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She was born in 1975 in Ankara, graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, and completed her specialty education in medicine at Ankara Training and Research Hospital. She received the title of associate professor in 2008, worked as the Assistant Clinical Chief at Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital. She was appointed as an associate professor at Yıldırım Beyazıt University Faculty of Medicine, Biochemistry Department and received the title of professor at the same university. Between 2012 and 2015, she worked as the Chief Laboratory Coordinator of Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital Biochemistry Laboratory.

Between 2015-2016, Ankara 1st Region Public Hospitals Association General Secretariat; Between 2016 and 2017, she served as Deputy Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health. Yılmaz, who has many national and international published articles (126 international publications, 22 national publications), is still in Yıldırım Beyazıt University Medical Biochemistry Department and works as a Lecturer in Ankara City Hospital. She is  a Member of the TÜBİTAK BIDEP Advisory Board, a Member of the Ministry of Health Medical Laboratory Science Board and a full member of the IFCC C-NPU commission. She started to be a member of the Turkish Red Crescent Board of Directors in 2015, she assumed the Presidency of the Red Crescent Women's Coordination Board at the establishment of the Red Crescent Women's Organization and has been serving as the President of the Turkish Red Crescent since July 9, 2023. She is married and has three children.

He was born in Dusseldorf, Germany in 1970. He graduated from Department of Economics of Istanbul University in 1992. He completed his master's degree on Banking and Finance at Marmara University in 1996. Beginning from 1992, he held various positions in the retail industry. He served as product, export, business development director, executive board member and directors’ board member, executive director and chairman advisor. Esselte Leitz, Panda, Danet, Ülker Golf are the firms that he worked as senior executive. Between 2007 and 2010, he served as Turkey consultant in Eastgate Capital Group Ltd.-Dubai (https://www.difc.ae/public-register/ncb-capital-difc/). Currently, he is a member of the Board of Directors at Coldstone Creamery Turkey, as well as a Board Member and CEO at Kızılay Yatırım Holding A.Ş.

He was born in 1960 in Bolu. He graduated from Boğaziçi University, Department of Business Administration in 1982. He completed his MBA at Cardiff Business School in 1992. He started his career in investment banking. Between 1984-2001, he worked in the most important financial institutions of the world, Gulf Islamic Investment Company Jeddah, National Commercial Bank Jeddah, UBS London, Swiss Bank London. He joined the Ülker Yıldız group in 2001 as the CEO of Family Finans, the group's banking investment. He played a very important role in the merger of the Family Finans into Türkiye Finans Katılım Bankası and finally sale of it to Saudi Arabia's National Commercial Bank in 2007. He served as General Manager, CFO and Board Member in Yıldız Holding, one of Turkey's largest private company. He played a major role in the process of transforming the group from a regional player to one of the largest food producers in the world and his efforts for restructuring, investments and especially acquisitions of companies such as Godiva and Şok contributed the growth of the group. He worked as the founding CEO of Gözde Girişim Sermayesi Yatırım Ortaklığı, largest publicly traded private equity investment company until 2014 and affiliate of Yıldız Holding. Gözde Girişim Sermayesi Yatırım Ortaklığı took public attention especially in 2012 after acquisitions of Kümaş A.Ş. and Makina Takım A.Ş. as well as bridge and highway privatizations, which were Turkey's second largest privatization transactions until that date. Between 2012 and 2018, he served as a Board Member at Mondi Tire Kutsan Istanbul, MENA Infrastructure Fund Dubai and Medyasoft A.Ş. He was chosen as the Board Member of the Turkish Basketball Federation for three consecutive period. Curently, he is founder and Chairman of BRK Yatırım Şirketi, which is located in Istanbul. Also, He is board member of Fajr Capital Ltd. Dubai, Fajr Capital Advisors Ltd. Dubai and Cravia Group Holdings Dubai.

He was born in 1974. He graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Economics, Department of International Relations. He started his professional life in 1993, working in the field of marketing in the technology sector. During this period, he made important contributions to the creation and development of the product range and setup, pricing and marketing programs, and the development of distribution and sales channels. As a result of these studies, the relevant companies achieved a significant market share gain, as well as very strong increases were observed in the sales of them.

Important achievements in domestic companies attracted the attention of Microsoft, one of the world's largest technology companies and in 1999 he started working as a Consumer Marketing Manager at Microsoft and continued this position until he was assigned to an international position. He harmonized local and global marketing strategies while developing a comprehensive marketing strategy that combines industry, target groups, products and channels. He reorganized the distribution channels around Microsoft consumer products. In five years, Microsoft Turkey became one of the world's top three markets in retail channel, while the retail channel became Microsoft Turkey's fastest growing business area and the department he managed became one of Turkey's largest computer retail team. His success secured his team has been known globally in Microsoft for four years, they have been shown as a model and invited to meetings. Then, he worked in the international arena at Microsoft from 2004 and served as a Senior Marketing Manager until 2009. Between 2004 and 2006, he managed the marketing of products in the EMEA (Europe-Middle East-Africa) region through 79 branches, 650 distributors and tens of thousands of distributors. During his management, he succeeded in achieving a high rate of growth in revenue and therefore a significant increase in market share, a decrease in expenses and an increase in operational efficiency have been secured.

He returned to Turkey in 2009 and worked as Deputy General Manager for Marketing at TTNET, the largest broadband internet service provider in the country. Having a marketing team analysis, he growth the team threefold and with the marketing strategy and advertising campaigns, he achieved significant increases in the number of subscribers and revenues in one year. Then, he served as CEO Consultant at Türk Telekom. While providing consultancy services to the CEO on marketing, business and product development, sales and new sales channels, he contributed to making healthier decisions regarding the dynamics of the market and competitors, especially in investment, mergers and acquisitions.

