Hamdi Ulukaya

Hamdi Ulukaya is a Kurdish entrepreneur and businessman living in the United States. He is the owner, founder, chairman, and CEO of Chobani, the number oneselling strained yogurt brand in the United States. On April 26, 2016, Ulukaya surprised his employees by announcing he would be giving themof the shares in Chobani.

Hamdi Ulukaya was born in 1972 to a Kurdish family in Turkey. His family owned and operated a sheep, goat, and dairy farm near the Euphrates River in Ilic, Erzincan Province, in Turkey making cheese and yogurt. The family often led a seasonally seminomadic existence tending and herding their flocks, and Ulukaya is uncertain of his exact birth date because he was born during one of the familys mountain treks.

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