About Us
Detailed information about our company history, board of directors and capital distribution.
Who We Are
Established in 1990 as the “first life insurance company of Turkey”, we are proud to be the leader that generated Turkey’s largest funds in the aggregate of life insurance and private pension system.
We continue with the excitement on our first day to provide private pension and insurance products that suit most to the future expectations and current conditions of our valued customers with our headquarters in İstanbul, our regional offices in İstanbul, Ankara, Adana, Bursa, İzmir, Kocaeli, Antalya and Trabzon, our branch in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, our extensive bancasurrance network, our direct sales team and our approximately 250 agencies.
A subsidiary of Isbank, we are the first publicly traded private pensions company in Turkey.
We continue with the excitement on our first day to provide private pension and insurance products that suit most to the future expectations and current conditions of our valued customers with our headquarters in İstanbul, our regional offices in İstanbul, Ankara, Adana, Bursa, İzmir, Kocaeli, Antalya and Trabzon, our branch in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, our extensive bancasurrance network, our direct sales team and our approximately 250 agencies.
A subsidiary of Isbank, we are the first publicly traded private pensions company in Turkey.
Board of Directors
Yalçın Sezen
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Yalçın Sezen was born in 1965 and graduated from Middle East Technical University in 1987. He started his career at Isbank as an Assistant Inspector and worked at various departments in managerial roles until he was appointed as Deputy Chief Executive on 13.04.2011. Since then, he is in charge of managing Retail Banking Business Units.
Hasan Koçhan
Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors
1957, Trabzon. Hasan Koçhan graduated from Ankara Academy of Economic and Commercial Sciences,
Banking Insurance Trade Institution of Higher Education, Banking Department. Beginning his career at
İşbank as an Officer in the Maçka/Trabzon Branch in 1984, Mr. Koçhan was appointed to Bayburt
Branch as an Assistant Section Head and served in the same position at Yomra/Trabzon,
Bulancak/Giresun and Trabzon Branches. He served as a Sub-Manager and Assistant Manager at the
Trabzon Branch. He was appointed as a Branch Manager to Park/Trabzon, Ordu, Gaziantep and
İzmit/Kocaeli Branches. He was elected to İşbank’s Board of Directors on 3 November 2008, 31 March
2011 and 28 March 2014. He also served as a Member of the Credit Committee from 30 May 2011 to
31 March 2017. Mr. Koçhan has been retired from the Board of Directors of İşbank on 31 March 2017
and elected as a Board Director of Anadolu Hayat Emeklilik on 28 April 2017.
Yılmaz Ertürk
Director and CEO
1964, Istanbul. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics at İstanbul University and received
his master’s degree in economics from the same university, Institute of Social Sciences.
He joined Isbank as Assistant Specialist in the Economic Research Division. After serving in
various units at Isbank and the Kozyatağı Corporate Branch; he was appointed Deputy Chief Executive of Isbank
on 30 January 2013. Mr. Ertürk has been appointed as the CEO of Anadolu Hayat Emeklilik on 26 August 2019.
Dr. Merih Rafet Akgünay
Director (Independent)
1953, Ankara. He holds a degree in public administration from the Faculty of Economic and
Administrative Sciences at the Middle East Technical University. After completing a master’s degree in
the USA, he received a doctorate degree from the Department of International Relations at the Middle
East Technical University. He started his professional life as a junior career officer in the Department
of Cyprus and Greece Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1977. He worked in various postings
in Nicosia, Tel Aviv and Athens under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 1980 and 1985. He then
worked as Section Head, Department of International Security Affairs of the Ministry (1985-1987),
Faculty Advisor and Senior Turkish Representative in the NATO Defense College (1987-1991), Division
Head of Military Affairs, Department of International Security Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Counselor and Deputy Chief of Mission in the Turkish Embassy in Washington DC (1993-1997), Deputy
Director General of the Directorate General of Policy Planning under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
(1997-1998), Chief of Staff to the President of the Republic of Turkey (1998-2000), Turkish Ambassador
in Beijing (2000- 2004), and Chief Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister and Deputy
Undersecretary for Multilateral Political Affairs and International Political Organizations (2005-2008).
