Our Leaders

Çağlar Göğüş earned his B.Sc. degree in Business Administration at Bilkent University in Turkey, and his MBA from the University of Florida. He began his professional career in 1996 as a Senior Analyst at Coopers & Lybrand (current PwC). In 2000, Following his tenure as Senior Analyst and consultant at Arthur Andersen and AT Kearney, he joined the Peppers & Rogers Group. Later becoming an international partner at Peppers & Rogers, he initially served as the General Manager overseeing after-sales services in all regions. Göğüş played an important role in Peppers & Rogers’ growth in the EMEA region and beyond. Through his consultancy work for over fifty major companies and regulatory authorities across a range of geographic areas, he has gained special expertise in strategic growth and transformation. He has attained vast experience over the years in the new economic order as well as in classic economics.

Göğüş joined the Doğan Group in 2015 as an independent board member for Hürriyet Gazetecilik. After holding this position for one year, he served for over two years as Hürriyet Gazetecilik’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO). During his tenure, he oversaw important projects, including those involving digital transformation, efficiency, profitability, redefining of business processes and the designing of a corporate character for Hürriyet Emlak (Hürriyet Real Estate and Properties).

Born in 1970, Vedat Mungan has graduated from the Industrial Engineering Department, Faculty of Business Management, of Istanbul Technical University in 1992, upon which he completed his Executive MBA Program with the Manchester Business School and IBU Joint Programme.

Having started his banking career in 1993 at the Garanti Bank System and Organization Department, Mungan went on to work with İktisat Bankası T.A.Ş. in 1994 as Corporate Commercial Banking Officer, and he was appointed as the Corporate Commercial Banking Manager in 1996. After working as the Head of the Corporate – Commercial Banking at Sümerbank A.Ş. Head Office in 1998, he started working with Finansbank A.Ş. in 1999 where he served at various levels of senior management, and has implemented significant successful projects as the Head of Corporate, Commercial, Investment Banking and Project Finance Business Lines. After having continued his career as the Assistant General Manager in charge of those business lines, his career changed its course in 2010, and he joined the Alfa International Construction Contracting Group as the CEO and also performed as advisor to the Board of Directors of a Hospital Chain. Vedat Mungan joined the Doğan Şirketler Grubu Holding A.Ş. as the Vice President in charge of Strategic Planning and Business Management on May 5, 2017 and later became Member of Executive Committee (in charge of Strategy, Business Development Management) of Doğan Holding on October 3, 2017. 

Having graduated from Boğaziçi University in 2000 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Sarıçoğlu completed his MBA at Columbia Business School in 2005. He started his career at McKinsey and Company in 2000 and assumed various roles until 2007. He joined - Carlyle Group Turkey, one of the largest private equities in the world, as Vice President and led many investment projects in various industries i.e. education, healthcare, energy, retail and infrastructure until 2015.

In 2016, Sarıçoğlu joined Istanbul Investment Groups as - Partner. Sarıçoğlu - became responsible for post-acquisition transformation programs at Dubai EMAAR Group as Senior Director in 2017. He has worked at Pera Capital as Partner between 2018-2020. He has joined Doğan Holding as Executive Committee Member responsible for Business Development and Business Management effective 2021.

Aydın Doğan Yalçındağ graduated from the Koç High School in 2009 and received his bachelor’s degree in Economy and History from Brown University in the United States. He started his career as an Analyst in the Capital Markets and IPO Department at Goldman Sachs, where he focused on emerging markets. Subsequently, he returned to Turkey and held various positions at Doğan TV. Mr. Yalçındağ established Blu TV, the largest local streaming platform of Türkiye, in 2016 and served as the CEO for 7 years.

Mr. Yalçındağ has formed a Strategic Partnership with Warner Bross Discovery for Blu TV in 2021. In 2022, he established “Ortak”, a new generation investment platform.

Mr. Yalçındağ has been a member of TÜSİAD (Turkish Industry and Business Association) since 2016. He is also a Board Member at Doğan Yatırım Bankası and Kolektif House. Furthermore, he is the author of the book titled “Gençlik ve Uyum (Youth and Harmony)”.

