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Okan Böke Advisor to the CEO GS Banque Geneva

After having graduated from Texas A&M University with B.S. and M.S. both in Industrial Engineering, Okan has started his career at Citi NY in 1990 from where he went to Citi Istanbul Treasury Department. Shortly thereafter, Okan joined the Treasury Department of Interbank Istanbul. He worked at all desks of the Treasury from where he moved to Korfezbank as Senior Vice President. He worked there until 2001. Thereafter, he worked as Executive Vice President at TAIB Bank , responsible for FI and Treasury. In 2006, he moved to TSKB as Head of Treasury where he stayed until 2009 and then moved to a US Hybrid Fund as the CIO. The Hedge Fund Business was rather short, whereafter he advised a Spiral Steel Pipe company for IPO. He stayed there as the CFO following the IPO. He worked at Ozbal between 2011 and 2014 as the CFO. Very recently, March 2013, he joined ATIG Securities as the General Coordinator. He now is serving as the Consultant to the CEO of Geneva Suisse Bank in Geneva. At the same time, Okan also has been serving as the Commentator on the Bloomberg TV, in Turkey, since 2011.

Bader Arslan Secretary-General Turkish Exporters’ Association (TIM)

Following graduation from business administration department of Ankara University, Arslan completed his master’s degree and Ph.D. in the Faculty of Political Science of Ankara University and worked as a faculty member from 1999 to 2012. Arslan has been delivering commentaries on the economic and political agenda on financial broadcasts and newspapers from 2006 onwards and held advisory posts at Ministry of Industry, Undersecretariat of Foreign Trade and Ministry of Economy from 2009 to 2013. Prior to his assignment at Turkish Exporters Assembly, Arslan was in charge of the General Directorate for Economic Research and Evaluation at the Ministry of Economy. Arslan is fluent in English and French and carried out research at Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in Belgium and Université Paris Dauphine in France. Halil Bader Arslan has numerous articles published in national and international journals and newspapers, as well as books which he wrote, made contributions to and translated.

Pinar Artiran Director, Research Centre on International Trade Law & Arbitration Istanbul Bilgi University World Trade Organisation (WTO) Chair Holder

Dr. Pinar Artitan is Assistant Professor in Private International Law, WTO Chair Holder and Director of the Research Center for International Trade Law and Arbitration at Istanbul Bilgi University. She graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Law and practiced as an attorney‐at-law in Ankara in the field of international arbitration. She then undertook postgraduate studies on European Law at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium followed by doctoral studies at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy where she completed her PhD on International Trade Law. She has worked for the Academy of European Law at the EUI and has spent periods as a visiting research scholar at the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor, USA and as a trainee at the DG Internal Market of the European Commission in Brussels and as an intern at the Appellate Body Secretariat of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva. Her research and teaching interests lie in the fields of International Law, International Economic Law, EU Competition and Trade Law as well as Arbitration. Among other universities and colleges, she also taught as professor in the LL.M Programme on International Economic Law and Policy (IELPO) of University of Barcelona, as a senior fellow at The Melbourne Law Masters of Melbourne Law School and Professor at Master of International Economic Law at the University of Toulouse. Dr Artiran acts since 2010 as consultant and the Academic Coordinator for the Regional Trade Policy Courses organised for government officials from Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asian and Caucasus Countries by the WTO. She has been awarded the WTO Chair title by the WTO in May 2014. She is a member of the Society on International Economic Law, ELSA Moot Court Competition Academic Board, European Society of International Law, International Law Institute and Ankara Bar Association and she also is a Salzburg Global Seminar Fellow. She is currently acting as legal expert for the study on the revision of Turkey‐EU Customs Union agreement commissioned by the European Commission.

Ahmet Cimenoglu Chief Economist Koc Holding

Ahmet Çimenoğlu started his professional life as an economist at Yapi Kredi Bank in 1995, after completing his MA in Economics at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. He received his PhD degree in economics at Istanbul Technical University in 2002. He worked as the Chief Economist, and Head of Strategic Planning and Research at Yapi Kredi, respectively, between July 2004 and February 2009. In March 2009, he joined Koc Holding as the Head of Economic Research. He is currently the Chief Economist of the Koc Holding. He is also teaching at Bogazici University on a part-time basis.

Artuğ Acartürk Director, Head of Cash Management & Trade Finance Sales, Corporate & Commercial Banking Management Yapi ve Kredi Bankasi

Artug Acartürk started his career in 2000 as a management trainee in Finansbank at project finance field. After spending 5 years in the Turkish market he moved to Credit Europe Bank in the Netherlands and took various managerial roles in shipping finance, commodity finance and corporate lending areas. Starting with 2012 he worked at the trade finance field in ING Bank Turkey and took an active role in the establishment of the trade finance team and setting up the guidelines for the trade finance activities within the bank. At June 2014 he joined Yapi Kredi Bankasi as the Head of Cash Management and Trade Finance Sales with the responsibility of sales activites in Trade Finance & Cash Management products. Artug Acarturk holds his BS degree from Bogazici University Department of Civil Engineering. He speaks English, German and Dutch. He also holds an MBA degree in finance track.

