Muhammed Yesilhark

Muhammed Yesilhark is an investor and fund manager born in Germany and based in London. He is currently the Chief Investment Officer at NOIA Capital. Until April 2016, Muhammed was the Head of European Equities at Carmignac, one of Europe’s leading asset managers with close to $55 bn of AuM. Yesilhark was responsible for Carmignac’s European equity funds as well as the European exposure of the global funds adding up to approximately $8bn exposure to European equities. Yesilhark moved to Carmignac with his 5-person strong team from SAC Global Investors where he was a Partner and Portfolio Manager.  SAC Global Investors was a US based hedge fund with $15 bn AuM (now transformed into a family office called Point72 Asset Management). There he managed a European equities portfolio with $550m AuM. It was during his time at SAC that Yesilhark received the 40 under 40 award for the highest achieving 40 investment professionals in the European hedge fund space.

Prior to SAC, Yesilhark had moved to London from Frankfurt to join York Capital Management, a New York based event driven hedge fund with currently $24 bn AuM. Yesilhark started as an Associate and got promoted to Director level after just 4 years at York Capital. He was one of the youngest Directors in the financial services industry in London among reputable firms with the age of 27. He was responsible for York's investments in the German speaking countries as well as in the EMEA region. Yesilhark started his career as an Analyst at Lazard's Frankfurt office in their Mergers & Acquisition practice and was trained in areas such as Corporate Finance and Equity Capital Markets. Yesilhark, of Turkish origin, but born and raised in Germany, studied finance and management at European School of Business and graduated with a first-class honours degree both from Reutlingen University of Applied Science in Germany and Lancaster University in Lancaster.

Yesilhark is fluent in English, German, Turkish and well versed in Spanish. He is married and has two children.