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SPEAKER BIOS | IN SPEAKING ORDER Riza Kadilar Senior Country Manager & Representative for Turkey Natixis Dr. Riza Kadilar is a PhD in Media Economics. After a BSc degree at METU in Industrial Engineering, he has obtained his MSc degree at Stanford University, and completed his MBA at HEC, Paris. He has also attended an executive management course in strategic bank management at INSEAD. His past professional career includes senior level bank management experience in UK, the Netherlands, and Turkey, and he is currently working for Natixis, a major international investment banking group, as their senior country manager and representative for Turkey. Dr. Kadilar is the chairman of China Institute Turkey, chairman of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) Turkey, chairman of the English Speaking Union (ESU) Turkey, co-chair of HEC alumni Turkey network, scientific committee member at Institut du Bosphore (TUSIAD), and an expert / evaluator at European Commission Executive Agency for SMEs. He is a trustee and board member at Hisar Education Foundation, and a visiting professor at Bogaziçi University and Bilgi University. He regularly speaks at international conferences mainly on energy, structured trade, private equity, project and investment finance, and also on motivational topics like positive leadership, personal branding and networking. He is also an editorial board member of “GTR: Global Trade Review”, a London based leading trade finance magazine. Dr. Kadilar is the author of five published books on carbon markets, China, mentoring, coaching and facilitation. He is married to Pelin, and proud father of Kardelen.

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SPEAKER BIOS | IN SPEAKING ORDER

Riza Kadilar Senior Country Manager & Representative for Turkey Natixis

Dr. Riza Kadilar is a PhD in Media Economics. After a BSc degree at METU in Industrial Engineering, he has obtained his MSc degree at Stanford University, and completed his MBA at HEC, Paris. He has also attended an executive management course in strategic bank management at INSEAD. His past professional career includes senior level bank management experience in UK, the Netherlands, and Turkey, and he is currently working for Natixis, a major international investment banking group, as their senior country manager and representative for Turkey. Dr. Kadilar is the chairman of China Institute Turkey, chairman of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) Turkey, chairman of the English Speaking Union (ESU) Turkey, co-chair of HEC alumni Turkey network, scientific committee member at Institut du Bosphore (TUSIAD), and an expert / evaluator at European Commission Executive Agency for SMEs. He is a trustee and board member at Hisar Education Foundation, and a visiting professor at Bogaziçi University and Bilgi University. He regularly speaks at international conferences mainly on energy, structured trade, private equity, project and investment finance, and also on motivational topics like positive leadership, personal branding and networking. He is also an editorial board member of “GTR: Global Trade Review”, a London based leading trade finance magazine. Dr. Kadilar is the author of five published books on carbon markets, China, mentoring, coaching and facilitation. He is married to Pelin, and proud father of Kardelen.

Emre Alkin Economist, Consultant & Board Member Istanbul Kemerburgaz Üniversitesi, TIM, Plastkart, UEFA, Dunya Gazetesi

He was born in 1969 in Istanbul. He graduated from Saint-Michel French High School in Istanbul. B.A. from Istanbul University Faculty of Economics English Economics in 1991. Same year he was accepted as an research assistant to the Istanbul University Faculty of Economics. He recieved title of associate proffesor in theory of economics when he was doing his military services in 1997, as a project officer in F-16 Tactical Aircraft Systems. Prof.Dr. Emre Alkin wrote boks about risk management and financial institutions and he was on board of management and worked as consultant for several invesment companies. He became a professor in 2002. He participated in business development of Cukurova Holding, Anadolu Industry Holding, Dogan Holding and Altınbaş Holding in various sectors. Emre Alkin worked as economy commentator for TV Channels such as TV8, FOX, CNNTURK and CNBC-E and wrote columns for newspapers. Between 2000-2014 he was on a duty in Secretary General of Turkish Exporters Assembly, Member of National Tax Council, Secretary General of Federation of Non Banking Financial Companies, Secretary General of Turkish Football Federation and member of UEFA Marketing Committee. Prof. ALKİN give lectures and also there are books written by himself in Turkish and English. He held various positions in GSM and Telecommunication, International Financial İnstitutions, Payment Systems, Energy and Iron-Steel Industry. Furthermore, He gives economy classes at the Kemerburgaz University and continues its mission as Vice President. He still takes part in international projects about payment systems and financial management. Today, Prof. Alkin is Columnist in the business newspaper DUNYA and have 2 best seller novel in Turkish about socio-economy and writes about new dimensions in the business life in ORIGINEL magazine. He has two sons and speaks French and English fluently.

