Hakan Bortecene
Chairman of the Board of TurkishBank UK and Chairman of TurkishBank Group.

James Gillan
Independent Non-Executive Director, formerly a career Detective with 26 years’ experience in the Metropolitan Police Service, including service in the Economic Crime Unit at New Scotland Yard. James also has significant experience in the private sector, having worked in senior Financial Crime Compliance positions at a number of firms, where he has had responsibility for oversight of policy, Due Diligence, Sanctions screening and investigations, including acting as Money Laundering Reporting Officer.

Murat Arig
Non- Executive Director. With over 20 years at a Director level, his professional background includes; President at Finance Group & Board Member at Abank, CEO & Board member at Abank, CEO at ALEASE, as well as various positions from Deputy Marketing Manager to AGM at Credit Lyonnais, and Client Executive at Iktisat Bankasi AS. He also serves as a board member of Turk Sigorta; the groups Cyprus-based insurance.

Alper Akdeniz
Independent Non-Executive Director. Mr Akdeniz started his career with PW in the City of London UK, qualified as a Chartered Accountant and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants for England and Wales (ICAEW).  He was awarded an honorary Doctorate by Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research (KIMEP).  Mr Alper Akdeniz is a Business Consultant with an extensive international experience in senior roles working in Asia, Europe, North and South America.

Mr Akdeniz was a senior partner and a member of PwC Management Board for Central and Eastern Europe.  He also served as the Chairman and Managing Partner of PwC Eurasia for almost 10 years.   During his career with PwC over 33 years, Mr Akdeniz led services to Sovereign Wealth Funds in Central and Eastern Europe, and provided services to global clients in auditing, mergers and acquisitions, and advisory matters.

More recently, Mr Akdeniz served as an Independent Non-executive Director at Sovereign Wealth Fund “Samruk-Kazyna” JSC where he was also the Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee of the Board.

Erhan Raif
Chief Executive Officer of Turkish Bank (UK) Limited has 34 years of financial services experience, managing a wide range of business functions. He is a business graduate from Northern Michigan University in the USA, a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and holds a certification in Information Systems Audit and Control (non-practising) from CISA USA.