With more than 30 years of experience spanning executive leadership, investment, and advisory roles, Bakatjan brings a distinctive ability to bridge strategy and execution. Having served as an operator, investor, board member, and trusted advisor, he helps organizations translate complex transformation agendas into measurable outcomes. Bakatjan has worked across more than 15 countries in five continents. Throughout his career, he has advised on national infrastructure, energy transition, and economic development programs representing over $800 billion in investment opportunities. He has also led and supported more than $1 billion in capital investments and contributed to the development of over 20 gigawatts of power capacity.

Prior to joining A&M, Bakatjan spent over a decade with Boston Consulting Group as a Partner in the Energy practice, advising governments, investors, and industry leaders on growth strategy, portfolio optimization, market entry, commercial transformation, M&A, large-scale investment programs, decarbonization, energy efficiency, and asset management.

Before that, Bakatjan served as Vice President, Managing Director, and Board Member at RWE, where he led market entry, renewable energy and natural gas investments, commodity trading, and commercial operations across Turkey and Southeast Europe. He also held consulting leadership roles with Deloitte and Accenture, advising governments, regulators, investors, and corporate executives on market reform, investment strategy, transactions, operational improvement, and enterprise-wide transformation. Bakatjan played a key role in the liberalization and privatization of Turkey’s energy sector, contributing to the establishment of the Turkish energy exchange and the development of the country’s natural gas trading hub.

Bakatjan earned a bachelor’s degree (high honors) in civil engineering and a master’s degree in construction management from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, and an MBA from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He serves on the Advisory Council of the SHURA Energy Transition Center, and he is fluent in English, Turkish, Mongolian, and Kazakh.