He held the position of Special Envoy for Countering Terrorism in 2007 and 2008. Following his posting
as the Turkish Ambassador in Ottawa from 2008 until 2012, he voluntarily retired. Ambassador (R)
Dr. Akgünay works as Advisor to the President and Faculty Member at the Middle East Technical
University Northern Cyprus Campus and also serves on the Consultative Council to the President of the
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which was formed to assist the President of the TRNC in the
negotiations. Mr. Akgünay has been elected a Board Director of Anadolu Hayat Emeklilik on
24 March 2014.
Erda Gerçek
Director (Independent)
1966, Eskişehir. He holds a degree in economics from Boğaziçi University. Erda Gerçek started his
career in the Treasury Department of Citicorp Zurich in 1989, where he later managed the principalguaranteed products from Swiss and UK pension funds. In 1991, he set up the Global Emerging Markets
division at the same group and also worked as Latin America and EMEA strategist. He undertook two
secondments to the Hong Kong office as the group’s Far East strategist and Chief Investment Officer
and was in charge of the Asia Pacific region. In addition to managing the global funds of Citi Asset
Management (CAM), he was also the portfolio manager of Korea, Thailand, Greece, Portugal and
Turkey in the same period. In 2004, he set up the Group’s Hedge Funds. In tandem with his strategist
role, he assumed the responsibility for portfolio management, managing and marketing Long-Short
Market Neutral and 130-30 products. Within the Citigroup, he gave courses to employees of market
and economy regulators and especially central banks of various countries. He also worked as trainer in
the group’s Management Trainee program. Erda Gerçek currently offers training programs in strategy
and global markets in and out of Turkey, provides consultancy services, and teaches in the graduate
programs of various universities in Turkey. He has been elected a Board Director of Anadolu Hayat
Emeklilik on 24 March 2014.
Dr. Ahmet D. Erelçin
Director (Independent)
After getting his B.A in Business Administration from University of Istanbul, Dr. Erelçin received his M.Sc. in Accounting & Finance from LSE and obtained his Ph.D. in Business & Economics from Lehigh University. Starting his 28-year career in Banking at İktisat Bankası in 1985, Dr. Erelçin worked at Treasury, Investment Banking and Asset Management departments of Garanti Bankası, Interbank and Finansbank, consecutively. After acting as Demir Yatırım General Manager for five years, Dr. Erelçin was appointed to the Executive Committee of HSBC Turkey in charge of its Brokerage and Asset Management subsidiaries. Later on, he set up and managed the Turkish desk of Principal Investments, the global private equity arm of HSBC. During this period, Dr. Erelçin represented HSBC at the boards of its portfolio companies, Havas and TGS. Currently, Dr. Erelçin lectures finance courses at the Graduate Business Schools of Koç and Özyeğin Universities and sits at the board of Darussafaka Society. He has been elected a Board of Director of Anadolu Hayat Emeklilik on 26 March 2018.
Att. Med. Şebnem Ergün
Director (Independent)
She was born in 1964 in Mersin. She has got her law degree from the Law Faculty of Ankara University.
After completing her law internship, she started her professional carrier as an assistant expert lawyer
at the legal department of the Capital Markets Board of Turkey (CMB) in 1988. She received expert
and senior expert titles respectively and also served as a Deputy Head of the Corporate Finance
Department for three years. After retiring from the CMB in 2008, she started to work as a legal
consultant and an Attorney-at Law on her specialized areas such as Capital Markets Law, Corporate
Law, M&A and Corporate Finance to her clients as publicly traded companies/holdings, companies who
intend to public offering, Capital Market Institutions, retail investors, institutional investors. She was
registered in the mediators list of the Justice Ministry Department of Mediation in 2017. She has
Advanced Capital Markets’ Activities License; Derivatives License; Corporate Governance Rating
License; Appraisal of Real Estate License; Credit Rating License, Independent Auditing in Capital
Markets License. She has been serving as a board member of Turkish Capital Markets Association and
an independent board member of Yeni Gimat Real Estate Investment Company Inc. She has been
elected a Board of Director of Anadolu Hayat Emeklilik on 26 March 2018.
Mesut Dinçer
Director
1978, Ahlat. Mesut Dinçer holds a degree in international relations from Uludağ University.
Beginning his career at Isbank in 1999, Mr. Dinçer served at Van, Bingöl Diyarbakır branches and at
Erzurum, Diyarbakır, Maltepe and Kadıköy District Sales Office. Serving as Division Manager in the
Private Banking Sales Department of Isbank since 26 August 2019, Mr. Dinçer has been elected a
Board Director of Anadolu Hayat Emeklilik on 13 September 2019.