Between 2013 and 2016, he advised the board of directors and general managers of Turkey's institutions and companies leading in their respective sectors, regarding especially in marketing, strategy, finance, business and product development, sales and sales channels. He also mentored important venture companies on user acquisition, digitalization, turnover and business models.

Since 2016, actively participating in investment committees of real estate and private equity funds, which are one of the newest products of the capital markets, he has contributed with his views on marketing, finance, business and product development, sales channels and management. While contributing to the analysis of the dynamics of the portfolio management company and its competitors, ensuring the compliance of the vision, strategy and organizational structure of the company, mentoring new startups he helps them reach tens of thousands of users from scratch, and sell via PC, mobile device and cloud platforms with retail, e-commerce and advertising-based business models. While serving as an investment committee member in leading ten funds of the sector, including five real estate funds and five private equity funds, he also contributes as a board member in companies where private equity funds invest. Portfolios of private equity funds consist of enterprises in the fields of fintech, cyber security, mobile games, education, entertainment, e-learning as well as food and renewable energy.

Since 2020, he works as Supervisory Board Member in Turkey Capital Markets Association and as Legislation and Regulatory Commission President in Private Equity Assembly of Turkish Chambers and Stock Exchanges Union. He also continues to support many different disciplines, especially in technology and marketing, by serving as a board member in many companies in different sectors.

Born in Ankara in 1977, he graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Economics in 2000. In 2006-2008, he successfully completed the University of Illinois MBA (Finance) program in the United States. He successfully completed his PhD in Business Administration at Ankara University Social Sciences Institute with his doctoral thesis in the field of venture capital in 2018.

He started his career at the CBRT in September 2000, and soon passed the Undersecretariat of Treasury by passing the Trainee Treasury Controller exam in December 2000. He served as Trainee - Treasury Controller between 2000-2006, and as Internal Auditor between 2009-2011. In 2011, he was appointed to the Undersecretariat of Treasury Financial Instruments and Markets Development Department. In 2016, he was appointed as the Deputy General Manager of Financial Markets and Foreign Exchange. From August 2019 until August 2021, he was the Head of the Central Finance and Contracts Unit responsible for the execution of European Union Programs. As of August 2021, he was reassigned to the position of the General Manager of Financial Markets and Foreign Exchange as acting. As of June 1, 2022, he started to work as the General Manager of Kızılay Social Consulting Inc., a part of Kızılay Investment Holding, to operate in the field of impact investing. In addition to these duties, he served as a Member of the Board of Directors at the Credit Guarantee Fund, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Investment and Development Bank of Turkey, investment committee member and board member of the European Investment Fund Turkey Growth and Innovation Fund.

During his tenure at the Ministry of Treasury and Finance, he played an important role in bringing many new financial instruments to our country in terms of access to finance. Individual participation capital system (angel investing), fund programs to support Venture Capital Funds (venture capital and funds of funds), Treasury-backed loan guarantee Portfolio Guarantee System, Collateralized Transactions and Central Registry System and Turkey Investment and Development Bank. He actually carried out the establishment of the legal infrastructure of the Development Fund and provided the basic framework for these programs. He made significant efforts to bring the Crowdingfund regulation to our country. Within the scope of the duties under the responsibility of the General Directorate, he carried out the preparation and execution of foreign exchange regime regulations and the work of the financial stability committee. During his tenure, he actively contributed to many regulations related to financial markets. During his duty as the Head of the Central Finance and Contracts Unit, he provided the restructuring of the unit in order to ensure that the unit's non-EU funds are also brought to Turkey.

In June 2022,he was appointed as a Member of the Board of Directors of Kızılay Real Estate and Private Equity Portfolio Management Company.

Hakan Ertürk is married, has 3 children and has a good command of English.

Fevzi Öztürk graduated from Anadolu University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Finance and Istanbul University, Department of Sociology. He also completed the International Banking and Finance program of Istanbul Ticaret University Finance Institute. In 2000, he completed the "Capital Markets and Stock Exchange" program at Istanbul University and the "Alternative Investment Tools and Portfolio Management in Financial Markets" program at Marmara University. Öztürk, who started his professional career in the Fund and Treasury Management of Türkiye İş Bankası group company in 1998, took an active role in the establishment of the treasury and fund management units by taking part in the founding staff of capital market institutions. He took an active role in the establishment process of many investment and exchange traded funds in compliance with interest-free principles for the first time in Turkish capital markets. He served as the Fund and Portfolio Manager, responsible for the establishment, design, management and operations of these funds. He provided independent consultancy services to businesses on finance and capital market issues. He worked as an economy columnist and TV commentator for newspapers for many years. He worked as a manager at the Istanbul Settlement and Custody Bank Markets Directorate in the execution of market operation, legislative regulations, market development designs and operations. He has been working as the General Manager and Member of the Board of Directors at Kızılay Real Estate and Private Equity Portfolio Management Company since May 2021.

He was born in 1983 in Kütahya. After completing high school at Kütahya Anatolian Teacher High School, he graduated from Istanbul University Civil Engineering Department. He received his second bachelor's degree in Business Administration and did his master's degree on urban transformation. Since his university years, he took part in various non-governmental organisations. Yılmaz, who started his professional life in his hometown Kütahya, worked as a technical expert and application manager in various projects with high brand value in Emlak Konut GYO A.Ş., a subsidiary of the Ministry of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change Mass Housing Administration. He is currently serving as the Head of the Implementation Department assigned to him. Yılmaz is married and has 2 children.