Board of Directors

Ömer A. Aras

Chairman

Dr. Aras graduated  from the Academy of Economic and Commercial Sciences, Department of Economics, in 1975. He received an MBA in 1978 and a PhD in Business Administration in 1981 from Syracuse University. Over the next three years, he was a faculty member at the Business Administration Department of Ohio State University, and worked as a consultant. Between 1984 and 1987, he served as Credit Marketing Manager and Credit Committee Member at Citibank, and worked as the Head of Yapı Kredi Securities. Dr. Aras participated in the founding of Finansbank A.Ş in 1987, and served as Assistant General Manager for two years and as General Manager for six years and as an Executive Board Member of Finansbank A.Ş and Vice Chairman of Fiba Holding from 1989 to 2006. Between 2003 and 2007 he held the Board Member position in TUSIAD (Turkish Industrialists' Businessmen's Association). Mr. Aras served as Vice Chairman of Finansbank A.Ş. and Group CEO of Finansbank A.Ş Group of Financial Companies (FinansLeasing, QNB Finansinvest and QNB Finans Asset Management) between 2006 (November) - 2010 (April). Dr. Aras was appointed as Chairman in April 2010.

Yousef Mahmood Hussain Naama Al-Neama

Vice Chairman

Mr. Al-Neama received his bachelor of science degree in Aviation Management from Florida Institute of Technology in 1989. He also has a diploma in Business Administration from Glamorgan University (Wales) in 2004. Prior to joining QNB, Mr. Al-Neama worked as an Executive Manager International & Institutional Banking in Doha Bank between 2003 and 2004. After he joined QNB in 2005, he served at various positions at QNB such as Executive Manager in Corporate Products Marketing, Executive Manager in International Banking. Following his duties, he was appointed as a CEO of QNB Syria between 2010 and 2011. In 2013, he served as a General Manager of International Business division through the year. Mr. Al-Neama served as a General Manager of Group Corporate and Institutional Banking at QNB between 2014 and 2019. He is currently the Executive General Manager of Group Chief Business Officer at QNB. As of May 2019, he serves as a Member of the Board of Directors of QNB.

Adel Ali M.A. Al-Malki

Member of the Board of Directors

Mr. Al-Malki holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Technology from Qatar University in 2001. (Doha, Qatar) He started his career in QNB in 2003. He served various positions since 2003 at QNB. He served as a System Analyst between 2003 and 2005 following that he also served as an Executive Manager Develepment & User Services and Assistant General Manager Development & User Services between 2007 and 2010. Mr. Al-Malki has been a General Manager Group Information Technology of QNB since 2010. As of May 2019, he serves as a Member of the Board of Directors of QNB.

Ramzi Talat A Mari

Member of the Board of Directors

He joined QNB in 1997 from Jordan Bank and is the current General Manager and Chief Financial Officer. He completed the Certified Public Accountant Examination from the State of California, USA and holds Master's Degree in Accounting from USA. Currently, he is a board member at Housing Bank for Trade and Finance (Jordan), QNB ALAHLI S.A.E. (Egypt), QNB Capital LLC, Qatar International Holding LLC.

Noor Mohammad Al-Naimi

Member of the Board of Directors

She joined QNB in 2000. Held various positions in the Treasury Operations and Control Division until becoming Assistant General Manager Treasury Operations Trading & Investment. 
In 2014 she was appointed as Acting General Manager Group Treasury. She had a bachelor's degree from Qatar University from Business Administration.

Fatma A Al-Suwaidi

Member of the Board of Directors

Ms. Fatma Abdulla Al-Suwaidi joined QNB in 2000 and, with over 20 years of banking experience, she currently serves as its Group Chief Risk Officer, having previously been Head of Credit Administration (2012-2013) and Assistant General Manager - Group Credit (2013-2018). In addition, Ms. Al-Suwaidi is currently the President Commissioner of QNB Indonesia.

Ms. Fatma Abdulla Al-Suwaidi has a BSc in Accounting, a Master's Degree in Business Administration (Qatar University) and MSc in Risk Management (University of New York), and a Juris Doctor Degree (Hamad Bin Khalifa University). She holds a particular interest in banking innovation and is in the advanced stages of completing a Doctorate in Business Administration from Grenoble University, France, on the subject of "Innovation in Banking and Financial Market", focusing on crypto currencies.

