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New C-level assignment at Generali Sigorta

Suat Oruç, who has experience and expertise in UW, reinsur- tered Property Casualty
ance, risk management, claims management and sales, was Underwriters. He started
appointed as the Chief Insurance Officer at Generali Sigorta. working in 1993 at the
technical department of
Suat Oruç was appointed as the Chief Insurance Officer at Mapfre Sigorta, and has
Generali Sigorta. With his new duty, Oruç will be responsible worked in various fields
from the management of Auto Insurance and Claims, Non-Au- of insurance throughout
to Individual and SME Products, Non-Auto Claims, Corpo- his career. Most recently,
rate Non-Auto Insurance and Reinsurance, Corporate Sales, he was the Chief Techno-
Actuarial Pricing and Tariff Management, Product Manage- logical Officer and Exec-
ment and Project Management departments. utive Committee Member
at Ergo Sigorta A.Ş and
Chief Insurance Officer Suat Oruç graduated from İstanbul was responsible from UW, Claims, Operations, Reinsurance,
Technical University, Department of Naval Engineering and Actuarial Pricing and Tariff Management.
Marine Engineering in 1993. In 2012, he studied marketing
at Stanford University; and later earned Chartered Property Suat Oruç joined Generali Sigorta family in September 2019
Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) and Associate of Reinsurance as Chief Insurance Officer.
(ARe) designations from the American Institute for Char-

Anadolu Hayat Emeklilik initiates Is wearing the same t-shirt at agents’
Agency Mentorship Program meetings becoming history?

AXA Sigorta organized its tradi-
Anadolu Hayat tional Agents’ Meeting on 11-14
Emeklilik has in- October. During the meeting, the
itiated Agency company evaluated the past year
Mentorship Pro- with its agents, and shared its
gram with the aim short and medium term targets.
of expanding its This year’s meeting also witnessed
agency structure a first. The tradition of wearing
and deepening its “uniform t-shirts” was terminat-
channel activities. ed. This year, AXA Sigorta organ-
Agency Mentor- ized its annual Agents’ Meeting
ship Program is a where they meet with their agents
new business mod- to evaluate the past year’s perfor-
el which will help mances and share future targets
new agents adapt on 11-14 October in Antalya.
to insurance busi- The meeting was attended by 370
ness and Anadolu agents from around Turkey. Yavuz
Hayat Emeklilik Ölken, CEO of AXA Sigorta; and
through the expe- Firuzan İşcan, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer and Member of the
riences and coop- Executive Committee also participated in the meeting and addressed the
eration of existing agents. Within the framework of agents. This year’s meeting was marked by the termination of the tradi-
this business model, new agents will have a chance tion of wearing uniform t-shirts. As we know, all attendees had to wear
to benefit from the professional experiences and the same t-shirt during the meetings of past years. AXA Sigorta termi-
guidance of their mentor agents. Mentor Agents are nated this tradition with this year’s meeting. According to a statement
selected according to their experiences and contribu- made by the company, the main purpose of termination was to ‘prevent
tions to the market in addition to their usual agency extravagancy and environmental damage caused by t-shirts that are only
activities. worn once and thrown away.’

Burak Coşkun, Manager of Agencies at Anadolu Yavuz Ölken, CEO of AXA Sigorta, commented on the change, and said:
Hayat Emeklilik, states that Agency Mentorship
Program offers a significant opportunity for candi- “AXA does not need to wear uniform to be united. Actually, being ‘uni-
date agents who wish to start their career in insur- AXA’ results from the diversity of our country’s 81 cities. We wanted
ance or to switch to this profession. He added that our agents to reflect this diversity and values however they wished. This
they kept working towards expanding the program year has been a milestone when we terminated the ‘uniform t-shirts’
with additional advantages and opportunities for the tradition. The budget we used to allocate for that tradition will always
coming term. be put to right use.”