Ümit Daylak
Chief Financial Officer
Biography
Ümit Daylak is a business leader who combines financial intelligence with entrepreneurial spirit and strategic thinking. A graduate of Erciyes University Business Administration, Daylak began his career at an early age, gaining deep experience in commerce, investment, and business management.
Over the years, through businesses he founded in various sectors and successfully managed financial models, he has developed both a strong capital management understanding and a long-term growth vision. At the foundation of his professional life lie the principles of trust, sustainability, and accountability.
Ümit Daylak is a leader who thinks outside conventional investor patterns, viewing finance not just as money, but as the art of system building. All structures he manages operate on the logic of "scalable order." While managing numbers, he always takes emotion into account; while planning growth, he always calculates risk.
In the food sector, he created significant economic value through patisserie chains and local brands he founded. During this process, he gained serious experience in supply, production, personnel management, financial optimization, and franchising systems. He views his investments not only in terms of capital return but also accepts sharing his knowledge and experience as a responsibility. Today, his business experience has become a reference point in the transformation of numerous businesses and investments.
HSD Core Labs & Technology Investment
In 2025, Ümit Daylak joined HSD Core Labs, one of Turkey's first private AI-focused technology laboratories, as an investor. His trust in Hasan Aker's vision and his belief that the economy of the future will be shaped by technology made him the most important financial supporter of this structure. He positions capital not merely as a material resource, but as the infrastructure of growth.
Serving as CFO (Chief Financial Officer) at HSD Core Labs, Daylak manages the company's financial sustainability, budget planning, investment strategies, and scaling model. In a rapidly changing sector like artificial intelligence, he handles finance as a dynamic system, redesigning operational financial models to achieve a balance between growth and risk.
Ümit Daylak's approach emphasizes the concept of capital intelligence in technology investments rather than mere "money management." In every decision the company makes, there is a perspective that calculates not only today's but also five years from now's economic impacts. In this way, HSD Core Labs has become a self-sustaining, scalable technology organization financially.
Financial Expertise
Investment Strategy & Capital Management
Portfolio management, capital allocation, ROI optimization, strategic investment planning
Financial Modeling & Risk Analysis
Financial forecasting, scenario planning, risk assessment, profitability analysis
Corporate Budgeting & Cash Flow
Budget planning, cash flow management, expense control, financial sustainability
Technology Venture Finance
Startup funding, growth financing, investor relations, scalable financial models
Ümit Daylak is not just someone who knows numbers—he is a strategist who reads human behavior, market dynamics, and growth psychology behind the numbers. He defines finance not as an accounting discipline, but as a strategic decision-making mechanism.
Professional Experience
Chief Financial Officer
HSD Core Labs
2025 – Present • Turkey
Managing financial sustainability, budget planning, investment strategies, and scaling models. Redesigning operational financial models to balance growth and risk in the rapidly evolving AI sector.
Entrepreneur & Investor
Food Industry
Previous Years • Turkey
Founded and managed branded patisserie chains, creating significant economic value. Gained extensive experience in supply chain, production, personnel management, financial optimization, and franchising systems.
Business Development
Multiple Sectors
Career Span • Turkey
Active roles in real estate investments, franchise system consulting, and commercial structures supporting local production economy. Leadership in supply chain, cost analysis, and human resource optimization.
Business & Entrepreneurship Experience
Alongside his finance career, Daylak has played active roles in numerous different sectors over the years:
- •Establishment and management of branded patisserie chains in the food sector
- •Real estate investments and franchise system consulting
- •Establishment of commercial structures supporting local production economy
- •Leadership in supply chain, cost analysis, and human resource optimization processes
This multifaceted experience has made him not just a finance expert, but a business development visionary. Every business he has founded contains a life culture beyond financial mathematics. Within HSD Core Labs, he has also put this experience at the service of the technology world.
Education
Bachelor of Business Administration
Business Administration
Erciyes University
Finance, economics, accounting, tax systems, and management organization
Key Achievements
Founded and managed successful patisserie chain businesses
Strategic investor in Turkey's first independent AI laboratory
Expert in franchise and chain business financial structures
Extensive experience in supply chain and cost optimization
Pioneer in technology venture financial sustainability
Built scalable financial models for AI-driven organizations
Vision
For Ümit Daylak, success is not just about making profit; it means creating value, building sustainable systems, and leaving a lasting impact. Today, while realizing this vision under the HSD Core Labs umbrella, he has established a balance "where financial discipline meets creative intelligence" in the technology world.
"For him, finance is the quietest but most powerful force shaping the future—and he has directed this power to one of Turkey's new generation technology production centers."
Get in Touch
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