Executive Board

Executive Board

Şahismail Şimşek

General Manager

Şahismail Şimşek

General Manager

Mr. Şahismail Şimşek was born in 1968 and has graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Finance. Mr. Şimşek started to work as an Officer in the Yenişehir/Ankara Branch of Türkiye İş Bankası A.Ş. in 1992, he worked as a Section Head, Submanager and Assistant Manager in Sultanhamam Branch, respectively between 1995 and 2007. He continued as Assistant Manager and Unit Manager in the Commercial Banking Product Department between 2007-2012, Branch Manager at Avcılar Commercial Branch between 2012 and 2016, Department Manager in the Commercial Banking Sales Department between 2016 and 2017, and then he was appointed as the Assistant General Manager on November 28, 2017. Mr. Şimşek, who was appointed as the General Manager of our Company on April 01, 2022, still holds this position and the Board membership of our Company.

Executive Board

Hüseyin Çalışkan

DEPUTY CHİEF EXECUTİVE

Hüseyin Çalışkan

DEPUTY CHİEF EXECUTİVE

Mr. Hüseyin Çalışkan was born in 1971 and graduated from the Department of Business Administration of the Middle East Technical University in 1993. The same year, Mr. Çalışkan started his career as Assistant Inspector at the Inspection Board of Türkiye İş Bankası A.Ş. After he served as Assistant Manager of the Commercial Loans Allocation Department between 2002 and 2007 and Unit Manager of the SME Loans Allocation Department between 2007 and 2013, Mr. Çalışkan was appointed Deputy General Director in our Company on 02.05.2013 and still holds this position.

Executive Board

Canan Keskin

DEPUTY CHİEF EXECUTİVE

Canan Keskin

DEPUTY CHİEF EXECUTİVE

Ms. Canan Keskin was born in 1976 and graduated from the Department of Economics in English of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences of Marmara University in 1998, and earned her Master’s degree at in Economics from Guelph University in Canada. Having started her banking career as Assistant Inspector at the Inspection Board of Türk Dış Ticaret Bankası A.Ş. (Fortis Bank A.Ş.) in 2000, Ms. Keskin served as Credit Rating Manager at the Credits Group of the same bank between 2006-2007, Unit Manager of the Corporate and Commercial Loans Monitoring, Administrative Proceedings and Legal Proceedings Department between 2007-2009, and Director at the same department between 2009-2011. Following her service as Manager of the Corporate Loans Monitoring Department at Türk Ekonomi Bankası A.Ş. from February 2011 to December 2011, Ms. Keskin started taking office as Operations Manager at our Company in December 2011, was appointed Executive Director on April 1, 2017 and Assistant General Manager on January 1, 2020.

Executive Board

Adem Ak

DEPUTY CHİEF EXECUTİVE

Adem Ak

DEPUTY CHİEF EXECUTİVE

Mr. Adem Ak was born in 1971 and has graduated from the Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Law. Mr. Ak completed his master's degree in Business Administration at Bilgi University. He started to work as an Attorney at the Samsun Legal Follow-up Unit of the Legal Affairs Directorate of Türkiye İş Bankası A.Ş.. He served as Counselor Attorney and Assistant Legal Counsel, respectively in the Legal Follow-up Department of the Istanbul Headquarters of the Legal Affairs Directorate between 2003 and 2008. As Assistant Legal Counsel, he worked in the Retail Banking Unit and the General Counsel Unit at the Legal Counseling Department of Türkiye İş Bankası A.Ş. between 2009-2015. Starting from 2009, he took part in the Individual/Collective Labor Law, Social Security Law and KVKK side of the Human Resources practices of Türkiye İş Bankası A.Ş.. Mr. Ak has also managed the Legal Counseling Litigation Unit with the title of Regional Legal Counsel since 2015. Mr. Ak, who is still a Member of the Board of Directors of Türkiye İş Bankası A.Ş. Members Pension Fund Foundation, was appointed as the Assistant General Manager of our Company on 9 May 2022.

Executive Board

Ozan Gür

DEPUTY CHİEF EXECUTİVE

Ozan Gür

DEPUTY CHİEF EXECUTİVE

Mr. Ozan Gür, was born in 1976 in Ankara, and was graduated from Ted Ankara College in 1993 and from Ankara University Faculty of Political Sciences in 1998. In 2005, Mr. Gür completed his master's degree in Business Administration in English at Istanbul Technical University. Mr. Gür started his professional career as Assistant Inspector at Türkiye İş Bankası A.Ş. in 1999 and served as an Assistant Manager in the Private Banking Sales Department in 2007, Assistant Manager in the Retail Loans Department in 2008, Unit Manager in the Card Payment Systems Department in 2011 and Unit Manager in the Retail Loans Underwriting Department in 2012. In 2014, Mr. Gür was appointed as the Head of Retail Loans Department at CJSC Isbank Russia and in 2016 he was appointed as the CEO-General Manager of JSC Isbank Georgia. Mr. Ozan Gür was appointed as Deputy Chief Executive of our Company on June 07, 2023.