
Board of Directors

İrfan

Dr. Mücahit
GÜNDEBAHAR
of the Board
and CEO

Aslan
DEMİR
Executive Board

Dr. Mücahit
GÜNDEBAHAR

Abdurrahman
ÇINAR

Born in Hakkari in 1970, İrfan Yılmaz graduated from Istanbul Technical University, Department of Management Engineering in 1989. Beginning his banking career at the Financial Affairs Department of Kuveyt Türk in 1990, Mr. Yılmaz was assigned to the Internal Audit Department in 1996 and later served as the Head of the Internal Audit Department between 1998 and 2000. Appointed as Manager of Retail Banking in 2000, İrfan Yılmaz was promoted to Executive Vice President of Retail Banking and Business Banking in 2005 after serving in the Retail Banking Department for five years. Since October 2012, he has been serving as Executive Vice President - Banking Services.
Dr. Mücahit Gündebahar was born in Aksaray in 1976 and graduated from Istanbul University Computer Engineering in 1997. He gained his master's degree from Istanbul Bilgi University MBA program in 2003. He obtained the title of Doctor in 2016 with his doctorate studies on business and finance at Haliç University. He started his professional life as a software engineer in Kuveyt Turk. After working as a Ziraat Technology team leader, he continued his career as a software development consultant in Microsoft. Dr. Gündebahar joined Kuveyt Turk in 2009 to make the transformation of Kuveyt Turk Information Technologies and served as Kuveyt Turk CIO until April 2019. In the management process that lasted for more than 10 years, he has played a leading role in Kuveyt Turk Information Technologies' innovative and advanced technology applications development. In May 2019, he was assigned as the CEO and board member of Architecht, a 100 % subsidiary of Kuveyt Turk and on its way to become one of the global technology companies.
A graduate of Marmara University, Department of International Relations, Demir is currently a student of the MBA program at the University of Sheffield. Having started his banking career as Officer at the Kuveyt Türk Treasury Department in 1995, Demir worked for six years in the said department, before serving at the Project Management and Quality Department from 2001 till 2004. In 2005, he was appointed Director of Project Management and Quality. After the restructuring in 2007, he continued his career as Head of Information Technologies. Since October 2012, he has been serving as Executive Vice President - Strategy.
Dr. Mücahit Gündebahar was born in Aksaray in 1976 and graduated from Istanbul University Computer Engineering in 1997. He gained his master's degree from Istanbul Bilgi University MBA program in 2003. He obtained the title of Doctor in 2016 with his doctorate studies on business and finance at Haliç University. He started his professional life as a software engineer in Kuveyt Turk. After working as a Ziraat Technology team leader, he continued his career as a software development consultant in Microsoft. Dr. Gündebahar joined Kuveyt Turk in 2009 to make the transformation of Kuveyt Turk Information Technologies and served as Kuveyt Turk CIO until April 2019. In the management process that lasted for more than 10 years, he has played a leading role in Kuveyt Turk Information Technologies' innovative and advanced technology applications development. In May 2019, he was assigned as the CEO and board member of Architecht, a 100 % subsidiary of Kuveyt Turk and on its way to become one of the global technology companies.
Abdurrahman Çınar was born in Kahramanmaraş in 1982 and graduated from Istanbul Technical University Computer Engineering in 2005. He started his professional life in 2005 as a Software Specialist. He joined to Kuveyt Turk family as an Enterprise Architect in 2009 and played an active role in the Banking Transformation Program called BOA. In 2014, he carried on his work as a Manager in the IT Payment Systems Service, which includes products such as ATM, Card Payment Systems, Virtual POS, XTM in the same bank. Abdurrahman Çınar, who was in the founding board of Architecht team in 2015, has been working as Chief Product Officer since 2019.
Ökkeş Emin Balçiçek was born in Kahramanmaraş in 1983 and graduated from Yıldız Technical University Computer Engineering in 2005. In 2012, he gained his master's degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Istanbul Bilgi University. Currently, he is a PhD candidate in Computer Engineering at Konya Technical (Selçuk) University. Ökkeş Emin Balçiçek started his professional life as a Software Engineer in 2003 and worked as a Software Specialist in LC Waikiki in 2007. He joined in 2009 Kuveyt Turk Information Technologies as a Enterprise Architect and played an important role in BOA Banking Transformation Program. Between 2012 and 2014, he took the lead of the establishment of Kuveyt Turk Information Technologies R&D Center in Konya. Between 2014 and 2019, he worked as head of the R&D and Enterprise Architecture department responsible for FinTech, User Experience, Enterprise Architecture, Data Management, Infrastructure Applications, Enterprise Solutions. In 2019, he was assigned as Chief Technology Officer of Architecht.
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