Erman Ilicak

Completed secondary education and high school education in TED Ankara College in 1985. Graduated from Middle East Technical University's Department of Civil Engineering in 1990. Completed Vienna Economy University and Minnesota University's MBA program in 2002. Received a doctorate from International School of Management in Paris in 2011.

Began his working career while he was student, Erman Ilıcak founded Rönesans Holding in St. Petersburg in 1993. Mr. Ilıcak still acts as the chairperson of the board of Rönesans Holding.

A member of the board of trustees of Rönesans Education Foundation REV, which was founded in 2009, Erman Ilıcak ranked 3rd in the "Generous Businesspeople" list of Capital magazine in 2019 with the donations he made. To date, more than thousands of non-repayable scholarships were granted to students through the REV Scholarship Program, which focuses on education and youth. TED Rönesans Koleji was founded by Rönesans Holding and Rönesans Education Foundation REV in cooperation with Turkish Education Association (TED) in 2014.

Erman Ilıcak ranked first in Forbes Turkey’s “100 Wealthiest Turks” list in 2019 with his 3.8-billion-dollar wealth. Erman Ilıcak ranks no. 546 in the world’s wealthiest people list. He is also no. 5 in the list of 100 taxpayers who declared the greatest amount of annual income tax and corporate tax returns, according to the evaluation of Turkish Revenue Administration’s 2018 taxation period.