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Dr. Ozan Özerk (born 1979, Nicosia, Cyprus) is a Norwegian medical doctor and entrepreneur of Turkish Cypriot descent. His father, Kamil Özerk, is a professor at the University of Oslo's Department of Education. His mother, Meral R. Özerk, is a senior advisor at Statped specializing in children with learning disabilities. She is also the author of several children's books.
Dr. Ozan Özerk studied medicine at the University of Oslo between 2002 and 2008. Upon graduation, Dr. Özerk worked at UNN Narvik from 2010 to 2011. During his time at UNN Narvik, Dr. Özerk co-authored an article on the reduction of non-communicable diseases for the World Health Organization.
In 2002, Dr. Özerk co-founded Norsk Ideutvikling, an online media company which created the social networking site Biip.no in 2005. In 2008, Biip.no was acquired by Egmont and Nettavisen for an estimated valuation of 100+ million krone.
Shifting his focus to the FinTech industry, Dr. Özerk co-founded Clearsettle, a London-based white-label B2B payment platform provider authorized by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), in 2015. He is also the co-founder and director of Ozan.com, a digital wallet for online payments and money transfers (authorized by the FCA as an E-Money Institution); Facekart, a gift card marketplace (authorized by the FCA as an E-Money Institution); SettleGO, a cross-border payments and settlement platform (authorized by the FCA as an E-Money Agent); and Instrawise, which provides payment initiation and account information services.
Dr. Özerk is also the co-founder of EFT Software, a software development company serving the FinTech industry, with offices in Turkey, the United Kingdom, Malta, and Bulgaria.