Beer Group Management

Can Çaka received bachelor of science degree from the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department of Middle East Technical University and his postgraduate degree from the Administrative Sciences Department of the same university. He started his career as a business analyst and systems engineer in 1994, and has worked at various companies and was involved in various projects. He joined our Group in 1997 and worked as Finance Specialist until 2000, Finance and Administrative Affairs Manager at the Efes Ukraine between 2000-2001, Efes Beer Group Strategy and Business Development Manager between 2001 and 2005, Efes Beer Group Strategy and Business Development Director between 2005 and 2008 and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Anadolu Efes between 2008 -2012. Çaka worked as the of Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Anadolu Group between 2013 and 2018. He was appointed as Anadolu Efes CEO and Beer Group President as of January 1st, 2019.

N. Orhun Köstem holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA from the Middle East Technical University, as well as an MA in Law and Economics from Bilgi University. Köstem joined Anadolu Group in 1994 and assumed different senior executive positions such as Corporate Finance and Investor Relations Director of Efes Beverage Group, Finance Director of Efes Breweries International, Corporate Finance Coordinator of the Anadolu Group, Coca-Cola İçecek Chief Financial Officer; Coca-Cola İçecek Middle East and Pakistan Region Director. In 2015, he was listed among “Turkey’s Most Influential 50 CFOs” by Fortune Turkey Magazine. He was awarded as Turkey’s Best CFO in the Investor Relations Awards organized by Thomson Reuters Extel in 2011 and 2013, while he was also honored with the CFO of the Year award by Management Events in 2014. Köstem is one of the three authors of the book “A Window to Capital Markets: The A to Z of Public Offering and Investor Relations” published in 2009. N. Orhun Köstem was appointed as Anadolu Efes Chief Financial Officer as of January 1st, 2019.

Tuğrul Ağırbaş received his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Istanbul University and joined Efes Beverage Group in 1990. From 1990 to 2001, Mr. Ağırbaş worked as Project Development Specialist, Marketing Specialist, Istanbul Region Sales Supervisor, New Product Development Supervisor, Group Product Manager, Sales Manager of Marmara Region and Marketing Manager of Miller. Mr. Ağırbaş was appointed as the Marketing Director of Efes Russia in 2001 and Managing Director of Efes Russia in June 2005. He assumed the post of Efes Turkey Managing Director on 1 January 2010. Mr. Ağırbaş was reappointed as Managing Director of Efes Russia on 1 November 2011. Between 2014-2017, Mr. Ağırbaş served as Anadolu Efes Eastern Europe and the CIS Group Managing Director, Head of Corporate Functions and Sales Organization Transformation Lead, respectively. As of 1 August 2017, Mr. Tuğrul Ağırbaş is appointed as Anadolu Efes Turkey Managing Director.

Born in 1973, Mr. Shpakov graduated from National Technical University in Ukraine in 1996 after which he received his MBA degree in International Management from INSEAD Business School. Started his career at AB InBev as Sales Representative in Kiev in 1998, he was appointed as Key Account Manager and afterwards as Distribution Manager in 2001, 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 BV in February 2018.

Mr. Gökçe Yanaşmayan graduated from Dokuz Eylül University Department of Economics in 2000. He worked as an assistant auditor at Arthur Andersen from 2000 to 2002 and as senior auditor at Ernst & Young from 2002 to 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 EBI Holland Office from 2006 until 2010 and as Finance Director at Efes Kazakhstan from 2010 until 2012. Having worked as the Finance Director at Efes Ukraine from 2012, Mr. Yanaşmayan serves as Efes Moldova Managing Director since 1 December 2014.

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 Turkey in Sales Department; where he served in various positions until 2000. Between 2001 and 2005; he worked at Reckitt Benckiser Turkey 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 Nestle Waters Turkey 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. Ertan Kurt joined Anadolu Efes in February 2020 and serves as Efes Georgia Managing Director.

Ömer Öğün holds a bachelor’s degree from the Department of Geophysical Engineering at Yıldız Technical University. Mr. Öğün began his professional career at Anadolu Group as Service Representative at Çelik Motor in 1992, where he later worked as a Sales 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. Mr. Öğün was appointed as Operations Director of Efes Russia in 2006. He served as Efes Kazakhstan Managing Director from May 2008 until March 2012, until he was appointed as Efes Ukraine Managing Director. As of 1 June 2015, Mr. Öğün has been appointed as Efes Kazakhstan Managing Director. He will also be carrying on his Efes Ukraine Managing Director role.

