İ. Renay Onur is a senior corporate finance/business development professional, ultra-marathon runner and a social entrepreneur, having worked across Turkey and Eastern Europe for 18 years.
Currently he is investing in real estate development and screening different ventures to lead with his background in finance, corporate finance, media and social responsibility projects.
In addition to his professional life, Mr. Onur is a prominent figure in the social entrepreneurship world in Turkey. Mr. Onur established Adım Adım(www.adimadim.org) as an “umbrella” initiative in 2007, with a vision to become a model social organisation, enabling individuals and organizations to donate to NGOs through organized sports activities and to act as an incubator for charity running. 180,000 people have personally donated through Adım Adım related activities to 30 nationally recognised NGOs. Adım Adım funding (peer to peer funding) has become 30% of all individual funding for these NGOs, and essentially the largest crowd-funding platform in Turkey. Renay Onur was named as an Ashoka Fellow in 2014. Currently, he is working on setting up his second social venture Açık Açık – with a goal to enhance transparency of the civil society sector in Turkey.
