Beer Group

Onur Altürk was graduated from Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, City and Regional Planning Department in 1998. He started his career as Site Leasing & Procurement Specialist at Turkcell. He worked in various positions at Aria and Avea as Sales & Marketing Specialist and Event Marketing Senior Specialist between years 2002-2005. He joined Fritolay in 2005 and worked as Trade Marketing Specialist, POS & Channel Development Manager, Trade Marketing & Horeca Manager, Sales Development & Merchandising Manager, Sales Planning Manager, District Sales Manager, Head of Sales Operations & Development & Capability and Head of Sales Strategy & Sales Audit between years 2005-2015. Onur Altürk worked as Traditional Trade Sales Director at PepsiCo between years 2015-2018. Onur Altürk has worked as Sales Director of Türkiye Operations between years 2018 and 2022. Mr. Altürk served as General Manager of Efes Türkiye between January 2022 and March 2024. He was appointed as Beer Group President and Anadolu Efes CEO as of 1 March 2024.

Gökçe Yanaşmayan graduated from Dokuz Eylül University in Economics in 2000. He worked as an Auditor at Arthur Andersen between 2000 and 2002 and as Senior Auditor at Ernst & Young between 2002 – 2004. After starting his career at Anadolu Efes in 2004 as Efes Kazakhstan Reporting and Budgeting Manager, he worked as Finance and Administration Manager at Efes Breweries International between 2006 – 2010 and as Finance Director at Efes Kazakhstan between 2010 and 2012. He worked as Finance Director at Efes Ukraine between 2012 – 2014. Mr. Yanaşmayan served as Efes Moldova Managing Director between December 2014 – June 2021. Mr. Yanaşmayan has been appointed as the Anadolu Efes Group CFO effective from 1 July 2021.

Tugay Keskin was graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Political Science. Keskin joined CCI in 1993 and served in different positions in Türkiye sales function until his appointment as Türkiye Sales Director in 2007. He worked as Türkiye Sales Director between years 2007-2011 and Türkiye Commercial Director between years 2011–2014. After serving as CCI Commercial Excellence Director between years 2014 and 2016 and as CCI Türkiye General Manager in 2017, Mr. Keskin was appointed as CCI Türkiye and Middle East Region Director in 2019 and worked as CCI Chief Operating Officer between years 2020 and 2023. Tugay Keskin served as Chief Customer and Commercial Officer of CCI between March, 2023 and March 2024. He was appointed as General Manager of Efes Türkiye as of 1 March 2024.

Uluhan Kumru graduated from Hacettepe University in Business Administration and completed his MBA degree from Middle East Technical University. He started his professional career as Management Trainee at Ziraat Bank and served as Corporate Banking and Project Finance Specialist and, he served, respectively, as Auditor at Akbank Internal Audit Presidency, Head of Internal Control at Aklease, Senior Internal Audit Manager at Starbucks (Alshaya) Türkiye, Internal Audit Manager at Sabiha Gökçen Havalimanı Yatırım Yapım ve İşletme A.Ş. while he reported to the Audit Committee. He joined our Group as Audit Manager at Anadolu Group Audit Presidency in 2013, served as Group Internal Audit Manager at Anadolu Efes between 2015 and 2016 and as Anadolu Group Audit Manager in charge of Beverage Group Companies between 2016 and 2017. Mr. Kumru has been working as Group Internal Audit Director at Anadolu Efes since January 2018. He is Certified Internal Auditor and Certified Public Accountant in Türkiye. He has been serving as the Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Institute of Internal Auditors of Türkiye, where he has worked for different responsibilities as a member of the Board of Directors since 2014. He is also a member of the Exam Development Committee at the U.S. Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) .

Banu Artüz graduated from Istanbul University in American Culture and Literature. She started her career at Procter & Gamble in Sales department. During her 16 years of Procter & Gamble career, she spent 8 years in Sales and Marketing Department with various assignments in Modern Trade, Distributor operations and Sales Marketing. During her Sales Marketing positions, she worked in Feminine care and Oral care categories. After 8 years in Sales & Marketing positions, she decided to move to Human Resources. She built her HR career in different countries including Türkiye, Kazakhstan and Eastern Europe (Russia, Ukraine etc.) markets and had different assignments as HR Business Partner, Compensation & Benefits, Employee Relations, Sales Capability Management. She relocated to Almaty, Kazakhstan and led Talent Management for Central Asian Republics between 2007 and 2009; and she moved to Moscow, Russia as Eastern Europe Talent Manager with the responsibility of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Central Asia Republics between 2010 and 2013. Ms. Artüz; who worked as Deputy Talent Manager Coordinator at Anadolu Group Holding between 2014 and 2018; is continuing her position as Anadolu Efes Group Human Resources Director since April 2018.

