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Board of Directors

Cevdet Alemdar
Chairman

Between 1993-2002, he worked as Product Leader and then Wire Products Director in Beksa, Sabancı Holding-Bekaert Joint Venture. From 1998 onwards, he additionally took over the role of Bekaert’s Sales Manager for Construction Materials in Middle East. From 2002 to 2005, he worked as Commercial Director in Sakosa.

In 2005, he joined Kordsa Global as General Manager of Kordsa Brazil and as Sales and Marketing Director of South America. From 2007 to 2009, based in Bangkok Thailand, he worked as Managing Director for Thai Indo Kordsa and Kordsa Qingdao Nylon Ent., as well as Sales and Marketing Director for Asia Pacific. In 2009 and 2010, he worked in Shanghai as Global Business Development Director, while maintaining his roles in Kordsa Qingdao Nylon Enterprises and Asia Sales and Marketing. From 2010 to 2013 he took role as Kordsa Global’s Vice President in charge of Technology and Market Development.

Between 2013-2017, he was appointed as General Manager of Temsa Construction Equipment.

May 2017 onwards, he has been CEO of Brisa, Bridgestone Sabancı JV Tire Company which is the leading tire and mobility solutions company in Turkey serving to 80 countries.

Alemdar was appointed as Industry Group President effective as of 1st of April, 2020.

Cevdet Alemdar graduated from Industrial Engineering Faculty of Bogazici University in 1992. He also was granted with an MBA degree in Sabancı University.

Mehmet Yıldız
Deputy Chairperson

Professor Dr. Mehmet Yildiz is the Vice President for Research and Development at Sabanci University. Born in Diyarbakir in 1972, and received his primary, secondary and high school education in Eregli/Zonguldak, Turkey, he completed his undergraduate education in 1996 with the first rank in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department at Yıldız Technical University and received his MSc. degree also from Metallurgical and Materials Engineering department at Istanbul Technical University in 2000. Between 1996-2000, he worked in two different companies as an R&D engineer and a project manager in the fields of welding and non-destructive testing. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2005 from Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada in the fields of computational fluid dynamics and semiconductor single crystal growth and then worked as a research associate and lecturer in the same department until 2007.

In 2007, he joined Sabancı University, Faculty of Engineering Natural Sciences as a faculty member in Materials Science and Engineering Program and since 2013, has been leading the effort of establishing Sabanci University-Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Research and Application Center and its industrial leg, Composite Technologies Center of Excellence with Kordsa. Currently, he is serving as the founding director of these centers. He sits in the R&D advisory board of Kastamonu Entegre. He contributed to the establishment of Manufacturing Engineering graduate program at Sabanci University.

Dr. Yildiz's areas of expertise include advanced composite materials, nanocomposites, structural health monitoring and computational mechanics. He published more than 85 SCI indexed high impact factor journals, 8 book chapters, prepared and presented over 135 conference papers and graduated more than 28 MSc. and Ph.D. students.

Tamer Saka
Member

Tamer Saka completed his undergraduate, graduate and doctoral studies at Istanbul University, Faculty of Business Administration. He served as Manager and Senior Manager responsible for Risk Management Consultancy at Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young. In 2004, Mr. Saka joined Sabancı Holding as Risk Management Director. In 2010 and 2011, he worked at Willis London as Managing Director in charge of business development activities in nearly 20 countries including Turkey. In December 2011, Tamer Saka joined Kibar Holding as Strategy and Business Development Coordinator. He served as Automotive and Corporate Functions Group President and Member of the Board of Directors at Kibar Holding as of May 2012. Tamer Saka served as the CEO of Kibar Holding from 2014 until 2018. He was appointed President of the Cement Group at Sabancı Holding in April 2018.

Currently, Mr. Saka serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors at Akçansa and Çimsa; Member of the Board of Directors at Kordsa and Carrefoursa; Chairman at Turkish Cement Manufacturers’ Association, Deputy Chairman at American-Turkish Council (ATC), Deputy Chairman at Corporate Governance Association of Turkey (TKYD). He is also a Member of the Board of Directors at Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA), Member of the Board at CEMBUREAU and Member of TÜSİAD and Federation of Istanbul Industrialists and Businessmen Associations.

