| Name |
Position |
| Tayfun BAYAZIT |
Chairman |
| After having received BS degree in Mechanical Engineering (1980) and an MBA degree from Columbia University (Finance and International Business - 1983), Tayfun Bayazıt began his banking career at Citibank in 1983. He subsequently worked in senior executive positions within the Çukurova Group for 13 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 & 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 on April 18, 2007. On April 19 2007, Mr. Bayazıt was appointed the Executive Director of Yapı Kredi and on May 1, 2007, he was officially appointed CEO of Yapı Kredi. He left the CEO position on 6 April 2009 to assume the Chairman position of Yapı Kredi. Mr. Bayazıt is also Chairman of the Board of Directors for Yapı Kredi Asset Management, Yapı Kredi Investment, Yapı Kredi Leasing, Yapı Kredi Factoring, Yapı Kredi Insurance, Yapı Kredi Pension Fund, Yapı Kredi Nederland N.V., Yapı Kredi Azerbaijan and Yapı Kredi Moscow. |
| Federico GHIZZONI |
Vice Chairman |
| Following his graduation from the Faculty of Law at Parma University, Federico Ghizzoni began his career in 1980 as Customer Relations Manager at the Piacenza Branch of UniCredit Group. Working in this position until 1988 and having the post of Head of Credit Risk, Mr. Ghizzoni later became Branch Manager of the Trieste Branch between 1988 and 1990 and Branch Manager of the Seriate Branch between 1990 and 1992 and then became the Assistant General Manager at the Group’s London office. In 1995, Ghizzoni became the General Manager of the Group’s Singapore office and between 2000 and 2002, worked as 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 Inc., a 50%-50% joint venture between Koç Holding A.Ş. and UniCredit Group, in 2003, he also served on the Executive Board Member of Koçbank A.Ş. Joining Yapı Kredi on September 28, 2005 as Executive Board Member, he was the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Bank. Appointed as President of Poland’s Markets Division within the UniCredit Group and 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 Board of Directors of Yapı Kredi since September 28, 2005 and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors since April 26, 2007. |
| Faik AÇIKALIN |
Executive Director |
| Faik Açıkalın has a Business Administration degree from Middle East Technical University. He started his banking career at Interbank and later worked in several banks until 1998. Then he joined Dışbank (later Fortis) and worked in several functions; branch manager, deputy CEO, CEO and board member. He moved to Doğan Gazetecilik as CEO, the largest newsprint media holding company in October 2007. He was appointed as Executive Director of Yapı Kredi on April 27, 2009. As of May 1, 2009, Mr. Açıkalın has been appointed as the CEO of Yapı Kredi Bank. |
| Alessandro M. DECIO |
Executive Director and Deputy CEO |
| A graduate from the Department of Economics, Commerciale L. Bocconi University, Alessandro Maria Decio holds an MA from INSEAD (the European Institute for Business Administration) and has worked as a research assistant at Commerciale L. Bocconi University. Starting his finance career at IMI International, Decio held the post of Vice President until 1991. Subsequently, he was employed by Morgan Stanley International as a specialist and afterwards by McKinsey until 1994 at 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 the Head of Foreign Banks Strategy, Mergers, Acquisitions, Planning and Control Group and in October 2002 was appointed Chief Operating Officer (COO) for Zagrebacka Banka (within UniCredit Group). He served as COO 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 the UniCredit Group Deputy Head of Integration Office from July 2006 to July 2007. Appointed as Executive Director of Yapı Kredi Bank on April 26, 2007, He also became the Chief Operating Officer of the Bank on July 1, 2007. As of January 30, 2009 Decio has been appointed as the Deputy CEO of Yapı Kredi Bank. |
| Ahmet Fadıl ASHABOĞLU |
Member |
| After graduating from the Alman Lisesi (German High School) in Istanbul and Tufts University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, in the USA, Ahmet F. Ashaboğlu received an MS from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Mechanical Engineering and 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 Warbung, New York and then as Head Trader of FX Options at UBS Warbung, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1998 and 1999. He served 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 the CFO (Chief Financial Officer) of Koç Holding since January 2006. Ashaboğlu has been a member of the Board of Directors of Yapı Kredi Bank since September 28, 2005. |
| Fatma Füsun AKKAL BOZOK |
Member |
