Esra ADA VURAL has started working in the Capital Markets Board of Turkey as an associate in 1999. She is presently working as a specialist in the Institutional Investors Department. Her main areas of expertise are Real Estate Investment Companies, Mutual and Pension Funds, Investment and Portfolio Management Companies and the Taxation of Capital Market Instruments. Mrs. ADA VURAL holds a BS degree in management from Bilkent University (Ankara). Her thesis on Fund Governance was published in the first volume of “Award to 80. year of the Republic” (2004).

Osman Cevdet Akçay is the Chief Economist at Koç Financial Services and Yapi Kredi and Senior Lecturer at Koç University. He received his B.A. in economics from Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, and his M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Graduate School and University Center at City University of New York. He served at Boğaziçi University as Assistant Professor and as Associate Professor between 1992 and 2001, and has been a full-time faculty member at Koç University since 2001. He started as an economist at Koç Yatırım (investment Bank) in 1998 and became the Chief Economist for Koçbank and Koç Yatırım in 2000. Following the Koçbank-Yapi Kredi merger in 2006, he has been serving as the Chief Economist at Yapi Kredi as well as the umbrella company Koç Financial Services. His research fields include exchange rate theory, debt dynamics, disinflation, and monetary theory.

Sinan Akıman began his career in GarantiBank 's Treasury Department in 1993, where he worked as a dealer in Turkish lira, fixed income, and FX markets until late 1997. In November of that year he became Treasurer of GarantiBank responsible for risk management, sales, and trading , and in 2000 he was appointed Treasurer and Coordinator responsible for Treasury and Treasury Marketing units. In 2007 Mr Akıman has been appointed as assistant general manager of Garanti Asset Management responsible for strategy, alternative investments, and research. Garanti Asset Management has been to be pioneering and leading company in the development of the asset management market in increasing public awareness of that market. Founded in June 1997 as the first asset management company in Turkey, Garanti Asset Management is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Garanti Bank. Garanti Asset Management serves investors in the management of their mutual funds, pension funds, private portfolio management, and alternative Investments. Garanti Asset Management manages the 13 mutual funds of GarantiBank, the 3 mutual funds of Garanti Securities, the 10 pension funds of Garanti Pension and Life, and the property portfolio of Garanti Real Estate Investment Trust. The company also supplies asset management services for the portfolios of a distinguished selection of institutional and individual clients. As of end-2007, the total value of all the assets under GAM was USD 4.1 billion.

Namik Aksel is the Chief Investment Officer for HSBC Asset Management, Turkey. Based in Istanbul, Namik is responsible for the whole range of asset management activities of HSBC in Turkey where he oversees USD 1 billion of funds. He joined HSBC Asset Management in 2004 and has been working in the financial industry since 1993. Namık started his career at Yapi Kredi Bank in 1993, worked as a fixed income dealer from 1993 to 1999 and as head of fixed income from1999 to 2003. Before joining HSBC Asset Management, Namik worked for Yapi Kredi Asset Management-one of the leading asset management companies from 2003 to 2004 as assistant general manager overseeing more than USD 2 billions of assets. Namik holds a BA in Business Administration from Bogazici University and is a member of the Turkish Institutional Investment Managers Association. HSBC is known as the world's local bank. Headquartered in London, HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world. HSBC's international network comprises over 10,000 offices in 83 countries and territories in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa.

Melsa Ararat is a member of the Faculty of Management at Sabanci University and the director of Corporate Governance Forum of Turkey(CGFT) hosted by Sabanci University and founded jointly by Sabanci University and TUSIAD (Turkish Industrialists’ and Businessmen’s Association). CGFT works closely with the Global Corporate Governance Forum at IFC and the European Corporate Governance Institute. Dr. Ararat teaches Strategic Management, Corporate Governance and Business and Ethics courses in MBA and EMBA programs. Prior to returning to the academia in 2003, she held various international management and board positions in Asia Pacific, Japan and Europe for over 15 years in the high tech industry. Her focus was Strategic Partnerships and Joint Ventures. Dr. Ararat's current work focuses on the overlap between corporate governance and strategy as well as the corporate governance reforms in emerging economies. She was a member of the committee which developed CG Guidelines for Turkey. Dr. Ararat holds a PhD in Management- Corporate Strategy and Organization- from Istanbul University and an MSc and BSc in Chemical Engineering from METU. She has published various articles on strategic management and corporate governance and co-authored a number of books related with corporate governance and social responsibility. She serves in the editorial advisory board of “Corporate Governance, the International Journal of Business in Society” and coordinates Global Corporate Governance Forum’s Research Network. Dr. Ararat lives in London, travels to Turkey frequently.

