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Nihat Kırmızı was born in 1978 in Şanlıurfa and he majored in Communications and Finance. He has his master’s degree from Accountancy and Finance departments in Marmara University. Nihat Kırmızı is also the founder of the first participation insurance company established as Cooperative in Türkiye and he is doing research on finance and islamic finance. He is the senior manager of the group of companies which incorporates numerous companies active in finance, education, health and industry. Nihat Kırmızı, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Doğa Sigorta and Chief Executive Officer, continues to work for the purpose of prevalence use of Islamic insurance in the field of insurance and to bring in qualified personnel to the Islamic finance sector.

Mustafa Arif Küme was born in 1978 in İstanbul. He completed elemantary school, junior high and high school education in İstanbul. He graduated from the Business department of Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences of Muğla University in 2000. Right after graduation, he continued his education life in Australia and graduated from RMIT University Management Information Systems department at the end of 2005. After his graduation, he worked in the Information Technologies sector and the Service sector in Australia for 5 years. By the end of 2010, Mustafa Arif Küme returned to Türkiye and worked as Assistant General Manager responsible for Information Technologies and Business Development at EnglishTime Language Schools operating under the umbrella of Doğa Grup. He has been serving as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Doğa Sigorta A.Ş. since 2014.

GÖLPINAR who started his career within the incorporation of Koç Holding as an architect in 1984 continued on in Akbank A.Ş. again as an architect from 1986 until 1987. GÖLPINAR who continued on with his career in insurance sector worked in Halk Sigorta A.Ş. as manager of Risk Engineering during 1989 and 1992, served as Technical Group Manager in Yapı Kredi Sigorta during 1992 and 1996, became Deputy General Manager responsible for Fire, Engineering and Transportation branches in 1996 until 2004, worked as Deputy General Manager responsible for Marketing, Bancassurance and Direct Sales channels during 2004 and 2013. He served as General Manager in Can Brokerlik and Reasürans A.Ş. between 2013 and 2015. He has been serving as General Manager since June of 2016 in our company in which he started to work as the Assistant General Manager in March 2016. GÖLPINAR graduated from Yıldız Technical University, Architecture Department and he speaks English. He is married with one child.

Ali Ercan KÖSOĞLU, who started his career in 1989 working in the Algeria branch of RAM Foreign Trade Company, worked in foreign companies between 1989-1993 and then started to work in Risk Management, Engineering and Fire departments witin the incorporation of Halk Sigorta A.Ş. between 1993-2000. He continued on his career in Commercial Union Insurance in 2000 and Technical Director in Marsh Insurance and Reinsurance Broking between 2003 and 2005, Insurance Manager in Oyakbank between 2005 and 2006, Sales Manager in Marsh Insurance and Reinsurance Brokerage between 2006 and 2008, Technical Group Manager at Dubai Group Insurance Inc. between 2008 and 2009, worked at Zurich Insurance's Transportation Insurance and Business & Strategy Development branches between 2009 and 2014. In 2014, he served as Executive Vice President at Martin & Martin Insurance and Reinsurance Brokerage. He served as the CUO in Greco JLT Insurance and Reinsurance Brokerage in 2015 and later as Technical Group Manager in April Genç Insurance and Reinsurance Broking. Since June, 2016, KÖSOĞLU has been working as Assistant General Manager of Damage and Judicial Processes. He is a graduate of Istanbul Technical University, Department of Civil Engineering. He is married with two children.

He started his professional life in 1989 in Başak Sigorta A.Ş.'s South Anatolian Regional Directorate. Adnan Mehmet SIĞIN worked in Gaziantep Liaison Office between 1997 and 1998. In 1998, he was tansferred to Kapital Sigorta A.Ş., where he served as the South Anatolian Regional Manager. He then worked as the South Anatolian Regional Manager between 2000 and 2011 and as the Anatolian Regional Group President between 2011 and 2014. Adnan Mehmet SIĞIN, who has been working in our company since 2016, continues to serve as the Sales Group Manager responsible for South Eastern Anatolia and Mediterranean Regions. Graduated from Çukurova University, Faculty of Agriculture, SIGIN is fluent in English. He is married with one child.

Mehmet TÜMER started his career in 1992, and having worked in banking and textile sectors for a while, he moved into insurance industry. As an insurance professional, he served respectively as Assistant Manager of Freight Insurance, Corporate UW Manager, Assistant Bancassurance Manager, Senior Manager of Auto and Liability Insurances at Yapı Kredi Sigorta; Senior Manager of Motor and Freight Insurances at Allianz Sigorta; and finally as Assistant General Manager of Auto and other UW, Reassurance, and Pricing at Generali Sigorta. He has been a member of our company working as Assistant General Manager of Technical Affairs since January 2018. Graduated from Business Administration Department of Middle East Technical University, TÜMER is fluent in English..

