Sustainability Committee

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).

Göğüş is married and has a daughter and a son.

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. He has one son.

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.

He is married with two children.

After graduating from Istanbul University, Department of Business Administration in 1995, Kemal Sertkaya attended a Master’s Program in Economics at Clark University. In 1997, he served as audit specialist and senior auditor at the Istanbul office of DFK, an audit firm.

After working for four years as Internal Audit Specialist for Sabancı Holding, which he joined in 2000, he served as Internal Audit Manager at Doğan Yayın Holding between 2004-2008.  After leaving Doğan Yayın Holding, where he took office as the Internal Audit Coordinator in 2008, he became the Deputy Head of Internal Audit at Doğan Group of Companies in 2010. In 2017, in addition to his role as Head of Audit and Risk Management Group at Doğan Group of Companies, he also served in managerial positions supervising the Information Systems at Doğan Şirketler Grubu Holding A.Ş. and the Occupational Health and Safety Function at Doğan Holding and its subsidiaries. He has been serving as Head of Audit and Risk Management Group at Doğan Group of Companies since 2019.

Sertkaya, who has a great command of English and French, is married with two children.

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.

Şebnem Bezmen is married with one child.

He has graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Business Administration in 1998 and later completed his MBA program at Virginia Tech University in 2002. He then obtained a PhD in Business Administration and Finance at Işık University. Following his graduation, Mr. Kuyan worked as an Private Portfolio Manager at Finans Yatırım Menkul Değerler A.Ş. In 2005, he began working at Doğan Holding as an Assistant Specialist in Strategical Planning and Business Development. In 2012, he was appointed as the Director of Energy Business at Doğan, and since 2016 he has been serving as the CEO of Doğan Energy.

As of 2019, he has been serving as the Chairman of Energy Traders Association (ETD).

Burak Kuyan is married with one son.

Erol Varlık graduated from the faculty of economics at Marmara University and completed his MBA at the same university. He started his career as a Business Analyst, responsible for merchandising and retail at BP Turkey Marketing Department in 1999. Varlık undertook the following duties at BP Turkey respectively; Retail Sales Territory Manager, Consolidation and Reporting Analyst responsible from Spain, Portugal, France, Greece and Turkey, Planning Manager Turkey & Greece, Retail and Commercial Fuels Performance Manager, Marketing Operations Support Manager, Strategy and Key Accounts Manager, Senior Planning, Performance and Reporting Manager, National Retail Sales Director and Retail Asset Operations Director.

Gaining experience in different disciplines such as marketing, sales, strategy, finance, and investment Erol Varlık managed BP Turkey's productivity-focused, financial discipline growth program, generated medium and long term strategic investment plan and completed the engineering establishment and adaptation processes of the organization.

Having executed several managerial positions throughout his career in the energy sector for more than 20 years Erol Varlık, has been working as the General Manager of Aytemiz Akaryakıt Dağıtım A.Ş. since December 2019.

Varlık is married with a child and speaks English and Greek.

After graduating from the Department of Economics of Boğaziçi University in 2000, Hulusi Horozoğlu started his career in the same year at Citibank’s Management Associate Program in Turkey. He worked as Relationship Manager at the Financial Institutions Division of Citibank A.Ş. from 2001 to 2004, and thereafter joined HSBC in 2004. He took office at the Corporate Banking Department of HSBC Turkey as Relationship Manager, before moving on to his role as Senior Banker at the Financial Institutions and Public Sector of Citibank Turkey in 2005. Between 2006 and 2012, he served as Director of Global Islamic Banking, Syndications and Debt Capital Markets as well as Head of Non- Presence Countries, Saudi Arabia and Oman at Citigroup Dubai. He joined HSBC Turkey in 2012 and worked as Head of Global Capital Financing and Debt Finance until 2014. Between 2014 and 2016, he held Assistant General Manager, Managing Director, Head of Corporate and Investment Banking role at HSBC Turkey. During 2016 - 2018, on top of his roles as Assistant General Manager, Managing Director, Head of Wholesale Banking and Investment Banking, Horozoğlu served as Interim Regional Head of Corporate and Commercial Banking Client Coverage for Middle East, North Africa and Turkey. During 2018 - 2020, Horozoğlu worked at HSBC Dubai as Regional Head of Business Development for Middle East, North Africa and Turkey.  

He was appointed as the CEO and Board Member of Doğan Investment Bank in September 2020.

Kağan Dağtekin earned his B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering at Istanbul Technical University and his Executive MBA from Koç University with the sponsorship of Koç Group. He began his professional career in 1998 at Ford Otosan. After he completed his MBA program ranking first, he worked as Marketing Manager at Otokoç Otomotiv, as well as leading the Leasing Operations.

