Atalay Gümrah graduated from Galatasaray Lycée and Boğaziçi University’s Industrial Engineering Department. He received a master’s degree in industrial engineering from the same university.

Gümrah initiated his career in 1992 at Ekom Eczacıbaşı Foreign Trade as Regional Manager. In 1994, he was appointed Commercial Manager of VitrA UK, and in 1997, General Manager of the Group’s newly established marketing and sales company in Russia, EBM Jsc., where he was given the responsibility of developing its business. In 1999, Gümrah joined Intema Building Materials Marketing and Sales, where he served respectively as Projects and Operation Manager, Sales Operation Manager, Assistant General Manager, and General Manager, a position he held between 2006 and 2011. In January 2011, he was appointed Vice President of the Eczacıbaşı Building Products Division (Bathrooms) and General Manager of Eczacıbaşı Building Products, and in October 2013, he was given the additional role of Executive Vice President of the Eczacıbaşı Building Products Division. A member of the Board of several Building Products Division companies, Gümrah was appointed CEO of the Eczacıbaşı Group effective as of 1 February 2017.

In addition to serving on the boards of several Eczacıbaşı Group companies, Gümrah is Chairperson of the Clay, Ceramic, Cement and Glass Industry Employers’ Association of Türkiye and, since January 2022, Chairperson representing Türkiye on the Türkiye-Germany Business Council of the Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEİK).

Mert Karasu, born in 1974, completed his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering at Yıldız Technical University in 1996 and his master’s in business administration at Southern Polytechnic State University in 2006.

Karasu began his career in 1998 as a customer service assistant at Eczacıbaşı Building Products and continued in this field over the next decade, serving as Customer Service Specialist at VitrA USA between 2003 and 2008. In 2008, Karasu transferred to Intema as a Category Manager, and in 2011, he returned to Eczacıbaşı Building Products where he served first as Sales Services Manager, then International Sales Director, Regional Director (Asia Pacific), and Customer Experience Director. In 2023, he was appointed Commercial Director at VitrA Tile, and on November 1, 2024, he was assigned to his current post as CEO of VitrA Tile.

Born in 1972, Hasan Pehlivan received an undergraduate degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University in 1994 and an MBA from Boğaziçi University in 2004.

Pehlivan began his professional career in 1994 in the oil and natural gas sector with Schlumberger Oilfield Services. He served as Field Engineer in China, Operational Manager in South Sumatra, Indonesia, and Technical Manager in Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan and Thailand. In 2000, Pehlivan was appointed Global Marketing Manager in the Production Services division of Schlumberger Wireline Headquarters in Paris. In 2002, he moved to the Smart Card division as Sales and Marketing Manager in charge of telecom, payment systems and government programs. In 2005, he became Schlumberger Country Director for Turkey. Upon merger of smart card business in 2006 to form Gemalto, Pehlivan became General Manager of Turkey and Director of Middle East Payment Systems.”

In 2011, Pehlivan took charge of an international advisory network in 15 countries as Senior Advisor of the Republic of Turkey Prime Ministry Investment Support and Promotion Agency. Over the following four years, he contributed to research on energy, innovation, advanced technology and other fields. Pehlivan joined the Eczacıbaşı Group in January 2015 as Director of Business Development in the Eczacıbaşı Building Products Division. Pehlivan was assigned the additional position of VitrA Tiles General Manager In September 2016, and General Manager of Villeroy Boch Fliesen GmbH in July 2019, thus giving him full responsibility for all ceramic tiles operations.

Hasan Pehlivan assumed the role CEO of Eczacıbaşı Building Products as of November 1, 2024.

