BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Tuncay Özilhan was born in Kayseri. He studied in Saint-Joseph High School, then graduated from the Faculty of Economics of İstanbul University. He received his MBA degree from Long Island University in the United States. He started his career in 1977 as General Director of Erciyas Brewery and has undertaken responsibilities such as Coordinator of the Beer Group and General Coordinator of Anadolu Group. Tuncay Özilhan acted as the CEO of Anadolu Group from 1984 to February 2017. He is the Chairman of Anadolu Group since May 2007. He has also been serving as Chairman of Anadolu Foundation as well as various Group companies.
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Özilhan served as the Chairman of TÜSİAD (Turkish Industrialist's and Businessmen's Association) from 2001 to 2003 and he is currently Chairman of its High Advisory Council. His other responsibilities include; Member of The Board at the Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEİK), Honorary Consul for the Republic of Estonia and President of Anadolu Efes Sports Club. He also served as Chairman of the Turkish – Russian Business Council at DEİK. Tuncay Özilhan holds Ministerial Medal by the Ministry Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Estonia and “The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star”, constituting one of the most important orders awarded by Japanese government.

Sedef Salıngan Şahin, who joined The Coca-Cola Company in 2003, has held several leadership roles within the organization and assumed her current role as President of the Nutrition, Juice, Dairy and Plant Category for The Coca-Cola Company in 2021. Şahin served as Vice President of Operations and Strategy for the company’s Europe, Middle East & Africa group from 2018 to 2020. She also served as a board member in Coca-Cola Beverages Africa during that time. From 2016 to 2018, she was the company’s general manager for Thailand and Laos and also served as Board member for Thainamthip and Laos Bottling Companies. Şahin joined Coca- Cola in 2003 as the strategy & insights manager for Turkey. She went on to serve in a series of marketing, strategy and operations roles including Coca-Cola İçecek, eventually leading to her appointment as general manager juices for Coca-Cola Turkey in 2011. Prior to joining Coca-Cola, Şahin worked in McKinsey & Company as consultant and in Procter & Gamble as brand manager. Şahin received a bachelor’s degree in business administration and political science from Boğaziçi University.

Mr. Zorlu has been a Board Member of CCI since 2004. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Istanbul University. Prior to joining Anadolu Group in 1984, he held various positions in Toz Metal and Turkish Airlines. Mr. Zorlu joined Anadolu Group as a Marketing Specialist at the Efes Beverage Group and held various positions including Assistant Marketing Manager, Assistant Project Development Manager, Project Development Manager and Business Development & Investor Relations Director. Mr. Zorlu held the position of Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for Efes Beverage Group between 2000-2008 and the position of CFO for Anadolu Group between 2008-2013. From 2013 onwards he served as the Deputy CEO of Anadolu Group, until his appointment as the CEO of Anadolu Group in February 2017. He also currently acts as a Board Member in various Anadolu Group companies. Mr. Zorlu served as the Chairman of TKYD (Corporate Governance Association of Turkey) between 2015-2017 and he currently also serves as Board Member at Turkish Investor Relations Society (TUYİD) and at Outbound Investments Business Council at Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEİK).

Tuğban İzzet Aksoy graduated from the Management and International Finance Department of the University of Oglethorpe in the USA, following his education at the Austrian High School. He began his professional career as an Assistant Expert in the Financial Affairs Directorate at Anadolu Endüstri Holding, in 1996. In December 1998 he was appointed as a Senior Broker at the Alternatifbank Treasury Department. Following five years in this role, Aksoy took on the role of Corporate Finance and Risk Manager at the Treasury and Risk Management Department of Anadolu Endüstri Holding A.Ş. in June 2003. In April 2008, he became Assistant Coordinator at Business Development Directorate, and between 2009-April 2019, he worked as Anadolu Group Energy Sector Coordinator. He continues to serve as Board Member in various Anadolu Group companies. Also he has been working as Board Member in Türkiye Jokey Klubü. Aksoy, who has participated in professional training and seminars in his field, is member of energy groups of TÜSİAD and TOBB. Aksoy has been serving as an honorary consul of Georgia since 2016 and also holds Georgian Government Medal of Honor.

