15-16 December 2025
Mandarin Oriental Downtown Hotel, Dubai, UAE
Coming to its 12th edition, the Middle East Family Office Investment Summit is a firm fixture in the calendar of the most prominent and influential families in the region – as well as those who want to do business with them.
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Co-founder & Chief Investment Officer, Markin, USA
David is the Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Markin. He has been an invited speaker at numerous family offices and conferences including Soros Capital Management, ALTSLA, and quoted or appeared on BloombergTV, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and The Economist. His three decades of experience include advising the world’s leading investment and pharmaceutical firms as a Principal with The Boston Consulting Group and founding a VC-backed technology firm overseeing 70+ technologists. David received an MBA from the University of Chicago where he was a fellowship recipient and had four lecturers who received the Nobel Prize in Economics.
The Rocket Corporation is an Aerospace Company focused on Space Launch Services and Space Connectivity, becoming the First Heavy Rocket Company of the Middle East. With the development of Fully Reusable Heavy Rocket YAMATO, The Rocket Corporation will become the only private company outside of US to be able to launch of world’s largest internet satellite constellations, aiming to provide millions of users worldwide global broadband.
CEO, The Rocket Corporation, Japan & Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Issey Ryu Itahashi is a Japanese citizen with residence in Saudi Arabia and UAE leading a team of the world’s top rocket engineers working on development of the First Fully Reusable Heavy Rocket outside of US. He has been appointed as the world’s youngest rocket company CEO by the decision of the National Court of Austria – in response to his efforts to provide Global Internet Satellite services for Europe, Middle East and Asia and for his prior achievements. He is the key negotiator connecting the world’s top 3 space agencies to build the first Heavy rocket space port in the Middle East.
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Sponsors
We are extremely grateful for the support of our sponsors, who help to make all this possible.
ESAS is an Investment and Wealth Management group with offices in Istanbul, London and Frankfurt. We invest in Alternatives through our own dedicated teams in Private Equity and Real Estate, with ESAS as the anchor investor in all offerings through its own balance sheet. In Wealth Management, we deliver tailor made solutions across public and private markets as well as family governance.
Member of the Board & Group CEO, Esas Holding, Turkey
Çağatay (Chaatai) Özdoğru oversees all of ESAS’ investment platforms/business lines including real estate, private equity, venture capital and wealth management, also serves on their investment committees. He is a board member of ESAS Properties, ESAS Wealth Management and various private equity portfolio companies including Pegasus Airlines.
Çağatay joined ESAS in 2005 as an executive board member and has been the Group CEO since 2010. He played a major role in establishing ESAS Private Equity both in Türkiye as well as abroad. He led a number of ESAS’ private equity investments and exits of various portfolio companies including UN Ro-Ro, Mars Cinema Group, Mars Athletics and Peyman.
Previously, Çağatay was the president of IT & Telecommunications Investments at Sabancı Holding. Prior to that, he held various positions in the tech & telecommunications industry, where he last served as the executive vice president of the MEA region at Global One, a member of France Telecom Group.
In 2020, Çağatay was appointed as the chairman of Türkiye – France Business Council at DEIK (Foreign Economic Relations Council of Türkiye). Çağatay is also a member of the Board of Directors at TUSIAD (Turkish Business & Industry Association) as of April 2022. He is also a current board member of the Turkish Basketball Federation. Previously, he served as the chairman of Türkiye – Sweden Business Council and Türkiye – Croatia Business Council, and board member of TBV (Türkiye IT Foundation) and TUBISAD (Türkiye IT Industry Association). He was also the president of Sigortamnet İTÜ Basket of Turkish Basketball League between 2018-2019.
Çağatay Özdoğru earned his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from George Washington University, where he received the Hall of Fame Award for Alumni in 2016, and B.S. degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from Istanbul Technical University.
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