Hüsnü Özyeğin

Hüsnü Özyeğin (born 1944) is a Turkish businessman in the finance sector who is a self-made billionaire. He is the owner of FIBA Holding, a group of mostly financial companies in Turkey. He has a net worth of US$3 billion as of 2011. The son of a doctor, Özyeğin was born in 1944 in İzmir, Turkey. He graduated Robert College, an elite academy in Istanbul in 1963, and claims that he went to the U.S. with just a thousand dollars in his pocket. There, he studied civil engineering at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, USA, receiving a BS degree. Being more interested in finance, he attended the School of Business at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts and obtained an MBA. Following his return home after three more years...