Ali Ercan
Chairman
Ali Ercan was born on 06.02.1986 in Konya. After completing his high school education at TED Ankara College Foundation Private High School, he graduated from University of Leicester, Department of Business Administration in 2007. After returning to Turkey, he has taken several roles both in family companies and those he owns, such as general manager, board member, vice chairperson of the board of directors and chairperson of the board of directors in fields of activity such as ceramics, tourism, mining, and trade. With his high level knowledge and experience about ceramics, granite production and financial management, Ali Ercan has served as a founding member in various non-governmental organizations. Having launched many projects in real estate development, e-commerce, construction, ceramics, tourism and industry, Ali Ercan has been serving as the chairperson of board of directors and the controlling shareholder since 28/08/2016.
Yavuz Arıcan
Vice Chairperson of Board of Directors - General Manager
Yavuz Arıcan was born in Diyarbakır on 16.11.1968 and graduated from Middle East Technical University, Department of Metallurgical Engineering in 1992. He served as production chief at Söğüt Seramik between 1995-1998, as production chief and deputy manager at Ege Seramik between 1998-2004, as production manager at Graniser Seramik between 2004-2006, and as production manager at Hitit Seramik factory between 2006-2007 and production manager and factory director at Bien Seramik and İhraççı, among the companies of Ercan Family. With his high level of knowledge and experience in the production management and techniques, Yavuz Arıcan continues to serve as Vice Chairperson of Board of Directors and General Manager.
Altuğ Dayıoğlu
Member of Board of Directors
Altuğ Dayıoğlu, who started his career as a Treasury Specialist at the General Directorate of Foreign Economic Relations of the Undersecretariat of Treasury in 2000, moved to the private sector in 2005 and continued his career at İş Portföy Yönetimi A.Ş. and TEB Portföy Yönetimi A.Ş. until 2012 in the field of fund management. He worked as Asset Management Group Manager in Odeabank Retail Banking department between 2012 and 2016, and as Deputy General Manager at Ata Portföy Yönetimi A.Ş. in 2017, and as General Manager at Ünlü Portföy Yönetimi A.Ş. between 2018 and 2022. Dayıoğlu, who started to work at Bordier Bank in Switzerland as of April 2022, returned to Turkey and assumed responsibilities within the Group Companies as of September 2023. Dayıoğlu graduated from the Economics department of Ankara University Faculty of Political Sciences in 1999. He also received a master's degree (MSc.) in Finance field from Durham University Business School, where he attended with a Chevening Scholarship, in 2004, and an MBA degree from Warwick Business School in 2016. He has CMB licenses and the FRM certificate given through exams by the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP).
Nezih Kırımlı
Independent Member of Board of Directors
Nezih Kırımlı was born in Safranbolu in 1985. He completed his primary, secondary and high school education at TED Karabük College. Later, he graduated from Dokuz Eylül University, Department of Business Administration. He started his business life in the Iron and Steel sector in 2007. He completed his Executive MBA education at Sabancı University and Columbia University between 2018-2020. In 2011, he joined Kibar Dış Ticaret within Kibar Holding. He currently serves as Kibar Holding's Trade Director and manages the foreign trade processes of 85 countries to which exports are made and the trade volume in Turkey's domestic market. Nezih Kırımlı, who speaks English, Spanish and German, is married and has two children, is a board member of TED Karabük College Alumni Association, a member of Fenerbahçe 1907 Association and Fenerbahçe Congress.
Tijen Akdoğan Ünver
Independent Member of Board of Directors
Ms. Ünver has 32 years of experience in her professional career. After working 22 years as a senior director in one of Turkey's leading banks, she spent the last 10 years of her career as the CEO and the Board Member of VDF group, a JV company of Volkswagen Financial Services AG and Dogus Otomotiv. She has extensive experience working for companies that are under the control of regulatory bodies. She augmented her career as a C-Level professional and an executive Board Member in an international company. Apart from her management experience she played leading roles in establishing VDF Operational Fleet company, M&A activities, Dealer and Distributor Management, Risk Management, Credit Assessment, Digital Transformation and AI-based projects and Salesforce CRM implementation. Between 2011-2021 October, Unver, was the CEO and Board member of VDF Group companies, including VDF Finance Inc., VDF Factoring Inc., VDF Insurance Inc. and VDF Operational Fleet Inc. During her tenure, total asset size increased from 1 billion TRY to 12 billion TRY with profitability going up from 9 million TRY to 360 TRY with 330 employees After establishing VDF Operational Fleet Inc., she led the transformation of the company to a major player over 5 years. She also led the acquisition and merger of Scania Finance Inc.in 2013 and MAN Finance Inc. in 2014 . Digital transformation of group companies, including mobile applications, Robotic Processes Automation, AI-based projects, Salesforce CRM, end-to-end digitalized finance and insurance products were completed under her stewardship. Specifically, in 2013, VDF Turkey was the first country to implement a mobile application among 52 countries of Volkswagen Financial Services worldwide. This achievement was awarded with a gold medal for innovation. Between 2001 and 2011, after working 1,5 years as Branch Manager she was promoted to Regional Director at Garanti Bank, one of the largest banks in Turkey. She managed the largest region of the bank in terms of volume with a team of 500 people. Ünver started her career as Management Trainee at Pamukbank in 1989, moved to Bank Ekspres as Portfolio Manager in 1993, and then promoted to Marketing and Sales Manager in 1996. Between 1997-2001 she worked at Ottoman Bank as Department Head for Corporate, Commercial and SME and Retail Banking. She was one of the founding Board Members of Financial Institutions Association ("FKB") in 2012 and served as a member of the Board of Directors between 2012 and 2021. Unver is among the first mentee group of Women on Board, Turkey. She has ranked among the top 15 in “The Most Powerful 50 Women CEOs List of Economist & Capital Magazines over the last 5 years. Tijen Akdogan Ünver graduated from Boğaziçi University, Department of Economics in 1989. She has a certificate of INSEAD, Leading Digital Marketing Strategy Program. She also has an Adler Central Europe Professional Coaching Certificate and Women on Board, Turkey, Independent Board Member Program Certificate.
- TİJEN AKDOĞAN ÜNVER, Chairperson
- NEZİH KIRIMLI, Member
- TİJEN AKDOĞAN ÜNVER, Chairperson
- ALTUĞ DAYIOĞLU, Member
- Hayrettin Büyükizgi, Member
- NEZİH KIRIMLI, Chairperson
- ALTUĞ DAYIOĞLU, Member
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