Corporate Governance

Tuncay Özilhan was born in Kayseri. He studied in Saint-Joseph High School, then graduated from the Faculty of Economics of İstanbul University. He received his MBA degree from Long Island University in the United States. He started his career in 1977 as General Director of Erciyas Brewery and has undertaken responsibilities such as Coordinator of the Beer Group and General Coordinator of Anadolu Group. Tuncay Özilhan acted as the CEO of Anadolu Group from 1984 to February 2017. He is the Chairman of Anadolu Group since May 2007. He has also been serving as Chairman of Anadolu Foundation as well as various Group companies.

Tuncay Özilhan served as the Chairman of TÜSİAD (Turkish Industry & Business Association) between 2001 to 2003, as the Chairman of its High Advisory Council between 2015-2023 and became its Honorary President in 2024. His other responsibilities include; Member of The Board at the Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEİK), Honorary Consul for the Republic of Estonia and President of Anadolu Efes Sports Club. He also served as Chairman of the Turkish – Russian Business Council at DEİK. Tuncay Özilhan holds a Ministerial Medal given by the Ministry Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Estonia, a Service Medal given by the Republic of Kazakhstan and “The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star”, constituting one of the most important orders awarded by the Japanese government.

Murat Ozgel began his career at Procter & Gamble. He started his career at Coke system in 2003 at CocaCola Icecek and since 2006 has taken on various roles across Asia and Africa with The Coca-Cola Company. He has international experience in general management, marketing customer and commercial, and franchise leadership in developing and emerging markets. Currently serving as President, Bottling Investments Group (BIG), he leads Coca-Cola's company-owned bottling network globally. Prior to this position, Ozgel served as BIG’s Chief Growth Officer, where he led the organization to enhance its portfolio, capabilities and infrastructure through strategic mergers and acquisitions. Ozgel earned a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering from Middle East Technical University in Türkiye.

Mr. Zorlu has been a Board Member of CCI since 2004. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Istanbul University. Prior to joining Anadolu Group in 1984, he held various positions in Toz Metal and Turkish Airlines. Mr. Zorlu joined Anadolu Group as a Marketing Specialist at the Efes Beverage Group and held various positions including Assistant Marketing Manager, Assistant Project Development Manager, Project Development Manager and Business Development & Investor Relations Director. Mr. Zorlu held the position of Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for Efes Beverage Group between 2000-2008 and the position of CFO for Anadolu Group between 2008-2013. From 2013 onwards he served as the Deputy CEO of Anadolu Group, until his appointment as the CEO of Anadolu Group in February 2017. He also currently acts as a Board Member in various Anadolu Group companies. Mr. Zorlu served as the Chairman of TKYD (Corporate Governance Association of Turkey) between 2015-2017 and he currently also serves as Board Member at Turkish Investor Relations Society (TUYİD) and at Outbound Investments Business Council at Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEİK).

Talip Altuğ Aksoy received his bachelor’s degree in economics from Oglethorpe University in USA. He began his career as Finance Assistant Specialist at Anadolu Group in 1995 and was appointed as a Finance Specialist in 1996. Aksoy worked as Human Resources and Treasury Specialist from 1998 to 2000. He served as Director of Sales and Marketing at Efes Invest from 2000 to 2003 and was appointed as the Director of Trade and Export at Efes Beer Group in January 2003. Continuing his career at Anadolu Group as the Director of Purchasing and Logistics between 2006-2008, Aksoy was appointed as Director of Supply Chain of Efes Beer Group in June 2008. In November 2011, he was appointed as Efes Turkey Managing Director and served in this position until January 2017. Aksoy still continues to serve as a Board Member in various Anadolu Group companies.

