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Senior level appointments at Güneş Sigorta

Güneş Sigorta has started 2019 with a new management struc- eral Manager of Strategy
ture. As of 2 January 2019, Saltuk Buğra Sürüel was appointed and System Management.
as the Assistant General Manager of Financial Affairs. Having After completing his high
graduated from Department of Mathematics at the Science Fac- school education at TED
ulty of İstanbul University in 2000, Saltuk Buğra Sürüel com- Ankara College, he gradu-
pleted his MBA degree at Yeditepe University in 2002. He began ated from the Department
his career in 1999 at İşbank’s Credit Cards Department, and of Business Administration
later joined Vakıfbank as an Assistant Auditor in 2003. Between at the Faculty of Political
2007 and 2018, he worked there as Assistant Manager at Gener- Sciences of Ankara Univer-
al Accounting and Financial Reporting departments, and became sity in 1994. He received
a Manager at Regulatory Reporting department. Sürüel is fluent his master’s degree at the
in English and intermediate in German. Banking Institute of Mar-
mara University in 2010,
Mahmut Emre Bayram was promoted to the Assistant General and completed his PhD at
Manager of Claims Management at Güneş Sigorta as of 10 Jan- the same Institute in 2014.
uary 2019. Mahmut Emre Bayram completed his high-school Satoğlu worked as an Au-
training at İstanbul Erkek High School and his university ed- ditor at Vakıfbank between
ucation at Boğaziçi University, Department of Economics. Af- 1995 and 2004. He was later transferred to Vakıfbank’s New
ter working at several sectors, he decided to continue his career York Branch as Assistant General Manager, after which he was
in insurance industry as of 2010. Between 2010 and 2013, he promoted to General Manager and Board Member positions at
worked as the Manager of Claims Logistics, Administrative Af- Vakıf Yatırım Ortaklığı to serve between 2006 and 2018. During
fairs and Procurement at Aviva Sigorta. He worked at Aksigorta the length of this position, he also served as a Board Member
as the Manager of Claims Logistics between 2013 and 2016, and at Takasbank to represent Vakıfbank between 2010 and 2015.
manager of Health Insurance in 2016 and 2017. Between 2017 As of 2018, right before his new appointment, he was working
and 2019, he worked as Claims Coordinator at Sompo Japan as the General Manager and Board Member at Vakıf Portfolio
Sigorta. Bayram is fluent in English and German. As of 1 Feb- Management company.
ruary 2019, Serhad Satoğlu was appointed as the Assistant Gen-

TCIP’s Earthquake Resistant Building Design Competition receives 75 applications

from 28 different cities

Preliminary applications for movements of the simu-
the Earthquake-Resistant lator, the most success-
Building Design Competition, ful design and application
which is organized by Turk- will be the winner based
ish Catastrophic Insurance on additional evaluations
Pool (TCIP/DASK) for the according to several other
fifth year with the aim of in- parameters. In addition to
creasing the awareness of the top 3 teams, best archi-
need for earthquake-resistant tecture, best earthquake
building and offering civil en- performance and best pres-
gineering students a chance entation & communication
to work in the design, analy- skills will also be rewarded.
sis and model-building phases
for earthquake-resistant high- “We are really happy with the attention our competition has
rise buildings, were finalized. received in its fifth year. All applications were meticulously
24 teams of civil engineer evaluated by our judges and Technical Advisory Committee
and architect candidates that in accordance with the scope defined in the project specifi-
managed to pass the prelim- cations to determine the finalist teams. I would like to thank
inaries will build their models with materials to be provided all applications and their valuable teachers, and wish the best
by TCIP in accordance with the Technical Specifications. The of luck for all our competitors. TCIP also wishes academic
final phase will be held in İstanbul, at the Ottoman Archives success for the teams that could not pass the preliminaries. I
Building on 7-8-9 April 2019. During the final competition, should remind them that we will definitely be expecting their
the models will be evaluated based on the criteria such as applications once again for next year’s competition,” said İs-
their compliance with the technical specifications, and their mail Güngör, Coordinator of Turkish Catastrophic Insurance
performance on the shaking table that simulates earthquakes. Pool (DASK).
Among the buildings that do not collapse during strong earth