After graduating from the Faculty of Business Administration of Istanbul University in 1993, Güzhan Gülay completed Ziraat Bank Banking School and worked as a specialist in the Capital Markets Directorate of the same bank. He joined Borsa İstanbul family as an assistant specialist in the Equity Markets Directorate in 1995, became a specialist in 1998 and a manager in 2014 in the same department. He was appointed as the Business Development Director in 2018 and as the Precious Metals and Precious Stones Director in 2019. He has acted in many projects by taking fundamental positions in designing, configuration, testing, legislation and development for the improvement of the markets and infrastructure of Borsa Istanbul. After his master’s and doctorate education, he acted as a visiting lecturer for a year at the City University of London Cass Business School and taught part-time at various universities.