In 1985, he graduated from Galatasaray High School. In 1990, he graduated from Marmara University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Business Board of Directors in English. In 1993, he completed his Master's Degree in Finance and Accounting in English at Marmara University. Between 1991 and 1994, he worked as a specialist at the Republic of Turkey Prime Ministry Undersecretariat of Treasury, General Directorate of Banking and Foreign Exchange. In 1994, he started to work at the Istanbul Stock Exchange. In 1998, he received his PhD degree from Marmara University, Institute of Banking and Insurance, Department of Banking, and in 2004, he received his Associate Professor degree from the Department of Finance-Accounting. He worked as a specialist at the Istanbul Stock Exchange Futures Market between 1994-2005, at the Risk Management Department between 2006-2007 and as Chief of Staff between 2007-2011. Between November-December 2006, he worked as a representative of the Islamic Development Bank at the Tehran Metal Exchange and Iran Agricultural Commodity Exchange, and between 2007-2013, he worked as a consultant at the Capital Markets Sector Council of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Türkiye. Mr Yılmaz served as Deputy General Manager of Borsa İstanbul between 2012 and 2016, as a Member of the Board of Directors of Takasbank between 2012 and 2013, as Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of Enerji Piyasaları İşletme A.Ş. between 2015 and 2016, and as a Member of the Board of Directors of MKK between 2013 and 2016. Since 2017, Yılmaz has been working as a faculty member and Dean of the Faculty of Management Sciences at Ibn-i Haldun University with the title of Professor, and is married with 2 children.