Yeşim Güra

Member of the Board of Directors

Yeşim is an Independent and International Finance Corporation (IFC) nominated Board Director serving on multiple boards in Turkey and Europe. She has more than 30 years of executive experience including full P&L responsibility with multinationals and large corporations like P&G, Danone, Draeger in the fields of Consumer Goods, Food and Beverage, Life Sciences and lately in Technology. She serves as IFC nominee director on the Board for Acibadem City Clinic BV, based in Amsterdam for Hospital Operations in the Balkans, an Independent Board Director for Pinar Dairy Products, and an Independent Board Director for Altın Yunus Cesme Tourism Company in Turkey.  She is an International Advisor to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Business Coach under European Innovation Council (EIC), Strategic Advisor to CEOs and Boards. 

Yeşim is a Qualified Risk Director® and Regional Director of DCRO (Directors and Chief Risk Officers) Institute for Belgium and Turkey.  She serves on the Supervisory Board of DCRO Institute in the USA, as a Board member of Board Members Association in Turkey and a member of the Global Deans Council of Kelley School of Business, USA.

Yeşim Güra holds an MBA from Kelley School of Business in the USA and a BA degree from Bogaziçi University in Turkey.

Saleh Nofal

Member of the Board of Directors

Mr. Nofal joined QNB Group in 2003 and served as the Group Chief Compliance Officer of QNB Group for over 15 years. He has over 36 years of banking and financial services industry experience and specializes in the Compliance, Audit & Risk fields. Prior to joining QNB, Mr. Nofal worked with the Arab Bank Group, Jordan Ahli Bank, the Arab World Auditing Bureau and a Jordanian Public Accountancy Firm. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce with a number of professional certifications like the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Certified Compliance Officer (CCO) and has a professional Diploma in Audit and Accounting. Mr. Nofal is also a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) and Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA). In addition, he is a member of MENA Financial Crime Compliance Group (FCCG) in partnership with the Union of Arab Banks.

Durmuş Ali Kuzu

Member of the Board of Directors and Audit Committee

Mr. Kuzu, Ph.D., has been a member of QNB Finansbank Board of Directors since 2016 with the deep knowledge and experience he gained in the banking and finance sector, where he worked for many years as a banker and supervisor.  Within the same year, he was assigned as the member of the Bank’s Audit Committee which is responsible for the efficient running of internal systems, risk management, compliance and internal control units. He completed his master's degree in Business Administration at the University of Illinois in the United States in 2008 and received his Ph.D in the field of Accounting and Finance at Başkent University in 2018. Until today, Mr. Kuzu, Ph.D has taken charge in many national and international committees, acted as a state representative in BASEL and FSB Banking Committees, worked as FSAP country coordinator, carried out studies concerning banking-finance regulation and audit practices of various countries such as the USA, England as well as European Union, attended various seminars and conferences. In addition to his book publications, his articles and papers were published in magazines and discussed at various conferences. He lectured at universities. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of TMA Turkey and Foundation of Sworn Bank Auditors.

Temel Güzeloğlu

Member of the Board of Directors

Born in 1969, Mr. Güzeloglu has BSc degrees from the Electrical and Electronics Engineering; and Physics Departments of the Bosphorus University. Güzeloglu was later entitled to an MSc degree from Northeastern University, Electrical and Computer Engineering and an MBA from Bilgi University. Before joining Finansbank A.Ş Güzeloglu worked in McKinsey & Co., Citibank and Unilever in various positions. Güzeloglu worked as the Executive Vice President responsible for Consumer Banking till August 2008. He then served as Executive Vice President responsible for Retail Banking and Member of Management Committee until April 2010. Mr. Guzeloglu was appointed to General Manager in April 2010 and served until January 2022. He has been working as a member of the board of directors since then.

