Firat Bay

Firat is Managing Director of Oplu, leading strategy, finance, operations, and resourcing alongside Antonia. He joined in 2021, and in April 2025 the firm rebranded to Oplu.

Educated at Galatasaray High School and Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Firat holds a Master's in Finance from EBS Paris and is a CFA charterholder. He spent the decade before Oplu in front office roles across investment banking, credit research, and portfolio management, with positions at Rothschild, Santander, Citi, and at Moody's Investors Service.

He then joined Legal & General Investment Management as an analyst, latterly running fixed income portfolios.

That background shapes how Oplu runs searches. Research and analysis are in the DNA. Investment mandates, carry structures, and governance conversations with CFOs, CIOs, and Family Office Directors are native ground rather than translated material. The same discipline applied to a credit report or a portfolio review becomes the discipline applied to referencing and validating a Principal's next senior hire.

Firat is based in London and works across the UK, US, and international markets.