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The Board of Directors

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Hüsnü M. Özyeğin
Chairman of the Board of Directors
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Born in 1944. Mr.Özyeğin graduated from Robert Academy in 1963. Also, Mr. Özyeğin holds a BS degree in Civil Engineering from Oregon State University and an MBA degree from Harvard Business School. He was the General Manager of Pamukbank during 1977-1984 and General Manager and CEO of Yapı ve Kredi Bank during 1984-1987. Mr.Özyeğin founded Finansbank in 1987 and served as the Founder and Chairman of Finansbank A.Ş. between 1987 – 2010.

Hüsnü M. Özyeğin is also the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Özyeğin University and Member of the Board at Fibabanka A.Ş.

Fevzi Bozer
Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors / Chair of the Corporate Governance Committee / Chair of the Credit Committee / Member of the Remuneration Committee
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Born in 1955. Mr.Bozer holds a BA degree in Business Administration from Indiana University and an MBA degree from Roosevelt University. He started his banking career in 1984 at CitiBank. He joined Finansbank as branch manager in 1988 and then appointed as the General Manager of Finansbank (Credit Europe Bank) Suisse S.A. between 1991 and 1993. Then Mr.Bozer served as the General Manager of Finansbank A.Ş. between 1995-1999. Since 1999, he has been Board Member of Fiba Group's international Banks and Fiba Holding A.Ş. He still serves in the Board of Directors of Fibabanka and Credit Europe Bank Suisse.

İsmet Kaya Erdem
Member of the Board of Directors / Member of the Audit Committee / Member of the Audit Committee
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İsmet Kaya Erdem was born in 1928. After graduating from Marmara University, he served as Undersecretary of Treasury, Social Security Institution General Director, Minister of Finance, State Minister in charge of the Economy, and as Speaker of the Turkish Parliament between 1961 and 1999. He joined Fiba Group in 2000. İsmet Kaya Erdem is a Member of the Board at Fibabanka A.Ş.

Mehmet Güleşci
Member of the Board of Directors / Member of the Remuneration
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Born in 1962. Following his graduation from the Business Administration department of Boğaziçi University, he completed his master degree in the same department. He worked in Istanbul and Boston offices of Ernst&Young between 1984-1996 and got CPA licence from Turkey and Massachusetts, USA. While serving as a partner, he joined Finansbank as Assistant General Manager in 1997 and he was Managing Director in the Board of Directors of Finansbank until the end of 2009. Mr. Güleşci furthermore assumes various responsibilities in the Board of Directors of Fiba Group’s financial and non financial, domestic and international investments.

Onur Umut
Member of the Board of Directors / Member of the Corporate Governance Committee / Member of the Credit Committee
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Born in 1962. After completing his education in Boğaziçi University Industrial Engineering, he worked at İktisat Bank A.Ş. between 1985-1988. He joined Fiba Group in 1988. He worked as the General Manager of Finansbank (Credit Europe Bank) Holland between the years of 1996-1999 and of Finansbank A.Ş. between the years of 1999-2003. Since then, he has been Board Member of Fiba Group's international Banks and Fiba Holding A.Ş. He still serves in the Board of Directors of Fibabanka, Credit Europe Bank Russia ve Credit Europe Bank Romania.

Ata Köseoğlu
Member of the Board of Directors
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Born in 1960, Ata Köseoğlu graduated from Boğaziçi University Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1982 and completed his MSc degree in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University and MBA at Boston University. His banking career starting in 1986 at Iktisat Bank and continued at Finansbank. Between 1994-1999, he worked in New York at Bear Stearns and later in Paris, Société Générale, as Managing Director responsible from Turkey and Middle East. Mr. Koseoglu was CEO at Credit Suisse First Boston during 2000-2005, Chairman and CEO at TEB Investment during 2006-2011, Strategy and Business Development President of Sabancı Holding A.Ş. during 2011-2019. He acted as the Chairman of Akçansa and Çimsa, he became President of Retail Group and worked as the Chairman of both Carrefoursa and Teknosa in April 2017.

