Murat Ruhi ÇUHADAROĞLU
Chairman of the Board
Murat Ruhi Çuhadaroğlu, who graduated from Syracuse University, Management School Marketing Department in 1987, started his business life as the Manager of Door Sales Department at Çuhadaroğlu Aluminium Industry and Marketing Inc. In 1990, he became External Relations Manager for the same company.
He then served as the Chairman of Çuhadaroğlu Marketing Inc. and as an Assistant General Coordinator of Çuhadaroğlu Aluminium Industry and Marketing Inc. From 1995 to 1999; then he served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors at Çuhadaroğlu Metal Industry and Marketing Inc. between 1999 and 2007. Since 2007, Murat Ruhi Çuhadaroğlu has been alternately serving as the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Çuhadaroğlu Metal Industry and Marketing Inc. and Çuhadaroğlu Aluminium Industry and Marketing Inc. Murat Çuhadaroğlu is engaged in professional photography as well as his duties in Çuhadaroğlu Group.
Halil Nejat ÇUHADAROĞLU
Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors
Halil Nejat Çuhadaroğlu who graduated from the Department of Economics of Syracuse University in 1988 , graduated from Marmara University, Department of Economics in English in 1990.
In 1989, he started his career as Marketing Manager at Çuhadaroğlu Chemistry Industry and Marketing Inc.; then between 1993-1995, he worked as the Vice-General Manager at Çuhadaroğlu Construction Industry and Marketing Inc.; and between 1995-1997, he served as the General Manager at Çuhadaroğlu Chemistry Industry and Marketing Inc. Between 1998-2001, he was a member of the Board of Directors. Çuhadaroğlu Marketing Inc. and Çuhadaroğlu Aluminium Industry and Marketing Inc. Halil Nejat Çuhadaroğlu, who worked as the General Manager at Çuhadaroğlu Metal Industry and Marketing Inc. and Çuhadaroğlu Aluminium Industry and Marketing Inc. between 2001-2004, has been alternately serving as the Vice President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Çuhadaroğlu Metal Industry and Marketing Inc. and Çuhadaroğlu Aluminium Industry and Marketing Inc. since 2007. Along with his duties at the Çuhadaroğlu Group, Nejat Çuhadaroğlu is the founder of the HİSART Live History and Diorama Museum, which he opened the first building of Çuhadaroğlu in Çağlayan in 2014.
METİN YILMAZ
Board Member
Dr. Metin YILMAZ had taken his barchelor, master and doctorate degrees from Boğaziçi University Mechanical Engineering Department in 1997 and completed his post-doctoral study at the Institute National Polytechnique de Grenoble in France in 1998. Receiving NATO Science Fellowship, CIES and DAAD scholarships, Yılmaz worked as a visitor researcher at TÜBİTAKMAM and CEMEF France for a while. Mr. Yılmaz joined Çuhadaroğlu Group in 1998 and was in charge as Deputy General Manager between 2003 and 2018 by Çuhadaroğlu Metal San. and Paz. A.S. and as of 2018, he was promoted as a member of the Board of Directors.
Member of Corporate Governance Committee, Member of Early Detection of Risk Committee
Beside being a member of the Board of Directors, Mr. Yılmaz is working as a consultant on factory production, technology development, investment and research and development processes. Yılmaz was a lecturer for materials science at Boğaziçi University Mechanical Engineering Department and served as the chairman of the QUALANOD and BEYSİAD board of directors.
He is currently the chairman of the board of directors of AYID, vice chairman of the board of ESTAL and a member of the board of directors of TALSAD, BEYSİAD, İSİFED, QUALANOD and QUALICOAT. Mr. Yılmaz, who has many publications and patents on his own, takes charge in the executive and advisory boards of many scientific symposiums and conferences.
FERDA BESLİ
Independent Board Member
Ferda Besli graduated from the Faculty of Economics at Istanbul University. She began her professional career in 1987 at Akbank. During her time at the bank, she held various key positions including inspector, branch manager, head of the corporate banking department, and head of the division responsible for commercial and SME banking. From 2006 to 2011, she served as executive vice president, overseeing commercial banking, SME banking, project finance, and cash management.
She completed an internship at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt and received training in marketing strategy at London Business School. Representing Turkey, she participated in meetings held in Barcelona and Brussels, organized by CEPS, an institution foundational to the European Union, where solutions were developed to improve SMEs' access to finance.
She retired in 2011 and founded Besfin Financial Services Inc. in the same year. She currently serves as chair of the board and executive committee of the company. Besfin provides consultancy services in financial strategy and planning, balance sheet management, and debt structuring to well-known medium and large-sized companies in Turkey.
She also offers consultancy services in economics, finance, and banking to two of Turkey’s most prominent NGOs: the Istanbul Chamber of Industry and the Bursa Chamber of Commerce and Industry. She holds Turkey's Capital Markets Board Level 3 License, Credit Rating License, and Corporate Governance Rating License. She has been a member of TÜSİAD, the World Future Society (WFS), and the UK-based think tank Chatham House. She frequently appears on Bloomberg for finance-related broadcasts and writes weekly columns for the Nasıl Bir Ekonomi newspaper.
FARUK BİLEN
Independent Board Member
After completing his secondary and high school education at Robert College, Faruk Bilen pursued higher education in the United States, earning dual degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and in Finance from The Wharton School.
Following two years of experience in investment banking at Goldman, Sachs & Co. on Wall Street, he completed his MBA in management and business at Harvard Business School. In 1994, he returned to Turkey and served for two years as Head of the Investment Banking Department at Finansbank. In May 1996, he joined Sabancı Holding as a senior executive and held the position of Chief Financial Officer (CFO) until January 2016.
During this period, he also served as a board member in various group companies. He then continued at Sabancı Holding as an advisor to the CEO until January 2023. Faruk Bilen is fluent in English.
Kenan ARACI
CEO
Born in 1970, Mr. Aracı graduated from Kabataş High School, obtained his undergraduate degree at the department of Architecture at İTÜ Faculty of Architecture and his graduate degree of Business Administration at Bahçeşehir University.
Kenan Aracı took part in many projects including business centers, housing and hospitals for 3 years at the project development and application office in the construction sector and architectural application branch in Karlsruhe of Germany during 1992-1995. When returning back to Turkey, he has started to work at Çuhadaroğlu Group which is an industrial corporation that specializes in mainly the design and production of aluminum doors, windows and facade systems used in architectural application.
He worked as the Product Manager, Marketing Director and Deputy CEO at Çuhadaroğlu Group. Assigned as a CEO at Çuhadaroğlu Metal San. ve Paz. A.Ş. and Çuhadaroğlu Kimya San. ve Tic. A.Ş. in 2003 and to Çuhadaroğlu Alüminyum San. ve Tic. A.Ş. in 2010, Mr. Aracı is currently the acting CEO at Çuhadaroğlu Metal San. ve Paz. A.Ş. and Çuhadaroğlu Alüminyum San. ve Tic. A.Ş. companies.
He is the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Turkish Construction Material Suppliers Association (İMSAD) and the Deputy Chairman of the Metal Construction and Building Components Industry Profession Committee of ISO 42nd Group.