Cihat Takunyaci Managing Director, Country Manager & Senior Representative, Turkey BNY Mellon

Cihat Takunyaci is the Country Manager and Senior Representative of The Bank of New York Mellon’s Istanbul Representative Office. In addition to the country management responsibility for Turkey and Azerbaijan, he has the relationship management responsibility for Turkey, Israel and Azerbaijan within its Treasury Services business in the Europe, Middle East & Africa region. He also represents BNY Mellon at the Board of TUYID, Turkish Investor Relations Society. Educated at Bogazici University with BSc at Mechanical Engineering and Istanbul University for post-graduate certificate program in Business Administration, Cihat has been with BNY Mellon since 1997. Before, he spent a good portion of his career with investment banking and capital markets activities including corporate finance, asset management and M&As.

Onur Tanriverdi Director, CEEMEA Trade Sales Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Mr.Tanriverdi is Director, Trade Product Sales at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Onur graduated from Istanbul University Economics and Istanbul University Banking. Onur Tanriverdi has more than 20 years’ experience in the banking sector, mainly in transaction services. Before Bank of America Merrill Lynch he worked at RBS as Head of Cash Management and Trade Sales. Before RBS, Onur has worked at both ABN AMRO and Kocbank.

Abou Jallow General Manager, Operations International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC)

Abou Jallow is the General Manager of Operations for International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation.

Müge Somer Head of Transaction Service Sales ING Bank Turkey

Müge Somer is the Head of Transaction Service Sales for ING Bank Turkey.

Muzaffer Aksoy Chief Representative, Turkey Bank ABC

Muzaffer Aksoy joined ABC International Bank plc (ABCIB) in January 2005 as Chief Representative of their Turkey representative office. He is the Turkish country manager responsible for managing the Turkish country limit for ABC group. He is a board member of ABC Tunis and a member of the ABCIB management committee. After graduating from Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Muzaffer went on to study for a MBA in International Management at the University of Dallas, Texas, USA and subsequently joined Nejat Atalan Dis Ticaret A.S., Izmir in 1989 as Export Manager. Muzaffer then joined Otak A.S./Yasar Holding as Assistant General Manager in 1992 followed by Heller Factoring A.S. in 1993 as Marketing Manager, providing export, import and domestic factoring services. In 1995 (until 2005) Muzaffer moved to London Forfaiting Company as Head of London Forfaiting Istanbul where he successfully established their Istanbul Representative Office. Muzaffer has over 20 years banking experience principally dedicated to trade finance, forfaiting, Islamic finance, correspondent banking, project finance and arranging and distributing Turkish assets. In 2012, he received a PHD in Management from Beykent University, Istanbul in 2012. Muzaffer is currently the board member of the Turkish Libya Business Council and a Board member of Turkish, Iraq and Algeria Business Councils under DEIK (Foreign Economic Relations Board of Turkey).

Riza Kadilar Senior Country Manager & Representative for Turkey Natixis

Dr. Riza Kadilar is a PhD in Media Economics. After a BSc degree at METU in Industrial Engineering, he has obtained his MSc degree at Stanford University, and completed his MBA at HEC, Paris. He has also attended an executive management course in strategic bank management at INSEAD. His past professional career includes senior level bank management experience in UK, the Netherlands, and Turkey, and he is currently working for Natixis, a major international investment banking group, as their senior country manager and representative for Turkey. Dr. Kadilar is the chairman of the English Speaking Union (ESU) Turkey, chairman of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) Turkey, chairman of China Institute Turkey, co-chair of HEC alumni Turkey network, scientific committee member at Institut du Bosphore (TUSIAD), co-founder of Corporate Well-being Center (CWCntr), and Institute of Executive Coaching and Mentoring (IoECM). He is a trustee and board member at Hisar Education Foundation, and a visiting professor at Bogaziçi University. He regularly speaks at international conferences mainly on energy, structured trade, private equity, project and investment finance, and also on motivational topics like positive leadership, personal branding and networking. He is also an editorial board member of “GTR: Global Trade Review”, a London based leading trade finance magazine. Dr. Kadilar is the author of a book on carbon markets, and also of another recently published book (“Talents to Leaders”) serving as a guide for buyer’s guide for coaching. He is married to Pelin, and proud father of Kardelen.

Daghan Karakas Country Treasurer ABB Elektrik

Daghan Karakas is the Country Treasurer of ABB Turkey, Istanbul. In addition to the treasury management responsibility, he is also responsible for insurance risk management of the country. Holds a bachelor degree in business administration at Dogus University and a master’s degree in business administration at the same university, Daghan has been working for ABB since 2008. Before, he spent a good portion of his career with business controlling and treasury activities including budget and planning, corporate finance, M&A’s, trade finance, exposure management.