Sinan founded Cfs Consulting as a partner in 1997. He has previously been with Demir Securities as a General Manager and a Board Member, and Vice Chairman of Demir Investment Trust, Inc. Even prior to this, Sinan served in various positions in Ekinciler Securities, Tekstilbank, and Citibank. Cfs Consulting Ltd is a boutique and independent investment banking and fund management advisory company. Cfs is based in Istanbul and offers alternative products and solutions both in debt and equity financing, to the specific needs of corporate clients. Fund structuring and distribution has been a major focus area in recent years. Cfs has actively contributed to the inauguration and investment of the Select Performance Fund which is dedicated to the Turkish market.

Zeynep Aslan is responsible for administration, communications and global marketing. With over 12 years of Turkish capital markets and fund management experience, including positions with T.C. Ziraat Bank and Is Asset Management she managed nearly USD3 billion of funds in mostly fixed income securities before undertaking her new post. She was the member of the team, responsible for investment strategy, investment performance, and asset allocation of all Is Bank’s mutual funds totalling USD3.5 billion. Ms Aslan earned her B.A. in Statistics from Middle East Technical University, Ankara. She also earned an MSc in Finance from ICMA Centre – The Business School for Financial Markets, The University of Reading, UK. She worked on a project at the ICMA Centre, focused on “Pricing Barrier Options with the use of Monte Carlo Simulations”. Domiciled in Luxembourg, Turkisfund is the first euro-based mutual fund launched in Europe that invests mainly in Turkey. It is an investment company organised as a société anonyme under the laws of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and qualifies as a société d'investissement à capital variable (SICAV). Turkisfund is a UCITS III fund that operates as an open-ended investment company. Its portfolio is managed by Is Asset Management A.Ş. in Istanbul. The objective of the SICAV is to offer its shareholders the opportunity to invest in a diversified portfolio of stocks and bonds listed on the main stock exchange of Turkey through a set of several Sub-Funds. Turkisfund has three sub-funds which are Turkisfund Equities, Turkisfund Bonds and Turkisfund Eurobonds. Turkisfund sub-funds have been listed among the leading funds worldwide. Turkisfund has been listed as number one on 09.02.2006 by Morningstar. Turkisfund-Bonds has been ranked as number one in Bloomberg’s list of the best-performing European Bond funds over the last 36 months to December 30, 2005.

Gökhan Bilen is presently Portfolio Manager – Director at Yapi Kredi Asset Management. Gökhan Bilen started his career at Turkish Capital Markets Board in Ankara in 1990. He later joined TEB Research as a research analyst in 1995 and worked as Head of Research at different brokerage houses in Istanbul, before moving to the portfolio management side. He has been with Yapi Kredi Asset Management since 2004. Mr. Bilen has a BS degree in Business Administration from Middle East Technical University (1990) in Ankara, an MBA from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business (1994), and a PhD from Marmara University in Istanbul (2002). Mr. Bilen also holds the Charted Financial Analyst (CFA) degree from CFA Institute in Charlottesville, Virgina.

Afa Boran manages the Shuaa Capital Turkey Hedge Fund. With over 15 years investment experience, Mr. Boran has been rated several times as the top investment professional in the region by Institutional Investor, Reuters and Extel. SHUAA Asset Management was established in March 2001. It holds the longest investment track record in the region with demonstrable performance. We manage more than 18 funds and have over $1 bn of Assets Under Management from a range of investors. The area of investment coverage spans 15 organised Stock Exchanges in the Arab World and GCC countries, providing access close to a trillion dollars of market capitalization. The GCC markets comprise over two thirds of this market capitalization. In addition to proprietary funds, Shuaa manages a growing number of institutional mandates and white label products sponsored by leading financial institutions in the Arab region as well as several individual discretionary portfolios across various asset classes. The combinations provide access to a range of strategies and country exposures.

