Agâh Uğur was born in Istanbul in 1957. He graduated from English High School for Boys and Industrial Engineering at the University of Birmingham, and also passed the "Institute of Chartered Accountants" exams in the UK and received the title of Chartered Accountant. After working at the Birmingham, London and Jersey offices of the international audit and consulting firm Touche Ross (now Deloitte) and at Arthur Andersen and Emlak Bankası in Turkey, he joined Borusan Holding as CFO in 1989. In 1995, he became the General Manager of Borusan Holding and served as the CEO of Borusan Group between 2001 and 2018. He is currently the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Doğan Holding and a member of the Board of Directors of Pegasus Airlines, Anadolu Efes, Coca Cola Beverages, Alcatel Lucent Teletaş Telecommunications and Gözde Girişim, as well as an advisory board member of some of Turkey's most prestigious companies. He also manages his own portfolio of technology ventures and has served on the boards and advisory boards of over 15 non-governmental and educational organizations in his career.
He is currently a member of the Presidency Council of Tusiad High Advisory Council, a member of the Board of Trustees of Sabancı University, a member of the Advisory Board of Columbia University Istanbul Global Center and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Saha Association, of which he is one of the founders. He is married with two daughters and is a collector of contemporary art with a focus on new media and video art.
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