Doğan Çelik Treasury & Financial Planning Manager OMV Petrol Ofisi

Doğan Çelik is the Treasury & Financial Planning Manager for OMV Petrol Ofisi

Selen Özhisarcıklı Chief Financial Officer Göknur Gıda Maddeleri

I have 15 years of financing sector experience at the TEB Turkish Economy Bank, a later participation of the BNP Paribas banking group. I have worked in the areas of Internal Audit, Information Technology and 6 years in Trade Finance before I left TEB where I was Co-Head of Trade lastly. During the time, I have developed tailor-made solutions to support customers in doing business in many different regions of the Globe and also have been a panelist at 2 Exporta Conferences about the subjects, doing business in the MENA and Africa regions. I have been working at Goknur Foods for a year now with the title Chief Financial Officer. A growing B to B producer and supplier of fruit concentrates, purees and fruit juices with 80% of its portfolio abroad, mainly USA and Europe as the leading markets. Goknur also grows its own orchards in order to deliver from soil to glass. I have a university degree in Business Administration, master’s degree in Information Technology. I am English and German speaking, CIA, CISA and CDCS certified.

Fatih Tokkal Treasury Director Yildirim Holding

Fatih Tokkal is the Treasury Director for Yildirim Holding.

Eylem Ekmekci Head of Global Transaction Banking, Corporate & Commercial Banking Management Yapi ve Kredi Bankasi

Eylem Ekmekci is the Head of Global Transactional Banking in Yapı Kredi Bankası since December 2013. Eylem Ekmekci started her banking career in 1994 within the management trainee program in Yapı Kredi Bankası as a Corporate Bank Relationship Manager. After working in several Corporate Branches in Ankara, she moved to Commercial Bank as a Branch Manager of Abide/Şişli Branch in 2003. At the begining of 2005, she joined Citibank Turkey as the Senior Trade Product Manager in Global Transaction Services where she was responsible from all domestic and foreign trade transactions of both commercial and multinational clients in addition to her product enhancement and development responsibilities. At the end of September 2007, she joined back Yapı Kredi Bankası as the Head of Foreign Trade Finance to build up Trade Finance Team and activities for the Bank. At the begining of November 2011, she became the Head of Strategy and Business Development for Corporate and Commercial Banking where she was responsible from strategy building, budgeting, monitoring, commercial actions, business development and CRM activities. Eylem Ekmekci holds her BS from Middle East Technical University Management Department and can speak English, French and Italian.

Peter Aurich Head of Infrastructure Financing, Turkey UniCredit

Peter Aurich is the Head of Infrastructure, Financing, Turkey at UniCredit.

Kerim Kemahli Chief Financial Officer Nurol Holding

Kerim Kemahli began his carreer with West LB in 1990 where he held several posts until 1996 ranging from Credit Analyst to Corporate Marketing Manager and also established West LB Istanbul’s Treasury Marketing Unit. Between 1996 and 1998 Kerim managed the Corporate Marketing actvities of Finansbank’s Main Branch. In 1998 he moved to Finansbank’s International Division where until 2007 he was responsible for arranging funding for the Bank’s project and trade finance activities through bilateral agreements with multilaterals as well as syndications and bond issuances. Between 2007 and 2010, Kerim Kemahli held CFO positions at Abalioglu Group and Celebi Group. At Celebi, he assisted the Group’s penetration into the Indian market as well as arranged the financing of the Bandirma Port Privitisation. He joined Nurol Group in late 2010 as their CFO as well as Board Member of Nurol Bank and acted as the chief negotiator for the Gebze-İzmir Consortium in arranging the USD 5 Billion project financing facility.

Raymond Ellis Vice-President, Global Business Development US Exim

Raymond Ellis currently serves as Vice President of the Global Business Development Division of Ex-Im Bank's Export Finance Group. The division oversees business development outreach activities worldwide. Mr. Ellis previously served as Vice President of the Strategic Initiatives Division and the Operations Division of the Export Finance Group. Strategic Initiatives was responsible for business development for Sub-Saharan Africa and renewable energy. The Operations Division administers the intake of all applications for Ex-Im Bank support and the issuance of all medium- and long-term loans and guarantees and short and medium term insurance policies. Mr. Ellis began his career at Ex-Im Bank as a financial analyst/loan officer in the Bank Guarantee Division before moving to the Asia Division overseeing the Bank's long-term programs for Southeast Asia. He left the Bank to join the private sector where he held executive management positions with leading international banks in Chicago, Illinois. He served as Vice President for Trade Services/Cash Management at Chemical Bank in Chicago, and Vice President and General Manager of Bankers Trust Company International in Chicago. He also held senior positions with two travel management companies in Chicago. He returned to Ex-Im Bank in 1999. Mr. Ellis holds a Masters of Business Administration degree in International Finance and Business Administration, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Russian and Linguistics, both from Indiana University, Bloomington.