Bora Yalınay has over 20 years of experience in international audit companies, and local and international public companies. His areas of expertise include financial restructuring, investor and analyst relations, financing, public offerings, cost optimization, financial planning, and analysis. Bora Yalınay graduated from Bilkent University, Department of Economics in 1997. Having begun his career in 1997 at the Istanbul offices of Deloitte auditing firm, he worked most recently as a senior manager. He worked at the Deloitte Canada offices between 2000 and 2002. Following his auditing experience of over a decade, and a Yaysat financial control experience of 1 year, he continued his career as the Group Financial Audit General Manager with Yıldız Holding in 2009. He worked as the CFO of Ülker Bisküvi between 2010 and 2016. During the process that began with the financial restructuring of the company in 2010, he has carried out several acquisitions, company sales and merger projects, completed overseas financing projects of USD 1 billion, and led the secondary public offering process in 2013. He worked as the Vice President of Ülker Bisküvi in charge of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Romania, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, and Pakistan operations between 2015 and 2016. During such time, he led a team of more than 200 finance professionals in six different geographies. He has also led the financial operations of the central procurement company of Yıldız Holding within the scope of his responsibilities with Ülker. Bora Yalınay has worked as the CFO with the Gürallar Group, the six biggest glass producer in the world exporting over 130 countries, between 2016 and 2019, and has conducted the first overseas financing and overseas expansion projects of the Group.

Bora Yalınay holds a Certified Public Accountant certificate and speaks English fluently.

Şebnem Bezmen has graduated from Bilkent University, Department of International Relations in 1993.

She has started her professional career as Koç Holding Management Trainee working at Arçelik A.Ş., Human Resources Department. She has joined Citibank Turkey as Compensation and Benefits Manager in 1998 and appointed as Training and Development Senior Manager and Human Resources Head responsible for Retail Banking respectively. She has continued her career as the Human Resources Director at Peppers & Rogers Group between 2008 and 2011. Şebnem Bezmen has worked as Senior Consultant at ID Consultancy between 2012 and 2016 and has started to work at Burgan Bank as Head of Human Resources Responsible for Corporate, Commercial and Digital Banking in 2016.

Şebnem Bezmen has been working as Vice President of Human Resources at Doğan Holding since 2019. She has completed a coaching program at Behavioral Coaching Institute. In addition, she holds a Holistic Nutrition Coaching diploma from Canada NutraPhoria School of Holistic Nutrition.

Tahir Ersoy graduated from Uludağ University with a degree in Business Administration in 1999. Between July 2003 and February 2008, he held the position of Tax Inspector at the Ministry of Finance. From February 2008 to December 2011, he served as a Tax Coordinator at Petrol Ofisi. In December 2011, he commenced his role as Tax Management Group Manager at Doğan Holding. Starting in June 2016, he assumed the role of Financial Control and Tax Management Director. Subsequently, on August 1, 2017, he was appointed as the General Manager of Milpa Ticari ve Sınai Ürünler Pazarlama San. Tic. A.Ş., concurrently holding the position of Director of Financial and Administrative Affairs from August 1, 2019 onwards.

Tahir Ersoy is actively involved in managing the relationships of all group companies with tax authorities, providing tax consultancy to group entities, and preparing periodic reports to ascertain the total tax liabilities of the group. Furthermore, he oversees and coordinates various processes and transactions encompassing administrative affairs, accounting, procurement, security, facility management, and technical services, ensuring compliance with pertinent legal regulations and company policies, while effectively managing these departments.

Since January 2024, Tahir Ersoy has been serving as Vice President of Financial Affairs and Tax Management at Doğan Holding. Tahir Ersoy is also a member of the board of directors of D Gayrimenkul, Doğan Dış Ticaret, Kelkit and Değer companies.

Ebru Gül graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Public Administration in 2001. She began her professional career in 2001 as an auditor at international independent audit firms, first at Deloitte and subsequently at Mazars. In 2007, she continued her career as an internal auditor at Hürriyet Gazetecilik Matbaacılık AŞ, and later assumed the roles of Financial Control Manager, Internal Audit Manager, Financial Reporting Director, and Deputy CEO at Doğan Şirketler Grubu Holding A.Ş.

Since 2022, she has been serving as Vice President of Financial Affairs and General Secretary/Deputy Honorary Chairperson at Doğan Şirketler Grubu Holding A.Ş.

Throughout her career spanning over 24 years, she has taken responsibility as a project leader in numerous areas including the digital transformation of financial reporting systems, human resources projects, group synergy initiatives, common values programs, ERP system transformation, information systems, company sales and mergers, Board of Directors and Committee secretariat, e-transformation, cost optimization, efficiency projects, and joint procurement.

She holds a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license in Türkiye and an IFRS certification from The Institute of Chartered Accountants. She earned her master’s degree in Business Administration – Accounting and Finance from Gazi University, Institute of Social Sciences, and obtained long-term executive education certificates in Business Analysis and Valuation, Strategic Management, and Corporate and Organisational Strategy from the London School of Economics and Political Science. In addition, she completed the Executive Management Academy Program at Sabancı University.

