| Board of Directors |
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| Mustafa V. KOÇ |
Chairman |
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| Gianni Franco Giacomo PAPA |
Vice Chairman |
| After receiving his Ph degree in Law at Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, in Italy, Gianni Franco Giacomo Papa served in numerous positions at the International division of Credito Italiano Milano, starting from the year 1979. Papa, who served at the same bank as Manager between 1986 and 1987, worked at Hong Kong office of Credito Italiano as the Assistant General Manager in charge of the establishment of the branch of Credito Italiano, corporate finance, capital markets and treasury throughout the period from 1988 to 1993. Papa, who served at Segrate branch of Credito Italiano as the Deputy General Manager between 1993 and 1997, and the Assistant General Manager in charge of Corporate Investors and Private Banks Department under the Financial Division of the Group thereafter, was appointed as the Deputy General Manager of UniCredit’s Singapore Branch in 1998 and served at the same office until 1999. Thereafter, he served as the General Manager of the same branch and the Director of Unicredit Asia (ex China) until the year 2002. Papa held the offices of the General Manager of New York Branch of UniCredit and UniCredit’s Director in charge of the USA operations between 2003 and 2005, and of the General Manager and COO of UniCredit Slovakia between 2005 and 2007, and acted in charge of the Integration of UniBanka and HVB Slovakia in 2006. Papa, who served as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and the General Manager of UniCredit Slovakia until 2008, then worked at the office of the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of UniCredit Leasing until the beginning of 2009. Papa, who was appointed to serve as the First Deputy Chairman of the Board and the General Manager at PJSC Ukrosotsbank between 2008 and 2010, worked as the Executive Vice President and the Head of Central and Eastern European Corporate and Investment Banking at UniCredit Bank Austria AG between November 2010 and December 2010. Papa, who currently serves as the Head of Central and Eastern Europe Division of UniCredit S.p.A. Italy and the Senior Executive Vice President of UniCredit Bank Austria AG, was appointed as the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of Yapi ve Kredi Bank A.S. as of April 1, 2011.
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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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| Carlo VIVALDI |
Executive Director and Deputy CEO |
| 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. In October 2007, he began serving as CFO and member of the Management Board at UniCredit Bank Austria AG. . Since May 2009, Carlo Vivaldi also been a member of the Board of Directors at Yapı Kredi. As of January 2011, Vivaldi has been appointed Executive Director and Deputy CEO of Yapı Kredi. |
| 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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| 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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| 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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| Francesco GIORDANO |
Member |
| Giordano, who received his Bachelor’s degree and Master’s in Economics at University of Geneva, worked as a Research Officer at Queen Mary College in the UK in 1991 and 1992. Giordano, who, then, served as a European Economist at Standard & Poor’s and London Branch of Sao Paolo Bank until 1997, started to work as the Senior European Economist at Credit Suisse First Boston in 1997. Giordano, who was appointed as the Chief Economist/ Research Officer at UniCredit Banca Mobiliare in 2000, was, then, appointed as the Head of the Department of Planning, Strategy and Research of UniCredit Banca d’Impresa, a subsidiary of UniCredit, in 2003. Giordano, who served as the Head of Planning, Strategy and Research Department of the Group between the years 2005 and 2009, and was appointed to the office of the Head of Planning, Strategy and Research Department at Corporate and Investment Banking Division of UniCredit in 2009, was appointed in 2011 as a Member of the Management Board and the CFO of UniCredit Bank Austria. Giordano has been serving as a Member of the Board of Directors of Yapi ve Kredi Bank A.S. since April 1, 2011.
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| Laura PENNA |
Member |
| After graduating from Università Commerciale L. Bocconi (Milan) in 1989 with an Economics degree, Laura Penna joined Accenture (Milan) as Senior Engagement Manager in Financial Strategic Services. In 1999, Penna began to work at Rolo Bonca (current Unicredit Banca) as the Head of Planning and Control. In 2001, she became the Head of Group Planning and Control. In 2005, Penna served as the Head of Financial Controlling of the integration between Unicredit and HVB, where she was in charge of managing integration’s synergies, benefit and cost planning through the creation of new proccesses and tools. In September 2006, she became the Head of Strategic Business Development. She also took part in the development of the strategic business structure. Penna has been an Executive Vice President and Head of Unicredit Management Consultancy of Unicredit since April 2007. She has also been a Member of the Board of Directors of UBIS (Unicredit Business Integrated Solutions) since December 2011.
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| Statutory Auditors |
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| Abdullah GEÇER |
Statutory Auditor |
| Abdullah Geçer graduated from Middle East Technical University, Department of Economics in 1996 and received his MBA (in finance) from the University of Nottingham in 2006. After working as an Assistant Sworn Bank Auditor at the Undersecretariat of Treasury during 1996-2000, Geçer served as a Sworn Bank Auditor at the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency between 2000 and 2007. Promoted to Senior Sworn Bank Auditor in 2007, he joined Koç Holding as the Audit Group Coordinator in the same year. Geçer has been serving as a Statutory Auditor at Yapı Kredi since 2008.
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| Ali Tarık UZUN |
Statutory Auditor |
| Ali Tarık Uzun graduated from Ankara University in Faculty of Political Science with a B.A. in Economics and earned his MBA degree from Koç University. He started his career in 1985 as an Account Specialist at the Ministry of Finance, joining Koç Holding in 1992 as Assistant Coordinator of Financial Affairs in the Audit and Finance Group. Uzun served as Coordinator between 1969-2003 and has been serving as the President of Audit Group at Koç Holding since 2004.
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