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.

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.

After graduating from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Istanbul Technical University in 2009, Gürpınar received a MSc. degree in 2011 from Nordic Five Joint Programme in Innovative Sustainable Energy Engineering at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH- Stockholm) and in Wind Engineering from Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU-Copenhagen). Meanwhile, he worked as a master thesis student at DTU's National Sustainable Energy Laboratory in Risø. Gürpınar started to work as an energy assistant specialist at Galata Wind within the Doğan Holding MT (Management Trainee) Program in October 2012. He undertook different duties within the company in the fields of electricity retail sales, portfolio management, domestic and international electricity trading, power plant operations, new investments and business development. Gürpınar still continues his duties as Assistant General Manager and Executive Board Member of Galata Wind. He speaks English and is a Professional Coach.

H. Müge Yücel was born and raised in Germany and completed her undergraduate education in Marketing at Michigan State University in 1999. She also holds a Masters in International Management (2001) and International Finance (2003). She joined Doğuş Otomotiv in 2008 after an 8-year career abroad where she gained significant experience in property investment, strategic management, project planning and financing. She also continued her duty as the person responsible for Governance Rating.

H. Müge Yücel joined Galata Wind in December 2021 as the Director of Investor Relations. Yücel, who is a member of the Corporate Governance and Sustainability Committees of Galata Wind, will also assume important roles in the company's Sustainability, Corporate Governance and ESG activities.

Yücel is licensed as a Governance, Risk and Compliance Professional and is a Financial Planning and Analysis certificate candidate. She holds the CMB Advanced, Corporate Governance Rating, Derivative Instruments and Credit Rating licenses. She speaks English and German.