Hilmi Cenan Çivi, CFA CAIA FRM
Founding Manager
Kronos is founded by Hilmi Cenan Çivi, who has several years of high-level investment experience in Turkey and the United States. Previously, Cenan was the Search & Selection Manager for Endeavor Turkey, a global non-profit venture-catalyst organization supporting entrepreneurs in emerging markets. Before Endeavor, Cenan was an Associate Portfolio Manager at Standard Ünlü Asset Management, a multinational investment house in Istanbul and a subsidiary of Standard Bank Group of South Africa. Prior to that, Cenan worked in Chicago at the investment department of Kinship Trust Company, one of the United States' most prestigious and largest ultra-high-net-worth single family offices. At Kinship, he took an active role in managing a portfolio of several billion dollars invested heavily in venture capital, private equity funds, hedge funds and emerging markets equities. Before Kinship, Cenan consulted to several multi-billion dollar institutional clients during his tenure at Ennis Knupp + Associates, an independent institutional consulting firm advising 160 clients with aggregate assets over one trillion USD, which has recently been acquired by Hewitt Associates.
Cenan has also carried out freelance consulting assignments for Bain & Co. and Mercer Oliver Wyman on fund-of-funds management and family office investment processes. Additionally, he delivered lectures on investing and finance basics in entrepreneurship events for university students and wrote for the nationally circulated Ekonomist magazine.
Cenan is a graduate of the prestigious Robert College in Istanbul, after which he has completed his B.S. Degree in Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences and Economics from Northwestern University in the United States. Cenan is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) and a Certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM). He is a member of the CFA Institute's Chicago and Istanbul Chapters, the CAIA Association and the Global Association of Risk Professionals. He serves on the Membership Committee of CFA Institutes Istanbul Chapter and had also served on the grading committee of the CAIA Association.
