OSMAN ÇELİK

Chairman of the Board

Deputy Minister Osman Çelik was born in Kemaliye, Erzincan in 1964. He received his undergraduate degree in economics from the Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. He worked as an economist in the State Institute of Statistics in 1986 and 1987, before joining Faisal Finans Kurumu in 1988, where he served as a Specialist and Chief Specialist in the Project Evaluation and Preparation Department until 1995. He was the Project and Marketing Manager at İhlas Finans Kurumu from 1995 through 1999.

Between 2000 and 2005, he served as Assistant General Manager of Anadolu Finans Kurumu. From 2006 to 2015, he held the positions of Assistant General Manager for Credits and Assistant General Manager for Commercial Banking, respectively, at Türkiye Finans Katılım Bankası. As of June 2015, he assumed the position of General Manager of Türkiye Finans Katılım Bankası.

Mr. Çelik was appointed as the Undersecretary of the Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Treasury and Finance on 29 June 2016. During his tenure as Undersecretary, he served as a Member of the Executive Board of the Islamic Development Bank and also acted as Türkiye’s G20 Sherpa. During the same period, he also held positions as a Governor in the World Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Asian Development Bank, Black Sea Trade and Development Bank, Ecobank, and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. In tandem, he served as a member of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), Financial Stability Committee, Coordination Board for Participation Financing, and the Executive Board of the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Organization (KOSGEB).

Between 2017 and 2021, Çelik held the positions of Chairman of the Board, Board Member, and Chairman of the Audit Committee at Türk Eximbank. Starting from October 2018, he served as a Board Member and Chairman of the Credit Committee at Vakıf Katılım Bankası A.Ş. As of 25 March 2022, he was appointed as the General Manager of Vakıf Katılım Bankası.

On 21 June 2023, Mr. Osman Çelik has been appointed as the Deputy Minister of Treasury and Finance. Additionally, he has been serving as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Türk Eximbank as of July 2023.

ÖZGÜR VOLKAN AĞAR

Vice Chairman of the Board

Özgür Volkan Ağar was born in Ankara in 1972 and completed his primary and secondary education in the same city. He graduated from the Department of Public Administration at Ankara University's Faculty of Political Sciences in 1994. He received his master’s degree in public administration from Carnegie Mellon University in the United States.

In 1996, he started his career as an Assistant Foreign Trade Specialist at the General Directorate of Import of T.R. Prime Ministry's Undersecretariat for Foreign Trade. From 1999, he worked as Foreign Trade Specialist at the General Directorate of Import. In 2005, he became a Branch Manager at the General Directorate of Export. From 2007 to 2009, he held the position of Commercial Attaché at the Consulate General of Georgia in Batumi. In 2009, he assumed the role of Department Head in the General Directorate of Export.

After serving as the Deputy Director General of the Export General Directorate at the Ministry of Economy from 2010, he held the position of Director General of the Export General Directorate at the Ministry of Trade for six years starting from January 2016. Finally, on 17 March 2022, he was appointed as the Deputy Minister of Trade at the Ministry of Trade.

As of July 2023, Ozgür Volkan Ağar is a member of the Board of Directors at Turk Eximbank and has been serving as the Vice Chairman since the same date.

ALİ GÜNEY

Member of the Board and General Manager

Rize, 1964. Mr. Güney graduated from Marmara University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. He worked in the Fund Management Department of Faisal Finance between 1990 and 1993. He assumed the duty of Assistant Manager in the Fund Management and Treasury Department of İhlas Finance from 1995 until 1999, when he joined Anadolu Finance as Fund Management and Treasury Manager, which position he held until 2005. Mr. Güney functioned as Treasury Manager at Türkiye Finans Participation Bank between 2006 and 2009 and as Deputy General Manager responsible for Treasury and Financial Institutions between 2009 and 2015. He was Deputy General Manager responsible for Treasury and Strategy at Vakıf Participation Bank from 2015 until 2019.

Mr. Güney has been serving as Member of the Board and General Manager of Türk Eximbank since 17 October 2019.

NAİL OLPAK

Member of the Board and Audit Committee Member

Nail Olpak was born in Burdur, İbecik, in 1961 and graduated from Aydın High School. He graduated from İstanbul Technical University, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, and received his master's degree in energy from Yıldız Technical University. Having started his business life as a professional and worked as a senior executive for many years, Olpak voluntarily retired from his professional career and founded his own companies, including PAK YATIRIM A.Ş., in 2005. Olpak currently holds the chairman seat on the board of the company, and member seats on the boards of the companies in which the company holds shares.