Banu Artüz 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 assignments, she worked in Feminine care and Oral care categories. After 8 years in Sales & Marketing roles, she decided to move to Human Resources. She built her HR career in different countries including Turkey, 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 2007-2009; and she moved to Moscow, Russia as Eastern Europe Talent Manager with the responsibility of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Central Asia Republics between 2010-2013. Banu Artüz, who has been working as Deputy Talent Manager Coordinator at Anadolu Group Holding since March 2014, is continuing her assignment as Anadolu Efes Group Human Resources Director as of April 1st, 2018.

Having graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Law, Mr. Yıldıray Efil worked as Legal Advisor- Lawyer at Turkiye İş Bankası A.Ş. Headquarters from 2001 until 2005. Mr. Efil completed Kadir Has University Sports Law Program in 2006 and earned his master’s degree (LL.M.) in Sports Law in 2011. Mr. Efil joined Anadolu Endustri Holding A.Ş. in 2005 as Legal Advisor-Lawyer and held the positions of Legal Affairs Manager and Assistant Legal Affairs Coordinator until 2013. Since April 2013, Mr. Efil has been serving as Anadolu Efes Group Legal Affairs Director. Besides, Mr. Efil has been assigned as Anadolu Efes Group Ethics Officer as of May 2015. Mr. Efil is a member of Istanbul Bar Association..

Uluhan Kumru holds a bachelors degree from Hacettepe University Department of Business Administration (English) and an MBA degree from Middle East Technical University. He began his career as Management Trainee in T.C. Ziraat Bank and served as Project Finance Senior Associate until 2003. Between 2003 -2013, he served, respectively, as Senior Auditor at Akbank, Head of Internal Control at Aklease, Senior Internal Audit Manager at Starbucks Turkey, Internal Audit Manager at Sabiha Gökçen International Airport Investment Development & Operation Inc. and Group Companies. He joined our Group as Audit Manager at Anadolu Group Audit Presidency in 2013, served as Group Internal Audit Manager at Anadolu Efes between August 2015 and May 2016 and as Anadolu Group Audit Manager in charge of Beverage Group Companies between June 2016 and December 2017. As of January 1, 2018, Mr. Kumru was appointed as Group Internal Audit Director at Anadolu Efes. He is Certified Internal Auditor and Certified Public Accountant in Turkey and serves as board member at Institute of Internal Auditors of Turkey since 2014.

Born in 1977, Mr. Daniel Barbulescu received his Master of Science degree in Agri-Business from Babeş-Bolyai University in 2001 after receiving his bachelor’s degree in Food Products Economics from the same university in 2000. 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- 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 - April 2017, Mr.Daniel Barbulescu is appointed as Acting Market Development Director at Anadolu Efes Market Development Directorate in May 2017 and Market Development Director in October 2017.

Murat Özkan received his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering from Bilkent University in 1993. He began his career as Systems Analyst in Arcelik between 1993 to 1996. Between 1996 -2014, he worked in various roles in Philips Morris Sabancı in that order, SAP Analyst, SAP Technical Development Team Leader, Financial Systems Team Leader, Operations Systems Team Leader, Technical Infrastructure Manager, SAP Program Manager, Philip Morris Turkey Program One (SAP Roll-out) Program Manager, Information Services Manager (Marketing & Sales Systems), Information Services Manager, IS Manager Regional Infrastructure Delivery in various subsidiaries. After serving as CIO in Ulker between 2014-2019, he joined Efes Beverage Group as Group Business Solutions Technologies Director as of 01.04.2019.

Dr. Stefan Lustig received his bachelor’s degree in Brewing and Beverage Technology from Technical University of Munich in 1988. He also received his PhD in Brewing and Beverage Technology from Technical University of Munich in 1994. He started his career as Project Manager in Beck's Brewery in 1989. He acted as Head of Gas Chromatography in the Chair of Brewing and Beverage Technology in Technical University of Munich between 1992-1995. He returned Beck's Brewery as Development & Technology Manager between 1995-1999, continued as Head of Quality (1999-2002). In 2002, he started to work in InBev Deutschland Holding as Brewing and Packaging Manager (2002-2006) and continued as Plant Manager (2006-2008). Between 2008-2010, he worked as Brewery Operations Director in InBev Deutschland Holding and he acted as a Member of Board. Dr. Lustig worked as Chief Operating Officer in Brau Holding International between 2010-2017. He was entrusted with additional responsibilities as Supply Chain Managing Director in BHI’s subsidary Paulaner Brewery Group between 2012-2018. As of 01.07.2019, Mr. Stefan Lustig is appointed as Anadolu Efes Group Supply Chain Director.