Mr. Savaş Öztürk graduated from Hacettepe University Statistics in 1995. Between 1997-2005, he worked as Central Warehouse Clerk and Purchasing Clerk at Anadolu Efes Türkiye Ankara Brewery, and later as Anadolu Efes Türkiye Logistics Supervisor. He was appointed as Anadolu Efes Türkiye Logistics Services Manager in 2005. Later, he served as Anadolu Efes Türkiye Logistics Services Manager at Izmir Brewery between 2006-2012 and Anadolu Efes Türkiye Logistics Support Manager between 2012-2014. Mr. Öztürk worked as Anadolu Efes Kazakhstan Logistics Director and Anadolu Efes Kazakhstan Supply Chain Director between 2014-2019. He has been working as Anadolu Efes Türkiye Planning and Logistics Director since January 2020.

Daniel Barbulescu graduated from Babeş-Bolyai University in Food Products Economics in 2000 and earned his Master of Science degree from same university in Agri-Business. Having started his professional career in 2004 as a Brand Manager at Unilever South Central Europe (USCE), Mr. Barbulescu worked at Unilever Poland as Central Eastern Europe Brand Development Manager and as European Brand Development Manager between 2005 and 2008. Having served as Category Manager and Marketing Manager at USCE since 2007, Mr. Barbulescu joined our group as Marketing Director at Efes Moldova in May 2013. After serving as International Marketing and Sales Director at Anadolu Efes Market Development Directorate between January 2016 and April 2017. Mr. Barbulescu was appointed as Acting Market Development Director at Anadolu Efes Market Development Directorate in May 2017 and Market Development Director in October 2017.

Melis Alkan Bölükbaşı graduated from Galatasaray University Law School in 2007 and completed her LL.M. in Business Law at Istanbul Bilgi University Law Faculty in 2009. Bölükbaşı worked as a lawyer and senior lawyer respectively at Aksu Savaş Çalışkan Law Office between years 2007-2014. Later, she worked as the Legal Counsel at Polat Enerji Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. between years 2014-2018. In 2019, she was appointed as the Group Legal Affairs Manager at Anadolu Efes. Bölükbaşı worked as Anadolu Efes Turkiye Legal Affairs Manager between 2022-2023. Bölükbaşı has been serving as Anadolu Efes Group Legal Affairs Director since 1st of January 2024.

Having graduated from Bilkent University in 1993, Murat Ozkan started his career in Arçelik as a system analyst. After spending 3 years as an engineer, he decided to make a change and joined Philips Morris Türkiye and held various managerial roles over 17 years. During this period, he has completed several business and IT projects globally. Later, he was assigned as CIO at Ülker in 2014 and became the Vice President of Shared Business Solutions Services in Pladis and Yıldız Holding starting from 2017. As of April 2019, he was appointed as Anadolu Efes Group Information and Digital Solutions Director.

Ms. Selda Susal Saatçi received her bachelor’s degree from Istanbul University in German Language and Literature. Before joining Anadolu Efes group, she served as Communication and Public Relation Assistant Manager at Turkcell between 1995 and 1996, Corporate Communication and Public Relations Specialist and Public Relation Manager at Telsim between years 1996-2001 and Public Relation Manager, Corporate Communication Manager, Mediterranean and North Africa Area Corporate Communication Manager, Corporate Communication Director at DHL Worldwide Express, respectively between years 2001-2009. She worked as Head of Corporate Communications at Philip Morris between years 2009-2015, Advisory Board Member, Strategic Communications Consultant at askbmm Consulting and also served as Founder at LiveGlobalEatLocal/YeatUp between years 2015 and 2019. Ms. Saatçi who has been working as Corporate Communications and Affairs Director at Efes Türkiye since November 2019, has been appointed as the Group Corporate Communications and Affairs Director as of January 1, 2022. Ms. Saatçi, who serves as the President of the Beer and Malt Producers Association, is also a member of the Federation of Food and Drink Industry Associations of Türkiye (TGDF) Supervisory Board.

Ms. Serim Yıldırım was graduated from Boğaziçi University in Sociology and started her career as Product Manager at Evyap in 1996 and then joined Efes Beer Group in 1997. She served as Research Executive between years 1997-1998, Marmara Beer Brand Manager between years 1998-2001 and Efes Marketing Manager between years 2001-2006 in Türkiye. She was then appointed as Marketing Director in Anadolu Efes HQ between 2006-2008. Ms. Yıldırım joined Britsh American Tobacco Türkiye and served between 2008-2016 as Türkiye Head of Strategy, Planning & Insights, Türkiye Head of Brand Marketing Türkiye and in her last role as EEMEA Dunhill Brand Director at British American Tobacco in London HQ office. She moved on to Chief Marketing Officer at Pozitif Entertainment between years 2016 and 2017 and in 2018, Ms. Yıldırım has rejoined Anadolu Efes Türkiye as Anadolu Efes Türkiye Marketing Director. Ms. Yıldırım has been appointed as the Group Strategy, Insight and Innovation Director as of January 1, 2022.