| Fatma F. Akkal completed her academic studies with an MBA from Boğaziçi University, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and a PhD from Istanbul University, Faculty of Administration. Beginning her career at Arthur Andersen Audit Company in 1980, Akkal joined the Koç Group in 1983. She was appointed Audit and Financial Group Coordinator in 1992 and served at this capacity for 11 years and as the Finance Group Coordinator from 2003 until 2006. Akkal still works as an assistant professor at Koç and Sabancı Universities. She has been a member of the Board of Directors of Yapı Kredi Bank since September 28, 2005. |
| Osman Turgay DURAK |
Member |
| After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul and Northwestern University , Department of Mechanical Engineering, in the USA, Osman Turgay Durak also received an MS from Nortwestern University, Department of Mechanical Engineering and started his career in Ford Otosan as Assistant General Manager responsible for marketing. He served as Assistant General Manager responsible for purchasing between 1987 and 1999. He was appointed as the CEO of Ford Otosan in 2002 and left this position in 2007. He was appointed as the member of the Board of Directors at Yapı Kredi in April 2009. |
| Herbert HANGEL |
Member |
| After graduating from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Department of Export and International Finance Management in 1996, Herbert Hangel then earned an MBA in Banking and Finance from Donau University in Austria. Hangel began his professional career at the International Payments and Treasury Department in Creditanstalt RT, located in Budapest-Hungary. He also worked at the Vienna office of the Creditanstalt Group and then served at CAMSCO GmbH as a consultant from 1998 to 2000. Hangel joined Bank Austria Creditanstalt AG as the Director of Payment Systems Strategy and Control in 2000 and is currently the Director of the Austria and Central & Eastern Europe Information, Communication and Technology Department at Bank Austria Creditanstalt AG, as well as a member of the Board of Directors of Yapı Kredi Bank since January 24, 2008. |
| Vittorio Giovanni Maria OGLIENGO |
Member |
| Vittorio Giovanni Maria Ogliengo holds a degree in Business from the University of Turin. Having joined Price Waterhouse in 1983 and gained auditing experience, he moved to Citibank N.A. in 1985 and worked in Corporate Banking, Corporate Finance and Investment Banking in Turin, Milan and London. In 1988 he joined Fiat SpA, and had senior management responsibility in the Treasury and Capital Markets area, 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 moved to Chicago as Chief Financial Officer of Barilla America. In November 1999 he came back to Italy as Chief Financial Officer for Barilla G&R Fratelli. On 1st February 2003 he was appointed Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Barilla Holding, which is responsible for the corporate governance of subsidiaries (Barilla G&R Fratelli SpA, Kamps AG, Harry's Sa and Gran Milano SpA). He joined UniCredit in 2005 as Head of Financing & Advisory. In addition to his position in UCI, he is appointed as the Member of the Board of Directors at Yapı Kredi as of 15 May 2009. |
| 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, one of the four banks which merged into UniCredit in 1998. At that time he moved in Group’s Planning and Control and then after a brief experience in contributing to the development of Group’s internet strategy, in 2000 he moved under the newly established New Europe Division as responsible for Planning & Control contributing to the expansion of UCI in the region. At the end of 2002 he moved to Turkey and pursued the position of Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President at KFS and Yapı Kredi in addition to memberships of the Board of Directors of some Group subsidiaries until September 2007. As of October 2007, he’s covering the Chief Financial Officer and Member of the Management Board positions at UniCredit Bank Austria AG. Since May 2009, Carlo Vivaldi also holds the position of Member of the Board of Directors at Yapı Kredi. |
| Stephan WINKELMEIER |
Member
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| Graduating from the University of Passau in Germany, Department of Administrative Sciences in 1994, Stephan Winkelmeier began his professional career as a Credit Analyst at Bayerische Hypo Vereinsbank Bank in Germany after completing a special training program there. He worked as a Senior Credit Analyst between 1996 and 1997 and the Head of the Credit Department from 1998 to 2000 at the same bank. Winkelmeier was the personal consultant to the CEO of the Bayerische Hypo Vereinsbank Group from 2000-2001. He served as a Senior Risk Manager in 2002 and Rescue Management Chairman between 2004 and 2008. Employed by UniCredit Bank Austria as Head Risk Specialist and a member of the Board of Directors since November 2008, Stephan Winkelmeier has also been a member of the Board of Directors of Yapı Kredi Bank since December 2, 2008. |
