Burhaneddin TANYERİ
Chairman of the Board
He was born in Erzurum Aşkale in 1953. He was graduated from Erzurum “İmam Hatip” (religious vocational) High school in 1972 and then graduated from the Faculty of Business Administration of Atatürk University in 1978. He worked in Regional Presidency of Agricultural Equipment Institution between the years of 1978-1980. He served as a Reserve Officer between 1980-1981 as the Head of Erzurum Narman Military Branch. He worked as Assistant Inspector, Chief Inspector, Branch Manager and Regional Director-in-chief, respectively, in T.C. Ziraat Bankası A.Ş. between the years of 1982-2005. He served as Member of the Board of Directors in Halkbank A.Ş. between the years of 2005 - 2010. Further served as Member of the Board of Directors in Halk Finansal Kiralama A.Ş., Halk Sigorta A.Ş., Ziraat Portföy Yönetimi A.Ş., Ziraat Bank Azerbaycan ASC, Ziraat Bank Montenegro AD and Vakıf Leasing A.Ş. respectively, between the years of 2005 - 2021. He has been carrying out the duty as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Member of Credit Committee of our bank since 26 March 2021.

Veysi KAYNAK
Vice Chairman of the Board
He was born on 1 January 1962 in Kahramanmaraş. He was graduated from Kahramanmaraş “İmam Hatip” (religious vocational) High school in 1981 and then graduated from the Faculty of Law of İstanbul University in 1985. He began his career of freelance lawyer as a member of the Kahramanmaraş Bar Association and at the same time he worked as academician at the Middle East Technical University (METU) Kahramanmaraş MYO (Vocational School of Higher Education). He served as the Vice Mayor of Kahramanmaraş and the deputy Mayor of Kahramanmaraş within the period between the years of 1989 and 1999 covering the two local election period. He was elected as the Mayor of Kahramanmaraş by the Municipal Council of Kahramanmaraş between January 1999 and April 1999. He served as the General Coordinator at an International Group of Companies between the years of 1999 and 2001. Immediately after his task of Kahramanmaraş Provincial Vice President and President of Political Legal Affairs of Justice and Development Party in 2001, he served as AK Party Kahramanmaraş Provincial Presidency between the years of 2002 and 2007. Mr. Kaynak who served as the 23rd Period AK Party Kahramanmaraş MP at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) in 2007 worked as the Member of TBMM Justice Commission, Member of AK Party Group Board of Directors and Inter-Parliaments of Turkey-Bahrain Group Chairmanship. With the decree of appointment dated 7 November 2011 he was appointed to the Deputy Justice Minister and served as the Deputy Justice Minister in the 61st and 62nd Governments of the Republic of Turkey. He worked as the Vice President of the United Nations IACA (International Anti-Corruption Academy) between the years of 2012 and 2015. In the Parliamentary General Elections held on 7 June 2015 and on 1 November 2015 he was elected as the 25th and 26th period AK Party MP of Kahramanmaraş. He served as the Deputy Chairman of the Security and Intelligence Commission of the Turkish Grand National Assembly as the 26th Period AK Party Kahramanmaraş MP. He was elected as a member of the AK Party Headquarters Disciplinary Board with the AK Party Ordinary Congress held on 12 September 2015. He was elected as the membership of AK Party MKYK by the Extraordinary Congress held on 22 May 2016. He served as the Deputy Prime Minister in the 65th Government of the Republic of Turkey formed on 24 May 2016. Mr. Kaynak is married with five children and speaks Arabic. He has been carrying out the duty of the Vice Chairman of the Board of Ziraat Bank since June 2020. He has been working as member of the Remuneration Committee.

Alpaslan ÇAKAR
CEO and Member of the Board
Graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, and Department of Public Administration. In 1996, Çakar started to work as an Assistant Inspector in Ziraat Bank, served as Inspector and Department Manager and was appointed as Regional Director-in-chief in 2005. Çakar, became the Head of Department in September 2007, served as Executive Vice President for Retail Banking, Executive Vice President for Operations, Executive Vice President for Consumer Banking and Executive Vice President for Retail Banking, he served as Executive Vice President for Distribution Channels Management between January 2016-July 2017, Executive Vice President for Payment Systems between July 2017-June 2018, Executive Vice President for Retail Banking-2 between June 2018-March 2021. He served as member of the Board of Directors/member of the Audit Board of Ziraat Finansal Kiralama (Ziraat Leasing), Bileşim Alternatif Dağıtım Kanalları Ödeme Sistemi A.Ş., Ziraat Hayat ve Emeklilik A.Ş. (Ziraat Life & Pension), Ziraat Sigorta A.Ş. (Ziraat Insurance), Kredi Kayıt Bürosu A.Ş., Ziraat Bank (Moscow) JSC, Turkmen Turkish Joint Stock Commercial Bank, Ziraat Teknoloji A.Ş., Bankalararası Kart Merkezi A.Ş., Ziraat Gayrimenkul Yatırım Ortaklığı A.Ş., Ziraat Bank (Moscow) JSC, respectively, between the years of 2003-2019. He served as the Chairman of the Board of Ziraat Bank (Moscow) JSC between 2019-2022. Çakar has been serving as the CEO and member of Board of Ziraat Bank since March 2021. He is the Chairman of the Credit Committee since 26 March 2021. He has been the Chairman of The Banks Association of Turkey since 22 April 2021. He is member to the Board of Turkey Wealth Fund since May, 2021. He has been carrying out the duty as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ziraat Participation Bank since 01 February 2022.