Kamil Yazıcı graduated from New York Military Academy (1996), holds a BA degree in Marketing from Emory University Goizueta Business School (2000), an MBA degree from American Institute of Business and Economics (2005) and has completed the GMP program at the Harvard Business School (2017). Yazıcı started his Anadolu Group career in year 2000 in the Finance Presidency as Assistant Finance Specialist and resumed his career in Anadolu Efes Russia Beer operations during 2002-2011 where he held multiple roles as Marketing Manager, Logistics Manager, Supply Chain Director, Business Development Director and finally led a pan-Russian effort to re-structure the sales organization for greater efficiency and effectiveness. In 2011, Yazıcı was appointed as General Manager of Efes Vitanta in Moldova and continued this role until 2014. In 2014, he was appointed as Market Development Director responsible for all international markets where the group did not operate locally and held this position until 2017. Since 2017, Yazıcı has been serving as Vice-Chairman on the Anadolu Group holding and subsidiary Board of Directors. In addition, Yazıcı serves as a Board Member for TAİK (Turkish-American Business Council), TOGG (Turkish National Auto Initiative), HBS Alumnus (Harvard Business School’s Alumni Board) and is the Vice-Chairman of KYYDAS (the Kamil Yazici Family Trust).

Agah Ugur studied industrial engineering at the University of Birmingham, UK then qualified as a chartered accountant in England in 1985. He worked in Birmingham, London and Jersey offices of Touche Ross & Co (currently Deloitte), Istanbul office of Arthur Andersen and Türkiye Emlak Bankası before joining Borusan Group in 1989 as CFO. He served as Group CEO between 2001 and 2018 until he retired. He is currently serving as vice chairperson of Dogan Holding and as board member in Pegasus Havayolları, Anadolu Efes, Coca Cola İçecek, Alcatel Lucent Teletaş Telekomünikasyon, Gözde Girişim as well as advisory board member in some reputable Turkish corporations. Since 2019, Agah Ugur is a partner and chairperson in an Istanbul based venture capital firm, Bogazici Ventures. He also manages his own portfolio of technology startups. Agah held more than 15 board and advisory board positions in various NGO’s during his professional career. Currently he is a member of High Advisory Council of TUSIAD, member of the Board of Trustees of Sabanci University, member of the Advisory Board of Columbia University Istanbul Global Center. He is also a founding member and vice chairperson of Saha Foundation, supporting Turkish contemporary art. He is an art collector with a special focus on new media and video art.

R. Engin Akçakoca received his undergraduate degree from Middle East Technical University in Management and started his career in banking in 1974. He assumed Deputy General Manager position in Koç-Amerikan Bank during 1986 and 1991 and General Manager position in Koçbank A.Ş. during 1991 and 2000. He was appointed as the Chairman of the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency and the Savings Deposit Insurance Fund in 2001 responsible for a large-scale banking sector restructuring program held in Turkey. Akçakoca has been working as a consultant since 2004; he holds board member positions in various Anadolu Group companies.

Burak Başarır holds a BA in Business Administration and a minor in Computer Sciences from American River College. He studied management at California State University of Sacramento and received a BSc degree in business administration from Middle East Technical University in 1995. Başarır joined Anadolu Group in 1998 with his first post at Coca Cola İçecek (CCI) and assumed increasing managerial responsibilities in finance and commercial functions. He was assigned as Coca-Cola İçecek CFO in 2005 and has played a significant role during CCI’s IPO process and effectively managed the financial integration of Efes Invest with CCI. Başarır led the largest operation of CCI in terms of volume and sales as the Türkiye Region President between 2010 and 2013. Başarır was appointed as Coca-Cola İçecek CEO in January 2014. After serving as Anadolu Group Soft Drinks Group President and Coca-Cola İçecek CEO between 2014 -2023, Başarır has been appointed as Anadolu Group Deputy CEO in September 2023. Başarır, who will assume the role of Anadolu Group CEO as of 1 April 2024, is a member of Anadolu Group Sustainability Committee, the Turkish Industry & Business Association (TÜSİAD) and Türkiye-US Business Council (TAİK).