Kemal Emre Sayar
Director
Kemal Emre Sayar received his bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the Middle East Technical University. He then got an MS in Information Technologies in Management from Sabancı University and an MA in Economics and Finance from Boğaziçi University. He started his career as an assistant inspector on İşbank’s Board of Auditors in 1999, where he subsequently held managerial positions in various units of the Bank. Currently he serves as a Unit Manager in the Subsidiaries Department of İşbank. Having held seats in the boards of directors of various group companies, Mr. Sayar has been elected a Board Director of Anadolu Hayat Emeklilik on 27 November 2015.
Serdar Yılmaz
Director
1973, İzmir. He received his bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the Middle
East Technical University in 1995 and his master’s degree in 1998. He got an MBA from Bilgi University
in 2014. After starting his career as a developer in İşbank’s Software Development Department in 1995,
he worked as an Application Architect and Project Manager at Softtech from 2004 to 2008. In 2008, he
was assigned as an Assistant Manager to IT Architecture and Security Division of İşbank, where he
became a Unit Manager in 2009. He functioned as IT Architecture Director until 2012, when he became
IT Architecture and Data Management Director. Serving as Data Management Division Head since
30 January 2015, Mr. Yılmaz has been elected a Board Director of Anadolu Hayat Emeklilik on
26 March 2015.
M. Elif Germirli
Director
1968, Kayseri. Ms. Germirli holds a BS in chemical engineering from Bosphorus University and an MBA from Columbia University. After receiving her masters degree in 1993, Ms. Germirli started her career at Citibank Istanbul where she held various posts in the capital markets and corporate finance departments. From 2000 to 2007, she continued her banking career in the United Kingdom working for Citigroup in London. The last position she held with Citigroup London was as a director in the European Securitisation and Real Estate Finance Group responsible for real estate finance for CEEMEA region. Between 2008 and 2018, Ms. Germirli worked for Tahincioglu Holding as a deputy managing director, CFO, and CEO.
Executive Board
Yılmaz Ertürk
CEO
1964, Istanbul. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics at İstanbul University and received
his master’s degree in economics from the same university, Institute of Social Sciences.
He joined Isbank as Assistant Specialist in the Economic Research Division. After serving in
various units at Isbank and the Kozyatağı Corporate Branch; he was appointed Deputy Chief Executive of Isbank
on 30 January 2013. Mr. Ertürk has been appointed as the CEO of Anadolu Hayat Emeklilik on 26 August 2019.
Orhan Bozkurt
Deputy Chief Executive Officer
1956, Rize. He is a graduate of Galatasaray School of Economics and Business Administration of
İstanbul Academy of Economic and Commercial Sciences. He started working as an Assistant Inspector
at Anadolu Sigorta in 1982. Mr. Bozkurt has been serving as a Deputy Chief Executive Officer at Anadolu
Hayat Emeklilik since 12 June 2007.
Haldun Aydoğdu
Deputy Chief Executive Officer
1973, Ankara. He holds a degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the Middle East
Technical University. He started working as a Software Specialist at İşbank in 1995, where he
functioned as the Software Team Leader (1999-2003), Project Leader (2003-2006), assistant manager
in the Operational Solutions Division (2007-2010), and Head of the Operational Solutions Division
(2010-2011). He joined Anadolu Hayat Emeklilik as Coordinator on 1 July 2011. Mr. Aydoğdu has been
serving as a Deputy Chief Executive Officer since 1 February 2013.
Murat Atalay
Deputy Chief Executive Officer
1973, Ankara. He holds a degree in statistics from the Faculty of Science at Hacettepe University. He
joined İşbank in 1996 as an assistant specialist and functioned as a specialist and manager in various
Head Office divisions. He was a Board Director representing İşbank at Anadolu Hayat Emeklilik from
24 May 2011 until 31 October 2014. Serving as the Head of Retail Banking Marketing Division of İşbank
since 2011, Mr. Atalay has been appointed as Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Anadolu Hayat
Emeklilik on 1 November 2014.
M. Cengiz Aytekin
Deputy Chief Executive Officer
1964, Safranbolu. He holds a degree in law from İstanbul University. He joined Anadolu Hayat Emeklilik
as a lawyer in 1995. He was promoted to the position of Assistant Legal Counsel in 1999, Legal Counsel
in 2004, and Chief Legal Counsel in 2014. Mr. M. Cengiz Aytekin has been appointed as Deputy Chief
Executive Officer on 29 December 2014.
