ABDÜLLATİF ÖZKAYNAK

Internal Systems Senior Executive Vice President

Born in Antalya in 1960, he graduated from the School of Banking and Insurance in the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at Gazi University. Having started his business career in Egebank, he held various positions in the Accounting, Budgeting and Financial Control departments at the bank. He became the Financial Affairs Group Manager in the Anadolu Finans Kurumu in 1998. He assumed active roles in the merger of Family Finans and Anadolu Finans as well as in the sale of majority shares of Türkiye Finans Katılım Bankası to NCB. After working as a Financial Control Manager in the Accounting and Budget Department, he has been serving as the Executive Vice President responsible for Finance since August 2011. He took on the role of Executive Vice President of Finance in August 2011 and has been serving as the Acting CEO and as a Board Member in Türkiye Finans since June 2016. He was appointed as the Senior Executive Vice President Responsible for Internal Systems on 1 November 2016.

His areas of Responsibility at Türkiye Finans Katılım Bankası as the Senior Executive Vice President include Risk Management, Board of Auditors, Internal Control Department, Compliance Department and Participation Banking Compliance and Development.

He has a total of 33 years of banking and professional experience.

EMRE ÜNAL

Risk Management

(Director)

Born in Istanbul in 1976, he graduated from the department of Statistics at the Middle East Technical University. After completing an MBA in Yeditepe University, he continues his PhD studies in Financial Economics at the same university. He started his career as an Assistant Specialist in Information Technologies at Yurt Ticaret ve Kredi Bankası in 1999. He worked as a Statitician and Quaility Specialist in AKSA Akrilik Kimya Sanayi between 2001 and 2006, as an Analytics Team Leader in Crif Turkey between 2007 and 2012, as a Rating/Scoring Modelling Manager in Akbank between 2012 and 2015, as a Risk Analysis and Modelling Manager at Abank between 2015 and 2017. Emre Ünal started to work in Türkiye Finans as Risk Analysis Manager in February 2017. He was appointed as the Director of Risk Management in January 2018, after having been appointed as an alternate director in August 2017.

His areas of responsibility at Türkiye Finans Katılım Bankası as the Director of Risk Management are to take necessary precautions to define, measure, report, track and control risks and to diminish their impacts on the Bank via policies, implementing procedures and limits related to risks by considering the impacts of the risks that the Bank is exposed to, and potential risks. The position also involves managing the execution and updating of risk management activities and processes, pursuant to legislation and best practices.

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

EMRE ERTÜRK

Board of Internal Audit

(Director)

Born in Samsun in 1976, Emre Ertürk graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering at İstanbul Technical University. He holds an MBA from İstanbul University and a Master’s degree in Management Information Systems from the Boğaziçi University. He worked in Dışbank between 1999 and 2005 as an Inspector and Unit Manager of the Inspection Board. He later worked as an Assistant Head of the Inspection Board at Fortis Bank between 2005 and 2011 and at TEB in 2011 and 2012. Since 2012, Mr. Ertürk has been serving as the head of Board of Auditors at Türkiye Finans.

His areas of responsibility as the Director of the Internal Audit include the Branch, Head Office, Information Systems Audits, Reviews and Investigations.

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

OGÜN ATAOĞLU

Internal Control Department

(Director)

Born in Trabzon in 1974, Ogün Ataoğlu graduated from the Department of Economics in English, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at İstanbul University. He embarked on his career in 1999, working for EGS Bank as an Assistant Inspector at the Board of Auditors. In 2003, he started working for Family Finans Bank as a Senior Controller at the Department of Internal Control. He served as Deputy Head of Internal Control Department and then as the Compliance Manager/Compliance Officer in 2009. In 2012, he was appointed as the Head of Internal Control. Since March 2016, he has been working as the Senior Vice President of Internal Control Department.

His areas of responsibility as Director of the Internal Control Department include Branch Controls, Head Office Controls and Information Systems Controls.

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

TAHİR CEM BERİK

Compliance Department

(Director)

Born in 1966 in İstanbul, Tahir Cem Berik holds a BA degree from the Department of English Language and Literature at Hacettepe University. Having successfully completing Ziraat Bank Banking School, he also earned an MBA degree from Ahmet Yesevi University. Having a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) certificate, Berik held office in Ziraat Bank between 1990-1997 as the Project Valuation Specialist and in Kazakhstan Ziraat International Bank (Almati, KZ) between 1997-2000 as the Foreign Operations Manager. He then worked at Ziraat Bank between 2000-2003 as the Manager of Financial Control Unit, at Ziraat Bank International AG between 2003-2006 as the Munich Branch Manager, and at Ziraat Bank between 2006-2012 as the Compliance Manager/Compliance Officer. Joining Türkiye Finans Katılım Bankası in 2014 as the Legislation Compliance Manager, Tahir Cem Berik is currently working as the Compliance Director since 31 March 2016.

His areas of responsibility as the Director of the Compliance Department include fulfilment of the Bank’s compliance control activities within the framework of the “Regulation on Internal Systems and Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process for Banks”, execution of the compliance program in accordance with the legislation on “Prevention of Laundering Proceeds of Crime and Financing of Terrorism”, to ensure the necessary measures are taken for the identification, measurement, reduction, and monitoring of risks in this context; coordinating, monitoring and reporting compliance work by following legislative changes; the management of reporting from the Ethics Hotline and strengthening the Ethics Culture; and compliance with the FATCA, CRS/AEOI contract.

Total banking and professional experience is 27 years.