Ahmet Nazif Zorlu is the Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Zorlu Holdings who has an estimated net worth of $1.47 billion in May 2016 according to Forbes. He is the 19th richest person in Turkey and is ranked 1031st in the list of World Billionaires.

Zorlu Holding is one of the biggest corporate groups based in Istanbul, Turkey. Zorlu Group is active in the areas of textiles, white goods and electronics manufacturing, energy, and financial services. It owns Vestel, a private-label TV maker and distributor. It is responsible for the manufacture of a series of personal video recorders (PVRs) with codenames T810, T816, T825 among others. Its brand in the UK includes Goodmans, Digihome, Hitachi and Grundig.

Together with his brother, Zeki Zorlu, the textile company founded is now one of Turkey’s largest exporters. This year, Nazif’s large condominium and shopping mall project will start to operate. As the founder of Turkey’s first nickel refinery, it aims to export 10,000 tons of nickel annually.