| Name |
Position |
| Tayfun BAYAZIT |
Chairman |
| Tayfun Bayazıt began his banking career at Citibank after earning a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA from Columbia University (Finance and International Business). He subsequently worked in senior executive positions within the Çukurova Group for 13 consecutive years, including Yapı Kredi (Senior Executive Vice President and Executive Committee Member), Interbank (CEO) and Banque de Commerce et de Placements S.A. Switzerland (President and CEO). In 1999, he was appointed as the Vice Chairman of Doğan Holding and an Executive Director of Dışbank. He resigned from his duty at Doğan Holding in April 2001 to assume the CEO position at Dışbank within the same Group. Bayazıt, who was also appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors at the 2003 General Assembly, remained CEO of Fortis Turkey after the acquisition of the majority shares of Dışbank in July 2005 and was also appointed as a Management Committee Member. At the May 2006 General Assembly, he was elected as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Fortis Bank A.Ş., from which he resigned following the General Assembly in April 2007. In April 2007, Bayazıt was then appointed as
CEO of Yapı Kredi. In April 2009, Bayazıt resigned from his position as CEO at Yapı Kredi and was elected as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Yapı Kredi. He continues to serve as CEO of Koç Financial Services and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Yapı Kredi and its subsidiaries. Bayazıt is also currently the President of the Banking and Insurance Group at Koç Holding.
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| Federico GHIZZONI |
Vice Chairman |
| Following his graduation from the Faculty of Law at Parma University, Federico Ghizzoni began his career in 1980 as a Customer Relations Manager at the Piacenza Branch of the UniCredit Group. He served as the Head of Credit Risk until 1988 and later became Branch Manager of the Trieste Branch from 1988 to 1990. He was Branch Manager of the Seriate Branch between 1990 and 1992, after which he became the Executive Vice President at the Group’s London office. In 1995, Ghizzoni became General Manager of the Group’s Singapore office and from 2000 until 2002, served as an Executive Director at the Corporate and International Banking Division of Bank Pekao S.A., a subsidiary of UniCredit
Group. Assuming the role as a member of the Board of Directors of Koç Financial Services, a 50%-50% joint venture between Koç Holding A.Ş. and UniCredit Group, he was appointed as Executive Board Member of Koçbank A.Ş. in 2003. Joining Yapı Kredi on September 28, 2005 as Executive Board Member, he was the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Bank. He was appointed as the President of Poland’s Markets Division within UniCredit Group and a member of the Managing Board responsible for BA-CA’s Central and Eastern Europe operations on July 1, 2007. Ghizzoni has been a member of Yapı Kredi’s Board of Directors since September 28, 2005 and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors since April 26, 2007.
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| Faik AÇIKALIN |
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) |
| After earning a BS degree in Business Administration from Middle East Technical University, Faik Açıkalın began his banking career in 1987 as a Management Trainee at Interbank. He subsequently worked in various positions including internal auditor, relationship manager, branch manager and marketing manager at Interbank, Marmarabank, Kentbank, Finansbank and Demirbank between 1992 and 1998. In May 1998, he joined Dışbank as Executive Vice President. Later that year, he was appointed Chief Operating Officer (COO) responsible for the coordination and communication between the Board of Directors and business units. He also
assumed the position as a member of the Credit Committee. In June 1999, Açıkalın was appointed Deputy President and Member of the Board of Directors. In December 2000, he became President of Dışbank. Following the acquisition of the majority shares of Dışbank by Fortis, he continued to serve as President and Deputy CEO of the Bank and Member of the Fortis Global Management Committee in Brussels. In October 2007, he resigned from his duties at Fortis and became CEO at Doğan Gazetecilik. In April 2009, Açıkalın was appointed as Executive Director and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Yapı Kredi. Since May 2009, he has been serving as CEO of Yapı Kredi.
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| Alessandro M. DECIO |
Executive Director and Deputy CEO |
| A graduate of the Department of Economics, Commerciale L. Bocconi University, Alessandro Maria Decio received an MA
from INSEAD (the European Institute for Business Administration) and later worked as a research assistant for six months at Commerciale L. Bocconi University. Starting his finance career at IMI International, Decio held the post of Vice President until 1991 when he was subsequently employed by Morgan Stanley International as a specialist and until 1994 by McKinsey in the same position. Decio joined the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) at the end of 1994. In June 2000, he joined UniCredit Group as Head of Foreign Banks Strategy, Mergers, Acquisitions,
Planning and Control Group and in October 2002, he was appointed Chief Operating Officer (COO) for Zagrebacka Banka (within UniCredit Group). Decio served as Executive Director at Bulbank, another UniCredit Group company between 2003 and 2005 and later at UniCredit Group’s Integration Project as Manager. Decio was appointed Manager of UniCredit Group’s Germany Integration Project at the beginning of 2006, before going on to serve as UniCredit Group Deputy Head of Integration Office from July 2006 to July 2007. Appointed Executive Director of Yapı Kredi on April 26, 2007, Decio also became the COO of the Bank on July 1, 2007. As of January 30, 2009, he has been serving as Deputy CEO and Vice-Chairman of the Executive Committee of Yapı Kredi. He also holds the Executive Director position in Koç Financial Services and Yapı Kredi.
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| Fatma Füsun AKKAL BOZOK |
Member |
| Fatma Füsun Akkal Bozok completed her academic studies earning an MBA from Boğaziçi University, Faculty of
Administrative Sciences and a PhD from Istanbul University, Faculty of Administration. She started her career at Arthur Andersen Audit Company in 1980 and joined the Koç Group in 1983. At Koç Holding, she served in various positions within the Audit and Financial Group including Audit Specialist and Vice Group Coordinator. In 1992, Akkal was appointed
Audit and Financial Group Coordinator and served in this capacity for 11 years. From 2003 until 2006, she served as the Finance Group Director. Currently, Akkal works as an assistant professor at Koç and Sabancı Universities and has been a member of the Board of Directors at Yapı Kredi since September 28, 2005.