Ümit GÜLTEKİN started his career at the Department of Damages at Allianz Sigorta in 2002, and where he served as an appraiser of Auto and Engineering damages from 2002 to 2003; Supervisor of Special Projects and Underwriting from 2003 to 2004; Auto and Other Damages Supervisor from 2004 to 2005; Project Development Supervisor from 2005 to 2009; and as Asssitant Project Manager of Auto damages from 2006 to 2009. Continued his career at Mapfre Sigorta in the position of Assistant Manager of Damages from 2009 to 2010, GÜLTEKİN then worked as Operations Director of IT and Damages at the company Carglass from 2010 to 2015. Ümit Gültekin switched to Axa Sigorta in 2015, and where he worked as Damage Logistics Manager from 2015 to 2017. Joined our company in July 2017, GÜLTEKİN has been still serving as Deputy Group Manager of Recourse, Damage (MOD-Motor Own Damage) Damage Inspection and Logistics. Graduated from Electrics and Electronics Engineering Department of Sakarya University, GÜLTEKİN also speaks English. He is married with 1 children.

Nuray DAY, who started his career in 1995 as a member of the Business World Foundation in Insurance and Pre-Accounting, worked as a Financial Consultant in Commercial Union Life Insurance Company in 1997 and as a Financial Consultant in Akdeniz Sigorta A.Ş. between 1998 and 2001 and as director in charge of Transportation and Engineering between 2001 and 2002 in Sigmar Sigorta Aracılık Hizmetleri Ltd. Şti. She worked at an insurance company between 2002 and 2009 as Accounting and Finance Manager at SBN (Ticaret) Sigorta A.Ş. DAY served as the Assistant General Manager of Budget and Financial Affairs at Ankara Anonim Türk Sigorta Şirketi between 2009 and 2012. Between 2012 and 2013, she worked as Financial and Administrative Affairs Manager at S.S.Koru Sigorta Kooperatifi. DAY, who has been working in our company since 2013, is the Group Manager responsible for Financial and Administrative Affairs. Nuray DAY graduated from the Department of Public Finance in Anadolu University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. Her foreign language is English.

Vedat ÖZER, who started his professional life in TÖBANK, worked as Inspector between 1984 - 1986 and as Bank Insurance Manager between 1986 - 1990. ÖZER, who has been with Yapı Kredi Sigorta A.Ş. in 1990, served as Deputy Director of Ankara Regional Directorate between 1990-1993, Izmir Regional Directorate between 1993 - 1994, as Ankara Regional Manager between 1994 - 1997 and as Group Head between 1997 - 2002. He then continued his career as General Manager at Bilgi Sigorta Brokerlik A.Ş. between 2002 and 2014 and worked as a consultant in Ankara Chamber of Drivers between 2014 and 2016. He has been working in the Banking and Finance Department of Bilkent University for 10 years where he gives lectures on Applied Insurance. He has been working as Sales Group Manager responsible for Central Anatolia, Aegean and Black Sea Regions in our company since 2016. Vedat ÖZER is a graduate of Banking and Insurance Department of Gazi University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. He is married with a child.

Nilbeliz ANAT AKALIN started her professional career in 2008 as Analysis & Reporting Specialist at Garanti Bank and she worked there until 2011. Then she sequentially worked as Asistant Manager of Budget & Reporting at Yapı Kredi Insurance from 2011 to 2013, Performance Management Director and Planning & Reporting Manager at AVEA between 2013 and 2015, Budget Planning & Analysis Manager at FLO from 2015 to 2017. She earned her bachelor's degree on Econometry at Marmara University. Akalın, who joined our company as Claim Projects & System Development Manager in 2017, now works as Group Manager of Management Systems, R&D and Marketing since January 2020. She speaks English. She is married.

İpek GÜNER started her professional career at Koç Allianz in 2002 as Koç Group Affairs Account Executive and worked there until 2006. After that, she sequentially worked as Global Account Manager at Aon Risk Solutions between 2006 and 2008, Corporate Sales Director at Marsh from 2008 to 2010, Assistant Manager of Corporate Region Broker & Captive Agencies at Zurich Insurance between 2010 and 2016. Güner, who joined our firm in 2017 as Major Accounts & Corporate Sales Manager, now works as Group Manager of Corporate Sales and Alternative & Digital Distibution Channels since July 2020.