After completing his high school education at İzmir Fen Lisesi, he earned a bachelor’s degree from Bogazici University Department of Management and completed Executive Program of Leadership Development (PLD) at Harvard Business School in 2016. Yelmen started his career in mergers & acquisitions advisory at PwC and continued at NBK Capital and UniCredit Group. Having been engaged in numerous M&A and valuation projects, he moved to “buy side” and worked at ADM Capital between 2010 and 2017 as an Investment Director where he led several investments and served as board member at several companies. He joined Development and Investment Bank of Turkey as the Managing Director of Türkiye Development Fund (TDF), focusing on both private equity and venture capital investments in 2019 and later served as the CEO and Board Member for the asset management company (GP) of TDF, establishing and managing 5 PE/VC funds with a total AuM of ~USD100m. Currently, he serves as the Head of Investments and M&A at Sabancı Holding. On top of investments and M&A, he serves as an investment committee member at a number of funds under Sabancı Group and holds board member positions at several Group companies.