Dmitry Shpakov graduated from National Technical University in Ukraine in 1996 after which he earned his MBA degree from INSEAD Business School in International Management. Also he graduated from InterRegional Academy of Personnel Management with a degree in Economics in 2007 and International Management Institute (Kiev, Ukraine) in 2008. Started his career at AB InBev as Sales Representative in Kiev in 1998, he was appointed as Key Account Manager in 2001 and afterwards as Distribution Manager in 2002, and became the Regional Sales Manager in 2002. In 2007, Mr. Shpakov was appointed as the National Sales Director in AB InBev Ukraine where AB InBev became #1 due to his work. After having served as the CEO of AB InBev Ukraine in 2014 and the CEO of BU East (Russia and Ukraine) in 2015, Mr. Shpakov was appointed as the CEO of AB InBev Efes in March 2018.

Ömer Öğün graduated from Yıldız Technical University in Geophysical Engineering. Öğün started his professional career at Anadolu Group as Service Representative at Çelik Motor in 1992, where he later worked as a Sales Service Supervisor. He served as Planning and Logistics Manager at Coca-Cola Russia (Rostov) Operations from 1998 to 1999 and Operations Manager at Efes Russia Rostov Brewery from 2000 to 2006. Öğün was appointed as Operations Director of Efes Russia in 2006. In November 2007, Öğün has been appointed to the role of Task Force Director for Uzbekistan country market at Anadolu Efes Beer Group. Later he served as Efes Kazakhstan General Manager between May 2008 and March 2012, until he was appointed as Efes Ukraine Managing Director in March 2012. Öğün was appointed as Efes Kazakhstan Managing Director in June 2015, together with Efes Ukraine Managing Director role. Öğün was appointed as Central Asian Republics (CAR) Managing Director in August 2018. He served as CAR and Azerbaijan Managing Director between August 2018 and February 2023. Öğün worked as General Manager responsible from Special Projects in 2023. Öğün has been serving as General Manager of the Russian Operations since 1st of January 2024.

Ertan Kurt graduated from Istanbul University in Economics in 1994 and completed his MBA courses in Istanbul University in 1997. He started his professional career in 1994 at Procter & Gamble Türkiye in Sales Department; where he served in various positions until 2000. Between 2001 and 2005; he worked at Reckitt Benckiser Türkiye as Trade Marketing Manager, Central Region Manager, Senior Trade and Shopper Marketing Manager, respectively. Between 2005 and 2009 he worked as Country Manager at Reckitt Benckiser Slovenia and then served as Global Trade and Shopper Marketing Director at Reckitt Benckiser Global HQ UK until 2012. Having worked as Sales Director in Nestlé Waters Türkiye between 2012 and 2016, he worked as International Markets Director at Brisa Bridgestone Sabancı between 2016 and 2017. He worked as Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Şişecam between 2018 and 2020. Mr. Kurt served as Efes Georgia Managing Director between February 2020 and February 2023. Mr. Ertan Kurt has been appointed as Anadolu Efes Kazakhstan General Manager, effective as of 1 February 2023.

Mr. Veli Dinçel graduated from Boğaziçi University, Bachelor of Arts in History in 1996 and completed his IESE Business School Executive Program in 2019. He started his professional career as Management Trainee, and continued to serve as Field Sales Supervisor, Key Account Manager, Trade Marketing Manager and National and Merchandising Manager respectively at Gillette between 1996-2006. Later, he worked as Head of Traditional Trade, Head of National Key Accounts, Country Manager Baltics & Kaliningrad, at Reckitt Benckiser (Household and Health Care between 2006-2013. Between 2013-2023, he was the Sales Director Turkey and General Manager of Adrian Region and General Manager Poland at Henkel (Laundry & Home Care).

Alphan Akpeçe graduated from Marmara University Faculty of Communication, Public Relations and Advertising in 2003. He started his career in 2005 in Anadolu Efes Türkiye Marketing Directorate. Between 2005 – 2014, after serving as Marketing Representative, Product Supervisor (Efes Dark & Efes Xtra), Product Supervisor (Efes Pilsen), Communications Supervisor, he was appointed as Efes Pilsen Marketing Manager. After working as Channel Development Manager in Anadolu Efes Türkiye Marketing Directorate between 2014 – 2015, he moved to Anadolu Efes Türkiye Sales Directorate. Between 2015-2018 he served as In-store Marketing and Key Customer Development Manager and Trade Marketing Manager, then he served as Efes Georgia Commercial Director between May 2018 – June 2021. Mr. Akpeçe has been appointed as Efes Moldova Managing Director effective from 1 July 2021.