ERDOĞAN ÖZEGEN
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Erdoğan Özegen was born in Niğde on 29 November, 1965.He graduated from the Public Administration Department of the Faculty of Economics.He presided as Deputy of Niğde for the 22nd, 25th and 26th terms, and has held various political positions, being a member of the Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Affairs Commission and the Health, Family, Labour and Social Affairs Commission; a member of the Parliamentary Group Board, a member of the Bureau of the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM )- Assembly Chief of Administration , President of the International Commission of the Assembly, President of the Turkish Group of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean, and General Secretary of Turkey-China Friendship Group.He has served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Niğde Commodity Exchange, as a member of the Agricultural Council of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB), as Chief Advisor on Corporate Relations in TOBB, as a member of the TOBB Strategy Development High Council, as Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board of TOBB ETÜ Hospital, as a member of the Council of the Ankara Chamber of Commerce (ATO), and as a member of various Social and Cultural Assistance Associations, such as the TOBB Education and Culture Foundation (TOBEV).He is currently a member of the General Administrative Council of TOBB, a founder and member of the Board of Trustees of GS1 Turkey, a member of the High Council of TOBB Strategy, a founder and member of the Selimiye Foundation for the Protection of Monuments (SISEV) and the Board of Trustees.He is married and has three children.
ÇETİN ALİ DÖNMEZ
Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors
Education: Bachelor of Science Degree: Boğaziçi University, Department of Industrial Engineering, 1989 Master of Arts in Management: Boğaziçi University, 1992 Ph.D.in Management: Boğaziçi University, 2006 Research Areas/Interests Capital markets, equity commodity derivative markets, corporate finance, enterprise and financial risk management, R&D and entrepreneurial ecosystems, business analysis, systems design, structured financial products. Biography Dr. Çetin Ali Dönmez was born in 1967 in Istanbul. He is a graduate of Istanbul Pertevniyal High School. He received B.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering in 1989, Master of Arts degree in 1992 and Finance Ph.D. degree in 2006 from Boğaziçi University. He started his professional career as a trading floor specialist at Borsa Istanbul Equity Market in 1990. He served as one of the key experts during the transition of trading system to full automation in 2001. He is the founder director of Borsa Istanbul Risk Management Department, Mr. Dönmez was appointed as the CEO and Board Member of Turkish Derivatives Exchange in April 2008. He served as the CEO of Turkdex between 2008 and 2012. He rejoined Borsa Istanbul in 2013 as Executive Vice President and served until 2016. His area of responsibility was derivatives, precious metals and precious stones market as well as precious metals custody. He also served as the CFO at Borsa Istanbul in 2013. Dönmez joined İbn Haldun University Graduate School of Business, Department of Management as an academician in 2017. He has been serving as the Deputy Minister of Industry and Technology since July 31, 2018. He has also been a member of the investment committee of the Turkish Growth and Innovation Fund since December 21,2018. Çetin Ali Dönmez is married and has two daughters.
HASAN BASRİ KURT
General Manager
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SERDAR ÜLKER
Member of the Board of Directors
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NURİ ATEŞ
Member of the Board of Directors
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CAHİT ERDOĞAN
Member of the Board of Directors
Cahit Erdoğan completed his undergraduate education at Istanbul Technical University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and received his MBA degree from Rochester Institute of Technology. Erdoğan started his career at Xerox Corporation (Rochester, NY) as a Business Analyst, and in 2000, he joined the Türkiye office of Accenture where he took a step into his management consultancy career and worked until November 2009. During his career at Accenture, Erdoğan held the positions of Consultant, Manager and Senior Manager before being appointed as the Country Lead of the Management Consulting Business Line in February 2008. Erdoğan joined Yapı Kredi in 2009 as Chief Information Officer (CIO), and from July 2013 - May 2020, he served as Assistant General Manager in charge of Information Technologies and Operations at the Bank. Between May 2020 and August 2021, he held the position of Chief Operations Officer (COO), responsible from Information Technologies, Operations and Analytics, and in August 2021, he was appointed to his current role as Assistant General Manager in charge of Commercial and SME Banking Management at Yapı Kredi. Erdoğan is also a Member of the Executive Committee of the Bank since July 2013. In addition, he served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Yapı Kredi Technology A.Ş. between May 2015 and August 2021, and as a Member of the Board at Yapı Kredi Investment & Securities A.Ş. between March 2020 and September 2021. Besides, he is a Member of the Board at Yapı Kredi Factoring, Yapı Kredi Leasing and Yapı Kredi Bank Azerbaijan since August 2021, at Yapı Kredi Bank Nederland since October 2021, at Tanı Marketing and Communucation Services since December 2021, and at Yapı Kredi Financial Technologies since February 2022.
