Senior Management

Tevfik Eraslan

Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Tevfik Eraslan, who has 25 years of work experience, currently carries out his duty at Is Asset Management as Chief Executive Officer. He worked in the Treasury Department of an international financial institution between 1995-2001, before joining İş Asset Management in 2001. Mr. Eraslan served as Assistant Manager and Manager of the Pension Funds Department until 2008, and then as Executive Vice President in charge of Portfolio Management between 2008 and 2013. He was appointed CEO in September 2013. He attended in many executive programs from Pension Fund Management Seminars at The Wharton School of Economics and Global Asset Management Program at CFA Institute to Essentials of Management Program at the Columbia University. Mr. Eraslan holds a bachelor’s degree in Faculty of Economics from Istanbul University and a master’s degree in Capital Markets from the same university. Mr Eraslan serves as Chairman of Board of Directors of Luxembourg based Turkisfund; member of Board of Directors of Turkish Capital Markets Association and Turkish Institutional Investment Managers’ Association, and also the member of Turkey-Luxembourg Business Council and Turkey-Sweden Business Council of Foreign Economic Relations Board. Mr Tevfik Eraslan was elected as Board Member of Borsa İstanbul at Ordinary General Assembly Meeting on September 27, 2018

Elif Cengiz

Executive Vice President

Elif Cengiz has 26 years of experience in the industry, and since 2011, has served as the Company’s Executive Vice President in charge of the IT, Operations, Financial and Administrative Affairs, Law and Internal Control Departments. She started her professional career as Assistant Credit Expert at İşbank and subsequently worked for three years in the Bank’s Securities Department. In 1997, Ms. Cengiz joined İş Investment, where she worked for four years, before transferring to İş Asset Management’s Mutual Funds Department in 2001. She was appointed Manager responsible for Mutual Funds in 2003, before serving as manager in various other departments. Elif Cengiz completed her undergraduate studies at Istanbul University, Department of Economics in 1992.

Ali Emrah Yücel

Executive Vice President

Ali Emrah Yücel started his professional career in capital markets, in the Treasury, Mutual Funds and Portfolio Management Department. He went on to work in various positions at İş Investment Securities in the Treasury, Domestic Markets and Portfolio Management Departments between 2001 and 2004. At İş Investment, Mr. Yücel participated in establishing and became Manager of the Portfolio Management Department. This Department delivered various services in different areas of capital markets, primarily mutual funds, hedge funds, capital protected funds, stock exchange mutual funds and private portfolio management. In 2014, he joined İş Asset Management, where he continues to serve as Executive Vice President in charge of Investments. Emrah Yücel graduated from Boğaziçi University, Department of Mathematics, and then completed his Master's in Business Administration at the University of West Georgia in 1998.

Nihan Özenç

Executive Vice President

With 25 years of industry experience, Nihan Özenç has served as Executive Vice President in charge of Marketing Departments at the Company since April 2017. He began his professional career in 1995 and worked in the Treasury and Capital Markets departments of various banks. Mr. Özenç then held different managerial positions at İş Investment Securities from 2002 to 2015. After serving as Executive Vice President in charge of Investment Advisory at Ak Investment between 2015 and 2017, he was appointed Executive Vice President in charge of the Distribution Channel Management, Investment Advisory, and Domestic Sales and Corporate Communications Departments at İş Asset Management. In 1994, Nihan Özenç graduated from Istanbul Technical University, Department of Management Engineering, and then went on to receive an MBA degree from the University of Leeds under a scholarship from the Banks Union of Turkey and the British Council.