TAIDER 3rd National Family Business Summit

Ali Ülker

Haluk Alacaklıoğlu

Özbek Özler

Being a 3rd generation member of the Özler family who are involved in the agriculture industry, Özbek Özler received his University education in University of New Hampshire in the USA, after graduating from hihg school Tarsus American College. He has a double major in Business as well as Economics.

After completing his education, he started working in international sales and marketing, and is currently the General Manager of Özler Tarım A.Ş. – which is the leading company in the group.

As part of the 3rd generation of the family, he has been focusing on institutionalizing the family companies, creating a centralized management for different companies as well as technologically advancing all infrastructure. One of his proudest achievements is the finalizing of the family constitution. 

İdil Yiğitbaşı

İdil Yiğitbaşı received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Boğaziçi University in 1986 and MBA from Indiana University in 1989. She began her career in the field of finance at the Yaşar Group in 1986, and subsequently held senior management positions particularly in strategy and marketing, as well as seats on the boards of directors, in various Group subsidiaries. She served as the Vice Chairperson of Yaşar Holding from 2003 until 2009.  In April 2009, she was appointed as Yaşar Holding Chairperson, a position she held until 7 April 2015, and she became the Vice Chairman, effective the same date. Ms. Yiğitbaşı is a member of the Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜSİAD), Union of Dairy, Beef, Food Industrialists and Producers of Turkey (SETBİR), and Turkish Institutional Investment Managers’ Association (TKYD). Ms. Yiğitbaşı has been holding seats on the boards of directors in Yaşar Group companies. 

Alp ÖĞÜCÜ

He was born in 1983 in Gaziantep.

After completing his high school education at Uskudar American College, he went to United States for university education  in 2001. He graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Tufts University. He also completed a minor program in Entrepreneurship and Product Design in addition to his declared major.

During his university years, he began to work and gained various experiences in sales. He began his professional career in 2005 at Lila Group as a Project Engineer for the establishment of an energy company to meet sustainable, eco-friendly and reliable energy supply for the existing textile plants. In the following years, he worked as a Project and Business Development Engineer in the feasibility of additional capacity works for paper and converting plants as well as power plant, business planning, investing and commissioning, respectively.   

After a Project Engineering career of 5 years, he was appointed as Assistant General Manager responsible for the FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) Sales, Marketing and Distribution Company to which he contributed much from feasibility to the establishment of the organization. During his term of office from 2009 to 2014, many developments were achieved in the field of tissue paper such as doubling the market share, making Sofia brand one of the brands/campaigns with the highest consumer awareness, increasing export sales, and finally taking new investment decisions to triple the capacity. As well as this, he also contributed to the improvement of corporate governance as well as the conduct of public relations at Lila Group.

In 2014, in his tenth year at Lila Group, he was appointed to the position of General Manager within the framework of a takeover program that will take 2 years. On one hand, in accordance with the Company vision (to be enlisted in Istanbul Chamber of Industry Top 100 list of Turkish Industrial Companies in 2023) along with the investment and growth targets of the FMCG industry, he continues to work for the targets of institutionalization, branding and becoming a competitive employer brand, but also in line with the values set by the Board of Directors on the other.  

Alp Öğücü is married and has a daughter and a son. In his social life, he is interested in voluntary association activities, sports activities, trekking, cinema, and reading management and psychology books. He is board member of TEGV since April 2019.

Mehmet Semih Söylemez

He is the Board Member and CEO of AGT A.Ş. which is one of Turkey’s top 500 greatest industrial enterprises.
Life, for his part, is to be able to live in a “balanced fashion” in between the values created by mankind and the nature.
Life, for him, is to be aware that imagining is also a “business”.

Stepping beyond standard views for the sake of being able to perceive life, he acknowledges an opposing view such as “reverse perspective”.
He is interested in “photograph” to capture the awareness of “the moment”.
He acknowledges his co-workers as the most important factors of life, and turns psychology science into one of his basic hobbies to better understand them.

And industry…
He is excited to the point where he can say “If the future will be good, industry and industrialization must be both our business and hobby.” He published his book titled “Emotional Capital” in 2012 where he collated his experiences of business and life. And finally, he advocates that, when it comes to “success in life”, the main determinant is his relationship with his family and friends.

Mehmet Fatih UYSAL

Fatih UYSAL, graduated from Business Administration Department of Economic and Administrative Sciences Faculty of Dokuz Eylül University in 1983, started his Professional career in 1982 as Marketing Specialist in Standart Cıvata which is one of the companies of Norm Holding. Becoming Deputy Chairperson of Board of Directors in 1995

in Norm Cıvata company, Fatih UYSAL has been continuing his career as Chairperson of Board of Directors of Norm Holding since 2013. Fatih UYSAL is a member of Board of Directors of TAYSAD, BESİAD and Aegean Exporters Union; Deputy Chairperson of İzmir OIZ; member of Coordination Board in İzmir Metropolitan Municipality’s Economic Development Board; Councilman in Turkish Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges; and member of ESİAD and EGİAD

Yılmaz Argüden

Dr. Yılmaz Argüden is a leading strategist, advisor, and board member of major public and private institutions, and NGOs.  He is the Chairman of ARGE Consulting, a leading management consulting firm in Turkiye.   ARGE has been recognized at the European Parliament as one of the best three companies “shaping the future” with its commitment to corporate social responsibility and is the first Turkish signatory of the UN Global Compact.

He is also the Chairman of Rothschild investment bank in Turkiye;           an adjunct Professor of Business Strategy at the Bosphorus University and the Koç University;  an author of numerous books and a columnist focusing on business and strategy issues.  He is the National Representative of the UN Global Compact and as the Chair of Local Networks Advisory Group he represented the National Networks at the Board of the UN Global Compact, the world’s largest sustainability platform.

He is a renowned governance expert and a member of the Private Sector Advisory Group of the Global Corporate Governance Forum, as well as being the Vice-Chairman of the Governance Committee of the Business and Industry Advisory Committee (BIAC) to the OECD. 

He has a Ph.D. in policy analysis from the RAND Graduate School.  He is also an Eisenhower, Fulbright, NATO, and Tubitak fellow; and a recipient of numerous leadership, distinguished citizenship and career awards.  He was selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow, by the World Economic Forum for his commitment to improve the state of the world.  

Tolga Semiz

Tolga Semiz is one of the partners of Çetinkaya Attorney Partnership (CCAO). Tolga Semiz graduated from Nişantaşı Anatolian High School and Marmara University Faculty of Law.

After working at a law office based in Istanbul for ten years, he pursued his career by working at his own law office for seven years.

Tolga Semiz, who joined CCAO in July 2014, has an extensive experience in dispute resolution, corporate, M&A, employment law, contracts law.

Tolga Semiz, who has participated national and international conferences as a speaker, is a member of Istanbul Bar Association, International Bar Association (IBA), American Bar Association (ABA), Corporate Governance Association of Turkey.

David Bork

Selim Akın

Necmi Alpagot

Was born on May 23, 1977, in Antalya, the son of Alpagot family who has been operating in industrialism (jam, Turkish delights, pickles, molasses production) with the brand YENİGÜN since 1914.

Serves as the co-founder and general manager in Yenigün Agriculture Trade Construction Real Estate Food Tourism Industry Limited Company at the same time.

He is married and has one child. He has a good command of English.

Gözdegül Başer

Nergis Kadooğlu

Polat Doğru