Dağtekin joined Grupanya.com in 2011 with the aim of gaining e-commerce experience as Deputy General Manager. He has gained entrepreneurship experience as the founding partner of Perabulvarı.com in the same year. In 2012, Kağan Dağtekin joined the Borusan Group as the Founding General Manager of Borusan Otomotiv Premium Leasing Company, was appointed as a Member of the Borusan Automotive Group after the Senior Management training he completed in France-INSEAD in 2016.

In line with the growth strategies of Doğan Group; Kağan Dağtekin joined the group at the end of 2019 as the CEO of Doğan Holding Automotive Group with the excitement of entrepreneurship and value creation; distributorships of automobiles, motorcycles, marine engines, and electric auto chargers under the roof of Doğan Trend Otomotiv; in addition to sales, marketing, leasing services, and second-hand trade, he continues his mission by focusing on new trends in the automotive market.

Kağan Dağtekin is married and has a son.

A graduate of Istanbul Technical University’s Mechanical Engineering Program, Osman Sever completed an MBA degree in 1992 and has since served in various capacities at numerous companies in the automotive industry in Turkey and abroad.

Beginning his career at Oyak Renault, Sever worked engineering, product & strategic planning, and export departments. Later, he served as Exports and Business Development Manager and then Sales Manager at Ford Otosan, Assistant General Manager Sales and Business Development at Karsan, and General Manager at Tırsan. Between 2009 and 2014, he held several positions at Egypt-based GBAuto, including the COO of Commercial Vehicles, Chief of Business Development and Strategy, as well as the GroupDeputy COO. During this period, Sever also played an active part in GBAuto’s mergers and acquisitions and facilitated the entrance of Chinese automotive and tire companies to Middle Eastern markets,

Osman Sever served as the Secretary General of the Automotive Manufacturers Association of Turkey – OSD between 2015 and 2019. During his tenure at OSD, he also served as Vice President of the TOBB Automotive Industry Council, as Board Member and then Chairman at OTAM A.Ş. and represented Turkey in international associations, including the International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers (OICA) and the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA). Sever was also the president and the rapporteur of the committee responsible for preparing the Working Group Report on the Automotive Industry, as part of the Eleventh Development Plan of Turkey. He worked to establish the the Turkish Trailer Manufacturers Association, TREDER, in 2007 and servedas its first Chairman.

Sever has been the General Manager of Ditaş Doğan Yedek Parça İmalat ve Teknik A.Ş. and the General Manager of Doğan Holding’s Industrial Businesses since November 2019. Sever has a daughter.

After graduating from İzmir Tevfik Fikret High School, Selim Şavul attended the Economy department at 9 Eylül University. In the first years of his university education, he started his career as Production and Planning Manager. After dropping out of university due to his busy work schedule, Şavul founded Sesa Plastik in 1989 with Sabi Şavul as his business partner. Fully aware that the act of idea development is a great tool for keeping the mind, and consequently the body, active, Şavul is committed to develop creative solutions for both professional and personal problems he encounters. His key qualities include problem solving, risk management and leadership.

Having had a modest beginning as a 50-sqm workshop in 1989, today Sesa Plastik operates a 20,000-sqm production facility and employs 400 people. Selim Şavul, in his term as the general manager of Sesa Plastik, embraced a vision of continuous growth, which guided him to expand the team, plan the investments required to create new products and achieve a leading spot in the Turkish market, and drive efficiency with continuous improvements. He prioritized customer satisfaction, and fostered the principle of uninterrupted and high-quality product development in his company. Şavul’s focus on sustainability led him to attach importance to R&D on recyclable and compostable packaging. Following the company’s merger with Doğan Holding in 2020, Şavul is currently the CEO of Sesa Plastik.

Selim Şavul is married and has two children.

Seylam was born in Pazarören in 1959; he graduated from Göztepe Middle School in 1973 and Fenerbahçe High School in 1976. He completed his undergraduate studies in Istanbul University’s Department of Literature, with a degree in Ancient Asia Minor Languages. Seylam began his career at Otokar AŞ’s Land Rover Parts Unit, before transferring to Temsa AŞ to serve as the Manager of the Spare Parts Department. Seylam continued his career at Ditaş A.Ş. as the Director of Sales/Exports, before taking the positions of Managing Partner at GMT Ltd and General Manager at Delpar A.Ş. Since October 2003, Seylam has been serving Çelik Halat ve Tel Sanayi A.Ş. He was named General Manager on September 20, 2019 and elected as an Executive Member to the Board of Directors on October 16, 2019.

Seylam is married and has a child.