Supervisory Board

Gökhan Erün - Chairman

Gökhan Erün earned his undergraduate degree from Istanbul Technical University Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering and his graduate degree from Yeditepe University in Business Administration. Erün began his career at Garanti Bank Treasury Department in 1994. Between 1999 and 2004, he served as the Senior Vice President of Commercial Marketing and Sales Department. After becoming the CEO of Garanti Pension and Life in 2004, he was appointed as Executive Vice President of Garanti Bank in September 2005. Erün served as the Deputy CEO of Garanti Bank since September 2015, in charge of Corporate Banking Coordination, Treasury, Treasury Marketing and Financial Solutions, Derivatives, Cash Management and Transaction Banking, and Financial Institutions. He also held positions in the Boards of various Garanti Bank subsidiaries. As of January 2018, Erün has continued his career in Yapi Kredi as Executive Director in Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). In addition, Erün is the CEO of Koc Financial Services and holds positions in the Boards of various Yapi Kredi Group subsidiaries. 

Cahit Erdoğan - Member

Following graduation from Istanbul Technical University / Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Cahit Erdoğan completed his MBA degree from Rochester Institute of Technology. Erdoğan started his professional career at Xerox Corporation (Rochester, NY) as a Business Analyst. In 2000, Erdoğan started his Management Consultancy career by joining Accenture Turkey. Until 2009, he worked in Accenture as Consultant, Manager and Senior Manager and in February 2008, he was appointed as Turkey Country Lead of the Management Consulting. Erdoğan joined Yapı Kredi in 2009 as Chief Information Officer (CIO). Since July 2013, he assumed the position of Assistant General Manager in charge of Information Technologies and Operations at the Bank. Between May 2020 and August 2021, he was the Chief Operations Officer (COO), responsible of Information Technologies, Operations and Analytics. As of August 2021, he appointed as Assistant General Manager of Commercial and SME Banking in Yapı Kredi. Mr. Erdoğan is also a member of the Executive Committee in Yapı Kredi since July 2013, the Chairman of the Board of Directors in Yapı Kredi Technology A.Ş between May 2015- August 2021, he was the member of the Board in Yapı Kredi Investment & Securities A.Ş. between March 2020- September 2021 and member of the Board in Yapı Kredi Factoring, Yapı Kredi Leasing, Yapı Kredi Bank Azerbaijan since August 2021.

J.E. Dalmijn - Member

After his Master in Business Law at University of Leiden, J.E. Dalmijn has finished a post-academic education of Business Development at University of Oregon USA and a Management Development at INSEAD Fontainblau in France. J.E. Dalmijn started his career as account manager at Trade & Commodity Finance desk in Rotterdam at Mees & Hope N.V. where he worked from 1976 to 1998. During his tenure, he served as deputy general director for operations (1986), assistant general manager, general manager at Cash Management Group (1993) and General Manager in the U.K. (1996).Main responsibilities were operations of the bank, consisting of specialized finance (inclusive of trade and commodity finance), securities and derivatives brokerage, clearing of derivatives and supportive services like IT. From 1999 on, he fulfilled many senior positions like managing director at Van der Werf ICT, Disbank Nederland NV, Yapi Kredi Bank Nederland NV, The Economy Bank NV and Executive Director at Rabobank International. Main responsibilities were Operations and Risk Management. In 2012, he started his privately-owned company that offers banking consultancy and management services to various customers.

Fiona Beijdorff - Member

Ms. Beijdorff is an experienced international financial professional with a strong legal and financial background, holding Tax Law degrees from Leiden University and NYU Law School, New York. She started her career at Loyens & Volkmaars, and subsequently worked at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and later PwC. In 2005, she transitioned to The Nielsen Company, serving as the Senior International Tax Manager for EMEA and Asia regions. Her journey with Atradius, a leading global credit insurance company, began in 2008 as Head of Tax. In 2016, she was promoted to the position of Director Corporate Finance & Tax, overseeing global departments like investment management, treasury, capital management, credit rating agencies, M&A, corporate insurance and tax. At Atradius, Ms. Beijdorff holds various board and committee positions. After completing the Executive Pension Programme at Nyenrode University in 2017, she became a board member and later the chairman of the Atradius Dutch Pensions Fund. Under her stewardship in 2021-2022, the Dutch Pension Fund underwent a successful buy-out, culminating in its eventual liquidation. In 2022, she further broadened her responsibilities taking on Environment, Social and Governance (ESG), in particular for ESG strategy, compliance and reporting.