Born in Izmir in 1966, Esra Yazıcı Tözge graduated from Izmir American High School for Girls in 1984 and earned her degree in economics in 1988 from the School of Administrative Sciences at Boğaziçi University. From August to December 1988, she worked as an intern in the finance department at LYAC POWER in Copenhagen, Denmark. Between 1989 and 1997, Tözge worked in Henkel Turyag, Izmir, in various roles in the planning and control, logistics control, and sales departments and, lastly, as the Key Accounts Sales Manager. Tözge worked in Saint Gobain Weber, Izmir, as Marketing Manager from 1997 to 2001. Tözge provided consulting services on various projects for Henkel KGaA Düsseldorf and Barem Research International, Istanbul, in 2001 and 2002. Joining Kale Group in April 2002, Tözge worked at Kalekim and Kaleterasit until 2007. From 2007 to 2015, Tözge served as a consultant to Zeynep Bodur Okyay, President and CEO of Kale Group. Since March 2015, Tözge has been serving as Vice-President for Corporate Development.