Gamze Sarıoğlu Country Manager, Turkey Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC)

Gamze Sarioglu is a banker holds a BA from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences. In her 20 years of banking career, after having started as a management trainee at West LB, she worked as the Head of Trade Finance Sales at Kocbank, Yapi Kredi Bankasi and Burgan Bank. She recently joined Islamic Development Bank’s credit insurance arm ICIEC as Turkey representative. She is married with 2 children.

Antonio Sala Executive Director, Global Export & Agency Finance Santander

Antonio joined Banco Santander in 2006 and is currently responsible for the Origination of Export & Agency Finance transactions within Santander’s Global Banking and Markets client portfolio in the EMEA region. With over 16 years experience in Trade & Export Finance Antonio continues to advise large European Corporations in structuring and executing complex cross border transaction in support of their exports worldwide. All of this in a variety of sectors including ECA Asset backed transactions in both hard and local currencies under Corporate and Project Finance structures. Being fluent in 5 languages has allowed Antonio to work successfully throughout the last two decades for several international Banks in a multitude of European countries such as the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain, keeping a close relationship with his company’s clients and providing creative solutions to their specific cross border financing needs. Antonio holds a double degree in Business Administration from the German ESB Reutlingen and the Spanish University ICADE as well as Master Degree in Business Administration by the Spanish “Instituto de Empresa” (IE) during which he coursed the last year at the Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas Texas USA.

Alessandro Dellino General Manager, Central Eastern Europe & Turkey Astaldi

Alessandro Dellino is General Manager, Central Eastern Europe & Turkey at Astaldi.

Cenk Eynehan Chief Executive Officer Pasha Bank Turkey

H. Cenk Eynehan earned his bachelor’s degree in management from Monroe College and granted certificates in International Business and Economics from NYU, US and from Erasmus University, the Netherlands. He also had an Executive MBA degree from Koç University, Istanbul. He commenced his banking career in 1994 and occupied various positions in DHB Bank (Nederlands) N.V. until 2001. He continued his professional career as a managing director in the non-financial sector during 2002-2004. Later, he joined Şekerbank T.A.Ş. and held managerial positions in various departments between 2005-2010. He was Deputy General Manager in charge of Corporate Marketing & Sales with Ekspo Factoring A.Ş. during 2011-2013. Mr. Eynehan joined PASHA Bank Turkey as General Manager and Board Member on August 2, 2013 and he has been serving as the Board Member of PASHA Bank Georgia since October 26, 2015. He has 22 years of experience in banking and business administration.

Yavuz Eroglu General Manager Sem Plastik

Mr. Yavuz Eroglu was born in 23 January 1973 in Istanbul. He graduated from Istanbul Technical University Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering. He is managing partner of SEM Plastik A.S. Also, Mr. Eroglu has founded and is the Chairman of the Board of SEM Global A.S. and Credoy Polimer A.S. He founded and is partner of “Elite for Plastic” in Hebron, Palestinein 2009. He is the President of Turkish Plastics Industry Foundation (PAGEV), Executive Comittee Member of EUPC (European Union Plastic Converters Association), and President of MEA&Turkey for WFO (Waste Free Oceans Foundation), Advisory Board Member of MECC ( Middle East Commercial Center) He is an active speaker in internationa seminars in various countries on Plastics Industry, Recycling, Sustainability, Packaging, Trade Finance and Entreprenurship. He has published an adaptation book on “History of Plastics” that is aimed to teach plastics to Students.

Chris Parker Chief Executive Officer Iran Business Hub

Chris Parker MBE has 25 years of experience of strategic planning and leading complex operations. Chris is CEO of Iran Business Hub, a London registered, international, British and Iranian partnership that specialises in large corporate entry into Iran. The Hub provides confidential advisory, strategic planning and operational services. Chris has a Master’s Degree in Technology and is a Chartered Manager and Fellow of the CMI. Chris is Chairman of Charmogen Group, an international consultancy network and he was previously Chief Operating Officer for a major oil & gas exploration company. He has also been an Operations Director with Hyder plc in London and was Project Director for the successful $1.3B Burj Dubai infrastructure mega-project in the UAE. Chris has served on UK and NL Government Trade Missions to the MENA region and frequently speaks at international trade conferences and comments live on Sky News and international media.

Bilgin Augül Chairman, Turkey-Iran Business Council Foreign Economic Relations Board of Turkey (DEIK)

Bilgin Augül is Chairman of the Turkey-Iran Business Council at the Foreign Economic Relations Board of Turkey (DEIK).

