AHMET MERT
Executive Vice President /Credit Quality and Collections

Born in Kırşehir in 1978, Ahmet Mert graduated from the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at İstanbul University. Starting his career in the telecommunications industry, Mr. Mert embarked on his career in the banking sector and started working in Garanti Payment Systems in 2001. He was responsible for the Credit Assignment, Monitoring and Tracking Strategies and Policies at Risk Management and R&D/Business Development Units. He joined the Turkey office of Experian, a global consultancy firm in 2006, where he worked as manager of the Consultancy and Support Unit for the Turkey and the Middle East region. In 2010, he joined Türkiye Finans group as a Risk Analysis Manager. Ahmet Mert was appointed as a principal to the role of Executive Vice President of Credit Quality and Collections on 30 September 2016, a position he had held by proxy since July 2016.

His areas of responsibility at Türkiye Finans Katılım Bankası as Executive Vice President included the Credit Monitoring Department, the Collections Department, the Legal Tracking Department, Chief Legal Consultancy, the Credit Quality and Collections Analytics Department and the Remedial Department.

Ahmet Mert has a total of 17 years of banking and professional experience.

ÖZER BARAN
Executive Vice President / Credits

Born in 1977 in İzmir, Ozer Baran graduated from the Department of Industrial Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of Bilkent University in 1999. He graduated with a Master’s degree in Financial Economics from the Department of Economics at İzmir University and continues his PhD studies in the Banking and Finance department at Kadir Has University. Mr. Baran started his professional career as an auditor in Internal Audit Department of Türkiye İş Bankası A.Ş. in 1999. He worked as the Assistant Manager in Corporate and Commercial Loans department of HSBC Bank A.Ş. between 2007 and 2009 and as the Manager in Risk Management department at Eurobank Tekfen A.Ş. between 2009 and 2010. He took on roles as Manager in Risk Policies and Reporting Department and Project Loans and Commercial Allocation Departments in Türkiye Finans family where he joined in 2010. Özer Baran was appointed as an Executive Vice President responsible for Risk Management on September 30th, 2016 and has served as the Executive Vice President responsible for Loans since August 2nd, 2017.

His areas of responsibility at Türkiye Finans Katılım Bankası as Executive Vice President include the Project Loans and Commercial Allocation Department, the Commercial Loans and Leasing Allocation Department, the Financial Analysis and Intelligence Department, the Consumer Allocation and Small Business Loans Allocation Department and the Region Allocation Departments.

He has a total of 18 years of banking and professional experience.

FAHRİ ÖBEK
Executive Vice President / IT Systems and Operations

Born in 1969, Fahri Obek graduated from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Ege University, and went on to complete a Master’s degree in Business Management from Koç University. He started his business career in Bilpa and went on to work at Egebank. He held various positions in Koçbank between 1991 and 2006. After the merger between Koçbank and Yapı Kredi in 2006, he was appointed as a Senior System Analyst in the Software Development. He served as Deputy General Manager in Charge of IT Management at the Yapı Kredi Bank between 2008 and 2010, and then worked as the Department Head in Charge of Information Technologies, Vodafone Turkey (CIO) in 2010 and 2011. He has been working as the Executive Vice President responsible for IT Systems at Türkiye Finans Katılım Bankası since June 2011.

His areas of responsibility at Türkiye Finans Katılım Bankası as the Executive Vice President include the IT Technology and Infrastructure Management Department, the IT Product and Service Development Department, the IT Corporate Architecture and R&D Department, the Corporate Project Management and Corporate Development Department, the Credit Operations Department, the Commercial Credit Control Department, the Foreign Transactions Operations Department, the Payment Systems Operations Department, the Banking Services Operations Department, the Cash and Treasury Operations Department, the Organization and Process Improvement Department and the Purchasing, Construction and Administrative Affairs Department.

He has a total of 27 years of banking and professional experience.

HAKAN UZUN
Executive Vice President / Treasury

Born in 1968, Hakan Uzun graduated from the Middle East Technical University (METU), department of Mechanical Engineering in 1991. He went on to graduate with a Master’s Degree at the University of Illinois in the United States between 1992 and 1995. He started his career in banking in 1996 at Körfezbank. He worked for various private banks as a senior executive in the area of Treasury and Financial Markets. Between 2008 and 2011, he worked at ING Bank Turkey as the Group Manager Responsible for Treasury operation, and joined the Türkiye Finans family in October 2011 as the Manager of Treasury operations. He has been serving as the Vice General Manager responsible for Treasury operations since 10 November 2015.

His areas of responsibility at Türkiye Finans Katılım Bankası as the Executive Vice President include the Treasury Sales Department, the Asset Liability Management Department, the Financial Institutions Department and the Bahrain Branch.