Burak Turgut Orhun
Member

Mr. Burak Orhun, having graduated from Bogazici Univerysity Economy, has received his masters degree in Finance from George Washington University and MBA from Univerysity of Pennsylvania – Wharton School of Business. Having started his career at Mercedes Benz Türk in İstanbul as Financial Analyst, after completing his graduate degrees in US, he worked at Thomson Corporation/Reuters, CapitalOne Financial and CadenceQuest, Inc, respectively, at various management positions such as Finance Manager, Director of Portfolio Management, Director of Corporate Development and CFO, respectively. Mr. Burak Orhun, being responsible of all M&A and new investments activities of the Group between 2009- 2018, was the General Manager of Oyak Venture Consulting and Oyak Capital Investment companies, while having executive management, executive director of board and chairmanship roles at chemical and energy companies of the Group, both domestic and global. Mr. Orhun is appointed as Sabancı Holding Strategy and Business Development Director as of 03.09.2018.

Mehmet Sami
Independent Member

Mehmet Sami, who completed his education in London Kingston University, Department of Economics and graduated from City University, London in the field of "Business Systems Analysis & Design", started his professional career in 1988. Last 32 years, corporate finance and capital 1994 with experience in the market have opened offices in New York and Dubai today, Germany, America and Japan have established strategic alliances and made several speeches in this regard at home and Turkey's economy abroad and investment opportunities.

Mehmet Sami has carried out various Privatization, Corporate Marriage (M&A), Corporate Partnership (JV), Financial Partnership (Private Equity), Public Offering, Company Valuation and Consultancy projects since 1988. Financial Company (Private Equity) was the pioneer projects in Turkey between 2000-2007 after taking part in the establishment phase in Turkey's largest Private Equity Fund has served a total of seven years as Member of the Investment Committee. Some of the distinguished institutions that he consults are among the distinguished institutions such as GE Capital, News Corp., Arcelor, T.C Privatization Administration, Japan Eximbank (JBIC), IFC, Trade Partners UK, AIG, Dubai Holding, EmiratesBank NBD.

Mehmet Sami, Ata Invest's Investment Banking has become one of the largest independent company in Turkey, is the founder of Research and Corporate Transactions section. After 19 years at Ata Invest, he transferred to Deloitte Corporate Finance in 2012 and became the Lead Partner of M&A and Borrowing Consultancy and served the Deloitte Global M&A Executive Board.

After a total of 27 years of professional life, he established his own company in 2015 to provide Corporate Consultancy to foreign banks, multinational and local companies.

Mehmet Sami has served as a Board Member at the Corporate Governance Association and is a Founding Member of the Board of Directors Members Association, and has taken part in the provision and structuring of Corporate Governance standards in various companies and is an independent manager.

Güngör Kaymak
Independent Member

Güngör Kaymak, having graduated from Middle East Technical University (METU) Department of Industrial Engineering, started his professional career at Arçelik as an investment and planning project engineer in 1984. He then worked as an investment specialist at Auer and planning manager at Cerçelik. Kaymak joined IBM Turkey in 1989 and held various roles in international procurement, OEM, business solutions and sales departments until 1997. He worked for Hewlett Packard Turkey and assumed manufacturing and public sector sales manager roles in 1997-2001 and then moved to SAP Turkey as marketing and sales Director.

Kaymak joined Sabancı Group as the sales and marketing director of I-Bimsa in August 2002 and assumed BİMSA A.Ş. general manager role in 2004. He has also undertaken general manager role for Sabancı Telekom in 2005-2009, Sabancı Holding CIO and Bimsa board membership roles in 2011- 2014 in addition to his main assignment. Kaymak moved to HP Turkey general manager role in 2014 and he is currently working as managing director of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Turkey, Kazakhstan & Kyrgyzstan Cluster.

Kaymak is the board and executive committee member of Turkish Informatics Industry Association (TÜBİSAD). He is also a member of TÜSİAD, YASED, TBD and TBV. Kaymak participated in the advisory boards of the Industrial Engineering department of Bilkent University and the Computer Engineering department of Yeditepe University for a few years in the past and he is currently giving mentorship to executives in Turkey and abroad.