Board of Directors

Hüsnü AKHAN

Chairman

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Hüsnü AKHAN

Chairman

Hüsnü Akhan graduated from the Birecik High School in Şanlıurfa and completed his undergraduate studies in the METU Department of Business Administration in Ankara. He received his master’s degree from the University of Miami, Florida, United States. Akhan worked at different positions in the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey. He served as a representative in the London Office and as Deputy General Manager in the Foreign Affairs Division. He joined the Doğuş Group in 1994. Following his appointment as Assistant General Manager of Treasury, Operations and External Affairs at Garanti Bank, he was appointed as General Manager at Körfezbank in 1998. Hüsnü Akhan served as a board member and CFO at Doğuş Group from 2001 to 2005 and as board member and CEO from 2006 to 2019. He was appointed as Doğuş Group Deputy Chairman in July 2019. Furthermore, he also serves as Chairman in various companies (Doğuş Real Estate Investment Trust, Doğuş İnşaat ve Ticaret A.Ş, Körfez Havacılık Turizm ve Ticaret A.Ş.,PIT İstanbul Otel İşletmeciliği A.Ş., Ara Güler Doğuş Art and Museum), and as a board member in the TUVTURK Vehicle Inspection Stations, and VDF Volkswagen Doğuş Finance companies.

Ekrem Nevzat ÖZTANGUT

Board Member

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Ekrem Nevzat ÖZTANGUT

Board Member

After graduating from the Department of Economics, Hacettepe University, Nevzat Öztangut joined the Capital Markets Board of Turkey and served as Auditor and Head Auditor in the Enforcement Department from 1984–1994. In the meantime, Öztangut served as a faculty member of Marmara University from 1992–1994. Öztangut then continued his career as the board member and the CEO of Garanti Securities A.Ş.(Garanti Yatırım Menkul Kıymetler A.Ş.)from 1994–2015. He served as chairman at Doğuş SK Venture Capital; and board member at Garanti Emeklilik A.Ş., Doğuş Otomotiv A.Ş., Doğuş Oto A.Ş., Doğuş Enerji Toptan Elektrik Ticaret A.Ş., Garanti Investment Trust and Vice Chairman at Takasbank A.Ş. (2000–2013); chairman of the Turkish Capital Markets Association (2007–2011); president and chairman of the Junior Achievement Turkey Foundation (2011–2015); and independent board member at Goodyear Tire Turkey A.Ş. (2011–2017) and chairman at D.ream Doğuş Restaurant Group Companies (2014–2019). Öztangut currently serves as a board member at Doğuş Holding A.Ş. and Doğuş Real Estate Investment Trust.

Atty. Hasan Hüsnü GÜZELÖZ

Board Member

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Atty. Hasan Hüsnü GÜZELÖZ

Board Member

He graduated from the Istanbul University Faculty of Law in 1986. He served as a solicitor and legal officer at the holding companies and corporations until 1995, and began working as a legal counsel at Doğuş Group in 1996. He has served as a member and deputy chairman in the Board of Directors of the capital markets companies of the Group, which are the affiliates of various insurance companies, investment banks and commercial banks, and Tansaş Gıda Retail Mağazacılık A.Ş., Doğuş Otomotiv Servis ve Ticaret A.Ş., and Doğuş Media Group Companies. Currently, he is the executive board member of the publicly-traded Doğuş REIT, consultant to the Board of Directors of Doğuş Otomotiv Servis ve Ticaret A.Ş. companies, legal counsel to Garanti Yatırım Ortaklığı A.Ş., and a member of the early detection of risks and corporate governance committees of these companies. In addition to these duties, he established the “Hasan Hüsnü Güzelöz Law and Consulting” firm in 2017 to provide consultancy and legal representation services to banks, financial institutions, and companies in various sectors. He teaches law courses on capital markets and competition at the law faculties of Kadir Has and MEF universities. He has CMB Advanced-Level and Corporate Governance Rating licenses.

Erdem TAVAS

Board Member

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Erdem TAVAS

Board Member

Erdem Tavas achieved his bachelor’s degree from the Department of Civil Engineering at Boğaziçi University. Later he received his master's degree in Structural Engineering of Civil Engineering Graduate Program at the same university. Tavas started his professional life at Koray Construction in 1997 and then joined Doğuş Group in 2015. He served as the General Manager of Doğuş Real Estate Investment and Management Inc., and Galataport Istanbul Port Management and Investments Inc. Tavas currently acts as the Executive Board Member and CEO of Galataport Istanbul and also as the Executive Board Member of Doğuş Construction.

M.Bahadır TEKER

Independent Member

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M.Bahadır TEKER

Independent Member

After graduating from the Istanbul Science High School in 1986, he received his undergraduate degree from the Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences of METU in 1991. He then completed his graduate studies in Finance at Wharton Business School and began working at the Capital Markets Board of Turkey (CMB) in 1991. For 14 years, he served as an assistant specialist, specialist, and assistant director at the Corporate Investors and Corporate Finance departments of the CMB. He is a founder of the Istanbul Kapital Consultancy Company, where he served as a consultant in capital markets, corporate investors, real estate financing, real estate investment trusts, mortgage loans and financing. He is the executive director of Şeker Finansman A.Ş., where he is also a founder. He has published three books titled “Real Estate Financing through Capital Markets Instruments,” “Mutual Funds in Turkey,” and “Capital Markets Regulations in OECD Countries.”

Güler ARAS

Independent Member

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Güler ARAS

Independent Member

Professor Guler Aras is an academic, a civil society leader, and a researcher who leads key studies on finance, corporate governance, corporate sustainability, and integrated reporting. She is a professor of Finance and Accounting at Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul, where she served as the Dean of the Faculty of Business and Dean of the Graduate School for many years. She spent a year as a visiting professor at Georgetown University McDonough School of Business, Center for Financial Markets and Policy in Washington DC. She has founded the Center for Finance Governance and Sustainability (CFGS) and she also started the ground-breaking initiative on Integrated Reporting Association Turkey (ERTA), where she is still founding chair. Professor Aras is the author of more than 25 international books. She contributed to more than 300 articles in international journals and conferences and carried out numerous granted international projects. She is also the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Capital Market Studies, and Editor of Routledge’s Finance Governance and Sustainability Book Series. Professor Aras is the founder and board member of numerous national and international professional and academic organizations and a member of the Accountancy Europe Corporate Governance Task Force. She has spoken extensively at professional and academic conferences and has served as a consultant to a number of governmental and commercial organizations such as Minister of Development, Minister of Finance, Undersecretary of Treasury, and Minister of Labour and Social Security Employment in Turkey. She also served as a board member of Turkish Capital Markets Association. Professor Aras writes a newspaper column. She is the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) Ambassador and known as the ambassador of governance, sustainability and focuses on the education of the next generation of academics and business leaders who could promote sustainable solutions for societal and corporate challenges. She has been crowned one of the most inspirational women in Turkey 2020.