Our Management

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Chairman of the Board of Directors

Gürsel USTA

Gürsel Usta, a member of top management for Ciner Group and chairman of the board for Park Holding, has a bachelor’s degree from the Faculty of Political Sciences at Ankara University. Gürsel Usta who began his career at the Ministry of Finance as an account expert, subsequently served as a consultant to the Deputy Prime Minister. After being appointed temporarily as the Assistant General Manager of the Social Services and Child Protection Agency, he transferred to Tepe Group in 1992 and started to work for the private sector. Mr. Usta joined Ciner Group in 2003 while working as the general manager of Tepe Group’s marketing companies. He has been serving in executive management positions within Ciner Group since 2003.

Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors

Çiğdem YILMAZ

Çiğdem Yılmaz graduated from Marmara University, Department of Economics (lectured in English) in 1997. Ms.Yılmaz who has begun her business life in the banking sector, served as the branch manager and Marketing Director in Commercial Banking Management at Garanti Bank. She worked as Sales President in Commercial Banking Management between 2018 and 2022 at Yapı Kredi Bank. Ms.Yılmaz who started as Chief Financial Officer(CFO) at Ciner Group in July 2022, also has been acting as board member in Ciner Group Companies.

Member of the Board of Directors

Orhan YÜKSEL

Orhan Yüksel who graduated from Marmara University, Faculty of Administrative Sciences, Department of Business in 1984, has worked in different companies in the private sector since 1978. He is a Certified Public Accountant and has also been authorized as an independent auditor by the KGK. Mr. Yüksel has been serving as a member of top management at Ciner Group in the area of Finance and Accounting since 1994 and also acting as board member in Ciner Group Companies.

Member of the Board of Directors

Haci Mustafa KIRAÇ

Haci Mustafa Kıraç who is a mining engineer, graduated from Hacettepe University, Faculty of Earth Sciences Department of Mining Engineering in 1978 began his business life in General Directorate of Mineral Exploration and Research. He worked a quarry engineer and business manager in various mining companies between 1979-1995. Mr. Kıraç served as General Manager and Chairman of the Board of Directors in General Directorate of Turkish Coal Enterprises (“TKİ”) between 1995-1997. He worked as Minister’s Advisor in Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources between 1997-2001 and has retired this position. He worked as a General Manager of TKİ between 2004-2011. Mr. Kıraç is still a member of top management at Ciner Group in the area of Energy and Mining and also acting as board member in Ciner Group Companies since 2013.

Member of the Board of Directors

Cevdet ÖZÇEVİK

Mr.Özçevik who graduated from Ankara Governmental Engineering and Architecture Academy Department of Electrical Engineering in 1980, joined Ciner Group in 1999 while working in the Soma Lignite Enterprise of the General Directorate of Turkish Coal Enterprises (“TKİ”). Mr. Özçevik is still a member of top management at Ciner Group in the area of Energy and Mining and also acting as board member in Ciner Group Companies.

Member of the Board of Directors

Selçuk YEŞİLTAŞ

Born in Ordu, Fatsa in 1984, Selçuk Yeşiltaş graduated from Koç University Physics Department in 2007 and then started his master’s degree in Bahçeşehir University in 2009. Mr. Yeşiltaş who began his career in Denizbank Corporate Banking Department in 2007, also worked in Corporate Banking Department at Fibabanka and TSKB before joining Ciner Group in June 2015. Mr. Yeşiltaş who began as Project Finance and Business Development Manager at Ciner Group, has been working as Ciner Group Finance Coordinator since 2016 and also acting as board member in Ciner Group Companies.

Independent Member of the Board of Directors

Dilek EMİL

Dilek Emil graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Economics and Public Finance and finished her master’s degree in Economics at Birkbeck College of London University. She started her career at Prime Ministry Undersecretariat of Treasury and served different roles including Undersecretary of Adviser, Washington D.C. Executive Economics Consultancy and Foreign Capital Deputy General Manager between 1994-2004.

She who served as Corporate Affairs Coordinator at Yaşar Holding between 2004-2018 and also assumed Chairman of the Sustainable Development Committee for Yaşar Holding, coordinated the sustainability studies covering 10 companies of Yaşar Holding, which signed the Global Compact in 2007, and the reporting on the basis of the Global Reporting Initiative which is an international standard. In this context, in addition to the coordination of carbon and water footprint reduction and water risk projects, she enabled the company to participate in Carbon Disclosure Project, especially Pınar Süt Mamulleri Sanayii A.Ş. Furthermore, she has developed the projects about preventing of squandering, reducing of waste and empowering of women.

