Born in 1963, Cemal Drahor was graduated from Bornova Anadolu Lisesi in 1981. He was then graduated from. İTÜ as an Electronics and Communication Engineer, in 1986. In his early career, he worked as a Research Engineer in R&D which was followed by active roles in Finance. Since 1990, he has been working in Senior Manager positions in various International & Global companies. He spend quite a long time abroad as being responsible for Regional and Global markets. He is still in charge of an Executive management role in a Global company as being Board member and General Manager. He has also played active roles in Geoim as founding partner. He is fluent in English and German. Cemal is also board member of BOSAD and KPTK. He actively continues sport activities i.e. Tennis, diving, trekking and cycling.