METİN DEMİR
Member of the Board of Directors
Born in 1975 in Kırat neighborhood of the central district of Zonguldak, Metin Demir completed his primary school education at EKİ Karadon Private Primary School, and secondary and high school education at TED Zonguldak College. He graduated from the European University of Lefke, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Business Administration in 1998. He continues his business life in the fields of mining, real estate and media in Demir Group, the family company that realized the projects on establishing the first modern shopping and living center and the first five-star hotel in Zonguldak province. He served as a Member of the Board of Directors and Assembly at the Zonguldak Chamber of Commerce and Industry between 2009 and 2015, and has been serving as the President of Zonguldak Chamber of Commerce and Industry since February 2015. His other current roles include Vice President of the Council of Chambers of Commerce and Industry at the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Türkiye (TOBB), Member of the High Council for Strategy Development at TOBB, Member of the Board of the TOBB Personnel Insurance and Pension Fund Foundation, Member of the Board of BAKKA (Western Black Sea Development Agency), Vice Chairman of the Board of Zonguldak/Çaycuma Agriculture-based Specialized (Greenhouse) OIZ , Member of Entrepreneur Committee at Çaycuma OIZ, President of S.S. Enterprise Industrial Estate Construction Cooperative, Chairman of the Board of ZONTİM Zonguldak Trade Centers Inc., and a Member of the Board of Zonguldak Mining Machinery Manufacturers Association (MAKZON). Besides, he served as the Vice President of TOBTİM International Trade Centers Inc. between 2016 – 2023, as a Member of Zonguldak Municipal Council between 2009 – 2019, and as a Member of the Board of Zonguldak Technopark Inc. between 2018 – 2020. He is fluent in English, is married, and is the father of a son and a daughter..
ARİF ÇOKÇETİN
Member of the Board of Directors
Born in 1975 in Üsküdar, Istanbul, Arif Çokçetin graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Finance. He started his career in 1992 as a civil servant at the formerly called Ministry of Treasury and Finance. In 1996, he started to work as Assistant Financial Analyst at Vakıfbank where he later served as Financial Analyst, Assistant Manager, Branch Manager, Department Manager and Director. He was appointed as Deputy General Manager in 2020, and served as Deputy General Manager in charge of Credit Allocation Management for a while. Currently, he holds the position of Deputy General Manager in charge for Credit Monitoring, Evaluation and Rating. In addition, he served as a Member of the Board of Directors at Vakıf Factoring Inc. between 2013 – 2019, and is a member of the Board of Directors of Kredi Kayıt Bürosu A.Ş. since 2019. Also a Member of the Board of Vakıfbank Sports Club, Çokçetin is married and has two children.
RAHMİ KULA
Member of the Board of Directors
Born on October 30, 1981 in Balıkesir, Rahmi Kula graduated from Maltepe University, Department of Interior Architecture, and spent two years in the USA for the International Marketing Certificate Program at UCSB (University of California Santa Barbara). Throughout his career, he worked in various areas including purchasing, sales, management and organization for more than 15 years, and now he is a Member of the Board of Directors of Kula Yağ ve Emek Yem Sanayi Ticaret A.Ş., a family company that has been operating for four generations. He served as the President of Balıkesir Young Business People Association (BAGİAD) for three terms and as a Board Member of the Young Businessmen Confederation of Türkiye (TÜGİK). At present, he serves as a Member of the Board at Balıkesir Organized Industrial Zone (BALOSB), at South Marmara Development Agency (GMKA), and at Balıkesir University Teknokent Inc. Kula was elected as the President of Balıkesir Chamber of Commerce in April 2018 elections, and was re-elected in November 2022. He still holds this position at the chamber. He is also a Member of the General Administrative Board of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Türkiye (TOBB) and a member of the Council of Chambers of Commerce at TOBB. Rahmi Kula, a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Supporting Individuals with Autism (OBİDEV) and a member of Fenerbahçe Sports Club Congress, is married and has two daughters.
A. SERDAR İBRAHİMCİOĞLU
Member of the Board of Directors
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