Soft Drink Group Management

Burak Başarır was appointed as CEO in January 1st, 2014. He joined CCI in 1998 and assumed increasing managerial responsibilities in finance and commercial functions. He was named CFO in 2005 and played an integral role during CCI’s IPO process, while effectively managing the financial integration of Efes Invest with CCI in 2006. He was honored as the Best CFO in Turkey by Thomson Reuters Extel in 2009. He led the largest operation of CCI in terms of volume and sales as the Turkey Region President between 2010 and 2013. Başarır holds a BA in business administration and a minor in computer sciences from American River College. He studied management in California State University of Sacramento between 1990 and 1992 and received a B.S. degree in Business Administration from the Middle East Technical University in 1995. Başarır has more than 20 years of work experience and prior to joining CCI, he worked for Arthur Anderson as a Senior Auditor. He is the President of the Corporate Volunteers Association (ÖSGD) and a member of the Turkish Industry and Business Association (TUSIAD).

Ali Hüroğlu has been serving as CCI Group Supply Chain Services Director for Turkey and International Operations since 2001. He joined the Coca-Cola system as the plant manager of the former Trabzon production facility under the responsibility of the Black Sea Sales Center in 1990. Following this, Mr. Hüroğlu worked on the construction of the Mersin production facility and was responsible for the South and Southeast Sales Center. In 1995, he was transferred to the operations department, assuming the position of operations manager of the Mersin plant in 1996, and later he was promoted to be the Ankara Plant and East Region Group Operation Manager. Prior to joining the Coca-Cola system, he worked for HEMA Gear manufacturing as a process engineer from 1983 to 1985 and for General Dynamics Forth Worth-Texas as a trainee from 1985 to 1986. He then returned to Turkey in 1986 and worked on an F-16 aircraft design and manufacturing project in Turkish Aerospace Industries in Ankara from until 1990. Mr. Hüroğlu holds both Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Black Sea Technical University and he is a member of the Association of Beverage Producers (MEDER). Since 2008 he has been an Executive Committee member of the Coca-Cola Global Supply Chain Council. Mr. Hüroğlu has 36 years of professional experience.

Atty. R. Ertuğrul Onur has been serving as the General Counsel of CCI since 2007. He is also currently the Head of CCI Ethics and Compliance Committee. He established the CCI Compliance & Ethics Program and served as CCI Ethics and Compliance Officer between 2013 and 2016. He graduated from Istanbul University’s Law Faculty in 1988. Following the completion of his traineeship in the Konya Bar Association, he worked as a research assistant in the same Law Faculty. Mr. Onur served as Legal Counsel for Mobil Oil Türk A.Ş. and BP Petrolleri A.Ş. between 1995 and 2000. He also worked as BP Turkey Employee Representative, BP Oil Europe Works Council Member and BP Oil Europe Works Council Link Committee Member. Prior to joining the Coca-Cola system, he set up the legal department in Pfizer İlaçları and served as Assistant General Manager and Legal Director. Mr. Onur implemented various compliance programs as the Compliance Liaison Officer in Pfizer Turkey. Mr. Onur has 29 years of work experience and is a member of the Istanbul Bar Association.

Servet Yıldırım has joined CCI as Group Corporate Affairs Director as of September 2018. He started his career at İşbank and worked in Economic Research and Treasury Departments. In 1989, Servet joined Reuters News Agency. During his tenure, he also assumed managerial roles and managed the Turkish branch. Moving to Turkey’s most influential finance/business channel CNBC-e, Servet assumed News Director and Editor-in Chief roles at the channel over the course of seven years. In 2011, Servet assumed the position of Group President of Economics branch of Doğuş Media Group. At the same time, he continued to anchor various financial shows aired on CNBC-e. During his career in the media sector, Servet wrote several columns on finance and Turkish economy in newspapers like Yeni Binyıl, Sabah, Referans and Radikal. Before joining CCI, Servet was a columnist at one of Turkey’s most selling newspaper Milliyet and commentator on NTV Para program on Turkey’s leading news channel NTV. He has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the Middle East Technical University.

Ahmet Öztürk graduated from the Department of Economics at Bilkent University and joined Anadolu Group in 1995. He began his professional career as Assistant Financial Control Specialist in the Finance Presidency and later served in various responsibilities at international companies operating under Anadolu Group. He worked as Financial Control Manager at Coca-Cola Rostov Bottlers in 1998 and as CFO at Coca-Cola Turkmenistan, Coca-Cola Azerbaijan, Efes Ukraine and Efes Serbia operations from 1999 to 2007. Mr. Öztürk assumed Internal Auditor role for Anadolu Efes international beer operations, in Efes Breweries International, in 2007. Mr. Öztürk has been working as the Internal Audit Director at Anadolu Efes since January 2011.