Ömür Tan

Member of the Board of Directors and CEO

Born in 1971, Ömür Tan graduated from Ankara Atatürk Anadolu College. He completed his undergraduate study at the Statistical Department of Hacettepe University and MBA Degree at Bilgi University. Tan began to work at Yapı Kredi Bankası as a Management Trainee in 1995 and joined Finansbank A.Ş in 1998. After taking various roles in Corporate Branches, he was assigned as Corporate Branch Manager, Head Office Key Account Senior Vice President and then, Corporate Banking Senior Vice President. As of 2011, he acts as the Executive Vice President for Corporate and Commercial Banking, together with the functions of Project Finance and Cash Management and Foreign Trade Financing. He was appointed as the General Manager of QNB Finansbank as of January 2022. Ömür Tan is also the Chairman of QNB Finansfaktoring and the Vice Chairman of QNB eFinans.

MANAGEMENT & EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENTS

Adnan Menderes Yayla

Executive Vice President, Financial Control and Planning

Born in Ankara in 1963, Yayla graduated from the Economics Department of the Faculty of Political Science of the Ankara University in 1985. He did his MBA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1992-1994. He worked for the Ministry of Finance as an Assistant Auditor and Auditor from 1985-1995; for the Privatization Administration as a Project Valuation Division Chief from 1995-1996; for Price Waterhouse Coopers as a Manager, a Senior Manager, and a Partner in their Istanbul and London offices from 1996-2000; and for the Türk Dış Ticaret Bankası (Fortis) as the Executive Vice President in charge of the Financial Comptrolling Group and Risk Management from 2000-2008. He joined Finansbank A.Ş  on 20 May 2008 as an Executive Vice President and the Group CFO. He has been a Member of Management Committee of Finansbank A.Ş and the Group CFO since August 2008. As of October 2013, he holds the title of Vice General Manager for Financial Control and Planning, as well as Group CFO.

Ahmet Erzengin

Head of Internal Control and Compliance

Mr. Erzengin received his bachelor’s degree at the Public Administration Department of the Middle East Technical University. He worked for the Pamukbank from 1988 to 1993. He joined QNB Finansbank A.Ş. as the Regulations Manager in 1993. In 1996, he was appointed the Head of the Operations Group to manage the operations of the branches and the headquarters. He served as the Head of Operations in operations center from the establishment of the operation center in 2001 to the end of 2005. In early 2006, he supervised the establishment of the Compliance Division and he served as the Head of Compliance until September 2012.  By that date he took also the responsibility of Internal Control Department and Mr. Erzengin has been working as the Head of Internal Control and Compliance Division ever since.

Ali Yılmaz

Chief Legal Officer-Executive Vice President

Yılmaz graduated from İstanbul University Law School. Active in business since 1996, Yılmaz received his finance education at University of Toronto in 2000. With an MBA from Koç University, he started his banking career at Dışbank in 2002. He served as Director of Legal Affairs at Fortisbank A.Ş. and as a member of the Board and Legal Counsel at Societe Generale Turkey. Yılmaz joined QNB Finansbank A.Ş in 2016 and has been acting as Chief Legal Counsel since May 2018.

Burçin Dündar Tüzün

Executive Vice President, Corporate and Commercial Credits

Tüzün completed her undergraduate study in Civil Engineering at the Engineering Faculty, Middle East Technical University in 1997 and her Master’s in business administration at Bilkent University Business Administration Faculty in 1999. She started her banking career as assistant auditor at Finansbank A.Ş. Internal Audit Department in 1999, joined Corporate Credits Allocation Department in 2005 and served as corporate credits manager, division manager and department manager. She was appointed Corporate and Commercial Credits Director responsible for Corporate, Commercial and Structured Finance Credits Allocation in 2016. Tüzün additionally took Credits Monitoring and Financial Institutions Credits Management responsibility in 2018. She has been appointed as Corporate and Commercial Credits Executive Vice President since December 2019.

Cenk Akıncılar

Executive Vice President, Human Resources

Born in 1973, Akıncılar graduated from the Mathematics Department of the Faculty of Science and Literature at Eskişehir Anadolu/Osmangazi University in 1996. He served as a mathematics teacher for 3 months. He worked as the Senior Officer responsible for Salary and Industrial Relations at Human Resources Department of Pamukbank between 1998 and May 2003. He joined QNB Finansbank in May 2003. He worked as Human Resources Assistant Manager responsible for Recruitment, System Development and Projects; manager of the Organizational Development, Performance, Strategic Reporting and Revenue Management, Employee Rights and Systemic Authorization Management, then became division manager of Human Resources Management Systems and Revenue Management, Employee Rights and Systemic Authorization Management Department. Akıncılar was assigned as the Director of Human Resources in July 2018, and has been appointed as Human Resources Executive Vice President since January 2019.

