About
Two of us. Four ways in.
Quadrant is a publication by two MSc Economics & Strategy students at Imperial Business School on tech, capital, and the people who move them. Four format pillars: Library, Stack, Spotlight, Fireside. Four topical lenses on every piece: technology stack, capital structure, strategic planning, psychology and decision making.
Co-founder
Arif İsmail Bayrak
Background in venture capital, M&A, and AI. Internships at Roche, UptoRaise Venture Studio, and Basehub Consultancy. VC&PE Society at Imperial. Builds AI tools for VC workflows. Boğaziçi MIS alumnus.
In Quadrant, Arif leads the capital lens: numbers, deals, financing, and growth mechanics. Writes most of the Library.
Co-founder
Kerem Özkefeli
Strategy consulting at Dialectica (Montreal). Facilitated 2,000+ C-suite expert calls. Project Lead at 180 Degrees Consulting. PE analyst at Brickworks Capital. McGill BA in Economics with a minor in Psychology. Koç School alumnus.
In Quadrant, Kerem leads the strategy and psychology lenses: frameworks, decisions, tradeoffs, and how operators actually think.
Why Quadrant
Most publications are pure tech or pure finance, pure essays or pure podcasts. We sit at the intersection: tech and capital, written and spoken, deep and quick. The four pillars give each piece a home; the four lenses give each piece a frame. Library for the long-form essays, Stack for what we are reading, Spotlight for structured expert interviews, Fireside for the looser conversations.