Cengiz Musaoğlu graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Business Administration in 2002 and completed the Economy and Finance Graduate Program at Boğaziçi University in 2019. Cengiz Musaoğlu started his career as a Tax and Compliance Consultant at KPMG in 2002 and he later served as an Internal Audit Specialist at Sabancı Holding from 2005 to 2009. Having participated in due dilligence, ethics compliance projects in various Sabancı Group companies, Mr. Musaoğlu was appointed as Internal Audit Manager at Enerjisa in 2009 and stayed there until 2014.

 He became Internal Audit Director of Erdemir Group in 2014. He then joined Hayat Holding as Internal Audit Director in 2020. Throughout his tenure at Erdemir Group and Hayat Holding he led digitalization and analytical initiatives for internal audit. As of September 11, 2023, he has been serving as vice President for Internal Audit, Risk Management and Compliance at Doğan Holding.

Neslihan Sadıkoğlu, who is the Vice President for Corporate Communication and Sustainability in Doğan Group, has more than 20 years of experience in all areas of communication such as corporate communication, reputation and crisis communication, media relations, brand management, marketing and social responsibility and sustainability communication.

After graduating from Galatasaray University, Faculty of Communication, Sadıkoğlu started to work in CNN Türk's Public Relations unit in 1999, and was appointed as CNN Türk's Corporate Communications Director in 2002. Later on, she continued her career in Vakko Holding as Communications Coordinator, in Step Halı as Corporate Communications Director, in Doğan Burda Magazine Group as Corporate Communications Director and Douglas Parfumeri as Turkey Marketing Director.

Neslihan Sadıkoğlu started to work as the Advisor to the Chairwoman of the Board of Directors in Doğan Holding in 2016 and was appointed as Doğan Holding's Vice President for Corporate Communications and Marketing on March 1, 2017.

Leading the sustainability efforts of Doğan Holding and completing the Cambridge University Sustainability Leadership program in 2020, Neslihan Sadıkoğlu still continues her duty. She also serves as the Board Member responsible for Sustainability for Galata Wind.

Sadıkoğlu speaks English and French.

After graduating from METU Petroleum Engineering, İrtek Uraz completed his master's degrees in Computer Engineering at METU and Geostatistics at Stanford University, followed by an MBA in Strategy & Finance at Columbia Business School. İrtek Uraz launched his professional career at the Dubai office of Booz & Company, a global strategy consulting firm, where he managed several high-profile strategic projects in telecommunications, media, transportation and retail.

İrtek then focused on managing investment strategies, venture capital investments and portfolio companies, first as Vice President at Dubai-based NBK Capital Partners, one of the region's leading private equity investment funds. During his tenure there, he managed industry-leading transactions in different areas, including digital media, payment systems and the services sector. Afterwards, he worked at Ünlü & Co, one of Türkiye's leading investment banks, as a director responsible for mergers and acquisitions and managed global investment transactions in many areas including technology, manufacturing and retail. In 2021, he founded Türkiye's first and only e-commerce brands investment company, RubiBrands, with his partners, and as the Chief Investment Officer responsible for the company's investment strategies and investor relations, he received the world's highest seed investment in the retail and technology fields with 23 Million USD in the second quarter of 2022.

He joined Doğan Holding in 2023 as Vice President of Business Development and Business Management.

Eda Yüksel graduated from the School of Justice at Istanbul University Faculty of Law in 2001. She then earned her law degree with a full scholarship from Istanbul Kültür University Faculty of Law. During her undergraduate studies, she worked part-time as a paralegal at White & Case for five years. After receiving her law degree in 2005, she continued at the same firm for another two years as an associate.

In 2008, she joined ECE Türkiye as Legal Director. In this role, she was responsible for drafting and negotiating contracts related to real estate, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, project financing, and other services. Eda Yüksel joined Rönesans Gayrimenkul Yatırım as Legal Director and a member of the Executive Committee, and from 2016 onward, she served at Rönesans Holding as Chief Legal Counsel and Corporate Secretary, reporting directly to the Chairman of the Board. She managed the Group’s internationally relevant risks, litigation, compliance matters, and key contracts, including those involving IFC and EBRD partnerships. She also restructured the Group’s legal department into a centralized organization overseeing a global team of over 100 lawyers.

Since 2019, she has served as Chief Legal Counsel and Executive Committee Member at Aksoy Holding and Turcas Petrol, overseeing domestic and international real estate, partnerships, energy investments, and all legal processes. As of April 14, 2025, she continues in her current role as Chief Legal Counsel of Doğan Şirketler Grubu Holding A.Ş.