Yeliz Tufekcioglu Head of Istanbul Office, Turkey & Near East Sace

Yeliz Tufekcioglu is a graduate of Bosphorus University Business Administration. She worked at the corporate treasury in Anadolu Group and at various levels in treasury and corporate banking units in Demirbank. She worked as an Executive Director in Structured Finance Origination in WestLB for 13 years and during this period she originated several structured and project finance deals in energy and infrastructure sectors. She joined SACE Istanbul Office in September 2013 and has been originating structured finance deals to support Italian exports and investments in Turkey. She is the Head of Istanbul Office, which is a hub office for the neighboring countries in addition to Turkey. She is currently continuing her post-graduate studies at Imperial College Business School London.

Abolghassem Asheri Short Term Underwriting Director Export Guarantee Fund of Iran (EGFI)

Abolghassem Asheri is the Short Term Underwriting Director at Export Guarantee Fund of Iran (EGFI).

Chris Brodie Director Prolog Supply & Services

Chris Brodie is a supply chain and logistics specialist with offices in UK and Central Asia. He has extensive experience in his field throughout Europe, Asia, including the Middle East, and in North and Sub-Saharan Africa. A post-graduate in business management, he holds lifelong full membership of both the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (UK) and Chartered Management Institute (UK). Chris spent six years working and living in Turkey from 1992. His knowledge and practical experience of supply chain and logistics in this region is extensive.

Emre Aydin General Manager UbiQ

Mr. Aydın is the CEO of UbiQ Turkey, a technology-led service provider of Supply Chain Finance Solutions for businesses. UbiQ is the exclusive partner to PrimeRevenue Inc, the global leader in supplier financing, managing and optimizing cash flow for businesses. Emre is a graduate from Middle East Technical University which he has a BA degree in Economics and as a post graduation completed his MBA in University of Southern New Hampshire. Emre Aydın has more than 25 years experience in corporate banking and transaction services. Before UbiQ, he worked in RBS as head of International Banking (Turkey) and Global Transaction Services Origination (CEEMEA). Before RBS, Emre worked in Societe Generale, Citibank & ABN AMRO in similar managerial roles.

Işıl Eskici Assistant General Manager Yapi Kredi Factoring

Işıl Eskici is Assistant General Manager at Yapı Kredi Faktoring A.Ş since July 2013.She received her B.A. degree in Economics from Hacettepe University in 1996 and began her banking career as Assistant Portfolio Manager in Denizli Branch at Türk Ekonomi Bankası A.Ş.In 1997, she attended as Management Trainee at Osmanlı Bankası A.Ş. and served as portfolio manager in sales and financial analyst in credit department respectively.She joined Koçbank in 2002 as Assistant Region Manager under Commercial Banking Sales.She took a step as branch manager in 2007 and served as a branch manager for 6 years in 4 different branches in İstanbul. After gaining experience from being both in branches and head-quarter, she covers the sales activities in factoring business with her team which was spreaded out in different regions of Turkey.Her team plays active role in every phases like dealing with the clients, detailing the products, structuring the needs and execution.

Turkay Oktay Chief Executive Officer Leaseplan

Türkay Oktay is the Managing Director of LeasePlan Turkey since 2008. Previously, Oktay, served as General Manager of Derindere Fleet Leasing (2005-2007) and General Manager of AK Investment (2001-2004). Before that he worked in treasury, asset and fund management departments of various banks.

He received his B.S. degree from METU in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He also holds an M.B.A. degree from Bilkent University.

Korhan Öz Chief Financial Officer & Board Member Hepsiburada.com

Korhan Oz is a graduated from University of Istanbul, Faculty of Economics. He started his career as an auditor at Ernst & Young Company and worked for 10 years in Turkey and USA. He has direct experience in; Advisory Business Services, Energy, Telecom Networking, Real Estate and Retail business. Korhan has worked for Nokia, Levi’s, Media Markt companies before he joined Dogan Online (and Hepsiburada.com)

Holding Turkish Chartered Public Accountants (CPA) degree since 2000. Mr. Oz has been working as a Chief Financial Officer and member of Board of Directors with Hepsiburada.com, the leading e-commerce company in Turkey.

Ünsal Erdoğan Head of Finance & Operations Marks & Spencer

Ünsal Erdoğan is the Head of Finance & Operations at Marks & Spencer.

Paul Harle Head of Receivables Finance, Global Trade Finance Group Bank ABC

Paul Harle is the Head of Receivables Financing Business for Bank ABC but based within the Global Trade Finance Team London. Prior to working at Bank ABC he worked for nine years at London Forfaiting Company PLC, London and has over 25 years of experience within Trade Finance. He joined Bank ABC in 2002 as part of a team responsible for growing the Receivables Finance business for Arab Banking Corporation globally and now has responsibility for the product worldwide. The team works with a number of US, European, Middle Eastern and Latin American clients where they specialise in providing receivable finance solutions for their customers through various means including working with International Brokers, Insurers and ECA’s. Since 2002 Bank ABC have financed over $20.5Bn worth of exports into the MENA region and rest of world ranging from telecommunications equipment, automobiles and automobile products to heavy duty mining equipment.