Pinar Artiran Director Research Centre on International Trade Law & Arbitration, Istanbul Bilgi University, World Trade Organisation (WTO) Chair Holder

Dr. Pinar Artiran is Assistant Professor in Private International Law, WTO Chair Holder and Director of the Research Center for International Trade Law and Arbitration at Istanbul Bilgi University. She graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Law and practiced as an attorney--‐at--‐law in Ankara in the field of international arbitration. She then undertook postgraduate studies on European Law at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium followed by doctoral studies at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy where she completed her PhD on International Trade Law. She has worked for the Academy of European Law at the EUI and has spent periods as a visiting research scholar at the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor, USA and as a trainee at the DG Internal Market of the European Commission in Brussels and as an intern at the Appellate Body Secretariat of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva. Her research and teaching interests lie in the fields of International Law, International Economic Law, EU Competition and Trade Law as well as Arbitration. Among other universities and colleges, she also taught as professor in the LL.M Programme on International Economic Law and Policy (IELPO) of University of Barcelona, as a senior fellow at The Melbourne Law Masters of Melbourne Law School and Professor at Master of International Economic Law at the University of Toulouse. Dr Artiran acts since 2010 as consultant and the academic coordinator for the Regional Trade Policy Courses organised for government officials from Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asian and Caucasus Countries by the WTO. She has been awarded the WTO Chair by the WTO in May 2014. She is a member of the Society on International Economic Law, ELSA Moot Court Competition Academic Board, European Society of International Law, International Law Institute and Ankara Bar Association and she also is a Salzburg Global Seminar Fellow. She acted as legal expert for the study on the revision of Turkey--‐EU Customs Union agreement commissioned by the European Commission. She has been invited by the UK House of Lords’ EU Committee to provide written evidence on Turkey—EU Customs Union for inclusion to the Committee’s Report on “Brexit: The Options for Trade”.

Hikmet Kalendar Chief Financial Officer Vefa Holding

Hikmet Kalender is born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1971, married with 1 child. He graduated in Public Finance and obtained MBA, both from Istanbul University. He has 25 years of finance experience, eleven of which have been spent in the Banking sector. Hikmet, together with his team, is responsible for the finance, accounting, tax and treasury functions for Vefa Holding. Prior to this transaction Hikmet spent six years as the Group Chief Financial Officer of Kocaer Group. Hikmet has also previously headed the budget and financial control functions at Europe and America Holding and has experience in other areas of finance, including for İktisat Bank’s risk management and corporate credit division and at internal accounting for Pamukbank.

Ural Inal Chief Financial Officer Temsa Global

Work Experience 2011 - TEMSA GLOBAL SAN. VE TİC. AŞ. , Adana Finance Director , CFO 2010 - 2011 Finance and Foreign Trade Operations Manager 2008 – 2010 Budget and Finance Manager 2006 – 2008 Accounting Manager 2003 – 2006 Financial Accounting Chief 1997 – 2003 TEMSA GLOBAL SAN. VE TİC. AŞ. , Adana Financial Accounting Specialist, SAP/FI Key User

Education

2003 - 2011 Sabancı University and Sabancı Holding Education Programs September 2009 IMD Strategic Finance Program , Lausanne , Switzerland October 2007 Kellogg School of Management Corporate Financial Strategies, Chicago , USA 2000 - 2002 MBA

Çukurova University , Social Sciences Institute, Department of Management 1986 – 1990 BS Middle East Technical University , Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences Department of Economics

Omur Sukan Chief Financial Officer Ekinciler Holding

Mr. Sukan was born in Istanbul in 1958. He completed his primary, secondary education in Ankara TED College and high school education in Istanbul. In 1979 he graduated from Istanbul Economics &Trade Faculty/Finance & Banking division. It took him another two years to take a Finance/Marketing degree from Ist. Management Sciences Instıtute. He started his business career at Türk Ticaret Bankası Headquarters in İstanbul in 1982 as a Junior Bank Auditor. In 1988 he became the Dep. Manager of Corporate Credits division. Then, in 1990 he continued his career as Treasury Group Head of Turk Ticaret Bank A.S.., at which he finally became Head of the Investment Banking division in 1992. He, then joined to Ekinciler Investment&Securities co.inc. a mid-size company that time, then became one of the country’s prominent brokerage house over the years he worked there as Dep. General Manager.

