CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

After earning a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the Middle East Technical University, Faik Açıkalın began his banking career in 1987 as a management trainee at Interbank. He subsequently held various positions, including Internal Auditor, Relationship Manager, Branch Manager and Marketing Manager at Interbank, Marmarabank, Kentbank, Finansbank and Demirbank. In May 1998, he joined Dışbank— later renamed Fortis following its acquisition by the eponymous international finance group—as Executive Vice President. Later that year, he was appointed Chief Operating Officer (COO) responsible for the coordination and communication between the Board of Directors and business units. He also assumed his position as a Member of the Credit Committee. In June 1999, Açıkalın was appointed Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and a member of the Board of Directors. In December 2000, he became CEO of Dışbank. Following the acquisition of the majority shares of Dışbank by Fortis in July 2005, he continued to serve as CEO of the bank after it was renamed Fortisbank. Within that period he worked at international management of Fortis. In October 2007, he resigned from his duties at Fortisbank and became CEO of Doğan Gazetecilik. In April 2009, Açıkalın was appointed Executive Director of Yapı Kredi’s Board of Directors and was also appointed Chairman of the Executive Committee.

Serving as Yapı Kredi’s CEO since May 2009, in addition to his current role, Açıkalın was also appointed as CEO of Koç Financial Services in 2010 Furthermore, in August 2011, Açıkalın became the President of Koç Holding’s Banking and Insurance Group. Açıkalın also still serves as Chairman of Yapı Kredi Malta, Yapı Kredi Invest, Yapı Kredi Leasing, Yapı Kredi Factoring, Yapı Kredi Bank Nederland NV, Yapı Kredi Bank Azerbaijan, Yapı Kredi Bank Moscow, Yapı Kredi Koray Real Estate Investment Trust, and Koç Finansman A.Ş., and as Vice Chairman of Banque de Commerce et de Placements S.A. and Allianz Yaşam ve Emeklilik and as Director of the Banks Association of Turkey. At the end of 2017, Açıkalın left his duties at Koç Holding, YKB and its subsidiaries. Hüseyin Faik Açıkalın has been serving as an Independent Board Member on Doğan Holding's Board of Directors since March 30th, 2018.

Bora Yalınay has over 20 years of experience in international audit companies, and local and international public companies. His areas of expertise include financial restructuring, investor and analyst relations, financing, public offerings, cost optimization, financial planning, and analysis.

Bora Yalınay graduated from Bilkent University, Department of Economics in 1997 Having begun his career in 1997 at the Istanbul offices of Deloitte auditing firm, he worked most recently as a senior manager. He worked at the Deloitte Canada offices between 2000 and 2002.

Following his auditing experience of over a decade, and a Yaysat financial control experience of 1 year, he continued his career as the Group Financial Audit General Manager with Yıldız Holding in 2009 He worked as the CFO of Ülker Bisküvi between 2010 and 2016 During the process that began with the financial restructuring of the company in 2010, he has carried out several acquisitions, company sales and merger projects, completed overseas financing projects of USD 1 billion, and led the secondary public offering process in 2013 He worked as the Vice President of Ülker Bisküvi in charge of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Romania, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, and Pakistan operations between 2015 and 2016 During such time, he led a team of more than 200 finance professionals in six different geographies. He has also led the financial operations of the central procurement company of Yıldız Holding within the scope of his responsibilities with Ülker.

Bora Yalınay has worked as the CFO with the Gürallar Group, the six biggest glass producer in the world exporting over 130 countries, between 2016 and 2019, and has conducted the first overseas financing and overseas expansion projects of the Group.

Bora Yalınay holds a Certified Public Accountant certificate and speaks English fluently. He has one son.

Neslihan Sadıkoğlu, who is the Vice President for Corporate Communication and Sustainability in Doğan Group, has more than 20 years of experience in all areas of communication such as corporate communication, reputation and crisis communication, media relations, brand management, marketing and social responsibility and sustainability communication.

After graduating from Galatasaray University, Faculty of Communication, Sadıkoğlu started to work in CNN Türk's Public Relations unit in 1999, and was appointed as CNN Türk's Corporate Communications Director in 2002. Later on, she continued her career in Vakko Holding as Communications Coordinator, in Step Halı as Corporate Communications Director, in Doğan Burda Magazine Group as Corporate Communications Director and Douglas Parfumeri as Turkey Marketing Director.

Neslihan Sadıkoğlu started to work as the Advisor to the Chairwoman of the Board of Directors in Doğan Holding in 2016 and was appointed as Doğan Holding's Vice President for Corporate Communications and Marketing on March 1, 2017.

Leading the sustainability efforts of Doğan Holding and completing the Cambridge University Sustainability Leadership program in 2020, Neslihan Sadıkoğlu still continues her duty. She also serves as the Board Member responsible for Sustainability for Galata Wind.

Sadıkoğlu speaks English and French.