Kamil Yazıcı graduated from New York Military Academy as lieutenant captain (96’), holds a BA degree from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School (00’), an MBA degree from American Institute of Business and Economics (05’) and has completed the GMP program at the Harvard Business School (17’). Starting his career in Anadolu Group in year 2000, Yazıcı completed the orientation program at the holding later continuing his career in Anadolu Efes‘s Russian beer operations where he assumed the roles of Supply Chain Director and Business Development Director during 2008-2011. In 2011 Yazıcı was appointed as General Manager of Efes Vitanta in Moldova and resumed this role until 2014. In 2014 he was appointed as Market Development Director, a position held until 2017. Since 2017 Yazıcı has been serving as Board Member and Vice-Chairman on Anadolu Group Holding and subsidiary boards. In addition, Yazıcı serves as Board Member for TAIK (Turkish-American Business Council), TOGG (Turkish National Auto Initiative), HBS Alumnus (Harvard Business School’s Alumni Board) and is Chairman of KYYDAS (the Kamil Yazıcı Family Trust).

Born in 1957 in İstanbul, Agah Uğur studied Industrial Engineering at the University of Birmingham, UK then qualified as a chartered accountant in England in 1985. He worked in Birmingham, London and Jersey offices of Touche Ross & Co (currently Deloitte), İstanbul office of Arthur Andersen and Türkiye Emlak Bankası before joining Borusan Group in 1989 as CFO. He served as Group CEO between 2001 and 2018 until he retired. He is currently vice chairman in Dogan Holding and a board member in Pegasus Havayolları, Anadolu Efes, Coca-Cola İçecek, Alcatel Lucent Teletaş Telekomünikasyon, Gözde Girişim as well as advisory board member in some reputable Turkish corporations. Agah Ugur is a partner and chairman in venture capital firm, Bogazici Ventures and he also manages his own portfolio of technology startups. Agah held more than 15 board and advisory board positions in various NGO’s during his professional career. Currently he is a member of High Advisory Council of TUSIAD, member of the Board of Trustees of Sabancı University, member of the Advisory Board of Columbia University İstanbul Global Center. He is also a founding member and vice chairman of Saha Foundation, supporting Turkish contemporary art. He is an art collector with a special focus on new media and video art.

Born in 1946, Ahmet Boyacıoğlu holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the Middle East Technical University. Mr. Boyacıoğlu began his professional career with the Efes Beverage Group (Anadolu Efes) in 1973. He served in various positions from 1973 to 2005 including Bursa Region Sales Manager, Ege Biracılık ve Malt San. A.Ş. Sales Manager, Güney Biracılık ve Malt San. A.Ş. General Manager, Ege Biracılık ve Malt San. A.Ş. General Manager, Eastern Europe President, International Beer Operations Group President, and Strategy and Business Development Director. Mr. Boyacıoğlu was appointed as the President of the Efes Beer Group in May 2005 and retired on 1 February.

Born in 1958 in İstanbul, Ömer Bozer graduated from the Business Administration department of the Middle East Technical University and received his MBA/FINANCE degree from Georgia State University. Mr Bozer began his professional career in Koç Holding as an MT in 1983 and after serving respectively as Assistant General Manager in Maret and General Manager at Düzey Pazarlama, he was appointed as Migros General Manager in 2002. Besides his General Manager responsibility at Migros, in the last quarter of 2004, Mr Ömer Bozer was appointed as the President of KOÇ Holding's Food and Retail group. He served at the Koç Group as President of Food, Retail and Tourism Group between 2005-2006, President of Food and Retail Group between 2006-2008, and once again as President of Food, Retail and Tourism Group between 2008-2011. After leaving his executive career in 2011, he served as an independent board member at Coca-Cola İçecek, Anadolu Efes, Adel Kalemcilik, Anadolu İsuzu, Carrefoursa, Boyner Holding and Söktaş. Mr. Bozer currently acts as independent Board Member in Tüpraş, Arçelik and Dardanel and Board Member in Coca-Cola İçecek, Adel, Anadolu İsuzu, Anadolu Etap, Kamil Yazıcı Management Consultancy and Boyner Holding.Mr Ömer Bozer was appointed as the President of KOÇ Holding's Food and Retail group. He served at the Koç Group as President of Food, Retail and Tourism Group between 2005-2006, President of Food and Retail Group between 2006-2008, and once again as President of Food, Retail and Tourism Group between 2008-2011. After leaving his executive career in 2011, he served as an independent board member at Coca-Cola İçecek, Anadolu Efes, Adel Kalemcilik, Anadolu İsuzu, Carrefoursa, Boyner Holding and Söktaş. Mr. Bozer currently acts as independent Board Member in Tüpraş, Arçelik and Dardanel and Board Member in Coca-Cola İçecek, Adel, Anadolu İsuzu, Anadolu Etap, Kamil Yazıcı Management Consultancy and Boyner Holding.