Mr.Sukan, then worked as the head of Ekinciler’s financial restructuring project during early 2000’s and played one of the key role to re-create the Ekinciler Group after that troublesome period. Ekinciler Group ‘s core business is steel manufacturing and foreign trade of steel finished/semi-finished products and raw materials. Since then he is working as General Manager of Ekinciler Holding A.S. company. He also appointed as Executive committee member in 2009.

Over the years he is well experienced on export business side of steel trading as well as financing of export/import business on top of his banking career.

Ediz Hasmet Kokyazici Chief Financial Officer Yildizlar Yatirim Holding

Born in 1970 in Manisa, Ediz Kökyazıcı is a graduate of Bilkent University, Department of Industrial Engineering. He has 25 years of finance experience, in 17 years of which he served as director. He serves as CFO of Yıldızlar Yatırım Holding in charge of finance and strategy. He also directs PMOs for new indusries and international expansion. Prior to current position he managed international expansion and restructuring besides operations in media and durable / CE industries as CFO. He also has PE and real estate experience.

Ali Hürol Albayraktar Director, Head of Cash Management & Trade Finance Product Management, Corporate & Commercial Banking Yapi ve Kredi Bankasi

Ali Hürol Albayraktar is the Director, Head of Cash Management & Trade Finance Product Management, Corporate & Commercial Banking at Yapi Kredi Bankasi.

Louis Robinson Regional Head of Business Development, Middle East & North Africa, Global Trade & Receivables Finance HSBC

Louis Robinson is the Middle East and North Africa Head of Business Development for Trade and Receivables Finance for FI and Corporate Clients at HSBC. Louis joined HSBC in May 2013 to start up the Key Account Management function within GTRF and also been GTRF Head of Business Development for Europe. Prior to joining HSBC, Louis was the Trade Sales and Network Origination Head for Europe Middle East and Africa at ABN Amro / RBS. Louis has over 20 years’ experience in Trade Finance and is a regular speaker at global trade finance conferences.

Hakan Ozhuy Vice-Chairman Jokey Plastik

Born 1970 in Istanbul Turkish Army War Academy- Business Management graduate, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Near East University- International relations graduate 4 years- Army service 1 year – Elginkan Group, Middle East Countries export sales Responsible 5 years – Anadolu Group, Honda Power Products export manager ( Middle East and CIS countries ) 17 years – HD Uluslararasi Tic ve Amb San. Turkey- Founder partner, Managing Director 8 years – Jokey Plastic Istanbul Turkey- Vice Chairman, partner ASD- Turkish Packaging Producers board member Gebkim Chemical Industry zone- Investors Board member

Marco Nindl Principal Banker, Trade Facilitation Programme European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD)

Marco Nindl is a Trade Finance Banker at the European Bank for Reconstruction (EBRD) within the Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP). Having joined the TFP team in January 2005, he worked on various projects within the TFP; his current role involves not only the day to day operations but also liaising with financial institutions worldwide within the framework of the Programme (www.ebrd.com/tfp). Prior to joining the EBRD and during his academic studies, Marco gained extensive experience on the trade finance and banking market by working for RZB in New York, Coface Credit Insurance and Oesterreichische Kontrollbank (OeKB) in Vienna. Marco graduated from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration with a Master of Science in Economics, where he specialised in Banking and International Business.

Artug Acarturk Director, Head of Cash Management & Trade Finance Sales, Corporate & Commercial Banking Management Yapi ve Kredi Bankasi

Artug Acartürk started his career in 2000 as a management trainee in Finansbank at project finance field. After spending 5 years in the Turkish market he moved to Credit Europe Bank in the Netherlands and took various managerial roles in shipping finance, commodity finance and corporate lending areas. Starting with 2012 he worked at the trade finance field in ING Bank Turkey and took an active role in the establishment of the trade finance team and setting up the guidelines for the trade finance activities within the bank. At June 2014 he joined Yapi Kredi Bankasi as the Head of Cash Management and Trade Finance Sales with the responsibility of sales activites in Trade Finance & Cash Management products. Artug Acarturk holds his BS degree from Bogazici University Department of Civil Engineering. He speaks English, German and Dutch. He also holds an MBA degree in finance track.

