Renay Onur

İ. Renay Onur is a senior corporate finance/business development professional, ulta-marathon runner and a social entrepreneur, having worked across Turkey and Eastern Europe for 18 years.

Currently Renay is general manager of Spor İstanbul, a company owned by İstanbul Municipality, with a mission of increasing the sports and active life awareness of 16 million İstanbul inhabitants. Company is operating 50+ sports facilities and organizing 10+ sports events in İstanbul.

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. 500,000+ people have donated through Adım Adım platforms to 40+ nationally recognised NGOs. Adım Adım funding (peer to peer funding) has become 40% of all individual funding of these NGOs, and essentially the largest pee2peer crowd-funding platform in Turkey. Renay Onur was named as an Ashoka Fellow in 2014. He also co-founded his second social venture Açık Açık – with a goal to enhance transparency of the social sector in Turkey.

He is a licensed personal development trainer and a motivational speaker. He is married with two kids.