He has a total of 22 years of banking and professional experience.

MURAT AKŞAM
Executive Vice President / Commercial Banking

Murat Akşam graduated from the Department of Management Engineering at Istanbul Technical University in 1990. He continued his education at Vienna University of Economics in 1990 and 1991. He was then appointed as the Sales Representative and Regional Representative at Beko Ticaret A.Ş. between 1991 and 1993 and Foreign Office Representative at Ram Dış Ticaret A.Ş. between 1993 and 1997. He started to work as a Credit Representative and Credit Allocation Manager in the Turkey Economy Bank in 1997 where he assumed the roles of Corporate Loans Manger between 2000 and 2005, Corporate and Commercial Loan Allocation Director between 2005 and 2014 and the Corporate Banking Group Director between 2014 and 2017. Murat Akşam continues his role as Executive Vice President responsible from Commercial Banking as of May 2nd, 2017.

His areas of responsibility at Türkiye Finans Katılım Bankası as the Executive Vice President include the Commercial Branch Network and Sales Directorate, the Corporate Banking Department, the Commercial Banking Marketing Department, the ME Banking Marketing Department, the Cash Management Department and the Corporate and Commercial Branches.

He has a total of 26 years of banking and professional experience.

METE MEHMET KANAT
Executive Vice President / Finance and Strategy

Mete Kanat was born in Ankara in 1977. He studied Business Administration at Hacettepe University and holds an MBA degree from İstanbul Bilgi University. Kanat worked as a Bank Examiner at the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency between 2001 and 2007, and as the Deputy General Manager at Creditwest Bank (Ukraine) from 2007 to 2011. Mete Kanat joined Türkiye Finans as the Director of Legal Reporting and Financial Control in 2011. He became the Head of the Risk Management Group in 2014. On 31 March 2016, he was appointed as the Vice President of Risk Management Group, while continuing with his former duty. On 30 September 2016, Mete Kanat was appointed as the Executive Vice President of Finance and Strategy.

His areas of Responsibility at Türkiye Finans Katılım Bankası as the Executive Vice President include the Accounting and Tax Department, Budget, the Management Information Systems and Corporate Performance Department, the Legal Reporting and Financial Control Department and the Corporate Communications, Strategy and Program Management Department.

He has a total of 16 years of banking and professional experience.

ZÜLEYHA BÜYÜKYILDIRIM
Executive Vice President / Human Resources

Born in İstanbul in 1981, Züleyha Büyükyıldırım graduated from İstanbul Bilgi University as a double major with degrees in Economics and International Relations in 2004. She started her career at Kuveyt Türk Katılım Bankası A.Ş. After joining the Türkiye Finans family in 2006, Büyükyıldırım worked at the Treasury Department and then served as Deputy Manager and Manager at the Strategy and Program Management Department. On 30 September 2016, Züleyha Büyükyıldırım was appointed as principal to the role of the Executive Vice President of Human Resources, a position she had held by proxy since June 2016.

Her areas of responsibility at Türkiye Finans Katılım Bankası as an Executive Vice President include the HR Business Partner Department, the Training Department, the Renumeration and Performance Department and the Human Resources Services Department.

She has a total of 14 years of banking and professional experience.

MEHMET NECATİ ÖZDENİZ
Executive Vice President / Retail Banking

Mehmet Necati Özdeniz graduated from the Sociology Department in Middle East Technical University. He started his professional career as an Assistant Specialist in Network and System Management at Fortis Bank in 1999 before going on to work as a Research Specialist in Veri Araştırma A.Ş. and Oyak Bilgi Teknolojileri between 2000 and 2003 and as a Data Research Manager in Oyak Bank between 2003 and 2005. He started to work as the Manager of CRM and Segmentation in TEB in 2005 before transferring to Tekstil Bank as the CRM Manager in 2007. He worked as the CRM and Segmentation Manager in Aktif Bank between 2008 and 2012 and as the CRM and Campaign Management Manager at TEB between 2012 and 2013. Mr. Özdeniz joined the Türkiye Finans family in 2013 and took on the role of Customer Analytics and CRM Manager until 2015. In August 2015 he started to work as a member of the Executive Board responsible for CRM, Marketing and Corporate Communication at CarrefourSA. Mehmet Necati Özdeniz was appointed as Executive Vice President responsible for Retail Banking in Türkiye Finans on April 3rd, 2017 and has held that role since then.

His areas of Responsibility at Türkiye Finans Katılım Bankası as Executive Vice President include Retail banking marketing and consumer finance, Entrepreneurial banking, Retail banking network and sales management, Deposits / insurance and investment products, alternative distribution channels and Digital banking, Customer data management

He has a total of 18 years of banking and professional experience.