Vedat Mizrahi Head of Research Ünlü & Co

Dr. Vedat Mizrahi manages a team of 8 analysts covering Turkish equities and corporate bonds. UNLU&Co Research Team covers 63 listed stocks in Turkey and produces thematic research on a wide variety of sectors. Apart from overseeing the whole research coverage, Vedat Mizrahi covers Turkish Banking Sector as the lead analyst. Vedat Mizrahi has also led the research effort in a number of Equity Capital Market (ECM) transactions. As a Managing Director, Vedat Mizrahi is a member of the Executive Committee and the Allocation Committee of UNLU&Co. Executive Committee is composed of business unit leaders, which tracks the operational and financial performance of the company as well as making strategic decisions on a monthly basis. Vedat Mizrahi is responsible for international expansion projects in addition to his duties as Head of Research. The Allocation Committee works as a Treasury Department and meets once a week. Vedat Mizrahi informs the committee members of global macro and domestic macro/micro developments and advises on the allocation of internal funds. Dr. Vedat Mizrahi also makes frequent TV appearances to comment on macroeconomic developments, sector and company outlooks along with stock recommendations. Vedat Mizrahi was also active in the Institutional Sales effort at UNLU&Co utilizing his key client contacts in the UK and the US and has helped open more than 10 brokerage trading accounts. His key client relationships are Blackrock, Templeton, TRowe Price, Charlemagne, Fidelity, Carmignac, Carrhae, Barings, Schroders, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Millenium, Prince Street, and HSE Capital.

Cihat Takunyaci Managing Director, Country Manager & Senior Representative, Turkey BNY Mellon

Cihat Takunyaci is the Country Manager and Senior Representative of The Bank of New York Mellon’s Istanbul Representative Office. In addition to the country management responsibility for Turkey and Azerbaijan, he is the relationship manager for Turkey and Azerbaijan within its Treasury Services business in the EMEA region. He also represents BNY Mellon as a board member at Turkish Investor Relations Society (TUYID) and as an individual member at Turkish Corporate Governance Association (TKYD). Educated at Bogazici University with BSc at Mechanical Engineering and Istanbul University for post-graduate certificate program in Business Administration, Cihat has been with BNY Mellon since 1997. Prior to this, he began his career in investment banking and capital markets in various roles, including corporate finance, asset management and M&S in the Turkish market.

Robi Bahar Treasury Manager Shell & Turcas Petrol

Robi is a multifaceted finance professional with strong background within various industries; including active involvement in corporate business treasury, receivable cycle management and credit control. He holds a BA degree in Economics by Marmara University, and a certificate in International Treasury Management by the Association of Corporate Treasurers, a Royal Charter body for treasurers in the UK. He also keeps a Green Belt accreditation via Lean Six Sigma methodology; aiming operational excellence with continuous improvement mindset. Robi has been working for Royal Dutch Shell Group in Turkey since 2006 and is the Treasury Manager for 5 years. Umit Coskun Financial Affairs Manager Kordsa Global

Ümit Coşkun is currently the financial affairs manager of Kordsa Global Turkey. He started his career as “financial controlling specialist” in Pirelli Tires. He worked as “financial specialist”, “financial planning and controlling manager” and “global finance manager” in Kordsa Global. He received his BA in Industrial Engineering from Yıldız Teknik University in 2007 and MSc in Financial Engineering from Boğaziçi University in 2017. Also during his undergraduate education, he took lectures from business administration under double major program.

Gary Slawther Financing Advisor to the CEO Octal Petrochemicals

A Fellow of the Association of Corporate Treasurers and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, Gary has thirty years finance experience, much of it spent in commercially focused treasury roles with companies in “special situations” such as turnaround, restructuring, high growth, international expansion or undergoing the rigours of private equity ownership. Gary’s most recent role was at the Oman based packaging materials company at the downstream end of the petrochem supply chain, OCTAL, which was undergoing a period of challenge as the industry underwent a phase of extensive adjustment. As well as manging the functional treasury operations, Gary worked closely with the CEO to develop the business and provide the financing to meet the strategic plan whilst at the same time de-risking its finances and financial exposures, in particular ensuring supply chain liquidity. Previously Gary has been in a diverse range of industries including logistics, manufacturing, engineering and retail with companies such as Michelin, Mitsubishi Corporation, TDG plc and Jarvis plc.

