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Selim Berkol

David Abbenante | Eddie Boettner | Gary Meadows | Hal Fairbanks | Honoré G. Aschaffenburg | Pres Kabacoff | Ray Spadafora | Ronald H. Silverman | Selim Berkol | Sidney Barthelemy | Tom Leonhard


    HRI DEVELOPMENT TEAM:

SELIM BERKOL

POSITION: 
Vice President - Finance

EDUCATION:

MBA with Finance Concentration, 1996

Tulane University, New Orleans

 

Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, 1992

Bosphorus University, Istanbul

EXPERIENCE:  
     
Selim Berkol worked as an engineer in Belarus and Germany before coming to New Orleans to study for his MBA.  Upon completion of his studies, he started his employment with HRI Properties in June of 1996 as an assistant project manager in the development group. 

 He was promoted to Project Manager in 1998.  As the project manager of St. Louis Renaissance Convention Hotel,  Suites and Garage projects, his responsibility was the financial structuring of the deals with a total development cost of $285 million.  After successfully closing the deals in December 2000, he was promoted to head the finance department.  His current responsibilities include corporate as well as project financing and structurings.

 

Mr. Berkol speaks four languages including German, French, English and Turkish.  Besides being a member of the Young Leadership Council and National Trust for Historic Preservation, he is also a board member of the Natural Capital Resource Preservation Foundation