Apart from his positions mentioned above, Nail OLPAK also continues to serve in the roles below:

Chairman of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee at Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEİK), Board Member at Türk Eximbank, Turkcell and İstanbul Development Agency, Member of the Coordination Board for the Improvement of the Investment Environment (YOİKK), Chairman at World Turkish Business Council (DTİK), Member of the High Advisory Board at Independent Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association (MÜSİAD), Founders Board Member at International Technological Economic and Social Research Foundation (UTESAV) and at Spreading Knowledge Foundation, Member of the Board of Trustees at Tourism Development and Education Foundation (TUGEV), Huzur Hospital Foundation, Human Development and Social Education Foundation (İGETEV), İstanbul Medeniyet University Support Foundation, and Member of the Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects (TMMOB), Architects and Engineers Group (MMG), Mimar Sinan Engineers Union (MSMB), and Aydın High School Alumni Association (ALMED).

In addition to being the Chairman of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee at Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEİK), Nail Olpak served as the 5th term Chairman of MÜSİAD (Independent Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association) and Chairman of the High Advisory Board of MÜSİAD, Vice Chairman of IBF (International Business Forum), Executive Board Member of B20 Türkiye, Assembly Member of İTO (İstanbul Chamber of Commerce), Board Member of İDTM (İstanbul World Trade Center), Board Member of Huzur Hospital Foundation, Board Member of ENVERDER (Energy Efficiency Association) and Muallimköy Teknoloji Bölgesi (Informatics Valley), Board Member and High Advisory Board Member of MMG (Architects and Engineers Group), Founding Committee Member of Turkish-Japanese University, Member of the Board of Trustees of Information Commercialization Center (BTM) and the Kandilli Club Foundation, and Advisory Board Member of ITU Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.

Nail Olpak was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in International Relations by İstanbul Technical University, Ahi Evran University and Mehmet Akif Ersoy University.

Nail Olpak is married and has two sons, one of whom is an architect and the other a mechatronics engineer. He has excellent command of English.

MUSTAFA GÜLTEPE

Member of the Board

Mustafa Gültepe was born in 1968 in Tonya-Trabzon. He graduated from Dokuz Eylül University Industrial Engineering Department in 1990. Gültepe completed his MBA master’s degree at İstanbul University in 1997 and got into the sector at Taha Tekstil in 1992 after graduation. He is the founding partner and chairman of the board of Talu Tekstil, which was incorporated in 1994 as a subsidiary of Taha Group. Gültepe has been in the ready-to-wear garment industry for 33 years. He owns production facilities in İstanbul, Sakarya and Malatya, and employs approximately 2,000 people.

Between 2017-2021, he served as the Chairman of the Board of Sakarya 1st Organized Industrial Zone.

Gültepe has been on the Board of Directors of the İstanbul Apparel Exporters’ Association (İHKİB) since 2010; he served as the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors between 2014-2018, and in the elections held in April 2018, he became the Chairman of the Board of Directors of İHKİB and still continues this duty. Gültepe was elected as the Chairman of the Turkish Exporters Assembly on 13 June 2022.

Mustafa Gültepe, who also serves as the Vice President of DEİK and İhracatı Geliştirme A.Ş., is married, has three children, and is proficient in English.

Gültepe has been a Member of the Türk Eximbank’s Board of Directors since 17 October 2022.

DİDEM BAHAR ÖZGÜN YILMAZ

Member of the Board and Audit Committee Member

Didem Bahar Özgün Yılmaz was born in Ankara in 1973. She graduated from the Department of Statistics at the Middle East Technical University in 1995 and completed her master's degree in economics at the University of Michigan (USA) between 2000 and 2002.

She started her career as an Assistant Specialist at the Undersecretariat of the Treasury of Prime Ministry in 1996. Between 2004 and 2007, she served as a Branch Head at the Undersecretariat of Treasury, General Directorate of Economic Research, where she functioned as a Department Head between 2007 and 2013, and Assistant General Manager between 2013 and 2018. Having worked as Department Head, Assistant General Manager and Deputy General Manager at the General Directorate of Economic Programs and Research of the Ministry of Treasury and Finance from 2019 to 2023.

Yılmaz has been appointed as General Manager of the General Directorate of Economic Programs and Research in October 2023.