Funda Uzun Trade Head Turkey, Treasury & Trade Solutions Citi

Funda Uzun is the Trade Product Head for Turkey and NPC Countries of Citibank. Funda has been with Citibank Turkey since 1997, Heading of Loan, Trade and Cash Operations. She joined Trade Product in 2010 responsible for various Trade Products as product manager and become Trade Head since Nov 2016.

Baris Gokalp Treasury & Finance Director Sisecam

Barış Gökalp, Treasury and Finance Director of Türkiye Şişe ve Cam Fabrikaları A.Ş. (SISECAM) which operates in flat glass, glassware, glass packaging, and chemicals businesses at a total of 44 plants -18 local and 26 abroad- with over 21 ,000 employees; with a revenue TRY 8,4B is responsible for managing the treasury activities of The Group Companies worldwide with a total experience over 15 years. He started his career at Finansbank; afterwards worked as Treasury Supervisor at Vestel; Finance Supervisor at Petkim Petrochemicals A.S.; Finance Manager at Soktas Textile A.S. and Treasury Manager at Felda Iffco Gida A.S. (Malayzian-Dubai JV Company) and Head of Finance of VESTEL Group Companies. Mr. Gokalp has an e-MBA degree from Bilkent and is a member of Aegean Finance Association.

Kağan Sirdar Finance Unit Manager Borçelik

Kağan SIRDAR works as Finance Unit Manager at Borçelik, a flat steel producer, the joint venture of Borusan Holding and Arcelor Mittal. After graduating from İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University Faculty of Business Administrations, he participated graduate studies in areas of anthropology and marketing at the same institution, before shifting his concentration to finance domain in 2011. In addition to his particular interest in trade finance, he’s been working on procedures to manage FX risks given the high volatility in CCY markets. Kağan enriches his agenda – primarily dominated by multi-billion banking volume- with instructorship activities (for financial literacy, within the scope of corporate social responsibility) and issuing an internally distributed bulletin that covers recent macro-economic newsfeed. He is married and father of a newborn daughter.

Muzaffer Aksoy Country Manager & Chief Representative, Turkey Bank ABC

Muzaffer Aksoy joined ABC International Bank plc (ABCIB) in January 2005 as Chief Representative of their Turkey representative office. He is the Turkish country manager responsible for managing the Turkish country limit for ABC group. He is a board member and deputy chairman of ABC Tunis and a member of the ABCIB management committee. After graduating from Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Muzaffer went on to study for a MBA in International Management at the University of Dallas, Texas, USA and subsequently joined Nejat Atalan Dis Ticaret A.S., Izmir in 1989 as Export Manager. Muzaffer then joined Otak A.S./Yasar Holding as Assistant General Manager in 1992 followed by Heller Factoring A.S. in 1993 as Marketing Manager, providing export, import and domestic factoring services. In 1995 (until 2005) Muzaffer moved to London Forfaiting Company as Head of London Forfaiting Istanbul where he successfully established their Istanbul Representative Office. Muzaffer has over 25 years banking experience principally dedicated to trade finance, forfaiting,factoring, Islamic finance, correspondent banking, project finance, DCM and arranging and distributing Turkish assets. In 2012, he received a PHD in Management from Beykent University, Istanbul in 2012. Muzaffer is currently the board member of the Turkish Libya, Iraq and Algeria Business Councils under DEIK (Foreign Economic Relations Board of Turkey).

Paul Harle Head of Receivables Finance, Global Trade Finance Group Bank ABC

Paul Harle is the Head of Receivables Financing Business for Bank ABC but based within the Global Trade Finance Team London. Prior to working at Bank ABC he worked for nine years at London Forfaiting Company PLC, London and has over 25 years of experience within Trade Finance. He joined Bank ABC in 2002 as part of a team responsible for growing the Receivables Finance business for Arab Banking Corporation globally and now has responsibility for the product worldwide. The team works with a number of US, European, Middle Eastern and Latin American clients where they specialise in providing receivable finance solutions for their customers through various means including working with International Brokers, Insurers and ECA’s. Since 2002 Bank ABC have financed over $20.5Bn worth of exports into the MENA region and rest of world ranging from telecommunications equipment, automobiles and automobile products to heavy duty mining equipment. Derya Fidan Chief Executive Officer Figo

I was born in İstanbul in 1971. After I had B.A from İstanbul Technical University, I started to work for Receivables Finance sector in Turkey in 1995. During my experience in factoring companies and bank, by taking various IT projects throughout the years, I had the opportunity to be aware of the importance of the digital World and technology for both financial industry and companies. I strongly believe that supplier finance is a unique solution that optimizes cash flow by creating win-win-win for suppliers, buyers and financial institutions. My strong belief in technology and supplier finance lead me to join FIGO to realise my great passion which is widening the supplier finance utilisation with a very high technologic platform, Figopara, in February 2017.

