Born in 1978, Candaş Erkan Özdoğu Graduated as an Aerospace Engineer in 2001 from Middle East Technical University, Turkey. Following his MBA in Aviation degree from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 2003 he joined MD Helicopters Inc. He mainly worked on helicopters for a decade including setting up a nation wide EMS helicopter service in 2008 with 19 Helicopters and 2 Jets across Turkey providing more than 50 thousand hours of EMS services. With the experience he gathered over the years in operation, maintenance and sales; he established Mira Aviation Consultancy in 2015 and grew the company to be the market leader in Turkey. He is married with one daughter and speaks 2 languages.