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| Ahmet Fadıl ASHABOĞLU |
Member |
| After graduating from the Alman Lisesi (German High School) in Istanbul, Ahmet Fadıl Ashaboğlu went on to earn an undergraduate degree from Tufts University, Department of Mechanical Engineering and an MS from Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Mechanical Engineering. He began his career as a research assistant at MIT
in Cambridge in 1994. He worked as Associate Director of US Treasury Bond Trading at UBS Warburg, New York; in
1998 and 1999, he was Head Trader for FX Options at UBS Warburg, Philadelphia before moving on to work as a consultant at McKinsey&Company between 1999 and 2003 in New York. Joining Koç Holding as the Finance Group Coordinator after his return to Turkey in 2003, Ashaboğlu has been a member of the Board of Directors of Yapı Kredi since September 28, 2005 and the CFO (Chief Financial Officer) of Koç Holding since January 2006.
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| Massimiliano FOSSATI |
Member |
| Massimiliano Fossati, a graduate of L. Bocconi University, also earned a postgraduate degree in Bank Management. Beginning his career as a Financial Analyst at the Credits Department of Centrobanca S.p.A. (Banca Popolare di Bergamo Group) where he served from 1995 to 1998, Fossati later became a Relationship Manager before serving as a Senior Analyst at the same bank till 2000. Fossati served as a Senior Analyst at the Credits Department of Locat S.p.A. (leasing company within UniCredito Italiano Group) from 2000 to 2001; he then worked as a Functional Analyst at the Organisation Department of the company until 2002. He joined UniCredito Italiano S.p.A. in 2002 where he worked until 2004 in the Foreign Banks Credit unit of the Credits Department. Fossati also worked as the Credit Management Director and until 2005 served as an ALCO Board and Executive Committee member at Živnostenská Banka a.s. Prague, a UniCredito Italiano Group company. He continued his duties at the same bank as a member of the Board of Directors responsible for Credit Risk Management, as a member of the Board of Directors responsible for Organisation and as IT Integration Process Project Manager from 2005 to 2006. Fossati was Global Banking Services Division Manager and member of the Board of Directors responsible for Global Banking Services Department at Prague UniCredit Bank CZ (UniCredito Italiano Group) from 2007 until September 2008. In October 2008, he started working for Yapı Kredi as Executive Vice President responsible for Corporate and Commercial Credits and later he was appointed Executive Vice President responsible for Risk Management on January 30, 2009. Fossati also became a member of the Executive Committee in February 2009. As of June 15, 2010, Fossati resigned from his duty as Chief Risk Officer at Yapı Kredi and was appointed as the new Chief Risk Officer of Unicredit Bank Austria. Fossati was also appointed as a member of the Board of Directors and a member of the Credit Committee as of July 27, 2010.
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| Osman Turgay DURAK |
Member |
| After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, Osman Turgay Durak went on to earn an undergraduate degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University, followed by an MS from the same university. He started his career in 1976 at Ford Otomotiv, a company within Koç Holding, as a Design Engineer in Product Development and subsequently held various positions within Ford Otomotiv. In 1986 he became Executive Vice President
responsible for Marketing and later served as Executive Vice President responsible for Purchasing between 1987 and 1999. He was appointed CEO of Ford Otomotiv in 2002 and left this position in 2007 to assume the post of the President of Automotive Group at Koç Holding. In April 2009, he was appointed as Deputy CEO at Koç Holding and also as member of the Board of Directors at Yapı Kredi.
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| Vittorio G.M.OGLIENGO |
Member |
| After receiving a degree in Business Administration from the University of Turin, Vittorio G. M. Ogliengo joined Price
Waterhouse in 1983, where he gained auditing experience. In 1985, he moved to Citibank N.A. and worked in the areas
of Corporate Banking, Corporate Finance and Investment Banking in Turin, Milan and London. In 1988, he joined Fiat
SpA where he had senior management responsibility in the areas of Treasury and Capital Markets, reporting directly to
the International Finance Director. In the same year, he became Head of the Finance Department and then General Manager of Fiat Deutschland, the Fiat Group’s finance company in Germany. In 1994, he joined the Barilla Group as Head of the Finance Department. In 1998, he became the Chief Financial Officer of Barilla America and then in November 1999 Chief Financial Officer of Barilla G&R Fratelli. On February 1, 2003 he was appointed Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Barilla Holding. He joined UniCredit in 2005 as the Head of Financing & Advisory. In addition to his position in UniCredit, since May 2009 he has served as a member of the Board of Directors of Yapı Kredi.
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| Carlo VIVALDI |
Member |
| After graduating from the University of Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Department of Business Administration, Carlo Vivaldi
started his career in 1991 in Cassamarca, which merged with UniCredit in 1998. After the merger, he served as an analyst in the Group’s Planning and Control section. He subsequently contributed to the development of the Group’s Internet strategy and in 2000 moved to the newly established New Europe Division responsible for Planning and Control and helping to expand UniCredit in the region. At the end of 2002, he moved to Turkey and became Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Koç Financial Services and later CFO at Yapı Kredi as well as member of the Board of Directors of some Yapı Kredi subsidiaries. As of October 2007, he has been serving as CFO and member of the Management Board at UniCredit Bank Austria AG. Since May 2009, Carlo Vivaldi has also been a member of the Board of Directors at Yapı
Kredi.
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