ALİ KIRBAŞ

Executive Vice President for Banking Operations and Communication

He graduated from Department of Economics in Gazi University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. He served as a civil servant at the Central Bank Head Office between 1997 and 1999. In 1999, Mr. Kırbaş started to work as Assistant Inspector at the Inspection Board of our Bank, and then became Inspector and Head of the Inspection Board. He served as the Head of Publicity and Communication Services Department between September 2008 and May 2012 and Head of Corporate Communications Department between May 2012 and July 2017. Since August 2017, he has been serving as Executive Vice President for Banking Operations and Communication.

ALPASLAN ÇAKAR

Executive Vice President for Retail Branch Banking-2

Alpaslan Çakar graduated from Ankara University (Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences). He joined Ziraat Bank in 1996 as an Assistant Inspector and later served as an Inspector and Branch Manager. Mr. Çakar was appointed as the Regional Head Manager in 2005. Promoted to the position Head of Department in August 2007, Mr. Çakar has served as the Executive Vice President for Retail Banking, Executive Vice President for Operational Transactions and Executive Vice President for Retail Banking respectively. He served as Executive Vice President for Banking Channels Management between January 2016 and July 2017 and as Executive Vice President for Payment Systems between July 2017 and June 2018. He has been serving as Executive Vice President for Retail Branch Banking-2 since June 2018.

BİLGEHAN KURU

Executive Vice President for Treasury and International Banking

Bilgehan Kuru graduated from the Middle East Technical University (Department of Mining Engineering). He studied for a master degree in finance at the Institute of Physical Sciences of the same university. He began his career as a foreign exchange clerk at Halkbank, where he worked from 1986 to 1988. He joined Pamukbank in 1988 as an assistant specialist before serving as a service director and manager of the Treasury Department at the same bank. He was appointed as the Head of the Department of Foreign Exchange and Money Markets at Halkbank in November 2004. Having held the position of Assistant General Manager for Retail Banking at Halkbank from June 2007 until July 2011, Mr. Kuru was appointed as Executive Vice President for Treasury and Strategy Management at our Bank in July 2011 and he has been working as Executive Vice President for Treasury and International Banking since August 2014.

M. CENGİZ GÖĞEBAKAN

Executive Vice President for Loan Policies

Mehmet Cengiz Göğebakan graduated from Ankara University (Department of Economics, Faculty of Political Sciences) in 1987. He began his career at Pamukbank as an assistant inspector in the same year. He served at the same bank between 1994 and 2004 as a manager of the Department of Firm Evaluation, Department of Credit Monitoring, Department of Credit Allocation, Department of Administrative Follow-up and Department of Credit Policies. He joined Halkbank on 17 November 2004 where he worked as an executive responsible for Retail Loans; he was promoted to the post of Assistant General Manager responsible for risk liquidation on 9 June 2005. He served as an Assistant General Manager of credit policies from 2007 to 2010 at the same bank. He worked at Anadolubank as an Assistant General Manager responsible for loans from May 2010 to October 2011. Mr. Göğebakan has been serving at Ziraat Bank as Executive Vice President for Loan Policies since November 2011.

MUSA ARDA

Executive Vice President for Credit Allocation and Management

Musa Arda graduated from Çukurova University (Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences). He began his career at Pamukbank in 1994 as a financial analyst. He worked at the same bank as an analyst, a service manager in various units at the headquarters and a marketing director at Güneşli Corporate Branch between 1994 and 2004. He joined Halkbank in 2005 as a division manager at the Commercial Marketing Department before working as the head of the Financial Analysis Department, the head of the Department of Credit Policies and Project Evaluation, the head of the Department of Commercial Loans and, most recently, as the coordinator responsible for the İstanbul 2nd Region. He has been serving at Ziraat Bank as Executive Vice President for Credit Allocation and Management since November 2011.

PEYAMİ ÖMER ÖZDİLEK

Executive Vice President for Internal Operations

Mr. Özdilek graduated from the Middle East Technical University, Department of Political Science and Public Administration. He has begun to work in our Bank in 1996 as the an assistant inspector, after working at the various positions of the staff, he has served respectively as London Branch Manager, Gayrettepe Branch Manager, Senior Vice President of the Human Resources Department, as Executive Vice President for Financial Coordination and as Executive Vice President for Human Resources. Mr. Özdilek has been serving as Executive Vice President for Internal Operations since October 2018.

SÜLEYMAN TÜRETKEN

Executive Vice President for Retail Branch Banking-1

Mr. Türetken graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at Gazi University in 1983. He worked as an Inspector, Branch Manager, Head of the Department and Regional Coordinator in various institutions, before being appointed as the Head of the Corporate Marketing Group at our Bank in February 2012. He served as the Head of the Branch Banking Group between August 2016 and July 2017, and as Executive Vice President for Branch Banking between August 2017 and June 2018. He has been serving as Executive Vice President for Retail Branch Banking-1 since June 2018.

YÜKSEL CESUR

Executive Vice President for Internal Systems

Yüksel Cesur graduated from Boğaziçi University, Faculty of Economics & Administrative Sciences. He has begun to work in our Bank in 1996 as an Assistant Inspector, and later on he has been appointed as the Inspector. He has performed his duty as the Head of Department of Training Section since 2005. Mr. Cesur who was appointed to the Department of Treasury Operations in 2007 has served thereafter as the Head of Agricultural Marketing Group. Mr. Cesur has been serving as Executive Vice President for Internal Systems since April 2014.