Corporate Structure

Board of Directors

He was born in Ankara in 1967. He received his bachelor’s degree in public administration from METU’s Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences in 1989. Dr. Raci Kaya earned his master’s degree in economics in 1996 from Hacettepe University’s Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. In 2013, he received his Ph.D. from Marmara University’s Institute of Banking and Insurance.

Dr. Raci Kaya began his profession in 1990 and worked in a number of banks till 2007. He was Assistant General Manager at Aktif Yatırım Bankası A.Ş. till 2014, Assistant General Manager at Ziraat Katılım Bankası A.Ş. between 2015 and 2016, and Deputy Undersecretary and Deputy Undersecretary at the Ministry of Treasury and Finance of the Republic of Türkiye between 2016 and 2018.

He was the Chair of the Board of Vakıfbank from 2018 to 2019, as well as a member of the Board of Directors of Eximbank from 2016 to 2018, and the Executive Director of the IMF from November 2018 to November 2020. He has been the Deputy Undersecretary of the Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Treasury and Finance since December 2016 and was elected Chair of the Development and Investment Bank of Türkiye’s Board of Directors in November 2020.

He was born in Malatya in 1982. In 2006, he graduated from METU’s Department of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Economics. He earned his master’s degree in public administration from Carnegie Mellon University in 2015.
Between 2006 and 2009, he worked as an assistant expert in the Treasury Undersecretariat, General Directorate of Foreign Economic Relations. He then served as a specialist in various departments at the General Directorate of Public Finance until 2017.

Following these numerous appointments, he served as Head of the Department till 2020. Between 2021 to 2022, he served on the Board of Directors of the General Directorate of State Supply Office before returning to his role as the General Directorate of Public Finance of the Ministry of Treasury and Finance in December 2021. Since 2022, Mr. Karademir has served on the Board of Directors of the General Directorate of the Development and Investment Bank of Türkiye.

He was born in Şanlurfa in 1969. He graduated from METU’s Faculty of Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering, in 1991. He received his master’s degree in business administration from Bilkent University.

He held senior positions in investment banking at Türkiye Sınai Kalkınma Bankası A.Ş., Körfezbank A.Ş., and Garanti Yatırım Menkul Kıymetler A.Ş. during his career. He was appointed General Manager of the Development and Investment Bank of Türkiye in August 2018, where he also serves as a member of the TKYB Board of Directors, KOSGEB Executive Committee Member, and TII- Turkish Investment Initiative Board Member.

In October 2021, he began his duties as Chair of the Board of the Turkish Capital Markets Association, and in February 2021, he began his duties as Deputy Chair of the Board of the Central Registry Agency. He continues to serve as the Chair of the Board at Kalkınma Girişim Sermaye Portföy Yönetim A.Ş., which started in February 2021.

He was born in İzmit in 1965. He received his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Boğaziçi University’s Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences in 1989. Between 1994 and 1999, he was General Manager at Toprak Factoring and Toprak Leasing, General Manager at CBank between 1999 and 2004, and Board Member in charge of Risk Management and Internal Audit at Bank Pozitif between 2004 and 2006.

H. Bayraktar Yatırım Holding A.Ş., Ege Endüstri Holding A.Ş., Baylas Otomotiv A.Ş., Baytur Motorlu Vastalar A.Ş., Bayraktar Gayrimenkul Geliştirme A.Ş., Bayraktar Otomotiv ve Servis Hiz. A.Ş.

He was born in Samsun in 1970. He graduated from Istanbul University’s Department of Business Administration in 1991. He received his master’s and doctorate degrees from Marmara University, Institute of Banking and Insurance. He began his work at Al Baraka Türk in 1991 as a Second Manager in the Project Department, a post he held until 1997.

Between 1997 and 2001, he worked as a Finance Coordinator for the Orion Asya Group of Companies. He then worked as the Head of Risk Management at Family Finans Kurumu A.Ş. until 2005, as the Head of the Risk Management Group at T.C. Ziraat Bankası A.Ş. until 2007, and as the Assistant General Manager, Board of Directors, and Audit Committee Member at Aktif Yatırım Bankası A.Ş. until 2009. Between 2011 and 2015, Dr. Turgay Geçer worked as a Project Manager and Advisor to General Manager at Belbim A.Ş. In 2010, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor at Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University, a position he held until 2018. He has been a member of the TKYB Board of Directors since 2019 and of the Kalkınma Yatırım Varlık Kiralama A.Ş.

He was born in Çankırı in 1971. He earned his bachelor’s degree in finance from Afyon Kocatepe University in 1993 and his master’s degree from Beykent University. Between 1995 and 1996, he began his professional career with Faisal Finance Institution. He then had several jobs in the participation banking sector till 2011. Assistant Marketing Specialist, Project Marketing Group Manager, Credit Service Manager, Assistant General Manager in charge of Credit Monitoring, Legal Consultancy, and Credit Revision Units were among the jobs held. He was a Board Member and Credit Committee Member at T.C. Ziraat Bankası A.Ş. between 2012 and 2014, as well as Vice Chair of Ziraat Leasing A.Ş. and Member of Ziraat Bankası Moscow Board of Directors. He joined Halk Bank in 2014 as Deputy General Manager of SME Banking Marketing, Deputy General Manager of Financial Management and Planning, Acting Deputy General Manager of Human Resources and Quality Organization, Chair of the Board of Halk Factoring A.Ş., and Board Member of Halk Bank Serbia. He was the Assistant General Manager of SME Banking and the General Manager of Şekerbank between 2017 and 2020. He assumed the post of Board Member at Türkiye Kalkınma ve Yatırım Bankası A.Ş. in July 2020, and as of February 2022, he took the job of General Manager at Kredi Garanti Fonu A.Ş., which he still holds today.

He began his employment as an Assistant Tax Inspector in 2011, passed the qualification exam, and was appointed as a Tax Inspector by a royal decree issued in the Official Gazette on July 1, 2015, and numbered 29403. Between September 2017 and April 2018, he held an administrative post at the Tax Inspection Board’s Presidency, where he also worked as the Rapporteur of the Central Report Evaluation Commission and at the Board’s Legislation Unit.

With the Ministry’s approval, he served as the Deputy Secretary General of the Tax Council from April 2018 until March 2019. He was a member of the Tax Council’s working group on income and corporate tax reform, as well as the Istanbul Finance Center. Following these accomplishments, he served as the Tax Audit Board’s Deputy Chair of the Board from April 2019 to June 2021. He began his duties as the Secretary General of the Tax Council at the Ministry of Treasury and Finance of the Republic of Türkiye in January 2020 and will stay until July 2021. He has been the Minister of Treasury and Finance’s Advisor to the Minister since December 2021 and the Deputy General Manager of Financial Markets and Foreign Exchange since June 10, 2022.