Tuna Uğun
Deputy Chief Executive Officer
1972, Adana. He graduated from the Economics Department (in English) at Marmara University. He
joined Anadolu Hayat Emeklilik in 1994 as a fund management specialist trainee in the Pension
Accounting and Finance Department, where he was promoted to II. manager in the newly established
Funds Management Department in 2000. Having started to work in the Private Pension Department,
the establishment process of which he led, he rose to the position of assistant manager and manager
in the same department in 2004 and 2007, respectively. Having served as the Marketing Manager since
2008, Mr. Tuna Uğun has been brought to the position of Deputy Chief Executive on
29 December 2014.
Coordinator
İsmail Hakkı Altay
Coordinator
1970, Trabzon. He got his degree in economics from the Economic and Administrative Sciences Department at Hacettepe University. He began his career as an Assistant Inspector at Anadolu Hayat Emeklilik on 4 August 1997. He was appointed as Inspector (grade 2) at Marmara District Office on 5 April 2004 and as Assistant Manager at the same branch on 1 April 2006. Having been assigned to the Customer Relations and Operations Department on 1 May 2007 and as Manager on 1 April 2009, Mr. Altay has been serving as Coordinator since 9 October 2013.
Shareholder Structure
Our company's paid-in capital increased to TRY 430,000,000 pursuant to the board’s resolution dated 29/04/2016. The registration process of the capital increase was completed on 13/07/2016 and announced in the Turkish Trade Registry Gazette on 19/07/2016
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Türkiye İş Bankası
64%
Anadolu Anonim Türk Sigorta Şirketi
20%
Free float
15%
Milli Reasürans T.A.Ş.
1%
*The ratio of our publicly-held shares is 17%. As of 31 December 2018, Türkiye İş Bankası A.Ş. holds 1.89% of the publicly held shares.
There are no cross-shareholding relations between any shareholder and our company.
There are no cross-shareholding relations between any shareholder and our company.
Detailed information about our vision, mission, values and understanding of corporate social responsibility.
Our Vision
Our vision is to become the leading company in Turkey in all aspects of financial planning that are of concern to the future of Turkey and Turkish citizens.
Our Mission
- Develop and embed the awareness of individuals and their loved ones for securing their future
- Provide the financial solutions that eliminate individuals’ doubts regarding future and raise their quality of life
- Contribute to the development of the national economy by creating long-term funds
Our Values
- Customer satisfaction is the foundation of our services and products.
- We believe that innovation and creativity is an integral part of our business.
- We derive our strength from the common values of İşbank Group.
- We spend our energy and our corporate resources on activities that increase our profitability and create value for our shareholders.
- We use new technologies to increase our productivity.
- We participate in social activities to the maximum extent with the awareness of our social responsibility.
- We believe in an entrepreneurial team spirit.
Corporate Strategy
To contribute to the stable growth of the industry by developing and maintaining a diverse range of products capable of satisfying customers' needs and demands in terms of life insurance and private pensions.
To increase our market share by combining our achievements in offering innovative products and creating value through an extensive service network.
To provide customers with financial security and enable them to accumulate savings for their retirement by benefiting from our experience and effectiveness in the industry to achieve superior performance in the management of pension funds.
To maintain a sustainable level of profitability which is above the market average.
To increase our market share by combining our achievements in offering innovative products and creating value through an extensive service network.
To provide customers with financial security and enable them to accumulate savings for their retirement by benefiting from our experience and effectiveness in the industry to achieve superior performance in the management of pension funds.
To maintain a sustainable level of profitability which is above the market average.
Our Understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility
We put emphasis on implementing projects that support social and cultural development of women. We regard women as the main force in the development of our country and build our social responsibility projects on the basis of women’s empowerment.
The contest, having the theme of “About Life” and open to all professional and amateur women photographers, is Turkey’s first and only photography contest exclusive to women. We present the award winning works to photography enthusiasts at exhibitions organized in various cities and these photos take their place in a special catalogue published each year.
Shots From Life As Seen By Women Photography Contest
Shots From Life As Seen By Women” photography contest intends to contribute to Turkish women’s social and cultural development, while providing a platform where they can express themselves freely. The contest quickly became one of the most popular photography contests of Turkey with the contribution of 19 thousand women participating in more than thousand photos since its beginning in 2007 under the supervision of Photographic Arts Federation of Turkey up until today.
The contest, having the theme of “About Life” and open to all professional and amateur women photographers, is Turkey’s first and only photography contest exclusive to women. We present the award winning works to photography enthusiasts at exhibitions organized in various cities and these photos take their place in a special catalogue published each year.