Katya Arikan Torus Manager, Head of Structured Trade & Export Finance, Corporate & Commercial Banking Management Yapi ve Kredi Bankasi

After earning a BA degree in Economics from Koç University in 2002, Katya Arıkan Torus began her banking career as a Management Trainee at Fortisbank Turkey (ex-Dışbank) in 2003 and served as Assistant Regional Manager at the Financial Institutions division of the bank almost 4 years. After completion of her Executive MBA at Istanbul Technical University, she joined Yapı Kredi in 2007 as Regional Manager under Financial Institutions. She covered both correspondent bank relations especially of Europe & CIS countries and executed debt capital market transactions of the bank. Since 2011, she is heading the Structured Trade & Export Finance team of Yapi Kredi in Cash Management & Trade Finance division under the umbrella of Corporate Banking and Product Management. Benefiting from her Financial Institutions experience, she covers both global ECA business with her team which includes direct corporate financing and executes more complex deals such as project finance deals that involves ECA financing. She assumes advisory role both at the client and branch network level and her team plays an active role in the origination/structuring as well as the execution phase of all ECA related transactions.

Berkan Tamer Chief Representative, Istanbul LBBW

Berkan Tamer is the Chief Representative for LBBW in Istanbul since beginning of 2015. He has 25 years of banking experience in the fields of structured credits, project finance, valuation, modeling, corporate finance, debt & MA advisory, trade finance, treasury & risk management, relationship management. Prior to his current position, he has worked at Landesbank Berlin, Anadolubank, DHB Bank, Demirbank, Yapi Kredi. He holds an MBA in Int’l Finance from Wayne State University and MS in Civil Engineering from Bogazici University. Yeliz Tufekcioglu Head of Istanbul Office, Turkey & Near East Sace

Yeliz Tufekcioglu is the Head of SACE’s Istanbul Office, which is a hub office for the neighboring countries in addition to Turkey. Prior to SACE, she held senior responsibilities in local and international banks in capital markets, corporate banking, project and structured finance units. She worked for WestLB AG as Executive Director in Structured Finance where she originated several project finance deals in energy and infrastructure sectors. She holds an undergraduate degree from Bosphorus University Business Administration and MBA in Imperial College Business School in London.

Antonio Sala Executive Director, Global Export & Agency Finance Santander

Antonio joined Banco Santander in 2006 and is currently responsible for the Origination of Export & Agency Finance transactions within Santander’s Global Banking and Markets client portfolio in the EMEA region. With over 17 years of experience in Trade & Export Finance Antonio continues to advise large European Corporations in structuring and executing complex cross border transaction in support of their exports worldwide. All of this in a variety of sectors including ECA Asset backed transactions in both hard and local currencies under Corporate and Project Finance structures. Being fluent in 5 languages has allowed Antonio to work successfully throughout the last two decades for several international Banks in a multitude of European countries such as the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain, keeping a close relationship with his company’s clients and providing creative solutions to their specific cross border financing needs. In addition to all of the above, Antonio is responsible within Banco Santander of teaching the internal Export & Agency Finance courses at their Headquarters in Spain for employees joining his department as well as those participating in specific Export Finance product courses offered by the Bank. Antonio holds a double degree in Business Administration from the German ESB Reutlingen and the Spanish University ICADE as well as Master Degree in International Business Administration by the Spanish “Instituto de Empresa” (IE) during which he coursed the last year at the Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas Texas USA. Famer Engin Senior Regional Manager, Eastern Mediterranean & Caucasus EDC

Famer Engin is a senior regional manager at EDC, Canada’s official export credit agency, and is in charge of business development in the Eastern Meditterenian and Caucasus regions. He worked as a financial advisor for EKF, Denmark’s export credit agency, before joining to EDC. Prior to his role for EKF, he worked as the deputy general manager at Renova Economics and Investment Consulting. He started his career in Citigroup corporate and investment banking in New York and worked as a vice president in its fixed income devision. He holds a masters degree from Cornell University.

