Mehmet Dalman (born 7 April 1958) is a Cypriot-British 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 Turkish Cypriots or Cypriot Turks ( or ; ) are so called ethnic Turks originating from Cyprus. Turkish Cypriots are mainly Sunni Muslims. Following the Ottoman conquest of the island in 1571, about 30,000 Turkish settlers were given land onc ...

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

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