Board of Directors

Assignment Period: April 19, 2024-until the 2026 Ordinary General Assembly Meeting

Cevdet Alemdar joined Sabancı Group in 1993 and took various leadership positions, respectively in Beksa, Sakosa, Kordsa, Temsa Is Makinalari and Brisa.

During first half of his career, he has lead manufacturing investments in Türkiye and managed factories serving to tire industries in Brazil, Thailand and China. Returning to Türkiye, he has steered Kordsa’s R&D and innovation processes as VP of Technology and Market Development.

From 2013 onwards, as CEO, he steered Temsa Is Makinalari to transform from a construction equipment company to a Komatsu heavy machine and Volvo truck provider in Türkiye. Next, from 2017 onwards, he lead Brisa, a joint venture of Bridgestone ve Sabancı Holding, a prominent tire manufacturing venture in the world and leader of Türkiye’s tire and mobility solutions. From April 2020 onwards, he worked as Sabancı Holding’s Industrials SBU President. Since April 2024, he is leading Sabancı Holding’s Mobility Soluitons SBU as President. He is also the Chairperson of the Board of Brisa, Temsa Skoda Transportation and Temsa Motorlu Araclar, member of the board of Teknosa.

He is SUNUM’s  (Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center) Chairperson of the Board, TUSIAD’s board member, Chapter Zero Steering Committee Chairperson and Bogazici University alumni. Mr. Alemdar's career reflects a breadth of experience in industrial engineering and business management across different regions and sectors.

Cevdet Alemdar holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Boğaziçi University, obtained in 1992, and an MBA from Sabancı University, completed in 2000.

Assignment Period: April 19, 2024-until the 2026 Ordinary General Assembly Meeting

Tomio Fukuzumi graduated from Osaka City University, Department of Economics. He joined Bridgestone in April, 1988. In his career, he worked in mainly international tyre business and worked as Tyre Sales Director and Managing Director in Korea, USA Chicago, Belgium Brussels, India and Thailand. Fukuzumi was assigned as Director of Tyre International Business at BSJ Head Office in 2016, and also served as a Member of the Board of Directors in BSAM, BSEMIA and BSCAP. Fukuzumi has been working at Brisa since December 21, 2022.

Assignment Period: April 19, 2024-until the 2026 Ordinary General Assembly Meeting

Mustafa Bayraktar graduated from the Finance Department of Alabama University and received his master's degree in the same field from Boston College. Since 2002, he has been serving as the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of H. Bayraktar Yatırım Holding A.Ş.

Bayraktar has been serving as the Chairperson of the Board at Baylas Otomotiv A.Ş., Baytur Motorlu Vasıtalar Tic. A.Ş., Bayraktar Otomotiv A.Ş., Bayraktar Holding A.Ş., Ege Fren Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş.,and Ege Endüstri ve Ticaret A.Ş.

Assignment Period: April 19, 2024-until the 2026 Ordinary General Assembly Meeting

Haluk Dinçer received his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Michigan and his MBA from the same institution.

Haluk Dinçer is the President of Financial Services at Sabancı Holding, and he also serves as the Chairperson of the Board of Aksigorta, Agesa, Sabancı Ageas Sağlık Sigorta, Tursa, AEO and Exsa.

Before assuming his current position in 2020, Dinçer served as President of Insurance Group between 2016-2020, President of Retail and Insurance Group between 2011-2016, President of the Retail Group between 2007-2011, President of Retail and Food Group from 2004 to 2007, President of Food Group between 2002-2004. Joining Sabancı Group in 1995, Dinçer assumed key leadership roles in the Group’s affiliated automobile, food, and retail companies.

Haluk Dinçer served as the Chairperson of TÜSİAD Board of Directors in 2014 and as the President of DEİK/Turkish-American Business Council between 2008-2014. He currently sits on the TÜSİAD Presidents' Council. He is also a Member of the Geneva Association, the leading international think tank of the insurance industry

Assignment Period: April 19, 2024-until the 2026 Ordinary General Assembly Meeting

Mete Ekin graduated from Istanbul Technical University Chemical Engineering Department in 1993. He then completed his graduate degree in Hartford University Connecticut in 1995.

In March 2016, Mete Ekin joined Bridgestone as the Regional Manager of Bridgestone Middle East Africa FZE responsible from the MEA markets (50 countries).

Mete Ekin took several different managerial positions in Türkiye, Italy, Egypt and MENA region and has more than 28 years of experience in the tyre industry. Ekin started his career in Turk Pirelli. During his last five years in the Company, until 2015, he held General Manager and CEO positions. Before his appointment to this position, Ekin assumed several managerial positions such as the Sales and Marketing Assistant General Manager of Pirelli Egypt and as the Global Commercial Business Unit Marketing Manager of Pirelli Italy’s General Management Quarters.

Ekin previously served as Vice-President of Emerging Markets, Russia, CIS, India, Middle East and Africa at Bridgestone EMIA and as Vice-President and Head of Joint Global COO Office at Bridgestone. Ekin has been appointed as President of Bridgestone's European Core Tyre Business, effective from January 1, 2024.

Ekin speaks fluent English, Italian and German.

Assignment Period: April 19, 2024-until the 2026 Ordinary General Assembly Meeting

Jérôme Boulet serves as Vice-President Logistics and Supply Chain Management of Bridgestone Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA), a position he has held since February 2021. He also serves as Board Member of Bridgestone Middle East and Africa, headquartered in Dubai.

In his role, Jérôme maintains executive leadership over the end-to-end supply chain from procuring raw material, planning, manufacturing, to warehousing and distributing Bridgestone tyres across EMEA geographies. As member of the Global Supply Chain Management Committee of Bridgestone Corporation, he is also the architect of the next-gen supply chain, which will maximize value creation by closely connecting customers and the value chain, this to result in a “resilient excellent Bridgestone.”

