. Çağatay Özdoğru earned his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from George Washington University, where he received the Hall of Fame Award for Alumni in 2016, and B.S. degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from Istanbul Technical University.