Emre Ozer Chief Executive Officer & Board Member Coface Turkey

Emre has B.A. degree from Bosphorus University in the field of Business Administration. He started his career at Directorate of Banking and Exchange at the Undersecretariat of Treasury of the Republic of Turkey, responsible of supervision of banks, financial institutions and capital markets. Emre moved to Doğuş Group in 1997 and worked until 2007 in different companies of the Group. He worked in Azerbaijan for 3 years and established the first leasing company together with IFC of World Bank. From 2000 to 2004 he worked at Garanti Leasing responsible for structured finance, asset & liability management and financial institutions. Between 2004 and 2006 he worked at Doğus Holding Strategic Planning and Business Development Department dealing with privatization and M&A transactions including sale of Tansaş shares to Migros and Garanti Bank shares to GE Capital. Before joining Coface, he was the Head of Treasury and Asset Management at Garanti Factoring. He started his career at Coface as country CFO in 2007 then appointed as COO starting from 2010. He was also the board member of Coface Emirates and Coface Egypt. In May 2015, he is appointed as CEO and Board Member of Coface Turkey.

Senem Dedeoglu Vice-President, Turkey Bank ABC

Senem has over 19 years of experience in banking sector in Turkey. She has been working for Bank ABC since 2005. She has been responsible for introducing the entire ABC Group products, like Structured Trade Finance, Islamic Finance , DCM , syndication to Financial Institutions and corporate customers and maintaning relationship between them and differenet Bank ABC units. Previously she worked for Standard Bank Group where she was responsible from originating and distributing forfaiting, syndication, structured trade finace transactions and treasury products such as eurobond leverage, precious metals deals. Senem has Bachelors degree in management engineering from Istanbul Technical University (I.T.U.) İstanbul Turkey and MBA degree from HEC Management School Paris, France specialization in International Finance. Umut Firat Founding Partner TCI Sigorta

Umut Fırat is the founding partner of TCI Sigorta, an expert broker specialized in trade credit risks. Previously, he was Commercial Director of Euler Hermes Turkey where he led Market Management, Commercial Underwriting and Distribution functions. Before joining Euler Hermes Turkey, Umut had around 10 years of factoring and trade finance experience at multinational and local institutions like Fortis, Dexia, Yapı Kredi and Toprak Group. He holds a B.A. degree in the field of “Economics” from Dokuz Eylül University. TCI Sigorta has been established in 2013 by a team of specialists to share their experiences in the field of trade credit insurance with commercial enterprises in Turkey. Implementing a customer-oriented approach since the day of its establishment, TCI Sigorta is committed to knowing its clients better, measuring risks accurately, and hence, offering optimum solutions. TCI Sigorta offers first-class services in creating credit insurance policies with coverage suiting the needs of its clients in several sectors such as textile, iron-steel, plastics, chemistry, food, etc., and in managing the insurance policy process as well. Emma Edhem Chairman Turkish British Chamber of Commerce & Industry

Emma Edhem is Chairman of the Turkish British Chamber of Commerce & Industry.

Patrick Regis Regional Executive, Turkey & Central Asia Rolls-Royce

Patrick Regis has been appointed as the Chief Executive for Rolls-Royce in Turkey in April 2012. In his role, Regis is responsible for the total regional business performance of Rolls-Royce’s four sectors: Civil Aerospace, Defence, Marine and Power Systems, including our nuclear business. Prior to this assignment, Regis was the Country Executive for Vietnam and established a permanent Rolls-Royce presence in this emerging economy. He was also a Regional Director for North America in Rolls-Royce’s Marine business segment where he was instrumental in the rapid growth of the North American subsidiary and established Rolls-Royce as a leading provider of power systems in the United States. Regis has been with Rolls-Royce for 11 years, preceded by a 22 year career with the US Navy. Regis holds two Masters in Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston and is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA) in Paris.

Burak Zeylan Head of Business Banking HSBC Turkey

Burak Zeylan started to work in HSBC from August 1999. Burak joined HBTR as a branch manager and has undertook various responsibilities within RBWM, Corporate and Business Banking in Sales Management and Regional Management teams as a Manager. Following his role as the Head of BB Sales at HBTR, Burak joined the Regional CBM Europe team in 2010 and worked as a Strategic Development Manager at HSBC Bank Plc, Paris. Burak was recently appointed as the Acting Head of CMB HBTR, following having run Business Banking HBTR for more than 2.5 years Before joining HSBC, Burak stared his banking career as a Credit Officer at West LB Europa and had management roles at Tütk Boston Bank, ABN Amro, Pfizer and Interbank. Burak holds a Bachelors degree in Business Administration forum Boğaziçi University and a Masters degree from İstanbul University.

