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Ilkay Demirdag

INVESTMENT & IMPACT STRATEGIST

Ilkay Demirdag is a globally recognized and highly resourceful Investment and Impact Strategist with extensive multinational experience leading key initiatives to maximize stakeholder value with an Impact Driven Value Creation Model. Her vision is to create a world of sustainable and prosperous ecosystems that first serves people and the planet.

Ilkay is a dual citizen of Turkey and the UK, with over 20 years in Investments, Corporate Finance, Fund Management, Strategic Planning, Investor Relations, and Sustainability with measurable performance. She led and advised conglomerates, multinational corporations, and private equity firms across the UK, Turkey, and Bahrain.

Throughout her career, Ilkay has been involved in the investment cycle from deal origination, equity & debt finance, due diligence, mergers & acquisition, asset management, and exit with measurable value creation. She has been instrumental in leveraging her diversified experience in creating and maximizing value and impact for all stakeholders while capitalizing on cross-functional team leadership. She primarily covered and analyzed regulated markets (energy, telecom, infrastructure) in developed and emerging markets.

She is futuristic, connecting and interlinking trends and concepts to create future-ready strategies and maximize value for all stakeholders. 

 

Ilkay has a track record of transforming companies by improving business performance through enhancing environmental, social, and governance factors, using a commercial approach and business acumen with credibility with senior-level stakeholders.

Ilkay is widely commented on as a thought leader and activist in sustainable economic development and a subject matter expert for ESG factors. She drives change in individuals, organizations, and society through inspiration, awareness, impact, and transformation. Ilkay has a track record for leadership and influence, bringing the value of her extensive global expertise and networks, and unique blend of commercial acumen to corporations, boards, start-ups, and investors.

In today’s world, greenwashing is marketing hype that applies to companies overstating their ESG efforts. Creating a genuinely positive impact on people and the planet necessitates business model transformation, often requiring a complete board and management buy-in. There is no way to implement impactful change while being stuck in “doing sustainability on the side”. Ilkay is ambitious about creating solutions for positive impact on people and planet while creating prosperity for all. In this respect, she leads many initiatives and takes an active part in leading NGOs as a Board Member to make a measurable impact on people and the planet.

Ilkay is an unacclaimed Speaker and Moderator and is invited frequently to attend global events in all areas covering ESG & Sustainability, Investor Relations, Sustainable Economic Development, Impact & Responsible Investments, Conscious Leadership, and Value Creation. Ilkay is passionate about continuous learning, establishing meaningful bonds, and enriching and empowering ecosystems inclusively and compassionately.

Ilkay is a Mindfulness Trainer and a Professional Coach.

CORPORATE FINANCE 

  • M&A & IPOs
  • Project Finance, Debt Funding & Bond Issuances
  • Asset / Portfolio Optimization

FUND MANAGEMENT

  • Fund Raising
  • Fund Establishment & Management
  • Deal Sourcing
  • Impact Investing

INVESTOR RELATIONS 

  • IR Strategy, and Framework Formation & Execution
  • Investor Mapping & Value Maximisation
  • Corporate Reputation & Market Communication

SUSTAINABILITY

  • Strategic Planning, & Execution
  • Setting ESG Targets, Reporting & Performance Management
  • ESG Value Maximisation
  • Advocation and Leading Impact

AWARDS

IN PRESS

TTI Davos Wolrd Economic Forum 2024 Events,Yahoo Finance
TTI Davos Wolrd Economic Forum 2024 Events,Pressmeddelande (di.se)
TTI Davos Wolrd Economic Forum 2024 Events,Globenewswire.com
TTI Davos Wolrd Economic Forum 2024 Events,Finanznachrichten.de
TTI Davos Wolrd Economic Forum 2024 Events,Streetinsider.com
TTI Davos Wolrd Economic Forum 2024 Events,ESG News

Illıminem, February 2024 / Davos provides a showcase for impact investment progress | illuminem 

Women-Friendly Brands Platform, 2023, Digital Book for Women Entreprenuers, English Version, Türkiye’nin Girişimci Kadınları Kitabı İngilizce (kadindostumarkalar.org)

Women-Friendly Brands Platform, 2023, Digital Book for Women Entreprenuers, Turkish Version, Women-Friendly Brands Platform, 2023, Digital Book for Women Entreprenuers, English Version, Türkiye’nin Girişimci Kadınları Kitabı İngilizce (kadindostumarkalar.org)

Horasis Conference, Values-Based Investing Underpins Meaningful Impact Investments, Values-Based Investing Underpins Meaningful Impact Investments  – Horasis

TTI COP28 Event: “The Role of Impact Investing in Decarbonisation and Energy Transition”, Yahoo Finance
TTI COP28 Event: “The Role of Impact Investing in Decarbonisation and Energy Transition”, Finanzas Yahoo
TTI COP28 Event: “The Role of Impact Investing in Decarbonisation and Energy Transition”, Market Watch
TTI COP28 Event: “The Role of Impact Investing in Decarbonisation and Energy Transition”, Daily Guardian
TTI COP28 Event: “The Role of Impact Investing in Decarbonisation and Energy Transition”, UAE Industry Times 

Startup Centrum, June 2022 / “Sea, Sun, Pitch”: Yatırımcılar dünyanın farklı yerlerinden girişimlerle Bodrum’da Eurasia Startup Summit II’de bir araya geldi (startupcentrum.com)

Xponentialtalks.com Podcast, July 2021 / 
Ilkay Demirdag – xFab Women Faculty 2021 – (3 mins) – Xponential Talks

PUBLICATIONS