Nihat Kalfazade

Architect. Real Estate Consultant.

Nihat graduated from ITU’s Architecture Department in 2000 and completed his master’s degree in architectural design at METU in 2004. Throughout his career, he has been involved in numerous design and construction projects both domestically and internationally, including serving as the Design Director for the Istanbul Tuzla Piri Reis University Campus and the Dellis Cay Project for Mandarin Oriental in the Caribbean.

At AECOM, he worked as a Project Manager for the Istanbul headquarters of several multinational corporations, including GE, Pfizer, and SMBC. In the last 10 years of his career, he led the Office Development unit at Rönesans Real Estate Investment, overseeing the entire process—from development to leasing and sales—of a total of 150,000 m² GLA of Class A office projects.

Since 2021, Nihat has been a Managing Partner at Forin, where he is responsible for business development and real estate consultancy operations.