Ahu Buyukkusoglu Serter

Ahu Serter is an active leader and international speaker on innovation, transportation and mobility solutions, business strategy, art and women-led entrepreneurship.She is the recipient of the Enterprising Women of the Year 2015 award over $100 MN category, one of the few women outside of US to be awarded this prestigious award.She was also listed as one of the 25 top angel investors in Turkey according to Start-Up magazine Turkey. Ahu Serter started her career as a hedge fund manager in New York, moved to Turkey to assume the CFO position at Farplas Group in 2002, a relatively small company at that time. Since 2012, she is the president of a Farplas Group, now a Fortune 500 Company, a conglomerate comprised of automotive, appliance and tourism ventures. Throughout her career, she founded or invested in many companies that later on became success stories such as the famous art hotel brand, Casa dell’Arte, Hotels of Arts and Leisure, Mata Automotive, producer of luxury car interiors for Tesla, Aston Martin, Hecha Castiron Cookware for modern gourmets.Committed to being a part of bigger solution and recognizing the need that here is more to transportation industry, than just manufacturing cars and car parts, she founded F+ Ventures, a venture fund, investing in start-ups for disruptive innovation in the field of smart transportation, especially in companies that combine automotive, electronics and software competences for more sustainable mobility alternatives. As a female entrepreneur and investor in a challenging region, she felt that female potential is greatly overlooked and believes investment in women will provide one of the highest returning alternatives of the next decade. Named after her youngest daughter Arya, she founded ARYA Women Investment Platform where she brings successful women investors and father of girls to invest in ambitious female entrepreneurs. Since its inception in 2015, ARYA invested more than $500K in women-led businesses.