2020 INTEGRATED ANNUAL REPORT
ZIRAAT BANK SENIOR MANAGEMENT

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ALİ KIRBAŞ
Executive Vice President for Digital Solutions, Operation and Communication
Graduated from Department of Economics in Gazi University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. He served as a civil servant at the Central Bank Administrative Center between 1997 and 1999. In 1999, Kırbaş started to work as Assistant Auditor in the Board of Auditors of Ziraat Bank, and worked as Auditor and Vice President for Board of Auditors. He served as Head of Publicity and Communication Services Department between September 2008 and May 2012 and Head of Corporate Communications Department between May 2012 and July 2017. Since August 2017, he has been serving as Executive Vice President for Digital Solutions, Operation and Communication.

BİLGEHAN KURU
Executive Vice President for Financial Management
Graduated from the Middle East Technical University, Department of the Mining Engineering. He studied for a master degree in finance at the Institute of Physical Sciences of the same university. He began his career as a Foreign Exchange Clerk at Halkbank, where he worked from 1986 to 1988. He joined Pamukbank in 1988 as an Assistant Specialist before serving as a Service Director and Manager of the Treasury Department at the same bank. He was appointed as the Head of the Department of Foreign Exchange and Money Markets at Halkbank in November 2004. Having held the position of Executive Vice President for Retail Banking at Halkbank from June 2007 until July 2011, Mr. Kuru was appointed as Executive Vice President for Treasury and Strategy Management at Ziraat Bank in July 2011 and he has been working as Executive Vice President for Financial Management since August 2014.

YÜKSEL CESUR
Executive Vice President for Internal Systems
Graduated from Boğaziçi University, Faculty of Economics & Administrative Sciences. He has begun to work at Ziraat Bank in 1996 as an Assistant Auditor, and later on he has been appointed as Auditor. He has performed his duty as the Head of Department of Training Section since 2005. Mr. Cesur who was appointed to the Department of Treasury Operations in 2007 has served thereafter as the Head of Agricultural Marketing Group. Appointed as the Head of the Board of Auditors, Mr. Cesur has been serving as Executive Vice President for Internal Systems since April 2014.

MUSA ARDA
Executive Vice President for Corporate Banking
Graduated from the Çukurova University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. Mr. Arda began his career at Pamukbank in 1994 as the Deputy Financial Analysis Specialist. He served in the same Bank from 1994 to 2004 as the Specialist, in various units at the Head Office as the Service Manager and in Güneşli Corporate Branch as the Marketing Manager. He set to work at Halkbank in the Commercial Marketing Department in 2005 as the Department Manager. Later on, in the respective sequence he has worked as the Head of Financial Analysis Department, the Head of Credit Policies and Projects Evaluation Department, the Head of Commercial Loans Department, the 2nd Regional Coordinator of İstanbul. Mr. Arda, who served as Executive Vice President for Credit Allocation and Management between November 2011 and October 2020, has been serving as the Executive Vice President for Corporate Banking since October 2020.

SÜLEYMAN TÜRETKEN
Executive Vice President for Retail Banking-1
Graduated from the Gazi University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences in 1983. Mr. Türetken who worked as the Auditor, the Branch Manager, the Head of Department and the Regional Coordinator at various institutions, started to serve as the Head of Corporate Marketing Group at Ziraat Bank in February 2012. Mr. Türetken who served as the Head of Branch Banking Group from August 2016 to July 2017, as Executive Vice President for Branch Banking from August 2017 to June 2018, has been serving as Executive Vice President for Retail Banking-1 since June 2018.

ALPASLAN ÇAKAR
Executive Vice President for Retail Banking-2
Graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, and Department of Public Administration. In 1996, Çakar started to work as an Assistant Auditor at Ziraat Bank, served as Auditor and Branch Manager and was appointed as Regional Director-in-chief in 2005. Çakar, became the Head of Department in August 2007, served as Executive Vice President for Retail Banking, Executive Vice President for Operations, Executive Vice President for Consumer Banking and Executive Vice President for Retail Banking. He served as Executive Vice President for Distribution Channels Management between January 2016-July 2017, Executive Vice President for Payment Systems between July 2017-June 2018, has been serving as Executive Vice President for Retail Banking-2 since June 2018.

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