Inciser Olguner Arikoc Partner, Transaction Advisory Services Ernst & Young

Inciser Olguner is a Partner within EY’s Transaction Advisory Services. She has 2 years of audit experience and over 14 years of experience in corporate finance. She held several different roles within EY and became partner in 2013. İnciser holds a B.A. Degree in Economics from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. She is married with one child. Through the course of her employment in EY, she has delivered numerous assignments including M&A advisory for private and public transactions, business modelling, valuation advisory and feasibility projects. She has experience in a variety of industries such as retail, consumer products, financial services, information technology, telecommunication, energy, manufacturing, hospitality, media and entertainment. She has provided advisory services to several local and international companies and conglomerates throughout her professional life. İnciser has cross-border deal experience with US, UK, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Greece, France, Italy, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Russia, CIS contries, Azerbaijan and China. Tolga Akar Managing Director, Borusan Power Systems Borusan Holding

Tolga Akar is the Managing Director of Borusan Power Systems at Borusan Holding. Ali Hürol Albayraktar Director, Head of Cash Management & Trade Finance Product Management, Corporate & Commercial Banking Yapi Kredi Bankasi

Ali Hürol Albayraktar is the Director, Head of Cash Management & Trade Finance Product Management, Corporate & Commercial Banking at Yapi Kredi Bankasi.

Katya Arıkan Torus Manager, Head of Structured Trade Finance, Corporate & Commercial Banking Management Yapi ve Kredi Bankasi

After earning a BA degree in Economics from Koç University in 2002, Katya Arıkan Torus began her banking career as a Management Trainee at Fortisbank Turkey (ex-Dışbank) in 2003 and served as Assistant Regional Manager at the Financial Institutions division of the bank almost 4 years. After completion of her Executive MBA at Istanbul Technical University, she joined Yapı Kredi in 2007 as Regional Manager under Financial Institutions. She both covered correspondent bank relations especially of Europe & CIS countries and executed debt capital market transactions of the bank. Since 2011, she is heading the Structured Trade & Export Finance team of Yapi Kredi in Cash Management & Trade Finance division under the umbrella of Corporate and Commercial Banking. Benefiting from her Financial Institutions experience, she covers the global ECA business which includes direct corporate financing with her team as well as executes more complex deals such as project finance deals that involves ECA financing with a direct client contact and assume advisory role both at the client and branch network level. They play active role in the origination/structuring as well as the execution phase of all ECA related transactions. Bora Baysal Chief Financial Officer Yildizlar Yatirim Holding

Bora Baysal was born in 1967 in Istanbul. He holds a degree in Business Administration from Boğaziçi University. In 1992 he started his career at the Anadolu Group as an auditor . Later he worked for almost ten years in the CIS in Turkcell’s operations in major CFO and CEO roles. Since 2011 he is in the industrial sector in Turkey were he pursued the CFO role at Sarten Ambalaj till 2015 were he led a partnership deal with a multinational conglomerate. Currently he is Group CFO at Yıldızlar Yatırım Holding. He is married with two children and fluent in German , English and Russian languages. He is an enthusiastic Harley Davidson rider. Beril Esendal Finance & Investor Relations Director Borusan Holding

Beril Yiğinsu Esendal has a B.Sc. on Business Administration from İstanbul University and MIS from Boğaziçi University and Master of Finance from The Institute of Business Management of Istanbul University. She has started her career at TEB (Economy Bank of Turkey) in 1997 as a management trainee where she worked at different departments of TEB Leasing and TEB especially at credit and sales team and finance team. She joined Borusan Group in 2005 responsible for finance and treasury operations. In 2014 she became Finance Director responsible for leading corporate structured finance, central treasury, investor relations and financial risk management functions at the Holding Company which guides, controls, and executes Borusan’s subsidiaries finance activities. She was born in 1978, married and has a son.

Jan von Allwörden Head of Department Underwriting Euler Hermes

Jan von Allwörden is head of the department underwriting in the division underwriting & financial risk management at Euler Hermes who handles and administrates together in a consortium with PriceWaterhouseCoopers the German Export Credit Guarantee system on behalf and on the account of the Federal Republic of Germany. He over 25 years with Euler Hermes and has experience in all fields of underwriting like corporate finance, structured and project finance as well as aircraft finance. Here he is responsible for developing and delivering of all types of coverage for the protection of export transactions against commercial and political risks. Jan von Allwoerden holds a degree in business administration from the University of Hamburg and is appointed member of the Executive Management of Euler Hermes. Kemal Girginer Head of Finance Siemens Turkey

