Board of Directors
Turkcell Board is composed of 7 members elected by the Annual General Meeting for maximum terms of three years.
The business affairs of our company are managed under the direction of the Board, which represents and is accountable to our shareholders. These responsibilities non-exhaustively include:
- Building the vision of the Company, approving of local and international business strategies and determining short- and long-term goals;
- Approving the Company's annual budget and business plans and its revisions;
- Monitoring the strategic and financial performance of the Company and ensuring that corrective measures are carried out as necessary;
- Controlling the Company's annual material expenditures which are not stated in the annual operating plan
- Consistent with applicable law and rules, approving quarterly financial results, the audit report and amendments to the accounting policies previously adopted by the Company or any material change in the method or timing of reporting of the financial results;
- Consistent with applicable law and rules, overseeing the preparation of the annual report and finalizing the same for presentation at the General Assembly of Shareholders
Board of Director Members:
Colin J. Williams (Chairman of the Board)
Colin J. Williams was appointed as the Chairman of the Board of Directors on February 25, 2010. He also serves as a Chairman of the Audit Committee of Turkcell's Board of Directors. He is Chairman of Clondalkin and Chair of the Audit and Remuneration Committees of Clondalkin, a consumer and industrial packaging company. From January 2001 to December 2004, Mr. Williams served as President of SCA, North America, which is active in the packaging sector, and in personal care and paper tissue products.
He was a long-term board member and Vice Chairman of the International Corrugated Packaging Institution, the European Federation of Packaging, and the Federation of Paper Producers. Mr. Williams is the founding President of Propak Europe and was a board member of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce between 2002 and 2004. From 1988 to 2001, Mr. Williams was the President of SCA Packaging, prior to which he served as the Managing Director of Bowater, a corrugated packaging company, for four years.
From 1978 to 1984, he was first the Sales Director and then the General Manager of Chicopee in the Netherlands, a non-woven fabrics company of Johnson & Johnson. Mr. Williams holds a masters degree in physical chemistry, an MBA in finance from New York University, and an honorary doctorate from Lund University in Sweden.
Mehmet Bulent Ergin
Mehmet Bulent Ergin was first appointed as a member of the Turkcell Board of Directors on April 29, 2005. After having taken responsibility in Hochtief AG's First Bosphorus project and Tekfen A.S.'s Iraq-Turkey pipeline project, Mr.Ergin worked in various positions at Cukurova Group Companies. He held a managerial position at Cukurova Ithalat ve Ihracat T.A.S. and as a board member in Maysan A.S., as well as Baytur Trading S.A. Currently, Mr.Ergin is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Denizcilik Nakliyati A.S., Show T.V., and Aksam Gazetesi. Mr.Ergin majored in Civil Engineering at Robert College Turkey.
Gülsün Nazlı Karamehmet Williams
Gülsün Nazlı Karamehmet Williams was appointed to the Board of Directors on 29 April 2010. She worked in different positions in Digiturk (Digital Platform İletişim Hizmetleri A.Ş) since 2004 after working in BSkyB England. Mrs.Karamehmet Williams is working as the Senior Vice President, responsible from the Content and is the member of Digiturk Board of Directors. She has a Bachelor of Science in Communications in Sarah Lawrence College (USA) and Richmond University (UK).
Oleg Malis
Oleg Malis was appointed to the Board of Directors on May 22, 2006. He is also Senior Vice President of Altimo Mr.Malis began working for Altimo as Chief of the Current Project Management Unit in 2005 Between 2003 and 2005, Mr.Malis was Senior Vice President and M&A Director at Golden Telecom. Before joining Golden Telecom, Mr.Malis founded Investelectrosvyaz and Corbina Telecom. Mr.Malis holds a degree in Systems Engineering from Moscow State Aviation Technological University.
Alexey Khudyakov
Alexey Khudyakov, age 40, was appointed to the Board of Directors on May 22, 2006 and re-appointed on April 29, 2010. He is Vice President of Altimo, a leading investor in telecoms, and also serves as non-executive Chairman and Chair of the Audit Committees of High River Gold Mines, a gold mining company. Prior to his appointment to Altimo, Mr. Khudyakov held a Vice President position with Alfa Bank, managing the bank’s direct investments in the telecom sector. Before that, he was a management consultant with McKinsey & Co. Mr. Khudyakovholds a Master of Business Administration degree from INSEAD and a Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
He is a non-executive board member of Turkcell. He is also an Observer Member of the Audit Committee of Turkcell’s Board of Directors. Mr. Khudyakov was named to the Audit Committee in reliance on Rule 10A-3(b)(1)(iv)(D) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Tero Erkki Kivisaari
Tero Erkki Kivisaari was appointed to the Board of Directors on May 14, 2007. President of the business area Eurasia as of May 1, 2007. Mr.Kivisaari was previously Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of the business area Eurasia. Mr.Kivisaari is a member of the Board of Directors of Azercell, Moldcell and the Chairman of Fintur Holdings BV board. He served as CFO of Fintur Holding B.V from 2003. Mr.Kivisaari has been the CFO of SmartTrust AB, a mobile software company owned by Carlyle Group, GE Capital, Eqvitec and Sonera Group. Before that, Mr.Kivisaari held the position of Vice President of Sonera Group's International Operations. He has also served as an associate professor of finance at the Helsinki School of Economics. Mr.Kivisaari holds a MBA in Finance
Karin Eliasson
Karin Eliasson was appointed to the Board of Directors on 29 April 2010. Senior Vice President and Head of Group Human Resources since 2008. Prior to joining TeliaSonera, Ms. Eliasson was Senior Vice President Human Resources at Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget, SCA. She has been the CEO of Novare Human Capital AB and Vice President Organizational Development at Stora Enso AB. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Human Resource Development and Labour Relations.