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Important changes at BNP Paribas Cardif Turkey’s management team

Affairs departments in addition to her current responsibilities
in Technical and Operation departments. With these new ad-
ditions, she was promoted to Chief Operating Officer position.
She graduated from Yıldız Technical University, Department
of Industrial Engineering. After working at several posi-
tions in a major insurance company between 1999 and 2012,
Şıklaroğlu joined BNP Paribas Cardif family as of 2012.

Mesut Sandal, former Core Banking Software Development &
Grup Companies IT Director at Türk Ekonomi Bankası, was
appointed as the new CIO of
BNP Paribas Cardif Tur-
key. He received his Bach-
Senior management team of BNP Paribas Cardif Turkey has elor’s degree from Istanbul
recently gone through significant changes. Uğur Kırçal, former Technical University, De-
Director of Strategy, Marketing and Agents, was appointed as partment of Mathematical
the Executive Vice President responsible from Partnerships. Engineering; and worked in
Kırçal received his Bachelor’s degree from Istanbul Techni- several management posi-
cal University and Master’s degree from Manchester Business tions for over 20 years at
School. He joined BNP Paribas Cardif family following an Türk Ekonomi Bankası and
international experience of 6 years. Aliye Şıklaroğlu, Director Çolakoğlu Group. He has
of Operations, also took over Procurement and Administrative been working in the IT field
since 1994.

Senior level appointment at Cigna Finans innovative and personalized products, excellent customer experi-
ence, and leadership in the life insurance market; Cigna Finans
has recently appointed Sarp Demiray to better support this strat-
Sarp Demiray was appointed egy. As the Assistant General Manager of Marketing, Demiray
as the Assistant General Man- will be responsible from the functions of marketing, product and
ager of Marketing at Cigna innovation strategy, digital service management, channel devel-
Finans, pension and life insur- opment and business partners.
ance company owned jointly
by the international health During his 20 years of career in finance, Sarp Demiray has so far
and insurance giant Cigna and worked as senior level manager for strategic marketing, retail
QNB Finansbank, one of Tur- banking, CRM and customer programs, direct banking, product
key’s largest banks. and channel development at Garanti and Akbank. He was trans-
ferred to Ata Finance Group in 2014 as the General Manager of
Cigna Finans is jointly owned Ata Online and was recently working as the Group’s CDO. Demir-
by Cigna, international health ay has a BS degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and
and insurance giant that ac- an MBA degree from Middle East Technical University. He is
quired Express Scripts for 67 married with two children.
billion USD last month, and
QNB Finansbank, one of Turkey’s largest banks. The company is Cigna Finans increases the quality of life for its customers with its
now accelerating its customer-oriented growth strategies follow- innovative insurance products designed considering the real needs
ing the appointment of its new CEO. Reinforcing its team with of customers, its proactive customer relations and technological
new appointments in accordance with its targets of end-to-end investments that aim to reach digital leadership in the market.
digitalization in insurance and mobile technology applications,
Rabia Kübra Kanun / kubrac@bestyayincilik.com