Organisational transformation is ongoing
New appointments have been made in the Group presidency organisations of Sabancı Holding. The Presidency of the Retail Group will be undertaken by Mr. Ata Köseoğlu who will continue to act as the President of the Strategy and Business Development Group. The Presidency of the Industry Group will be undertaken by Mr. Cenk Alper, who has still been acting as the CEO of Kordsa. The Presidency of the Industry Group will include the following companies: Brisa, Kordsa, Temsa Otobüs, Temsa İş Makinaları and Temsa Motorlu Araçlar. The Presidency of the Cement Group, on the other hand, will be undertaken by Mr. Mehmet Hacıkamiloğlu with the management responsibility of Yünsa. The new appointments will be applicable starting from the 1st of April.
Mr. Mehmet Göçmen, the CEO of Sabancı Holding, who will take office for his position as from the 30th of March noted, “As Sabancı Holding, we are undergoing a transformation in the new phase we started. We believe that we will carry our Group to the future more smoothly with a structure that focuses on continuous development understanding, has high synergy, is dynamic and effective. Our new organisational structure has been designed with the objective of making all our systems and processes more effective. We have achieved this structuring by gaining strength from our own organisation and performing internal promotions and appointments. I wish success to all my colleagues in their new positions.”
ATA KÖSEOĞLU
After graduating from the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Boğaziçi University, Mr. Ata Köseoğlu studied for his master’s degree in Electrical Engineering at the Lehigh University in the USA and completed his MBA at the Boston University. Starting his banking career in 1987, Mr. Ata Köseoğlu acted as the Deputy General Director in Finansbank from its foundation to 1994, and then worked as the Managing Director in Bear Stearns in the USA, Société Générale in France, Credit Suisse, and First Boston Bank in England in the subsequent years. He worked in BNP Paribas/TEB Group between the years of 2006-2011 and acted as the Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO in TEB Yatırım. Mr. Ata Köseoğlu has been working as the President of the Strategy and Business Development Group of Sabancı Holding for the last 6 years and he is also acting as the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of Çimsa and as a Board Member of Enerjisa and CarrefourSA.
MEHMET HACIKAMİLOĞLU
Mr. Mehmet Hacıkamiloğlu graduated from the Civil Engineering Department of Boğaziçi University in 1993 and completed the Executive MBA programme in the Sabancı University in 2001. He worked as a Site Engineer in Üstay İnşaat between the years of 1992 and 1993 and joined our Group in 1993 and respectively acted as the Chief of the Ready Mixed Concrete Plant and Investment and Planning Chief in Betonsa. After working as the Strategy Development and Planning Manager in Akçansa between the years of 1997 and 1999 and Company Director in Agregasa between the years of 1999 and 2001, he worked in Akçansa as the Finance Coordinator from 2001 to 2003. He was appointed as the Deputy General Director of Financial and Administrative Affairs in Çimsa in 2003. Appointed as the General Director of Çimsa on 01.07.2006 and as the General Director of Akçansa in 01.09.2014, Mr. Mehmet Hacıkamiloğlu worked as the President of the Cement Group of Sabancı Holding from 17.02.2016 to the present day.
CENK ALPER
Mr. Cenk Alper received a bachelor’s degree in the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Middle East Technical University in 1991 and his master’s degree in 1994 and he completed the MBA programme in the Sabancı University in 2002. Starting his career in Beksa as Process Engineer in 1996, Mr. Cenk Alper worked in different executive positions in the foreign organisations of Bekaert between the years of 2002 and 2007. Joining Kordsa in 2007, Mr. Cenk Alper acted as the Global Technology Director, Deputy President of Technology and Market Development and Deputy Director of Operations and he has been working as the CEO of Kordsa since 17.06.2013.