Since he joined Bridgestone in 2001, Jérôme took diverse leadership positions that spanned product management, digital venture, merger and acquisition, supply chain management, manufacturing strategy and procurement. In recent years, Jérôme has spearheaded the mobility solutions strategy for Bridgestone EMEA and led the acquisition of TomTom Telematics in 2019 (known today as Webfleet Solutions). In 2020, he joined the COO office and led multiple large-scale transformations in the field of logistics optimization, manufacturing footprint restructuring and procurement outsourcing.

Jérôme also worked for several years at Accenture, where he was centred on working with Boards of Fortune 500 companies on large-scale supply chain transformation in Pharmaceutical, Automotive, Steel and Chemical sectors.

Jérôme earned his bachelor’s degree in business and economics from ESCIP School of International Business, France.

Arianna Antonella started her career in 2007 as an Associate at Baker & McKenzie (Milan office). Between 2010-2016, she worked at Italcementi S.p.A. as the Head of Legal. Joining the Bridgestone Group in 2017, she worked at Bridgestone Europe as the Head of Legal and Compliance between 2017-2019. Antonella has been serving as the Legal and Compliance Director Europe at Bridgestone EMEA since October 2019.

Assignment Period: April 19, 2024-until the 2026 Ordinary General Assembly Meeting

Haluk Kürkçü received his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Middle East Technical University in 1984.

Kürkçü started to work at Brisa in 1986 and served in managerial positions at production planning, industrial engineering and production areas in the following two decades. He was appointed as Production Director in 2006, and served as Engineering Director between 2015-2018. Kürkçü has served as Vice-CTO since 2018 and was appointed as CEO of Brisa on July 1, 2020.

Kürkçü also serves as the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Arvento Mobile Systems.

Outside the Group, he is a Board Member of LASDER (Tyre Industrialists Association) and Chairperson of the Board of LASİD (Tyre Industrialists and Importers Association).

Assignment Period: April 19, 2024-until the 2026 Ordinary General Assembly Meeting

Şebnem Önder graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Law in 1994.

She started her career in 1994 as Associate at White & Case LLP (Türkiye). Between 1999 and 2000, she continued working at the same position in New York, where the Company’s headquarter is located. Then, from 2000 to 2014, she worked as a Partner in the Türkiye unit of the same company. In 2014, she started to work as the Legal Director of British American Tobacco (Türkiye & North Africa). Önder worked as the European Regional Head of Compliance at British American Tobacco between 2018 and 2022.

Since September 12, 2022 Önder has been working as Sabancı Holding Legal and Compliance President. She is also a Member of the Board at Akçansa, Brisa, Carrefoursa, Temsa Skoda Sabancı Ulaşım Araçları A.Ş. and Sabancı Building Solutions B.V.

Assignment Period: April 19, 2024-until the 2026 Ordinary General Assembly Meeting

After receiving his undergraduate education in Civil Engineering at Istanbul Technical University, Ahmet Erdem completed his degree in Engineering Management at Istanbul University Graduate School of Business Administration.

Erdem, who started working at Shell in 1990, worked at top executive levels in Türkiye, the Middle East and Europe. After serving as Greece and Türkiye Investment Manager and Türkiye Retail Sales Manager, in 2006, he joined Shell & Turcas Petrol A.Ş., where he is currently the Chairperson of the Board of Directors. He played an important role in the establishment of the Shell & Turcas joint venture. After serving as Retail General Manager and Executive Committee Member during the integration of the joint venture, he served as Country Chair Shell Kenya and Chairperson of Shell Kenya, the centre of Shell's activities in East Africa. Ahmet Erdem received training on financial and reputation risk management at Royal Dutch Shell and has 20 years of risk management experience across the country.

Erdem currently serves as Country Chair of Shell Türkiye as well as Chairperson of Shell & Turcas A.Ş.

Ahmet Erdem previously served as Independent Board Member of Sabancı Holding and Chairperson of the International Investors Association (YASED) for two terms. He currently serves as the Chairperson of the Petroleum and Petroleum Products Industry Council of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Türkiye (TOBB), Chairperson of the Board of Directors at Turkish Oil Industry Association (PETDER) and the Energy Efficiency Association (ENVER), Board Member of the United Nations Global Compact Türkiye and the Advisory Board Member of the British Chamber of Commerce.

Assignment Period: April 19, 2024-until the 2026 Ordinary General Assembly Meeting

She was born in Istanbul in 1963. After graduating from the Sankt Georg Austrian High School, she graduated from Boğaziçi University, Department of Business Administration. She completed the joint MBA program of Manchester Business School & University of Bangor.

She started her career at Interbank in 1988. She worked as a Director at Bankers Trust A.Ş. between 1990 and 1999, as General Manager and Deputy General Manager at Deutsche Bank A.Ş. between 1999 and 2007, as General Manager at Credit Agricole Yatırım Bankası Türk A.Ş. between 2007 and 2012. Manager and Head of Customer Services, she served as General Manager and Head of Corporate Customers at Standart Chartered Yatırım Bankası Türk A.Ş. between 2012 and 2016.

Yardım, who provided consultancy to the UK-based Experian company on its Türkiye growth strategy between 2017 and 2018, has been serving as the Istanbul Branch Manager of the Commerz Real real estate investment fund based in Germany since 2019.

She served as an Independent Board Member of Enerjisa Enerji A.Ş. and Çimsa Çimento Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş.

She played roles in non-governmental organizations such as YASED, TÜSİAD, DEİK throughout her business life.

She speaks English and German.