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Major changes at Güneş Sigorta senior management team

As the long-established and innovative company of the insurance Vice President of Human Resources, Training, Procurement and
market, Güneş Sigorta continues to strengthen its senior man- Administrative Services as of 15 June 2020.
agement with leaders who are experts in their own fields Güneş
Sigorta initiated a restructured and dynamic working approach About Atakan Bektaş
last year, and immediately saw the positive reflections on their
results by reclaiming its place among the top 5 companies of Atakan Bektaş graduated from Mid-
Turkish insurance market. In this respect, the company appoint- dle East Technical University in 1998
ed Bilal Türkmen as the Executive Vice President of Strategy where he studied mining engineering.
and Transformation, and Fatih Yıldız as the Executive Vice He received his MBA degree from
President of Human Resources, Training, Procurement and Ad- Ufuk University between 2009 and
ministrative Services. Moreover, Atakan Bektaş was assigned as 2011. Atakan Bektaş attended the
the Executive Vice President of Financial Management, while banking training program at Bank-
Doğukan Karakaya was assigned as the Executive Vice President ing School of Ziraat Bank in 1998.
of Bankassurance Sales and Marketing. He then worked at Ziraat Bank as
specialist at Internal Control Depart-
About Bilal Türkmen ment, assistant manager and then
manager at General Accounting and
After graduating from Ankara Reporting Department, after which he was appointed as the head
Atatürk Anatolian High School, of the same department in 2012. He continued his career in the
Bilal Türkmen studied statistics at Bank as the Head of Financial Reporting and Budget Manage-
Hacettepe University, and then re- ment between May 2015 and October 2018, and as the Head
ceived Bachelor’s degree from Ak- of Financial Management between October 2018 and November
deniz University on Business Ad- 2018. He also served the Bank as a member of Audit Committee
ministration. He began his career and BoD at Ziraat Bank Uzbekistan, Turkmen Turkish Bank,
in Germany as a research analyst at and Ziraat Bank Bosnia. He has been working as the Assistant
Atheneum Partners, a management General Manager of Financial Coordination at Ziraat Sigorta
consultancy company. He entered and Ziraat Hayat ve Emeklilik since February 2019 and was also
the insurance market within the appointed as the Executive Vice President of Financial Manage-
scope of Aksigorta’s Management ment at Güneş Sigorta as of 15 June 2020. In addition to his
Trainee program. In 2012, he was appointed by Turkish Treas- existing duties, he is also a Board Member at Türk P&I Sigorta,
ury and worked as Treasury Specialist at the General Directorate and Chairman of the Fund Committee of Ziraat, Halk and Vakıf
of Insurance. In October 2018, he was transferred to Eureko Emeklilik Investment Funds.
Sigorta, Technical and Administrative Manager of DASK, and
worked as Deputy Secretary General of Turkish Catastrophe In- About Doğukan Karakaya
surance Pool (DASK). He joined Güneş Sigorta in August 2019
as the Group Manager responsible from Strategy & Process Im- Having graduated from Depart-
provement & Project Management & Corporate Communication; ment of Insurance at Marmara
and was assigned as the Executive Vice President of Strategy and University in 2004, Doğukan Kar-
Transformation as of June 2020. akaya received an MBA degree
from Yeditepe University in 2010.
About Fatih Yıldız Doğukan Karakaya began his ca-
reer as a “Management Trainee”
Having graduated from Depart- in Retail Banking at Garanti Bank
ment of Labor Economics and in 2003. He worked at Marsh&M-
Industrial Relations Department clennan company between 2005
at Cumhuriyet University, Fatih and 2008, and in Corporate Bank-
Yıldız began his career at Finans- ing and Loans Unit at Garanti
bank in 2005. Between 2007 and Bank between 2008 and 2009.
2013, he worked at Yıldız Holding As of 2009, he joined Sompo Sigorta (Sompo Insurance) and
Retail Group as Human Resources worked at several positions including Reinsurance and Business
Specialist, and later Human Re- Development, Corporate Technical, Product Management and
sources and Training Manager of Marketing departments. His most recent position at Sompo Sig-
Bizim Toptan Satış Mağazaları. orta was the Marketing Director. He has knowledge and expertise
He worked as Human Resources in Product and Campaign Management, Digital Applications and
Manager at Şok Marketler Ticaret between 2013 and 2015, and Platforms Management, Digital Sales, Digital Communication/
Human Resources Manager at Bizim Toptan Satış Mağazaları Social Media Management and Corporate Communication units.
between 2013 and 2015. Fatih Yıldız worked as the Human Furthermore, he has taken active roles in many domestic and for-
Resources Manager of Bereket Sigorta and Bereket Hayat ve eign projects and trainings in those areas. On June 22, 2020, he
Emeklilik in 2018. He joined Güneş Sigorta on 17 June 2019 was appointed as the Executive Vice President of Bancassurance
as Group Manager of Human Resources, Training, Procurement Sales and Marketing at Güneş Sigorta.
and Administrative Services, and was appointed as the Executive