Cumhur Türkmen

Executive Vice President, Enpara.com

Born in 1976, Türkmen has BSc degree from the Mathematical Engineering Department of Yıldız Technical University and MBA Degree from Bilgi University. He began his career in 1997 as a Software Engineer in Sabancı Holding. He joined QNB Finansbank in 2000 and worked as a Software Engineer and Project Manager at IBTech A.Ş., a technology subsidiary of QNB Finansbank until 2010. He became the manager of Business Development and Strategy Office of QNB Finansbank in 2010, Group Manager of CEO Office in 2012 and Director of Digital Banking at Enpara.com in 2015. Being one of the founding executives of Enpara.com, Cumhur Türkmen continues his role as Executive Vice President in Enpara.com since July 2018.

Derya Düner

Executive Vice President, QNBEYOND-Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Born in 1980, Düner graduated from the School of Engineering at Bogazici University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering. Between the years 2003 – 2006 at Mercedes Benz and between 2006 – 2007 at Pfizer, she undertook several positions in the fields of marketing, project management and strategy. In 2007, she joined QNB Finansbank as a Manager in Retail Banking. Following various responsibilities, she acted as one of the founding executives of Enpara.com throughout its set-up. After Enpara.com’s launch in 2012, she worked as the Director of Customer Management. In 2015, in addition to her existing responsibilities, she launched and ran the Customer Experience Management Office of QNB Finansbank. In January 2018, she founded QNBEYOND, the Innovation Department, and ran the department as the Director responsible for innovation. Düner continues her role as the Executive Vice President at QNBEYOND since January 2020.

Engin Turhan

Executive Vice President, ME and Commercial Banking

Born in 1980, Turhan received his bachelor's degree in Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Marmara University and holds a master's degree in International Political Economy and Management. He began his career in the MT (Management Trainee) program at Finansbank A.Ş. in 2003. After having worked in various divisions of the Loans Department till 2005, Turhan transferred to Project Finance where he held positions of specialist and manager in Project Monitoring, Project Appraisal, Corporate Finance, and Syndicated Loans divisions. Following his assignment in 2012 as the Group Manager of Corporate Banking Structured Finance and Syndicated Loans, he was appointed as the Director of Corporate Derivatives Sales in 2014. Commercial Banking was added to his existing duties in 2015 and as of June 2016, he took on the position as the Executive Vice President in charge of Commercial Banking and Project Finance. As of January 2022, he continues to act as the Executive Vice President in charge of ME and Commercial Banking, together with the functions of Cash Management and Foreign Trade.

Enis Kurtoğlu

Executive Vice President, Retail and Private Banking

He has BA degree from Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of Bogazici University and completed his MBA in University of London. He was the Marketing Director in Citibank Turkey between 1999-2002 and worked in several managerial positions in Citibank London between 2002-2006. During 2006-2010 he was the director of Marketing Unit of Citibank Turkey . He then joined Finansbank A.Ş Retail Banking Department as a Group Manager in 2010. He worked as the Director of Retail Banking and Direct Sales  between 2012-2014 and recently appointed as the Executive Vice President of Retail Banking.

Ersin Emir

Head of Internal Audit

Born in Eskişehir in 1971, Mr. Emir graduated from Middle East Technical University, Department of Business Administration, in 1994. He received his master's degree in Organizational Psychology at the University of London in 2010. He started his banking career in 1995 at İşbank as an Assistant Auditor. Mr. Emir then started to work at the Internal Audit Department of Finansbank A.Ş as an Auditor in 1998 and was appointed as the Deputy CAE in 2004. He was in charge of the Head Office and Subsidiary Audits in the past two years, after which he was appointed as the Chief Audit Executive in March 2011.

