Advisory Board
The list is surname-alphabetical order.
Yaman Acar
Fatih Akar
Gülsün Akhisaroğlu
Darço Akkaranfil
Enis Ozan Akkaya
Harun Yaşar Aksöz
Şirin AKTAŞ
A. Fahri Arkan
Vedat Arslan
Meltem Atay
Burak Aydın
Emrah Gökçe Aygün
Evren Ayorak
İsmihan Baysal Anderson
Tunç Bergsan
Fulya Bıçak Muştu
Güngör Bingül
Gungor Bingul studied Mathematical Engineering at Yıldız Teknik University and MBA at Yeditepe University. In 1997 he started his career as System Network Pecialist at BIM A.S., between 1998 and 2000 worked at Uzel Makina as SAP System Manager. Since 2004 Mr. Birgul is working at Korozo A.Ş. as IT Manager.
Serdar Birlikçi
Mehmet Bütün
He received his bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems from Boğaziçi University. He worked as Business Analyst & Project Manager in Turkcell and Türk Telekom (Avea). In 2010, he worked as a Business Development Manager and Miles & Smiles Loyalty Program & CRM Department Manager roles at Turkish Airlines. In 2012, he joined Teradata as Senior Industry Lead and managed Telecommunications and Media sector in Turkey as well as within EMEA region. In particular, he served in the area of large data and analytics solutions for more than 3 years, and was appointed as the Vice President of Digital Services at Turkish Airlines in 2016 January. He managed digital channels & services of Turkish Airlines and Anadolujet brands and the airport passenger systems. On November 1, 2018, he joined Vakıf Katılım Bankası as Chief Information Officer, responsible for information technology and digital banking.
Dr. Aslıhan Çandır
Yasin Çarkcı
Şevket Süreyya Çelikkanat
Serkan Demir
Metin Demirel
Metin Demirel, with over 30 years of experience in both Turkish and international business, graduated from the Computer Engineering Department of Boğaziçi University in 1992. He began his career at Aknet, the information technology subsidiary of Akbank, and later transitioned to Sulzer Medica Intermedics in the United States in 1995. After serving in various information technology departments of Fortune 500 companies across different sectors in the USA, he founded his own company, Midsoft, in 2004.
In 2006, he returned to Turkey and held management and C-level executive positions at companies such as Aksigorta, Zürich Sigorta, and Tofaş. Since July 2023, he has been serving as the Director of Digital at Sabancı Holding. Additionally, Metin Demirel is a graduate of the Koç University Executive MBA program.
Serdar Dilmen
Dursun Dinçer
Mehmet Ufuk Dokuzluoğlu
Vefa Erdem
Metin Erhan
Gül Erol
Barış Fındık
Ersen Gelçin
Bilal Genç
İbrahim Gökalp
Gökhan Gökçay
Gökhan Gökçay is Senior Vice President responsible for Digital, Payments and Data Technology in Akbank. He considers ‘information’ as a shared corporate asset and aims to produce solutions generating value and actionable insight. Prior to Akbank, Gökhan was SVP responsible for Information, Customer and Workflow Management solutions in Yapi Kredi, and the head of Financial Services industry in NTT Data Turkey where he delivered transformation programs for leading banks and telcos. He also worked for other technology consulting companies such as CSC and Siemens Nixdorf, and served large corporates such as Lloyds Bank, Barclays Capital and Legal & General. Gökhan has Bachelor and Master’s degrees in Computer Science from Boğazici University.
Sabri Gökmenler
Sinem Gözaydın
Ali İnal
Tayfun İşbilen
Aykut Işık
Kemal Kaplan
Born in 1967 in İstanbul, Kemal Kaplan graduated from Akdeniz University Electronic Engineering department. He worked in Sony, Netaş, Pimaş and Yapı Kredi Bank as a specialists and in Esbank, Etibank, ZB and HSBC Bank as an administrative. He has participated in various projects about reconstruction, integration of financial organizations, call-centers, credit-cards, ATM and banking applications/technologies and health application/technologies. Besides his studies on mobile technologies, wearable technologies and Research and Development projects, during various seminars he has been sharing his experiences on health technologies with the industry. He works as a technological consultant in some public organizations on behalf of Acıbadem Sağlık Grubu. He’s a member of the Board of Management of Life Sciences and Information Technologies in Health Organization. He currently works as an Information Technologies Director in charge of technological management in Acıbadem Sağlık Grubu hospitals, university and all subsidiaries.
Önder Kaplancık
Yaşar Karadeli
Hayriye Karadeniz
Timur Karaman
Engin Kavas
Hilmi Koçak
Kaan Konak
Özgür Korkmaz
Köksal Küçükada
Koray Kurt
Korhan Kuyu
Kaan Marangoz
Berke Menekli
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Berke Menekli
Funda Oney
Ege Örer
Mert Oruz
Şerafettin Özer
Sinan Erdem Özer
Sinan Özkan
Serkant Paker
Haldun Selik
Fahri Şengül
Altuğ Soydan
Orkun Soylu
Orkun Süer
Uğur Serkan Taşkın
Hakan Cem Topal
Ethem Topgül
Emel Tural
Kurtuluş Yavuz
Oğuzhan Yıldırım
Cihan Yıldız
Serdar Yılmaz