Alpaslan ÇAKAR
Chairman of the Board
Mr. Çakar graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Political Sciences Department of Public Administration. He started his career at T.C. Ziraat Bankası A.Ş in 1996 as Assistant Inspector, then became an Inspector and Branch Manager. In 2005, he was appointed as Regional Head Manager. In August 2007, Mr. Çakar was promoted to Chairman of the Department, then worked as Vice President in charge of Individual Banking, Vice President in charge of Operational Transactions, Vice President in charge of Individual Banking and Vice President in charge of Retail Banking, respectively. He worked as Vice President in charge of Distribution Channels between January 2016 and July 2017, as Vice President in charge of Payment Systems between July 2017 and June 2018 and Vice President in charge of Retail Banking between June 2018 and March 2021. At the same time, between 2003 and 2019, Mr. Çakar acted as a member of the Board of Directors/Audit Committees of Ziraat Finansal Kiralama A.Ş, Bileşim Alternatif Dağıtım Kanalları Ödeme Sistemi A.Ş, Ziraat Hayat ve Emeklilik A.Ş., Ziraat Sigorta A.Ş, Kredi Kayıt Bürosu A.Ş., Ziraat Bank (Moscow) JSC, Türkmen Türk Ticaret Bankası, Ziraat Teknoloji A.Ş., Bankalararası Kart Merkezi A.Ş., Ziraat Gayrimenkul Yatırım Ortaklığı A.Ş., Ziraat Bank (Moscow) JSC. Since 16 July 2019, he is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ziraat Bank (Moscow) JSC, and as of March 2021 he was appointed as CEO and Member of the Board of Directors of Ziraat Bank. Mr. Çakar also acts as the Chairman of the Turkish Banking Association since 22 April 2021. He is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ziraat Participation since 1 February 2022.
Fikrettin Aksu
Vice Chairman of the Board
Fikrettin Aksu graduated from Department of Business Management of the Kütahya Management Sciences Faculty at the Eskişehir Academy of Economic and Commercial Sciences, in 1979. After working at various institutions between 1980-1984, he started his career at Ziraat Bank in 1984. After working in various positions at the Bank between 1984-2014, he started working at Ziraat Hayat Emeklilik; having served as the General Manager of Ziraat Sigorta he served as the General Manager of Ziraat Yatırım Menkul Değerler, and served as the President of the Human Resources Group between October 2018 and December 2019. Later, he served as the Head of the Internal Operations Group. He has been serving as the Vice Chairman of Ziraat Participation Board of Directors, a member of the Audit Committee and the Corporate Governance Committee since 19 June 2020, and as a member of the Credit Committee since 3 November 2021.
Metin ÖZDEMİR
Member of the Board, CEO
Metin Özdemir graduated from İstanbul University (Faculty of Business Administration) in 1990. He started his career at Kuveyt-Türk Finans Kurumu in 1992, and from 1996, he carried on with his business life as an executive in the retail sector. Mr. Özdemir functioned as a member of İstanbul Metropolitan Municipal Council between 2004 and 2014. Mr. Özdemir was a member of the Ziraat Bank’s Board of Directors and acted as a member of the Corporate Governance Committee and the Remuneration Committee from April 2012 until 27 May 2019.
He served as the Chairman of the Board of the Participation Banks Association of Türkiye from May 2018 until May 2021. Mr. Özdemir has been a member of the Board of Directors of Ziraat Participation since 18 February 2015 and was appointed as the CEO on 12 June 2017.
Ahmet Buçukoğlu
Member of the Board
Born in Kayseri in 1955, he graduated from the Department of Economics and Finance of the Faculty of Political Sciences at Ankara University in 1980. He started his career at Ziraat Bank in 1982. Between 1982 and 2014, he served as an Assistant Inspector, Inspector, Agricultural Loans Assistant Manager, Head of the Intelligence Department, Branch Manager and Regional Manager.
Between 2014 and 2018, he served as the General Manager and Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Development Bank of Turkey. Mr. Buçukoğlu, who has been serving as a Member of the Board of Ziraat Participation since 19 June, 2020, is also a member of our Bank’s Credit Committee and Remuneration Committee.
Mehmet Başıbüyük
Member of the Board
Mehmet Başıbüyük was born in Artvin in 1966. He graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Political Sciences Department of Public Administration in 1988. After working in various institutions between 1988 and 1991, he started to work at Albaraka Türk Participation Bankası A.Ş. in 1991 at the Fund Extension Department. Between 1995 and 2004, he took different positions at the Headquarters of Albaraka Türk Participation Bankası and acted as a Branch Manager between 2008 and 2019. As of 25 March 2022, Mr. Başıbüyük was appointed as a Member of the Board of Directors at Ziraat Participation and also has been acting as member of the Credit Committee and Corporate Governance Committee.
Mahmut Esfa Emek
Member of the Board
Mahmut Esfa Emek was born in Erzurum in 1965. He graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Department of Business Administration in 1985. He started his career as Assistant Inspector at İmar Bankası in 1988. Between 1990 and 2017, he worked as Inspector, Chairman of the Inspector Board, Department Manager, Senior Department Manager and Vice President in Charge of Operations and Credits at Albaraka Türk Participation Bankası. He worked as the Member of the Board and CEO of a private company. Mr. Emek was the CEO of Birleşik Fon Bankası between 2017 and 2019. Since 21 March 2021, he is a Member of the Board of Directors of Ziraat Participation Bank and also serving as Member of the Audit Committee, Remuneration Committee and Alternate Member of the Credit Committee.