Born in 1954, İzzet Karaca graduated from Boğaziçi University Industrial Engineering Department in 1977. Having started his professional career in 1977 at Koç Research and Development Centre, he held Industrial Engineer and IT Manager position until 1985. Between 1985 and 1988, Mr. Karaca worked as Systems and Organization Director at Ford Otosan. From 1988 onwards, he held several positions at Unilever in Germany, Turkey and Baltic States including Internal Audit Group Manager, Logistics Manager, Commercial Director and Managing Director. In addition, between 2011 and 2013, İzzet Karaca served as the Chairperson at YASED (International Investors Association). After serving as Executive Chairman at Unilever Turkey and Unilever NAMET RUB (North Africa, Middle East, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus) and being a member of the Unilever CEO Forum, Mr. Karaca retired from his duties as of 31 December 2013. In 2015, he published his first book called “The New CEO is... You”. İzzet Karaca complies with all of the independent member requirements, defined in the Capital Markets Board (CMB) Corporate Governance Principles.

A. Galip Yorgancıoğlu graduated from Galatasaray High School and then he studied at the Faculty of Business Administration at Boğaziçi University. He started his professional life at Phillip Morris as Marketing Manager of Marlboro Cigarettes. Later on, he worked as South East European Marketing Director at Diageo, Turkey and Eurasia Marketing Director at Coca-Cola, and then Turkey General Manager at Burger King. In April 2004, he started to work as CEO of Mey İçki, which was founded after Tekel Alcoholic Beverages section has been privatized in December 2003. He continued to work as CEO of Mey İçki / Diageo Turkey until he retired on September 30, 2017. Mr. Yorgancıoğlu complies with all of the independent member requirements, defined in the Capital Markets Board (CMB) Corporate Governance Principles.

Uğur Bayar received his Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics and Statistics from the State University of New York in 1997. Bayar began his career at Citibank Turkey in 1987, taking various positions at the treasury of the bank until 1992, when he moved to public service. Between 1992 and 1997, he served as Vice President of Public Partnership Administration of the Prime Ministry of Turkey and between 1997 and 2002 as President of Privatization Administration of the Prime Ministry of Turkey. During this period, he served as Chairman of the board of Erdemir and Petrol Ofisi and a board member of Turkish Airlines and Türk Telekom. Uğur Bayar joined Credit Suisse in 2004 and worked as Turkey’s Chief Executive Officer and Head of Investment Banking until 2017. In addition, Bayar serves as Chairman of WWF Turkey (World Wildlife Foundation) while he serves as a board member at; Anadolu Holding and Tekfen, Teknoloji Yatırım ve Tic. A.Ş. Mr. Bayar complies with all of the independent member requirements, defined in the Capital Markets Board (CMB) Corporate Governance Principles.

Born in 1957, Tayfun Bayazıt got his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Southern Illinois University, followed by a master’s degree (MBA) from Columbia University. Having started his career at Citibank in 1983, Bayazıt assumed Executive Vice President and Senior Executive Vice President positions at Yapı Kredi Bank from 1986 until 1995. He was President and CEO at Interbank from 1995 to 1996, and at Banque de Commerce et de Placements from 1996 to 1999. Having served as Vice Chairman at Doğan Holding from 1999 until 2001, Bayazıt was later appointed as CEO and Board member at Dışbank (2001-2005), Fortis Bank (2005-2007), and Yapı Kredi Bank (2007-2009), where he consequently served as Chairman from 2009 to 2011. He has been working as a consultant since 2011. Tayfun Bayazıt complies with all of the independent member requirements, defined in the Capital Markets Board (CMB) Corporate Governance Principles.