Emin Fadıllıoğlu initiated his career in 1991 as Medical Doctor at Haydarpaşa Numune Hospital. In 1996, he joined Abbott Turkey as Marketing Trainee and progressed on different roles with increasing responsibilities. Between 2002 and 2005 he worked as Area Commercial Director - Abbott Diabetes Care for Asia Pacific & Japan based in Tokyo, and then between 2005 and 2008, as Division Vice President for Europe, Middle East, Africa & India based in Frankfurt, Germany. Between 2008 and 2012, Fadıllıoğlu worked as General Manager at Abbott Turkey. Then, he served as Vice President and General Manager at GSK Pharmaceuticals Turkey between 2012 and 2017.

Born in 1968, Emin Fadıllıoğlu received his graduate degree from Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty of İstanbul University in 1991 and his MBA degree from Marmara University in 1993.

Emre Kayışoğlu, formerly General Manager at Eti Bakır, was appointed to the post of CEO of Esan, on April 1, 2024.

Kayışoğlu started his professional career as Production Engineer at Mensan Otomotiv in 2005. After working in different sales and marketing functions, he served as Sales and Marketing Director at Eti Alüminyum between 2006 and 2017. In 2017, he was appointed General Manager at Eti Bakır, and in 2020, he was given the additional role of General Manager at ICoNiChem Widnes.

Born in 1981, Emre Kayışoğlu graduated from Dokuz Eylül University’s Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering in 2004.

Bülent Kozlu received his BA degree in Political Science from Harvard University and his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Kozlu started his career in 2003 as an investment banking analyst at Lazard’s New York office. Between 2005 and 2015, he worked at The Carlyle Group’s North America buyout fund, Bain Capital’s European private equity fund and Turkven Private Equity, where he covered a wide range of sectors. Between 2015 and 2019, Kozlu was Managing Partner of Intus Capital, a real estate private equity firm he established with EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) and Nef Real Estate, a leading Turkish real estate developer. He also acted as Chief Investment Officer at Nef during this time.

Bülent Kozlu served as Chief Investment Officer at Eczacıbaşı Holding from January 2020 until October 2022. He led the Group’s investment and M&A activity. He was also responsible for the Group’s real estate activities, Eczacıbaşı-Monrol, E-kart and Eczacıbaşı Insurance.

He has been working as the CEO of Eczacıbaşı Consumer Products since October 2022.

Özcan Konak received his undergraduate degree from the Economics Department of Ankara University’s Faculty of Political Science in 2002, his MBA degree from the Fordham University Gabelli School of Business in 2014, and his PhD degree from Marmara University Business Administration Department in 2023.

Konak initiated his career in 2002 as a full-time teaching and research assistant at Ankara University Department of Economics. In 2003, he joined the economic research department of Turkey’s Treasury, and in 2007, he moved to the audit department of Turkey’s Ministry of Finance as a tax auditor of large-scale taxpayers.

Konak joined Eczacıbaşı Holding in 2014 and then served as Tax and Legislation Director between 2017 and 2019. In 2019 he was appointed to the Audit Board of the Eczacıbaşı Group in charge of Internal Audit and Tax and designated General Secretary of the Board of Directors. In April 2022, in addition to his role as General Secretary, Özcan Konak was appointed Chief Audit Officer of the Eczacıbaşı Group responsible for all international audit and tax management activities within Group companies.

Born in 1979, Ferit Erin received his undergraduate double major degree in Computer Engineering and Mathematics at Boğaziçi University in 2003 and his graduate degree in Computer Science at Purdue University in 2005.

Erin initiated his career in 2004 as Business Analyst at Capital One Financial Services. In 2007, he moved to Value Partners Management Consultancy, serving first as Consultant and then Project Manager. In 2009, he joined the Eczacıbaşı Group as Senior Strategic Planning Specialist at Eczacıbaşı Holding. Between 2009 and 2018, he served in various strategic planning and marketing functions at Eczacıbaşı Holding and Eczacıbaşı Building Products. At Eczacıbaşı Building Products, he was appointed General Manager in 2018, Europe Regional Director in 2020, and Strategy Director in 2023.

Ferit Erin assumed the role of Eczacıbaşı Group Chief Financial Officer on May 1, 2024.