Köseoğlu currently serves as Senior Advisor at Simon Kucher Partners and acts as a consultant to different companies.

Erman Kalkandelen
Member of the Board of Directors
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Erman Kalkadelen holds a BA degree in Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Labor Economics from Ankara University and an MBA degree from Sabancı University. Erman Kalkandelen is the CEO of Franklin Templeton Turkiye Danismanlik A.S. for Turkey. He serves on the board of directors of Defacto Perakende Ticaret A.Ş, Şok Marketler Ticaret A.Ş. and Gözde Girişim Sermayesi Yatırım Ortaklığı A.Ş. Kalkandelen has been a Member of the Board of Directors at Fibabanka since July, 2021.

Ali Fuat Erbil
Member of the Board of Directors
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After having graduated from the Middle East Technical University Department of Computer Engineering in 1990, Ali Fuat Erbil earned his MBA from Bilkent University between 1990 and 1992. He started his business life and banking career as a Management Associate with Interbank in 1992, and worked at various branches as a corporate banking customer representative until 1995. In the meantime, Erbil started working on his PhD in Banking and Finance from Istanbul Technical University, and was awarded the title Doctor in 1998.

Until mid-1997, he was the Head of the Research Department at Inter Investment, upon which his career of 23 years with Garanti Bank started. He was first the Department Head for Alternative Distribution Channels with his main responsibility being the launch of Internet banking. In April 1999, he was promoted as the Deputy General Manager. Serving Garanti Bank as the Deputy General Manager for 16 years, he worked in various areas across the bank during this time. Some of these areas include Retail Banking, Corporate Banking, Digital Banking, Financial Institutions, Mortgage, and Human Resources.

As of 2015, Erbil started serving as the Board Member and the General Manager at Garanti Bank during which time he also served as the Chairman for the institutions which were subsidiaries of the Bank. Some of these subsidiaries include Garanti Bank International (Netherlands), Garanti Bank Romania, Garanti Leasing, Garanti Pension and Life, Garanti Factoring, Garanti Investment, Garanti Payment Systems, and Garanti Technology. In September 2019, he has left his duties at Garanti Bank and its subsidiaries.

Ali Fuat Erbil is the Global Advisory Board Member of C2FO, an American fintech company, and he is a board member of Akbank AG (Germany).

Betül Ebru Edin
Member of the Board of Directors
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Betül Ebru Edin graduated from Boğaziçi University, Department of Civil Engineering in 1993 and received her Master's degree from Işık University. In 1993, Ms. Edin started her career in Banking and continued her career at Garanti Bank in 1997 in the Corporate Banking Department until 2009 when she took the role of Executive Vice President responsible for Project and Acquisition Finance.  From 2017 she took the role of leading Corporate and Investment Banking till 2022.

Betül Ebru Edin currently serves as the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of BSCD Türkiye (Business Council for Sustainable Development), the Board of Directors of the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) and the Board of Directors of the 30 Percent Club. Ms. Edin has been a member of the Board of Directors of Fibabanka A.Ş. since September 2023.

Ömer Mert
General Manager and Board Member
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Born in 1969, Ömer Mert graduated from the Industrial Engineering Department at ITU, he received an MA degree in the Engineering Management program at the same university. In 1993, he embarked upon his career in the insurance industry, working for various companies. Following that, between 2003 and 2005, he worked at Fortis Emeklilik ve Hayat A.Ş.; and between 2005 and 2012, at Garanti Emeklilik ve Hayat A.Ş. as Assistant General Manager. He served as General Manager and Board Member at Fiba Emeklilik ve Hayat A.Ş. between 2012 and 2017. Since January 2017, he has served as a Board Member and General Manager at Fibabanka. Additionally, Ömer Mert is the Chairman of the Board of Finberg Araştırma Geliştirme Danışmanlık Yatırım Hizmetleri A.Ş., Deputy Chairman of the Fiba Portföy Yönetimi A.Ş., a Member of the Board at Fiba Emeklilik ve Hayat A.Ş. and the Chairman of the Board at Alış Gidiş Elektronik Tic. A.Ş.