Mehmet Dalman (born 7 April 1958) is a British-

Turkish Cypriot Turkish Cypriots or Cypriot Turks ( tr, Kıbrıs Türkleri or ''Kıbrıslı Türkler''; el, Τουρκοκύπριοι, Tourkokýprioi) are ethnic Turks originating from Cyprus. Following the Ottoman conquest of the island in 1571, about 30,00 ...

investment banker. He is the chairman of Welsh football club

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Early life

Dalman was born in Paphos on 7 April 1958. As of Turkish Cypriot tradition, he was born as Mehmet Şükrü, taking his father's first name as his own last name. His brother, Cevdet, has retained the surname. He studied at the

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Career

From 1990 to 1995, Dalman served as the Head of European and Japanese Equities at

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Securities and Head of Quantitative Marketing at The

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Europe. He served as a managing director at

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Capital Markets Limited, and Head of Japanese Equities and Equity Derivatives for Asia Pacific. Between 1997 and 2004, Dalman was the first non-

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to sit on the board of the German bank

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. He founded the WMG Group / WMG Advisors LLP in 2004. In January 2012, Dalman joined the

Cardiff City F.C. Cardiff City Football Club ( cy, Clwb Pêl-droed Dinas Caerdydd) is a professional association football club based in Cardiff, Wales. It competes in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1899 as R ...

board as the Bluebirds looked to return to the top flight and was subsequently made chairman in July 2013.

Personal life

Dalman moved with his parents to

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in 1968. He has a son and a daughter.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dalman, Mehmet Turkish Cypriot emigrants to the United Kingdom British people of Turkish Cypriot descent People from Paphos British bankers Living people 1958 births Commerzbank Alumni of the London School of Economics