İpek Güleç received her undergraduate degree in Quantitative Economics and International Relations from Tufts University in 2006.
Güleç started her career in 2006 as an Analyst at JPMorgan Chase Investment Banking Division in New York, focusing on mergers and acquisitions and capital restructuring in the Financial Institutions Group.
In 2007 she joined Actera Group, a leading private equity firm focusing on investments in Turkey. At Actera, she respectively assumed the roles of Analyst, Associate, Senior Associate, Vice President and Director between 2007 and 2022.
Since January 2023, Güleç serves as the Chief Investment Officer of Eczacıbaşı Holding.

Born in 1976, Özgür received her undergraduate degree from Industrial Engineering department of Istanbul Technical University in 1998, her graduate degree from Human Resources Management department of Istanbul University in 2003 and her PhD from Labor Economics and Industrial Relations department of the same university in 2010.

Özgür, initiated her career in 1999 as Total Quality Specialist at Aselsan. She joined Eczacıbaşı Group in 1999 as Junior Human Resources Specialist at Eczacıbaşı Holding. Between 2005 and 2013, she worked as Human Resources Manager at Eczacıbaşı Girişim. Between 2013 and 2019, she worked as Human Resources Director responsible for all Consumer Products Division companies. Between 2016 and 2018 she also served as Supply Chain Director at the same company. Between 2019 and 2020 she worked as Human Resources Director for Holding Company. As of 2021, Eylem Özgür was appointed as Eczacıbaşı Holding Chief Human Resources Officer.

Born in 1974, Hilmi Koçak completed his undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi University in 1996.

In 1995, he started his career as a software engineer at Escort Software. In 1997, he joined Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, where he served first as a Systems Analyst, then Project Manager through 1999. Following appointments as Director of Information Technologies at Bosch Thermotechnic between 2001 and 2003, and Project Manager at Pfizer America from 2003 to 2004, he moved to Johnson Diversey where he served first as Director of Information Technologies in charge of Türkiye, then Director of Information Technologies in charge of Southeastern Europe, Türkiye and Israel. In 2008, he joined Abdi İbrahim Pharmaceuticals as Director of Information Technologies, and in 2013, he became the CIO at CLK Enerji. In 2014, he joined the Eczacıbaşı Group as Director of Information Technologies at Eczacıbaşı Consumer Products, and in 2021 he moved to Esan, where he also served as Director of Information Technologies before his appointment as Eczacıbaşı Group CIO in September 2022.

Born in 1984, Nejat Emre Eczacıbaşı received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University’s Department of Economics in 2006 and MBA from Columbia Business School in 2011.

Before joining the Eczacıbaşı Group’s Strategic Planning and Finance Division in 2008, he worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers Turkey as a financial consultant. Between 2011 and 2013, he undertook several microfinance and social entrepreneurship projects through a company he established to help reduce unemployment in Turkey and other developing countries by reviving traditional crafts.

In 2013, he returned to Turkey and the Eczacıbaşı Group as a member of the Building Products Division’s Strategic Marketing team. In 2015, he was appointed General Manager responsible for all operations related to the Division’s kitchen business. During this period, he established İntema Yaşam to transform the kitchen into a living center responding to a new generation of needs.

Emre Eczacıbaşı was appointed to his current position as Member of the Board of Eczacıbaşı Holding and Coordinator of Innovation and Entrepreneurship for the Eczacıbaşı Group in 2019. He also serves on the boards of several Eczacıbaşı Group companies, the Business4Goals Platform and the Turkish Entrepreneurship Foundation.

Esra Eczacıbaşı Coşkun received her undergraduate degree in Economics and Art History from Harvard University in 2011, and began her professional career at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. A year later, she returned to Turkey to work at Istanbul Modern, where she spearheaded the establishment of “Genç Modern”, Turkey’s first museum membership program for adults in the 21 to 40 age group. In 2014, Coşkun joined the Eczacıbaşı Group as a Strategic Planning Specialist, later becoming Brand Manager in the Consumer Products Division. After receiving her MBA from INSEAD in 2015, she joined McKinsey&Company as a consultant in a variety of projects.

