Tarik Tuten as the founding partner of TUTEN and its predecessor company, Topkapi Endustri, has been a pioneer in industrial power generation and cogeneration in Turkey since the market was opened to private sector in 1986.

Tarik has led TUTEN in facilitating the sale and installation of more than 3500 MWe of power plant capacity in Turkey, and led the company’s international expansion into Russia and Central Asia. Tarik was born in Istanbul in 1958 and was educated at Karlsruhe University where he received a Dipl.-Ing. in Mechanical Engineering with specialization in energy technologies in 1982.

He also studied mechanical engineering at the graduate school of Stanford University, Palo Alto, California in 1982-83, and received a Master of Science degree in Energy and Resources in 1985 from the University of California, Berkeley. Tarik completed his post-graduate studies in business administration at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France.