With the statement made by Koç Holding, the appointments to be made as of the General Assembly Meeting to be held on Wednesday, March 22, were announced. It has been announced that Burçin Girit has been appointed as Koç Holding Corporate Communications and Foreign Relations Director after her successful roles in national and international companies for many years. Temel Trade and Investment Inc. He has been working as the General Manager and Koç Holding Accounting Director since 2019 at Zer A.Ş. It was announced that Mehmet Apak, who served as General Manager, was appointed and Melih Poyraz, who has been working as Koç Holding Strategy and Business Development Director since 2021, has been appointed as Aygaz General Manager.

In the statement, it was stated that Emine Alangoya, who has been working at Koç Holding since 1970 and has been the Accounting Director of Koç Holding since 2006, will resign due to retirement. Having assumed important responsibilities at different levels within the Koç Group since 1995, and since 2019, Zer A.Ş. Mehmet Apak, who served as the General Manager of Temel Ticaret ve Yatırım A.Ş. It was announced that he will assume the General Manager and Koç Holding Accounting Directorship.

He has been appointed as Koç Holding Corporate Communications and External Relations Director, effective April 3, 2023, as Corporate Communications Director and Sustainability Leader for BSH Home Appliances Emerging Markets region (Turkey, Middle East and Africa, Commonwealth of Independent States, India and Southeast Asian Countries). It was announced that Burçin Girit was appointed.

It has been stated that Melih Poyraz, Koç Holding Strategy and Business Development Director, will assume the role of Aygaz General Manager.

Koç Holding CEO Levent Çakıroğlu made the following statement regarding the organizational change and appointments:

“Mr. Emine Alango has spent the last 43 years with Koç Holding A.Ş. She has worked in our Group for approximately 53 years as Accounting Manager and Director. Mr. Alangoya, who took his first step into the Group as the Financial Affairs Group Trainee in 1970, assumed important responsibilities in the growth process of the Koç Group, including the public offering of Koç Holding. In addition, he set an example with his technical knowledge, sense of responsibility, meticulous approach, disciplined and devoted work, played a role in the training of many of our managers and guided them. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Emine Alangoya for her outstanding efforts, her dedication to our Group and her valuable services with her unending energy, and wish her health and happiness in her future life.

I wish success in their new duties to my colleagues, Mr. Mehmet Apak, who has carried out valuable work within the Koç Group for many years, and Mr. Melih Poyraz, and to Ms. Burçin Girit, who joined our Group as Koç Holding Corporate Communications and Foreign Relations Director after her successful assignments in national and international companies. I wish you good luck with your appointments.”

Mehmet Apak:

After working as a training staff at Türk Demir Döküm Fabrikaları A.Ş. between 1995-1999, Mehmet Apak started to work as an audit specialist in Koç Holding Audit Group Presidency in 1999. In addition to his current audit duties, he also served as the Finance and Financial Affairs Manager at Koç Statoil, which was founded in 2001 with Statoil. In 2004, he assumed the position of Assistant Audit Group Coordinator at Koç Holding. He also served as the Audit Group Coordinator at Koç Holding between 2009 and 2018. Since 2019, Zer Merkezi Services and Trade Inc. He serves as the General Manager. Apak is also an Executive Board Member of Ingage, one of the Koç Group Companies operating in the field of digital marketing. Mehmet Apak completed his undergraduate education (B.S.) at Rowan University USA – Department of Management Engineering.

Melih Poyraz:

Melih Poyraz, who started his business life as a consultant at Ernst&Young in 2001 and worked as an Account Expert at the Ministry of Finance between 2004 and 2014, joined Koç Group in 2014 when he was appointed as the Corporate Risk Management Director at Arçelik. Melih Poyraz, who was the CEO Office Coordinator at Koç Holding between 2015 and 2021, has been working as Koç Holding Strategy and New Business Development Director since 2021. Melih Poyraz has a BA in Business Administration from Boğaziçi University and a master’s degree in Economics from Galatasaray University. He has an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management and a PhD in Law from Northwestern University. He has been a registered attorney with the Illinois Bar Association since 2014.

Burcin Girit:

Burçin Girit started her career at Kanal D as a Public Relations Department Manager in 1995. He worked as a Marketing Operations Specialist at Pfizer between 1996-1998. Between 1998 and 2007, respectively, as the Public Relations Manager responsible for Turkey, Middle East and North Africa at Intel, as Marketing and Communications Director at Accenture, as Consumer Credit Products Marketing Manager at Bank Europa, as Technical Assistant to the CEO at Avea. and as the Press and Sponsorship Manager. Starting to work as the Corporate Communications Director at BSH Home Appliances in 2010, Girit has been working as the Corporate Communications Director and Sustainability Leader in charge of the Emerging Markets Region (Turkey, Middle East and Africa, Commonwealth of Independent States, India and Southeast Asian Countries) since 2020. He completed his undergraduate education at Boğaziçi University, Department of Psychology in 1993, and his master’s degree at Emerson College, Department of Business and Communication in 1995.

Source: (BYZHA) – Beyaz News Agency