In 2017, Coşkun was appointed Business Development Manager in the Eczacıbaşı Group’s Strategic Planning Department, and in 2018 and 2019 respectively, to her current positions as co-General Manager of Burgbad AG and Eczacıbaşı Group Digital Transformation Coordinator.

Esra Eczacıbaşı Coşkun is a member of the Eczacıbaşı Group and the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art’s Board of Directors.

She is also a representative of the Turkey-U.S. Business Council (TAİK) as part of the Foreign Economic Relations Board of Turkey (DEİK), and holds membership of Endeavor Turkey and the Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜSİAD).

Devrim Çubukçu joined the Eczacıbaşı Group in 2015. Before his current position as Sustainability, Corporate and Government Affairs Coordinator, he served first as Vice President of Corporate Communications, then Advisor to the CEO and Chairman on Corporate and Government Affairs. He is also a member of the boards of Esan, Eczacıbaşı Monrol Nuclear Medicine - Egypt, and the Dr. Nejat F. Eczacıbaşı Foundation.

Besides his roles at the Eczacıbaşı Group, Çubukçu is the member of the World Economic Forum’s Eurasia Policies Board. In DEIK (the Foreign Economic Relations Board of Turkey), he is Vice Chairman of the Germany Business Council and the board member of the UK Business Council. He also sits on the boards of TESEV, Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation; Kurumsal İlişkiler Enstitüsü, Corporate Relations Institute and OSGD, Private Sector Volunteers Association.

Devrim Çubukçu has 28 years of experience in Turkey and abroad. He studied his undergraduate degree in the Political Science and International Relations Department of Boğaziçi University and master’s degree in the Economics Department of George Mason University, where he focused on electoral systems, public pressure groups and constitutional economics.

Akalın was born in Tarsus in 1972. She received her undergraduate degree from the Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration at Middle East Technical University in 1994 and her master's in Women's Studies from the same faculty in 1997. While completing her graduate studies, she was Project Coordinator of the UNDP's "National Program to Strengthen the Participation of Women in Development".

Akalın joined the Eczacıbaşı Group in 1998 as a core member of the newly forming corporate communications team. She is now Director of Corporate Communications and General Secretary of the Dr. Nejat F. Eczacıbaşı Foundation, which is dedicated to supporting education and scientific research in Turkey, and to preserving and promoting Turkey's cultural and artistic production.

İlkay Akalın is a member of the Eczacıbaşı Group's Equal Opportunity Working Group, established in 2014 to raise awareness about issues related to gender equality and determine measures for facilitating the equal participation of women in business life.

She is also a soloist and vocalist of Ecza Dolabı, a musical group made up of Eczacıbaşı Group employees that performs charity concerts to raise money for foundations and social projects.

Akalın is married, has two children, and is fluent in English.

Cem Tanrıkılıcı was born in Istanbul in 1966. He completed his undergraduate degree in the School of Journalism (now Faculty of Communications) at Istanbul University and his master's in Business Management and Organization at Istanbul University's School of Management. Tanrıkılıcı began his career in journalism in 1984 as a copy reader at Dünya newspaper, then became page designer, Chief of National News, and Managing Editor of the same newspaper.

In 1993, Tanrıkılıcı joined the Günaydın publishing company as Economics Editor of Günaydın newspaper and Editor-in-Chief of the Ekonomik Bülten newspaper. In 1995, he was appointed Editor-in-Chief of Barometre newspaper and Economics Editor of the Kanal E television channel, where he was also responsible for producing and presenting a variety of programs.

Tanrıkılıcı joined the Eczacıbaşı Group in 2000 as Director of Press Relations.