Mario Diel Chairman Energy Council of Foreign Investors

Mario started his business career as Commercial Director at a German construction giant. In 1993 he moved on further as an entrepreneur and was a co-founder of several companies in Germany and Eastern Europe. In 1995 he decided to focus his business activities into the international oil trade sector and operates from the US, eastern Europe and Turkey. More than 12 years ago he was the Co‐Founder of ConBridge Advisory Group which became in recent years one of the top advisory groups in Turkey and the region. For the last five years he also served as President of one of Europe’s leading Energy groups in Black Sea and Southern Europe Region. He is furthermore active on board level in several international and Turkish corporations. Mario is an energy expert with a special focus on electricity, oil and gas trading. He is living and working in Turkey since 1997. Recently he started also new business activities in Greece with a focus on tourism, construction and investment.

Mertol Genc Chief Development Officer MNG Group

Mertol Genc is Chief Development Officer of MNG Group.

Kerim Kemahli Chief Financial Officer Nurol Holding

Kerim Kemahli began his carreer with West LB in 1990 where he held several posts until 1996 ranging from Credit Analyst to Corporate Marketing Manager and also established West LB Istanbul’s Treasury Marketing Unit. Between 1996 and 1998 Kerim managed the Corporate Marketing actvities of Finansbank’s Main Branch. In 1998 he moved to Finansbank’s International Division where until 2007 he was responsible for arranging funding for the Bank’s project and trade finance activities through bilateral agreements with multilaterals as well as syndications and bond issuances. Between 2007 and 2010, Kerim Kemahli held CFO positions at Abalioglu Group and Celebi Group. At Celebi, he assisted the Group’s penetration into the Indian market as well as arranged the financing of the Bandirma Port Privitisation. He joined Nurol Group in late 2010 as their CFO as well as acted as the chief negotiator for the Gebze-İzmir Consortium in arranging the USD 5 Billion project financing facility. In February 2016, Kerim received an award as one of Turkey’s 50 Leading CFOs, chosen jointly by Fortune Magazine and Data Expert Consultancy. Kerim also serves as Board Member for Nurol Holding as well as its subsidiaries FNSS (a joint venture with BAE Systems Inc) and Nurolbank.

Burak Kurtbay Head of Trade Finance Çalık Cotton

Born in 1982 in Istanbul , Burak Kurtbay is a graduate of the Koc High School and University of Windsor, Bachelor of Commerce. He has 10 years of finance experience, 3 years in credit insurance, PRI and 6 years of banking which he served as director of trade finance. He now serves as the Head of Trade Finance and Operations in Calik Cotton directing bank relations, trade flows and foreign trade operations. Prior to joining Calik Cotton he enjoyed a short term sabbatical in the midst of his career which he believes was a great pit stop before starting his new duty. He also enjoys playing tennis on a regular basis. Traveling, skiing and getting lost in mondrian paintings are his remaining hobbies. Gunalp Sagut Director, Trade Finance Sberbank

Gunalp Sagut is Director of Trade Finance at Sberbank.

Harun Celik Representative for Turkey Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC)

After studying economics in Bilkent University and the University of Virginia, Harun Celik started his career as an economist in the Union of Chambers of Turkey (TOBB) and joined the Islamic Development Bank's Trade Finance and Promotion Department (later became ITFC- the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation) where he worked in the Strategy, Business Innovation and Marketing Departments. Mr. Celik spent few years in private sector in Turkey where he held managerial positions in two companies active in the telecommunication and energy sector before he was recetly appointed as the ITFC's representative in the IDB Group Istanbul Office. Currently he is responsible for ITFC's portfolio in Turkey and Albania. Ian Sweet Chief Executive Officer Sweet Futures

Ian Sweet started his career in 1996 on the Chicago Board of Trade trading floor, working in the soybean pits, running a commercial hedging desk and servicing crushers and producers. Three years later, in 1999, Mr. Sweet left the floor and started the in-house electronic brokerage division of Rosenthal Collins Group (known as RCG), one of the largest and oldest independently-owned Futures Commission Merchants, which was founded in 1923. In 2006, RCG made Mr. Sweet a Division Partner. In 2010, Mr. Sweet started his own independent brokerage group, Sweet Futures. Sweet Futures is a member of the National Futures Association (NFA) and registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as an Independent Introducing Futures, FX, and OTC Brokerage firm. Sweet Futures is headquartered in the Chicago Board of Trade building, with 4 offices in the US and a global presence in terms of clients and markets. Sweet Futures specializes in servicing multinational commodity firms, and maintains clearing arrangements with some of the largest banking and nonbanking FCMs in the world. Today, Sweet Futures is one of the largest independent introducing brokerage groups in terms of volume in the U.S. Mr. Sweet is married with 5 children so his spare time is at a premium, but he makes time serving as a Cub Scout Leader and coaching a youth soccer team. Uğur Vatansever Treasury & Risk Manager Tiryaki Agro