Mr. Kemal Girginer, Head of Finance/Managing Director and Commercial Board Member of Siemens Turkey, is currently responsible for Corporate Treasury, Trade and Project Finance Advisory functions. Mr. Girginer has more than 17+ years of professional and international experience in institutional financial services. Mr. Girginer started his professional career in New York City Wall Street area in the U.S. at Fidelity Investments; and thereafter also worked at the New York office of Siemens Financial Services in the U.S focusing on corporate finance before joining to Siemens Turkey in October 2010. Besides managing the Treasury function of Siemens in Turkey Mr. Girginer is responsible for advising corporate customers in Turkey on financing alternatives for their existing and potential investments bundled with Siemens’ diverse product and services portfolio. Mr. Girginer graduated from St. John’s University in New York with B.S. and M.B.A. degrees with in Finance and Decision Sciences. Stefano Stangoni Head of Financial Institutions & Structured Deals, Corporate & Investment Banking Division Intesa Sanpaolo

Stefano Stangoni is the Head of Financial Institutions & Structured Deals, Corporate & Investment Banking at Intesa Sanpaolo.

Selen Karlibel Head of Structured Trade and Export Finance Intesa Sanpaolo

BSc (Hons) in Political Science, Marmara University; Master Degree in International Finance, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. More than 15 years' experience working on a variety of export finance, project finance and structured trade finance transactions. Formerly: with Credit Commercial de France Representative ,Turkey Desk ; Credit Lyonnais, Relationship Manager for Turkish Groups/Multinationals ; Credit Agricole; Head, Structured Finance ; Standard Chartered; Head of Transaction Banking Corporate. Since April 2015, Head of Structured Trade & Export Finance, Intesa Sanpaolo Istanbul Branch. Enis Gültekin Deputy-General Manager, Insurance Turk Eximbank

Born in 1976 in Kars, Mr. Gültekin graduated from Ankara University, The Faculty of Political Sciences. He has master’s degree in Finance from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a currently PhD candidate in Banking from Marmara University. He started his professional career as an Assistant Specialist in Turk Eximbank in 1998 and he served fourteen years as a Sworn-in Bank Auditor in the Banking Regulatory and Supervision Agency. During his career, he has carried out many on-site supervisions in Turkish commercial/investment banks. Besides, he was involved in numerous projects about aforementioned subject. Mr. Gültekin was appointed to Türk Eximbank as the Deputy General Manager in charge of credit insurance on December 17, 2013. Korhan Kurdoğlu Head of China Network, Tusiad Chairman, ATA Holding

Mr. Korhan Kurdoglu attended Miami University Civil Engineering Department. Later, he completed a graduate degree at Columbia University. He continued his academic life at Harvard Business School with the President Management Program. In 1991, he established his first company Ata Invest, where he served as the chairman. Ata Invest was followed by other companies in various sectors such as technology, finance, tourism, construction, food and real estate. In 1998, Mr. Kurdoglu brought all these companies together under the framework of Ata Holding. In June 2012; following the successful operations of Ata Group’s Burger King business in Turkey, he led the process of entering into a joint venture to expand Burger King presence in China as well. In 2013, he brought all the Turkish food eco-system companies under the umberalla of TFI Tab Investments. Operating in USA, China, Russia and different cities of the Gulf countries, the Ata Group currently occupies a significant place in business employing over 25,000 employees. In addition to his present duties, Mr.Kurdoglu serves as a member of DEIK and the President of China Network at Turkish Industry and Business Association (TUSIAD).

Murat Kolbaşı Chairman, Turkish-Chinese Business Council, DEIK Chairman, Arzum

Murat Kolbaşı’s professional career began in 1988 at Arzum where he was positioned as the Sales and Business Development Manager after graduating from Marmara University with a bachelor’s degree in business administration in 1987. Following this managerial position, he became Vice President of Arzum in 1996, within which he developed sales and marketing strategies to increase Arzum brand equity. Murat Kolbaşı was elected as Chairman of Arzum in 2008. That same year, he signed an asset purchase agreement with Ashmore Asset Management Inc., partnering 49% of the company shares with the UK-based private equity fund. Upon termination of 5 years agreement with Ashmore, he took an active role on signing partnership agreement with Meditarra Capital Partners owning 51% of company shares in 2013. Murat Kolbaşı has held the position of General Manager and Chairman at Arzum since 2008. He takes role as a board member at Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEİK) and he is also Coordinator Chairman of Asia Pacific Business Councils and Chairman of Turkish Chapter at Turkey-China Business Council, an active member of the Turkish and Hong Kong, Turkish and Australia Business Councils at Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEİK) along with his memberships at the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce (İTO), The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB), Independent Industrialists’ and Businessmen’s Association (MÜSİAD), Turkish Industry & Business Association (TUSİAD), Young Entrepreneur’s Committee (GGK) and Turkish Coffee Culture and Research Association. Murat Kolbaşı speaks English, is married and has two sons.