Born in İstanbul in 1968, Lale Develioğlu graduated from the Industrial Engineering Department at Boğaziçi University and pursued her postgraduate studies at Rensselear Polytechnic University. She started her Professional career in 1992 at Unilever and acted as Marketing Director between 1998-2003. In the end of 2003, Develioglu started working in Turkcell as Individual Customers Marketing Director, acted as Marketing Vice President in 2006-2011 and International Division Vice President in 2011 – 2014 at the same institution. Lale Develioğlu has started working in Yıldız Holding as Turkey Marketing President in 2015, right after she has acted as Global Marketing President in Pladis, Yıldız Holding’s London based global snack company until 2018. Develioğlu acted as independent board member for several companies in telecommunication, technology, FMCG, consumer durables and retail industries across Turkey, Middle East, CIS countries and Europe. She is also one of the founders and board member of Women on Board Association Turkey. She is currently acting as management consultant, board member as well as mentor. Lale Saral Develioğlu has 28 years of experience in marketing, business development and she is a strategy leader. She was selected as “Best Marketing Person” of Turkey in 2009; won the “Women to Watch” award for Marketing in 2014 and was listed among "Top 100 Influencers" in Global Creativepool Annual in 2018. She has served as Executive Board Member of Advertisers’ Association of Turkey (RVD) and Advertising Selfregulatory Body in Turkey (RÖK) for 6 years. She is the author of the business and memory book titled ‘Karar Verdim’.

Barış Tan is a Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Management at Özyeğin University. He previously served as Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dean of the College of Administrative Sciences and Economics, and the Director of the Graduate School of Business at Koç University. His areas of expertise are in the design and control of production systems, supply chain management, stochastic modeling, and business model innovation. Barış Tan is the recipient of the Turkish Academy of Sciences Distinguished Young Scholar Award, the TUBITAK fellowship, the NATO Science Fellowship, and best paper awards for his publications. He received a BS degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Boğaziçi University, an ME in Industrial and Systems Engineering, an MSE in Manufacturing Systems, and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of Florida. He held visiting positions at Harvard University - Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, MIT - Operations Research Center, MIT - Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity, University of Cambridge - Judge Business School, University College London - School of Management, and Politecnico di Milano - Manufacturing and Production Systems. Professor Tan has held academic, advisory, and governance roles across various organizations, including Kyoto University Graduate School of Management, Nottingham Business School, ISM University of Economics and Management, Anadolu Efes, Migros, and Anadolu Isuzu. He has also contributed to international educational and management development bodies such as the CEMS Global Alliance in Management Education and the European Foundation for Management Development. Prof. Tan fulfills all requirements of the independent member criteria specified in the CMB’s Corporate Governance Principles.

September 11, 2001, İlhami Koç was appointed as the General Manager of İş Girişim Sermayesi Yatırım Ortaklığı A.Ş. and on April 28, 2002, he became the General Manager of İş Yatırım Menkul Değerler A.Ş. On January 30, 2013, he was promoted to Executive Vice President at Türkiye İş Bankası A.Ş. Mr. Koç assumed the role of General Manager at Anadolu Sigorta as of November 2016 and has been a Partner at Ernst & Young since October 2019.

Mr. Koç has served on the Boards of Directors of various institutions related to capital markets and was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of İş Yatırım Menkul Değerler A.Ş. and a member of the Boards of Directors of İşbank AG, CSJC İşbank and Şişe Cam Fabrikaları A.Ş. Mr. Koç was elected as the Chairman of the Turkish Capital Markets Association on July 8, 2014 and as a member of the Board of Directors of Borsa Istanbul on September 5, 2014.

İlhami Koç participated in numerous domestic and international trainings, seminars, and conferences in the field of banking and capital markets and provided training and seminars on capital markets to experts and managers at various levels. İlhami Koç is married with one child and speaks English.

Born in Izmir in 1963, Ethem Kutucular completed his secondary and high school education at Bornova Anatolian High School and graduated from Boğaziçi University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Business Administration. In 1986, Mr. Kutucular started his professional career as an assurance assistant in the Istanbul office of Arthur Andersen & Co ("AA&Co") and served as Senior Assurance Assistant in the Atlanta office of AA&Co between 1987 and 1989. After 1989, Mr. Kutucular continued to work at AA&Co Istanbul office and was admitted as a Partner in 1997. In 2002, he became a Partner in the Assurance Department at Ernst & Young ("EY") Turkey office and served as the Head of Assurance at EY between 2004 and 2012. Subsequently, he served as EY Turkey Market Leader and Executive Committee member together with his Responsible Partner duties. Throughout his career, he has been involved in the assurance work of many large-scale industrial organizations in Turkey, as well as in consultancy and corporate finance projects. During his energy sector leadership roles, he was involved in the audit of the energy and electricity market in Romania. Ethem Kutucular is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a member of YASED (International Investors Association).