Tayfun ALTINTAŞ - Chairman of Board of Directors, Ana Sigorta A.Ş.
Tayfun Altıntaş was born in Artvin in 1963. He was graduated from Uludag University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Public Administration, and obtained his Master's Degree from Istanbul University, Institute of Social Sciences. After working in various positions at Başak (Groupama) Sigorta A.Ş., he served as the Manager of Accident Insurances Department between 1999 and 2006. He started to serve as Group Manager at Güneş Sigorta A.Ş. in 2006 and undertook the responsibility for Auto Insurances Technical, Auto Insurances Claims, Actuarial, Legal, Recourse and Logistics Departments. Mr. Altıntaş, who served as Assistant General Manager in charge of Technical and Claims Management at Güneş Sigorta A.Ş. between 2017 and 2018, took part in the foundation of Ana Sigorta A.Ş. and served as Assistant General Manager in charge of Technical and Claims between December 2019 and November 2020.
Mr. Altıntaş, who has been also involved in many activities outside the Company, acted as a member and chairman of the Turkish Insurance and Reinsurance Companies Association, Accident Investigation and Research Committee between 1999 and 2018. He also served as a member of the Traffic Insurances Information Center (TRAMER) Management Committee between 2008 and 2011, a member of the Technical Committee of the Turkish Green Card Reinsurance Pool between 2003 and 2018 and a member of the Board of Directors of the Turkish Motor Insurers’ Bureau in 2018. He has been delivering lectures at the Turkish Insurance Institute since 1999 and at Marmara University, School of Banking and Insurance and the Institute of Banking and Insurance since 2005. He currently serves as the Chairman of Board of Directors of Ana Sigorta A.Ş.
Kantürk ÖZTÜRK – Member of Board of Directors and General Manager
He was born in Trabzon in 1967. He completed his high school and university education in Istanbul. In 1991, he founded Revaş (Revizyon Anonim Şirketi) as a large automobile service conducting Automobile Damage and Reservation operations. In 1993, he founded ENKA Motorlu Araçlar A.Ş., which made contributions to the salvage calculation method of damaged vehicles, which is a field of operation for the insurance sector, and which consolidated corporate service concept in the sector. Subsequently, in 1995, he founded Turksis Yardım ve Servis Hizmetleri A.Ş. in the field of assistance services which he considered as a gap in the insurance sector, and led the operation of providing the first replacement vehicle in the sector. In the same period, he founded and chaired the Turkish Crane and Vehicle Carriers Association. In 2005, he founded Insurance Claim Center A.Ş. (ICC) which provides various services in the field of claim management in the sector. ICC currently continues to operate as Kuzey İncisi in the sector and in the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus. As of May 15, 2020, he resigned from his positions in these companies and played a role in the organization of Ana Sigorta upon obtaining the approval from the Insurance and Private Pension Regulatory and Supervisory Authority (SEDDK). He currently serves as General Manager of Ana Sigorta A.Ş.
Gizem ÖZTOK ALTINSAÇ- Member of Board of Directors
She was born in Ankara in 1979. She was graduated from Marmara University Department of Economics in English in 2001. She started her Master’s Degree study at Bilkent University in the same year and served as an assistant to a professor. She received her Master’s Degree from Marmara University Department of Economics in English. In 2004, she started her professional career and started to work as an Economist at Garanti Investment. She served as Chief Economist at Garanti Investment between 2012 and 2016. In the meantime, Mrs. Altınsaç was involved in large public offerings and corporate sales processes such as Türk Telekom and provides local and foreign funds with research services in Turkey and abroad in relation with the Turkish markets and economy. In 2018, Mrs. Altınsaç founded GOA Consulting Company and provides various banks and enterprises in the sector with consulting services. With her 18 year professional experience in financial markets, Mrs. Altınsaç served as Economist/Research Director at Actus Portfolio Management within Global Yatırım Holding between 2017 and 2020. Since 2011, she has been attending at İlk Söz and Küresel Piyasalar programs as a professional commentator at Bloomberg HT TV on Mondays and Thursdays and regularly publishes articles for Bloomberg HT.
Mrs. Altınsaç, who was appointed as Chief Economist for TÜSİAD in December 2020, has been giving lectures on ‘‘behavioral finance’’, ‘‘interpretation of macro data in the Turkish economy’’ and ‘‘macroeconomic estimation methods’’ for license and master’s degree students at Sabancı University and Özyeğin University.
Ayhan DAYOĞLU- Member of Board of Directors
He was born in Istanbul in 1965. Upon graduating as Mechanical Engineer from Yıldız Technical University in 1988, Ayhan Dayoğlu received Master’s Degree in Manufacturing Processes from Yıldız Technical University and Master’s Degree in Management from Sabancı University. Mr. Ayhan started his professional career as after-sale services manager at Boronkay in 1992 and joined Temsa in 1998. Upon serving as after-sale services manager, spare parts manager, bus group marketing and sales director at Temsa, he was appointed as General Manager of Temsa Egypt and lived in Cairo until October 2011. After a long and educative period at Temsa, Mr. Ayhan was appointed as executive committee member in charge of claims and operations at Aksigorta. Mr. Ayhan restructured claims and health operations of Aksigorta with the vision of supporting the sustainable growth and profitability goals of the company.
Founded Arkeon Consulting Company in 2016 to provide assistance to enterprises to cope with destructive difficulties; Mr. Dayoğlu is focused on enhancing management skills of companies and employees.
Ozan ŞAHİN - Member of Board of Directors & Executive Vice President (Underwriting, Claims and Operations)