Fatih AYDOĞAN
Member of the Board
Fatih Aydoğan was born in 1979 in İstanbul. He was graduated from Anadolu University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Business Administration and İstanbul University, Department of Political Science and Public Administration. He completed his master’s degree in Business Administration MBA at İstanbul Bilgi University. His doctoral study continues at İstanbul Gelişim University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Business Administration. Between 2001 and 2009, he worked at Kuveyt Türk Katılım Bankası A.Ş. in operations, retail, financial analysis and corporate banking departments and worked as Assistant Regional Manager in charge of Corporate and Commercial Banking at the European Regional Directorate of this bank. Between 2009 and 2023, Mr. Aydoğan worked as General Manager of a real estate company included in the list of real estate valuation firms of the Capital Markets Board and the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency. He holds a CMB licence in the field of bank guarantees and real estate valuation. Mr. Aydoğan served as council member in İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality and Zeytinburnu Municipality. He worked as Chairman of the Plan and Budget Commission of Zeytinburnu Municipality and 2nd Deputy Chairman of the Assembly, and a member of the Fundamental Rights Commission and Investment and Project Monitoring and Research Commission of İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality. He has been serving as a member of the Board of Directors of our Bank since August 2023. Mr. Aydoğan who is married with 2 children is also a member of the Information Systems Strategy Committee and Information Security Committee.

Feyzi ÇUTUR
Member of the Board
He was graduated in 1983 from the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Banking of Gazi University. He got his Master’s Degree in Business Management at the Department of the Social Sciences of Beykent University. He has got Certified Public Accountant certificate from TÜRMOB (Union of Chambers of Certified Public Accountants of Türkiye) and Independent Accountant certificate from KGK (Public Oversight Accounting and Auditing Standards Authority). Mr. Çutur, who worked in 1977 to 1990 at various private sector companies as Accountant and Finance Manager, served at Bayındır Menkul Kıymetler A.Ş. as the General Accounting Manager between 1990-1998, and respectively as the Manager of Financial Affairs and Operations, Assistant General Manager and General Manager at Eti Yatırım A.Ş. between 1998 to 2010. He held office at various Investment Funds owned by Eti Yatırım and Etibank as member of the Fund Board and Chairman of the Fund Board, and worked in 2006 at İktisat Yatırım A.Ş. as member of the Board of Directors. He performed his duty as the representative of TMSF (Saving Deposits Insurance Fund) in the period from July 2011 to March 2012, as membership of the Board of Directors of Arap Türk Bankası A.Ş. and A&T Finansal Kiralama A.Ş., to which the said Bank is affiliated. Mr. Çutur, who has begun to work as member of the Board in our Bank since April 2012, is the member of Credit Committee of our Bank. Since March 2023 he has been a member of the Remuneration Committee. He worked as the member of Board/Supervisory Board of ZiraatBank İnternational AG, member of the Board of ZiraatBank BH d.d., the memberships of the Board, Credit Committee, Audit Committee of Ziraat Participation Bank and membership of the Board of Ziraat Bank (Moscow) JSC.

