İdil Yiğitbaşı completed her bachelor's degree in Business Administration at Boğaziçi University in 1986 and an MBA at Indiana University in 1989. İdil Yiğitbaşı, who started her career in Yaşar Group as an executive assistant in 1986, served as an Assistant System and Financial Analysis Coordinator between 1990-1995, the Coordinator of Pınar Food Group in 1995, and the Vice President of Pınar Food Group between 1997-2001, the Vice President responsible for Pınar Food Group’s Milk and Dairy Products between 01 February 2001 and 31 January 2006, and a Member of the Board of Directors in various Group companies. She served as the Vice-Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Yaşar Holding between 2003-2009 and as the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Yaşar Holding between 2009-2015. Idil Yiğitbaşı has been acting as the Vice-Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Yaşar Holding and the Chairperson and member of the Board of Directors of Yaşar Group companies since April 2015. İdil Yiğitbaşı is the Vice Chairperson of Selçuk Yaşar Sports and Education Foundation, a Member of the Board of Directors of Yaşar Education and Culture Foundation, a Member of the Board of Directors of the Aegean Region Chamber of Industry (EBSO) and Izmir Culture, Art and Education Foundation (İKSEV), Member of the Foreign Economic Relations Board of Turkey’s (DEİK) UK Business Council Executive Board, Member of the Advisory Board of the Aegean Young Businessmen Association (EGİAD), Member of the Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜSİAD), Member of the Turkish Dairy, Meat and Food Industrialists' and Producers' Association (SETBİR), Member of the Aegean Industry and Business Association (ESİAD), Member of the Family Businesses Association (TAİDER) Member of the Advertisers Association (RVD) and Member of the Corporate Governance Association of Turkey (TKYD).
Hakkı Hikmet Altan graduated from the Department of Business Administration, Middle East Technical University, in 1985. Altan worked at Yaşar Group companies Desa and Pınar-Cargill between 1985 and 1988 and worked as Finance and Financial Affairs Manager at tourism and foreign trade companies outside Yaşar Group from 1989. He returned to the Yaşar Group in 1993. He worked as Assistant Deputy General Manager at Yaşar International Textile Company and Yaşar Foreign Trade Company. In 2001, he was appointed as the Finance Coordinator of Yaşar Holding. From 2007 to 2009, he served as the Deputy President responsible for Yaşar Group Foreign Trade Companies. Altan was the CFO between March 2009 and April 2021 and continued to work at Foreign Trade Companies in addition to this position. Simultaneous to his duties, he was also a Member of the Board of Directors of various Yaşar Group companies. Hakkı Hikmet Altan, a Member of the Board of Directors of Yaşar Holding A.Ş. and other Group companies, also serves in various non-governmental organizations.
Having graduated from the Department of Economics and Finance, Faculty of Political Sciences, Ankara University, Nalan Erkarakaş started her career as an Expert at the Capital Markets Board. She completed the Capital Markets Certificate Program at the Wharton School, Philadelphia, in the same period. Erkarakaş, who subsequently served as the Deputy Financial Coordinator of Çimentaş İzmir Çimento Fabrikası T.A.Ş., the Deputy General Manager of the Investment Banking Branch of Kentbank A.Ş., the General Manager and Board Member of Kent Yatırım ve Menkul Değerler A.Ş., and Capital Markets Group Chair of the Ciner Group, also served as the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Park Elektrik ve Madencilik San. ve Tic. A.Ş., a Ciner Group company, and as a board member at Ciner Group companies operating in various industries. Having joined Grant Thornton Turkey as a Partner in 2018, Nalan Erkarakaş is an independent board member at various publicly traded companies, and a TOBB Capital Markets Assembly Member, Member of the Stock Exchange Intermediary Institutions Managers' Association, Member of the Young Businessmen Association of Turkey, and the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Listed Partnership Managers Association (KOTEDER). In addition, she is the Vice-Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the KORUNCUK Turkey Foundation for Children in Need of Protection and a Member of the Istanbul Branch of the Mülkiyeliler Association. Nalan Erkarakaş, who has articles and columns published in various newspapers and magazines and research reports published by the Capital Markets Board, was awarded the Manager of the Year by GİYAD and the Successful Businesswoman of the Year by the ‘Dünya’ newspaper.