İsmail Işık

Executive Vice President, Loan Monitoring and Follow-Up

İsmail Işık was born in 1980. He graduated from Istanbul University faculty of Business Administration (English) and  received his executive MBA degree from İTÜ Management Engineering Faculty in 2006. He started his banking career at Finansbank A.Ş Internal Audit Department as an assistant auditor in 2003. He worked as an Auditor, Senior Auditor and Unit Head until 2012 at Internal Audit Department. He was appointed as a division manager of SME Loan Monitoring and Remedial Management Department in 2012 and than worked as a Director of Loan Monitoring, Remedial and NPL Management responsible with SME-Commercial-Corporate segments since 2017. İsmail Işık additionally took all segments responsibility in September 2021 and he has been appointed as Loan Monitoring and Follow-Up Executive Vice President since January 2023.

Köksal Çoban

Executive Vice President, Treasury

1967-born Çoban received his BA from the Business Administration Department of the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey in 1990. Receiving a master's degree in finance from the City University, Çoban worked for Türk Eximbank and Demirbank A.Ş. between 1995 and 1997. Appointed the International Markets Director with Finansbank A.Ş the same year, he served as Finansbank A.Ş's International Markets Group Chief from 1998-2000. Assuming a number of managerial posts in the Treasury Department thereafter, Çoban has been the Finansbank A.Ş Executive Vice President in charge of Treasury since August 2008.

Mehmet Kürşad Demirkol

Executive Vice President, Information Technologies, Operation, Channels & Business Development

Mr. Demirkol was born in 1973. He graduated from the Bilkent University, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 1995 with ranking 1st among the graduates.  He received his M.Sc. and Ph. D. degrees from Stanford University. He worked as Associate Application Engineer at Oracle - Redwood from 1996 till 1997 and Research Assistant at the Stanford University from 1997 till 1999. He served as Senior Associate at the Atlanta and İstanbul offices of McKinsey&Company between 1999 and 2003. He worked in the Business Development and Strategy Department at Finansbank A.Ş between 2004 and 2005 and worked as VP of IT and Card Operations at Finansbank Russia in 2005. He served as Business Development and Marketing Director at Memorial Healthcare Group from 2005 till 2007.In 2007, he became the head of Information Technologies at Vakıfbank and was assigned as Chief Information Officer and additionally became the Chief Operation Officer in 2008. Mr. Demirkol has been working as Executive Vice President in charge of Information Technologies, Operation, Channels & Business Development at Finansbank A.Ş since August, 2010.

Murat Koraş

Executive Vice President, Payment Systems

He was graduated from Industrial Engineering Department of Bogazici University in 1999 and completed his MBA in Ozyegin University. He was assigned as a specialist in Finansbank A.Ş between 1999 and 2001. In 2004, he was assigned as Assistant Manager in Aviva. As of September 2004, he took the tasks of Strategy Office Assistant Manager, Data Mining Assistant Manager, Analytic Marketing Vice President and Portfolio Management and Analytics Senior Vice President in Finansbank A.Ş until 2012. Koraş took the Consumer Payment Systems Director task between 2012 and 2015 and as of May 2015, he works as Payment Systems Executive Vice President in Finansbank A.Ş.

Zeynep Aydın Demirkıran

Head of Risk Management

A graduate of Ankara Atatürk Anatolian High School, Demirkıran completed her undergraduate study at the Economy Department of Bilkent University and master's degree in Economics at Georgetown University, Washington D.C. She lectured at Georgetown University until December 1998, after that she worked as a specialist at the Risk Management Department of Turkiye İş Bankası, between 1999-2002. She joined Finansbank A.Ş in 2002 and assumed positions as Senior Risk Manager and Coordinator of the Basel II Program. In September 2011, she was promoted to Head of Risk Management and has held this position since.

Zeynep Kulalar

Executive Vice President, Corporate Banking

Zeynep Kulalar was born in 1971 and she was graduated from METU Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Department of Business Administration in 1994. She served as Portfolio Assistant Manager in Yapı Kredi Bank between September 1994 and December 2002 and served as Corporate Portfolio Assistant Manager in MNG Bank between January 2003 and July 2005. She joined QNB Finansbank as Corporate Marketing Team Assistant Manager in July 2005. She served respectively as Key Customer Vice President, Corporate Banking Sales and Marketing Vice President, Performance& Foreign Trade and Portfolio Management Senior Vice President,  Foreign Trade and Portfolio Management Division Manager and Corporate Banking Portfolio Management Division Manager. She was assigned as Corporate Banking Director in June 2016. She has been appointed as Corporate Banking Executive Vice President since December 2019.