He was born in İstanbul in 1977. He was graduated from Middle East Technical University in 1999. He started his career as internal auditor in banking sector. He worked as internal auditor at Dışbank and Akbank for 4 years. He then joined to Pepsico Turkey finance team in 2004. He worked at Pepsico organization as Internal Auditor, Credit Controller, Treasury and Credit Control Manager and Region Audit Assistant Manager. Since 2012 he has been working in Tiryaki Agro as Treasury and Risk Manager. He is married and he has a daughter.

Serkan Bilen Deputy General Manager Daikin

Serkan Bilen graduated from Marmara University Business Administration Department in 2002. His career journey started in ArcelorMittal Turkey. He has been in charge of all of the company's Financial Functions for 10 years including the last 3.5 years CFO seat. On December of 2012, Daikin Turkey was transferred to the position of being responsible for all Financial Affairs. After 3 years of CFO career he has been in charge of Supply Chain and IT departments in addition to Finance functions for 1 year. He is married and has a daughter.

Zeynep Dereli Member of the Board of Directors; Executive Director Turkish British Chamber of Commerce & Industry; APCO Worldwide

Zeynep Dereli is the founding partner and CEO of TINK, the first and only vocational high school chain in Turkey that focuses on information technologies. TINK will open for the 2017-2018 academic year with campuses in Istanbul, Ankara and Bursa. After approximately 20 years of business and political consulting, Dereli aims to extend TINK all over Turkey as an innovative and accessible chain of schools training qualified people for Turkey. Born in İstanbul, in 1997, Zeynep Dereli graduated from Princeton University, majoring in Mathematics and Economics with a certificate in Near Eastern Studies, after graduating from Üsküdar American High School. Subsequently Dereli received a Master’s Degree in Development Economics from SOAS University of London. After a brief period in banking at the beginning of her career, Dereli became a member of the risk analysis, research and legislative alignment teams in Shell Trading and Shipping in London. Upon returning to Turkey she worked as a financial analyst and supply analyst in Shell Turkey. Dereli then joined the Mergers and Acquisition team of Dundas &Ünlü Menkul Kıymetler (Asset Management). She was APCO Worldwide’s General Manager for the Istanbul office until 2016. Besides her professional life Zeynep Dereli has taken part in many civil society duties. While consulting the Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Dereli has been the Director of the Black Sea Energy and Economic Forum organized by the Atlantic Council, a Board Member of the Mediterranean Conservation Society, the General Coordinator Turkish Political Forum – an Istanbul based think tank, and the Vice President of TEDMER (the Turkish Ethical Values Center). Dereli was selected for the American Turkish Society’s Young Society Leaders Group in 2012, she is among the founders of the civil society institution DRUM (Dialogues, Respect, Understanding through Music) and Turkye Endevor. She is also a Board Member of the Turkish British Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Zeynep Dereli is married with two children.

Jean-Patrick Marquet Managing Director, Turkey EBRD

Jean-Patrick Marquet is the Managing Director for Turkey at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). He has been based in Istanbul since 2015 and is responsible for leading the Bank’s operations and policy initiatives in Turkey. A French national, Mr Marquet joined the EBRD in 2001 in the Natural Resources team developing oil & gas and mining investments from London. In 2008 he was appointed Director of the Municipal and Environmental Infrastructure team, successfully running the EBRD’s global operations in water, wastewater, waste management, urban transport, district heating and social infrastructure PPPs.

Before joining the EBRD, he was a project finance banker at Crédit Agricole CIB (formerly known as Crédit Lyonnais) in Paris and London, successively focusing on the property, mining & metals and infrastructure sectors.

Mr Marquet’s academic background includes a Master in Management from HEC Paris school of management and a Master of Law from the Assas law school at Panthéon-Sorbonne university in Paris.

Hulusi Horozoglu Assistant General Manager, Head of Wholesale Banking HSBC

Hulusi Horozoglu is Assistant General Manager and Head of Wholesale Banking at HSBC.