Kantürk ÖZTÜRK- Chairman of Board of Directors
He was born in Trabzon in 1967. He completed his high school and university education in Istanbul. In 1991, he founded Revaş (Revizyon Anonim Şirketi) as a large automobile service conducting Automobile Damage and Reservation operations. In 1993, he founded ENKA Motorlu Araçlar A.Ş., which made contributions to the salvage calculation method of damaged vehicles, which is a field of operation for the insurance sector, and which consolidated corporate service concept in the sector. Subsequently, in 1995, he founded Turksis Yardım ve Servis Hizmetleri A.Ş. in the field of assistance services which he considered as a gap in the insurance sector, and led the operation of providing the first replacement vehicle in the sector. In the same period, he founded and chaired the Turkish Crane and Vehicle Carriers Association. In 2005, he founded Insurance Claim Center A.Ş. (ICC) which provides various services in the field of claim management in the sector. ICC currently continues to operate as Kuzey İncisi in the sector and in the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus. As of May 15, 2020, he resigned from his positions in these companies and played a role in the organization of Ana Sigorta upon obtaining the approval from the Insurance and Private Pension Regulatory and Supervisory Authority (SEDDK). He currently serves as the Chairman of Board of Directors of Ana Sigorta A.Ş.
Canan YILMAZ- Member of Board of Directors
She was born in Istanbul in 1985. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematical Engineering at Yıldız Technical University and Master’s Degree in Business Administration at Istanbul Technical University. She started her professional career as assistant specialist of strategic planning at Aviva Insurance in 2006. She served as Budget and Reporting executive and manager at Groupama Insurance between 2009 and 2015. Subsequently, she joined the International Affiliates team of Groupama in France in 2015 and served as the executive of Groupama SA in charge of the Mediterranean countries (Greece, Italy, Turkey and Portugal) until February 2018. She returned to Turkey in February 2018 and served as Assistant General Manager for Financial Affairs in charge of Groupama Insurance and Groupama Life and as Member of Board of Directors at Tarım Sigortaları Havuz İşletmesi A.Ş. in representation of the same company until December 2020. She has been serving as Assistant General Manager for Financial Affairs at Ana Sigorta A.Ş. as of December 1, 2020. She has good command of English and French.
Gizem ÖZTOK ALTINSAÇ- Member of Board of Directors
She was born in Ankara in 1979. She was graduated from Marmara University Department of Economics in English in 2001. She started her Master’s Degree study at Bilkent University in the same year and served as an assistant to a professor. She received her Master’s Degree from Marmara University Department of Economics in English. In 2004, she started her professional career and started to work as an Economist at Garanti Investment. She served as Chief Economist at Garanti Investment between 2012 and 2016. In the meantime, Mrs. Altınsaç was involved in large public offerings and corporate sales processes such as Türk Telekom and provides local and foreign funds with research services in Turkey and abroad in relation with the Turkish markets and economy. In 2018, Mrs. Altınsaç founded GOA Consulting Company and provides various banks and enterprises in the sector with consulting services. With her 18 year professional experience in financial markets, Mrs. Altınsaç served as Economist/Research Director at Actus Portfolio Management within Global Yatırım Holding between 2017 and 2020. Since 2011, she has been attending at İlk Söz and Küresel Piyasalar programs as a professional commentator at Bloomberg HT TV on Mondays and Thursdays and regularly publishes articles for Bloomberg HT.
Mrs. Altınsaç, who was appointed as Chief Economist for TÜSİAD in December 2020, has been giving lectures on ‘‘behavioral finance’’, ‘‘interpretation of macro data in the Turkish economy’’ and ‘‘macroeconomic estimation methods’’ for license and master’s degree students at Sabancı University and Özyeğin University.
Ayhan DAYOĞLU- Member of Board of Directors
He was born in Istanbul in 1965. Upon graduating as Mechanical Engineer from Yıldız Technical University in 1988, Ayhan Dayoğlu received Master’s Degree in Manufacturing Processes from Yıldız Technical University and Master’s Degree in Management from Sabancı University. Mr. Ayhan started his professional career as after-sale services manager at Boronkay in 1992 and joined Temsa in 1998. Upon serving as after-sale services manager, spare parts manager, bus group marketing and sales director at Temsa, he was appointed as General Manager of Temsa Egypt and lived in Cairo until October 2011. After a long and educative period at Temsa, Mr. Ayhan was appointed as executive committee member in charge of claims and operations at Aksigorta. Mr. Ayhan restructured claims and health operations of Aksigorta with the vision of supporting the sustainable growth and profitability goals of the company.
Founded Arkeon Consulting Company in 2016 to provide assistance to enterprises to cope with destructive difficulties; Mr. Dayoğlu is focused on enhancing management skills of companies and employees.
Arda TUNCAY –Member of Board of Directors and General Manager
He was born in Erzincan in 1972. He was graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Economics, Department of Economics in English (1994) and Nevşehir University Department of Tourist Guiding (2018). He started his professional career at Garanti Bank’s Inspection Committee in 1995. Served at ABN Amro Bank and then Garanti Insurance in 1999, Arda Tuncay assumed the roles of Chairman of Inspection Committee, Manager of Claim & Recovery Departments and Manager of Technical Department respectively. Arda Tuncay served as Bancassurance Sales Director at Eureko Insurance and then served as Assistant General Manager (Chief Claims Officer) at Claim & Recovery Departments at Zurich Insurance between 2014 and 2016 and Assistant General Manager at Groupama Insurance Claim & Network – Logistics & Recovery Departments between 2016 and 2017. He assumed the role of Assistant General Manager in charge of Sales Channels at Groupama Insurance since July 2017. He started to serve as General Manager of Ana Sigorta in November 2020.