Meet Our Team
Chairman
Chief Executive Officer & Compliance
Michael Cooke
Head of Real Estate
Didem Erendil
Director, Real Estate Investment
Investment Director
We are driven by the guiding principles of listening to our clients’ needs and challenging the status quo. We prefer to originate, structure and execute opportunities within the group. In the spirit of traditional merchant banking firms, WMG invests as principal alongside our clients.
Founded in 2004, bringing together a number of senior investment banking professionals, the group has developed from being a wealth management group into a private investment office, which advises its clients on originating investment opportunities, restructuring complex portfolios, and making direct acquisitions.
Chairman
Chief Executive Officer & Compliance
Michael Cooke
Head of Real Estate
Didem Erendil
Director, Real Estate Investment
Investment Director
Mehmet has over 30 years of global corporate, investment and banking experience. He has been Chairman of WMG, since its foundation in 2004. He is Chairman of the Board of HR Owen and Cardiff City Football Club. A founding partner of Envision Real Estate Capital Partners, a Chinese real estate development company.
Prior to setting up WMG Mehmet was Chairman of ENRC, a FTSE 100 mining company. He joined the Board at the IPO of the company, chairing the Investment Committee and later becoming the Senior Independent Director before taking over as Chairman.
Previously he was a member of the Board of Directors at Commerzbank AG where he founded and led Commerzbank Securities, the investment banking arm of the group. He established a global equity business on five major platforms in Frankfurt, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong and New York and also held board seats at the Supervisory Boards of Deutsche Börse and Eurex.
Before joining Commerzbank AG, he was the Managing Director and General Manager of Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Capital Markets Japan, responsible for equity and equity derivatives in Japan and across the Asia Pacific region. He headed Credit Lyonnais’s Japanese and European equities for over five years before joining Deutsche Bank and started his career with Nikko Securities where he was a Managing Director.
Alongside this, he has taken an active interest in charitable work, focussing on children and young adults; having worked with The Disability Foundation based at the Stanmore Orthopaedic Hospital and is currently on the Corporate Advisory Board for Chain of Hope and is a Trustee for the Mayor’s Fund for London.