Dr. İsmail İlhan HATİPOĞLU
Member of the Board
He was born in 1968 in Karaman. He graduated from Karaman High School in 1984 and from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Finance in 1988. In 1989, he started his duty in the Ministry of Finance as a Trainee Revenue Controller by winning the competition exams he entered. In 1992, he was appointed as Revenue Controller and in 2000 as Chief Revenue Controller. Between May and December 1997, he conducted research on the EU Tax System in the United Kingdom. Deputy Minister Dr. Hatipoğlu served as Head of Department at the General Directorate of Revenues in 2003, Head of Department and Head of Revenue Controllers at the Revenue Administration in 2005, and Deputy Chairman of the Revenue Administration in 2007. Afterwards, he was appointed as the General Directorate of Budget and Financial Control in 2009. Between 2016 and 2018, he served as Deputy Undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance. After 2018, he served as Ministry Consultant and Chief Tax Inspector. During his duty at the Ministry of Finance, Dr. Hatipoğlu served as the Chairman of the Internal Audit Coordination Board between 2009 and 2019, and as a member of the State Aid Monitoring and Supervision Board between 2010 and 2018. After 2015, he served as the second chairman of the same board. Between 2009 and 2010, Mr. Hatipoğlu served as a member of the Board of Directors of Turkish Maritime Enterprises and as the Chairman of the Board of Directors between 2010 and 2016. In addition, Mr. Hatipoğlu served as a member of AVEA Audit Board representing the Treasury between 2014 and 2015. Between 2016 and 2018, Dr. Hatipoğlu served as Co-Chairman of the Tax and Incentives Committee of the Coordination Board for the Improvement of the Investment Environment and as the Head of the Technical Delegation of the Republic of Turkey established by the International Agreement with the KKTC. Dr. Hatipoğlu served as a Board Member of Ankara University Teknokent between 2019 and 2020. Having worked as a General Manager in the private sector for a short period of time, Mr. Hatipoğlu has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Turkish Athletics Federation since 2012. Doctor ( Ph.D. ) Hatipoğlu also lectured “Public Financial Management” and “Risk Management and Practices” in the Internal Audit and Internal Control Master’s Program at Ankara University Institute of Social Sciences between 2015-2023. In the Spring 2019 term, he lectured “Public Financial Management and Control” in the Audit and Risk Management Master’s Program at Ankara University of Social Sciences. Mr. Hatipoğlu completed his Master’s degree at Ankara University Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Business Administration in 2019 and completed his PhD studies at Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University, Department of Finance in March 2023, which he started in the autumn semester of 2019. On 22 June 2023, Dr. Hatipoğlu was appointed as the Deputy Minister of Treasury and Finance by the President of the Republic and has been serving as a member of the Board of Directors of our Bank since August 2023. Dr. Hatipoğlu is also a member of the Audit Committee.

Serruh KALELİ
Member of the Board
Having graduated from the primary and secondary schools of TED Ankara College, he attended Ankara Law Faculty and graduated from this faculty in 1977. He completed his military service at the Air Force Command as the reserve officer Military Prosecutor. He was a member to the Board of Directors of Ankara Bar Association respectively from 1996 to 1998; he was an accountant member and member to the Board of Directors of the two-period Turkish Law Institute between 2000-2002 and 2002-2004, Member of the Board of Union of the Turkish Association in 2001 for a period of four years. He took part in the preparation of Regulations under the Amended Lawyer’s Act in the commissions included in the structure of the Union of Turkish Bar Associations. He served at the season of 2004-2005 as Deputy Chairmanship of the Turkish Basketball Federation Disciplinary Board; he exercised his independent occupation as a lawyer registered at Ankara Bar Association for the period elapsing from 1978-1980-1981 until 19 July of 2005 on which he was elected for the membership of the Constitutional Court. He was employed as the Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Court from 14 April 2011 to 14 April 2015, besides by the Constitutional Amendment of 12 September 2010 he was assigned with the task of carrying out auditing the fundamental rights and freedoms which may be allegedly violated through the right to individual application which is falling within its duty and jurisdiction, he performed the Chairmanship for the first of the two sections for the period elapsing from 14 April 2011 to 14 April 2015. He has been working as the member to the Board of Directors of our Bank as of May 2019. He is a Member of the Corporate Governance Committee.

FAZLI KILIÇ
Member of the Board
He completed his high school education in Beyoğlu Commercial High School in 1976 and was graduated from İstanbul Academy of Economics and Commercial Sciences, Faculty of Commercial Sciences, Department of Management and Accounting in 1980. He completed Master of Arts program in Accounting Audit in İstanbul University Faculty of Business Administration in 1982. After has worked as a Certified Public Accountant for 26 years and took the role of founding partner in the company Yön Muhasebecilik Mali Müşavirlik Limited Şirketi, Group Chairman and member of İstanbul Provincial General Assembly between the years of 1994-1999 and Mayor of Kağıthane for 3 terms between the years of 2004 and 2019. He has been serving as a Member of the Board of Ziraat Bank since 26 March 2021. Kılıç is also a member of Ziraat Bank’s Audit Committee, reserve member of Credit Committee and the Chairman of the Sustainability Committee.

Serdar KILIÇ
Member of the Board
Having graduated from TED Ankara College, Mr. Kılıç graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Political Sciences in 1980. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1984 and served in various diplomatic posts. Between 2006-2008, he served as Executive Vice President of NATO at the Ministry. He served as the Ambassador to Beirut between 2008-2010 and as the Secretary General of the National Security Council between 2010-2012. He served as Ambassador to Tokyo between 2012 and 2014, and as Ambassador to Washington between 2014 and 2021. On December 15, 2021, he was appointed as a special envoy within the normalization process initiated between Turkey and Armenia. He has been serving as a member of the Board of Directors of our Bank since August 2023. Mr. Kılıç is also a member of the Corporate Governance Committee.

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