Dilek Emil who assumed the first chairwoman of the board of directors at Pınar Institute between 2012-2016, led the project “The Future of Our Milk is in Safe Hands” and “Let’s Move with Fun, Let’s Eat Healthy” carried out by the Institute. The Future of Our Milk is in Safe Hands project was considered by the United Nations Development Program (“UNDP”) and included in Business Call to Action by UNDP. The Let’s Move with Fun, Let’s Eat Healthy project has been spread throughout Turkey with the protocol signed with the Ministry of National Education.

Dilek Emil is still working for her own company, EWA Corporate Consultancy who provides support for issues such as government aids, project development for access to various funding sources, research and analysis, non-governmental organization, Small and Medium Enterprises and Start-up mentoring especially combating climate change, sustainability, corporate relations and communication, public communication, institutionalization, corporate reputation, investment incentives. She works as a chairwoman of the board of directors and partner at StaminaPA Corporate Relations Consultancy Joint-Stock Company which is a Corporate and Public Affairs consultancy. Besides, she is a chairwoman of the board of directors at “Şekilsiz Fikirler Derneği” and “Kamu İletişimi ve Kurumsal İlişkiler Yönetimi Derneği” and a member of the board of directors at “Habitata Analitik Bakış Derneği”.

Independent Member of the Board of Directors

Galip TAŞDEMİR

Galip Taşdemir who graduated from İstanbul University Faculty of Economics in 1972, began his career as an assistant accountant specialist at Ministry of Finance in 1976. He was appointed as accountant specialist in 1980 and the head of account specialist in 1987. Mr. Taşdemir worked as the Deputy General Manager and Head of Department at Directorate General of Budget and Financial Control between 1987-1995 and then Finance Attaché at the Consulate General of the Ministry of Finance in Cologne between 1995-1998. Galip Taşdemir served as the General Manager at Public Accounts in 2000, the Deputy Undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance in 2004 and the Finance Attaché of Berlin Consulate General between 2004-2007. Mr. Taşdemir served as the Ministry Counsellor between 2007-2008 and has retired from this position. He worked as an expert witness in Commerce, Magistrates’s Law, Civil Law, Labor and Criminal of Court at the Ankara Court-House between 2012-2017. Galip Taşdemir has been working as a Certified Public Accountant since 2009. Mr. Taşdemir also works as an audit partner at A1 Sworn in Financial Consultancy and Independent Audit Inc.

Independent Member of the Board of Directors

Cemal TÜFEKÇİ

Cemal Tüfekçi who graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Political Sciences in 1982 began his career as an assistant accountant specialist at Ministry of Finance in 1983. He was appointed as accountant specialist in 1986 and the head of account specialist in 1993. Mr. Tüfekçi who resigned from his position at Board in 1995, worked as a manager in various companies in the private sector. He has been working as a Certified Public Accountant since 1999 and is currently the sole partner of Polaris Certified Public Accountant Limited Company. In addition, he has become a partner at Sky Independent Auditing Inc. in 2023 and then left his partnership in Oluşum Independent Auditing and Consulting Inc. as of February 2024. Besides, Mr. Tüfekçi works as a concordat commissioner at the İstanbul Court-House.

TOP MANAGEMENT

Park Elektrik determined its top management as its personnel holding below titles or personnel having authorized signatory for those positions but not directly employed:

• Board of Directors
• General Manager and Deputy General Manager and
• Executives which have titles above the manager level such as director, coordinator etc.

PEOPLE WITH ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITY

People with administrative responsibility in the Company are the members of the Company’s Board of Directors, and those who regularly access, directly or indirectly, inside information related to the Company and are also authorized to make administrative decisions that affect the Company’s future development and commercial targets.

Other than the members of the Board of Directors, people who regularly access the Company’s inside information and are also authorized to make administrative decisions that affect the Company’s future development and commercial targets are shown below:

• People who have the 1st degree and 2nd degree A Group authorized signatories and even if they have different authorized signatures General Manager, Vice General Manager and executives with titles above manager level.
• People who have 1st degree authorized signatories in the subsidiaries of the Company’s and even if they have different authorized signatures General Manager, Vice General Manager and executives with titles above manager level employed in subsidiaries.
• People who possess a top-executive role in the parent company Park Holding and who regularly access the Company’s inside information such as Group CEO, Group CFO, Head of Groups, Directors, Coordinators etc.

People who don’t have regular access to inside information, or have no authority to make administrative decisions that affect the Company’s future development and commercial targets despite having regular access to inside information are not considered as people with administrative responsibility. Accordingly, managers and personnel who have detailed information about only a part of the Company’s business and have limited information about all of the Company’s business are not considered to have administrative responsibility.