Metin BAROKAS

Chairman of the Board

Born in 1977 in Istanbul. He graduated from Private Beyoğlu High School. He started his career in the operations department at Inter Turizm A.Ş. between 1995-1998 and continued his career as operations manager at Mazal Turizm Ltd. Şti. between 2000-2004. Since 2004, he has worked as a senior manager at Çağdaş Faktoring A.Ş. as of 01.12.2017, he transferred his shares in Çağdaş Faktoring A.Ş. Metin Barokas has a %50 shareholding in Dentavit Sağlık Ürünleri Tic. Ltd. Şti. In early 2011, Metin Barokas became a shareholder in LDR Turizm A.Ş. and is currently the main shareholder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of LDR Turizm A.Ş. He is married with 2 children and has a good command of English.

Burçin BAYBATUR KÖK

Board Member

Born in 1980 in Istanbul, Burçin Baybatur Kök is a Board Member of LDR Turizm A.Ş. and General Coordinator of Investment and Corporate Finance. After graduating from Sakarya University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Economics with first rank and honors, she continued her foreign language education in USA. In 2000, she started her active professional career and specialized in the operational leasing sector since 2008. Between 2008 and 2013, she worked as Accounting Manager at ALD Automotive Turizm Tic.A.Ş., a subsidiary of Société Générale Group. Since 2013, she has been working at LDR Turizm A.Ş. She has received domestic and international trainings and studies in the fields of sector-based funding and risk limit studies, operational risk analysis, financial management in foreign currency funding models, IFRS-based financial statements, financial management with capital protection plans. She holds a Certified Public Accountant License and CMB Level 1 License. She is married with 1 child and speaks English fluently.

Prof. Dr. Saim KILIÇ

Independent Board Member

Saim Kılıç, who graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Political Sciences with a high degree in 1993, received his master’s degree in Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the USA in 2001, his MBA master’s degree from the Faculty of Political Sciences of Ankara University in 2002 and he completed his PhD in Accounting-Finance with a high degree in 2007. Saim Kılıç, who conducted research at Greenwich University in London in 2005, became Associate Professor of Finance in 2012 and a Professor in 2017. He started his professional life in the public sector in 1994, and for 20 years he has worked as a Specialist in the Capital Markets Board, Consultant in the Prime Ministry, Specialist in the Presidency, Chairman of the Audit and Oversight Board in Borsa Istanbul, Deputy General Manager in the Central Registry Agency, served as a Member of the Regulations Committee in the World Federation of Exchanges and the Eurasian Exchanges Federation, a Member of the Board of Directors at the Central Registry Agency, and a Member of the Board of Directors at the Capital Markets Licensing Registry and Training Company. Saim Kılıç, who moved to the private sector in 2014, has worked/is working as a board member and consultant in finance, industry, energy, construction, jewelry, and real estate companies, and served as a board member of GYODER (Real Estate Investors Association). Saim Kılıç, who is still a faculty member at Altınbaş University Faculty of Business Administration, gives lectures in the fields of business administration, finance, and corporate management.

Melek ERHAN

Independent Board Member

Melek Erhan was born in Diyarbakır in 1972. She graduated from Ankara University, Department of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations in 1995. She started her career as an economics reporter in 1995. She worked as an economy, prime ministerial, parliamentary and presidential correspondent and news editor at Akşam Newspaper, TV8, TV 24, CNN Türk. She completed her master’s degree in Labour Economics and Industrial Relations at Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University in 2021. She is currently pursuing her doctorate degree in Radio Cinema TV at Istanbul University and works as a lecturer at Altınbaş University Faculty of Communication. She has a permanent press card. She is a member of Economic Correspondents Association, Parliamentary Correspondents Association and Union of Mülkiyeliler. Melek Erhan is married with two children and speaks English.