Meltem Metin, a graduate of Istanbul University with a major in Business Administration in English, started her career in Pamukbank as a management trainee. She transferred to Anadolu Group to work as a specialist in the Financial Control Directorate in 1995. She became a Financial Controller in Anadolu Endüstri Holding before being transferred to Efes Sınai Yatırım Holding in 1998, working first as a Financial Controller, then as the Regional Finance Manager. In May 2000, she was appointed as the Finance Manager of Efes Sınai’s Kazakhstan operations (CCAB), and in 2005 she additionally assumed the role of Finance Manager for its Kyrgyzstan operations (CCBB). Subsequently she was appointed as the General Manager of CCAB in February 2002, and she was additionally appointed to the same position for CCBB in June 2005. With 19 years of professional experience, Metin has been serving as the Group Strategic Business Development Director in CCI since May 2009.

Tugay Keskin was appointed as Coca-Cola İçecek Turkey General Manager as of 1 January 2017. Keskin joined CCI in 1993 and served in different positions in Turkey sales function until his appointment as Turkey Sales Director in 2007. He worked as Turkey Sales Director between 2007-2011 and Turkey Commercial Director between 2011–2014. Having served as CCI Commercial Excellence Director between 2014 and 2016, Keskin is a graduate of Ankara University Faculty of Political Science.

Andriy Avramenko has 25 years of experience, including 20 years of Coca-Cola tenure, after starting his career in Arthur Andersen’s Kiev office in 1994. In 1999, he joined TCCC as a Principal Internal Auditor and moved to the Mergers & Acquisitions team as a manager in 2003. Mr. Avramenko served as Supply Chain Development Director of the Global Juice business between 2008 and 2011. He then served in the India & South West Asia Business Unit as Vice President and General Manager of the Juice Business until 2013, and Vice President of Strategy and General Manager of the Still Beverages Business until 2015. Between March 2015 and May 2018, he served as Group Director responsible for Mergers & Acquisitions for the Eurasia & Africa region. Currently, Mr. Avramenko is serving as Group Director of Corporate Development for the Europe, Middle East and Africa Group and is a Board Member of Coca-Cola Beverages Africa. Mr. Avramenko has a Master of Science Degree in International Economics from Kiev State University in Ukraine.

Lisani Atasayan graduated from Boğaziçi University with a major in Economics and later went on to study Business Administration and Computer Science majors at the University of Guelph, before obtaining an MBA degree from the University of Windsor in Canada. Atasayan began his career in Coca-Cola İçecek as a Financial Analyst in 1997, continuing as the Financial Analysis and Planning Manager between 1999 and 2004. He was appointed as the Finance Manager for Coca-Cola İçecek’s Marmara Region in 2004 and later as the International Operations Finance Director with increasing management responsibilities in 2006. Between 2010 and 2013, he made important contributions to the growth of Coca-Cola İçecek in Azerbaijan where he served as the General Manager. Between 2014 and 2016 he served as Coca-Cola İçecek General Manager of Turkey operation. As of January 2017, Atasayan was appointed as CCI Central Asia Regional Director responsible for Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan.

Osman Kazdal was appointed as the Commercial Excellence Director of Coca-Cola İçecek as of 1 January 2017. He started his career in CCI in 1990. He assumed several senior leadership roles in the commercial function until 2010. He served as the General Manager of CCI Kazakhstan between 2010-2014 and as the Central Asia Regional Director responsible for CCI Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan between 2014 and 2016. Kazdal holds a BA degree in Economics from Uludağ University and an MBA degree from Marmara University. He is married and has three children.

Ebru Özgen was appointed as the Group Human Resources Director for Coca-Cola İçecek A.Ş. as of 1 January 2017. She joined CCI as Budget and Planning Supervisor in 1997, worked as Finance Manager between 1998-2000 and East Region Finance Manager between 2000-2005. Özgen was appointed as Turkey Budget Planning and Commercial Finance Manager in 2010 with increased management responsibilities. In 2013 she was promoted to become Turkey Finance Director, and as a member of CCI Turkey Leadership Team she was responsible for the coordination of finance operations that support strategic business targets. Özgen started her career in 1992 in Arthur Andersen. She has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the Middle East Technical University and an MBA in International Banking and Finance from the University of Birmingham. In 2009, she earned a master’s degree on Law and Economics from Bilkent University. Özgen is a CIM certified CPA and independent auditor, and has two children.

Leyla Deliç was appointed as Coca-Cola Icecek Chief Information Officer on July 2nd, 2018. Mrs. Deliç started her career in 1995 as Network Engineer at Time Trend Computers in United States and then served in different companies and countries. She worked as Chief Information Officer in Aras Holding between 2008-2010. Before joining CCI, she served in different positions in GE Healthcare, USA and she worked as CIO in GE Healhtcare between 2016-2018. Mrs. Deliç has a bachelors degree of Electrical Engineering and masters degree of Computer Engineering in Southwestern University.