Born in 1966 in Ankara, Metin Akman received his bachelor's degree from the Department of Business Administration of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences of METU in 1989 and a master's degree from the Department of International Economic Law of the Faculty of Law of Bilkent University in 2013. Akman started his professional career at Unilever in 1989 and then continued as an entrepreneur. As chairperson of the Board of Directors at Nutreco - Trouw Nutrition Turkey until 2019, Akman currently serves as chairperson of the board of Directors at Yuniko, a joint venture company with Anaco egg products, Atilen, and Schaffelaarbos based in the Netherlands. In addition, since 2019, Metin Akman has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Yaşar University and a member of the Board of Directors of Pınar Süt. He was elected as the chairperson of the Board of Directors at YÜSAD, established in 2020 to increase the global competitiveness and sustainability of the Turkish egg industry. Believing in the importance of social development, Metin Akman actively contributes to the works of non-governmental organizations and sectoral associations that represent unity, volunteering and solidarity, and business life. Metin Akman, a member of TÜSİAD, TÜYEKAD, Hacettepe Nazmi Hosal Education Foundation, YUMBİR, IEC, and SKD, was elected a Member of the Board of Directors of TÜSİAD in 2014, serving until 2019. He is a corporate member of the United Nations Global Compact, a company of Anako Egg Products, of which he is the Chairman of the Board of Directors. Akman, who also actively takes part in international organizations, has been the President of Business at the OECD Agriculture and Food Commission since 2014.
Mehmet Aktaş, who started his career as an Assistant Auditor in the Presidency of the Court of Accounts in 1983, joined the Ministry of Finance, Tax Inspectors Board in 1984 and was appointed as the Chief Accountant of the Ministry of Finance in 1994. He served as an Advisor to the State Minister Responsible for the Economy. In 1995, he relinquished his duties in the state and joined Yaşar Group as Presidency Advisor. After serving in various senior management positions within the Group, in 2000, he was appointed as the Vice-Chairman of Strategic Planning, Budget, and Corporate Finance. Having been appointed as Yaşar Holding’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in July 2007, Aktaş has served as a Board Member and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Yaşar Holding since May 2009. Mehmet Aktaş serves on the Board of Directors of Yaşar Group companies and the Tax Inspectors Foundation and is a Member of the Board of Trustees of Yaşar University. He has been the Chairperson of the Food Working Group at TUSIAD since 2017. He is actively involved in civil society activities within the economic arena with memberships of TUSIAD, ESIAD, KOTEDER, the Mülkiyeliler Association, and TURMOB. In addition, he holds Certified Public Accountant and Independent Auditor licenses. Mehmet Aktaş graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences in 1983, completed his Master's degree in the Department of Economics at Vanderbilt University in the USA in 1992, and received a Ph.D. in finance from the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at 9 Eylül University in 2003.
Kemal Semerciler was born in 1958. He completed his higher education at the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Uludağ University. Semerciler started his career as an assistant inspector at Yapı Kredi Bank in 1981 and worked as a manager in the Financial Control and Budget, General Accounting, and Financial Affairs departments from 1990 to 2003. He served as the Head of the Inspection Board from 2004 to 2006. From 2006 to 2008, he served as the Deputy General Manager in the Legislation Department. He worked as the General Manager Advisor at Yapı Kredi Bank between 2008-2009. During his tenure at Yapı Kredi Bank, he served as a Member of the Board of Directors and as an Auditor in many bank subsidiaries, and between March 2010 and March 2016, as a Board Member at Alternatifbank. Semerciler currently provides consultancy on corporate governance, project finance, and financial restructuring. He serves on the Boards of Directors of several companies within the Yaşar Group.