Urs Bruegger is an expert in Turkish financial markets with more than thirteen years of experience. Since 1994, he has been working in Turkish markets with Momentum UK Limited, Navellier & Associates, Inc of Reno/Nevada, Demirbank T.A.S, Ekinciler Investment & Securities Inc and ISPortfoy among others. He is the Founder and Managing Director of Bruegger Invest Limited and the Founder of Select Performance Fund where he serves as a director. Urs Bruegger graduated from University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland. He started his professional career with Nomura Bank in Zurich, London and Tokyo. From 1992 to 1997 he helped build Momentum UK Limited into an USD1.6bn asset-under-management company. He resigned as a director of Momentum UK Limited in 1997 to set up Bruegger Invest Limited. In 1997, he established Select Investment Strategies Limited of which Select Performance Fund is part of. Bruegger Invest Limited is an FSA authorised & regulated investment advisory firm established in 1997. The Company specialises (a) in the research, design and monitoring of absolute and relative investment and risk management strategies and (b) in the research of political, economical, social and environmental risks associated with investments in Turkey.

As Principal of Nur Advisors, Kavilash is responsible for helping clients develop and execute more robust emerging market invest strategies. Inclusive of this, Kavilash works with both the private and public sector clients to develop yield enhancing and risk mitigation strategies around existing or new investment opportunities in high risk markets. Prior to Nur Advisors, Kavilash was an equity capital markets specialist in the investment banking industry, and a specialist on capital markets issues with the United Nations. Kavilash holds an MBA from the University Of Chicago Graduate School Of Business, a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University in New York, and a B.A. from Drake University, where Kavilash currently serves as a member of the board of advisors to Drake’s Center for Global Citizenship. As a leading Emerging Markets invest strategy consulting firm, Nur Advisors specializes in helping its clients navigate the geo-economic landscape towards generating higher investment returns and non-financial risk mitigation. The leading sectors in which we operate include the financial services and energy sectors, with an increasing focus on Islamic finance and the MENA region. Through Nur Advisors unique stake-holder driven approach to risk mitigation and value creation strategies, we are guiding our clients towards higher returns in developing tomorrow’s leading markets today.

Having graduated from Ankara University Political Science Faculty in 1989, Mr. Çolak started working as assistant expert and expert until 2000 and occupied deputy head and head of department positions in Institutional Investors, Corporate Finance and Accounting Standards Departments between 2000-2006 at Capital Markets Board of Turkey (CMB). He is currently serving as vice chairman at CMB. Ender has an international Management master degree at Thunderbird-School of Global Management. He has been involved in studies and regulation activities especially about mutual funds, real estate investment trusts, mortgage finance corporations, pension fund systems, institutional investors and corporate governance in CMB. Besides, he was leader of Twinning Project, assisting the Capital Markets Board of Turkey to comply fully with EU capital markets standards and he is chairperson of Corporate Governance Technical Committee of Inter-Ministerial Coordination Committee. He also represented CMB in OECD Corporate Governance Steering Committe between 2004 and 2007. Capital Markets Board of Turkey (CMB) is the regulatory and supervisory authority in charge of the securities markets in Turkey. Empowered by the Capital Markets Law (CML), which was enacted in 1981, the CMB has been making detailed regulations for organizing the markets and developing capital market instruments and institutions for the past nineteen years in Turkey.

Sengül holds an MA in Economics from Boston College, US. After her doctoral study at Boston College, where she also worked as a teaching fellow, she returned Turkey in 1997. She specialized in Public Economics and Econometric Theory in her graduate studies. She joined Oyak Bank in May 1997 taking the economist post and has been working there since. Acting as the chief economist of the bank her current post at the Bank is Head of Research. Oyak Bank, whose headquarters are located in Istanbul, is one of top ten commercial banks in Turkey. The Bank is fully acquired by Dutch financial services group ING Groep NV in December 2007. Founded in 1984, Oyak Bank is a leading bank in the Turkish market with 5900 employees and a market share of approximately 3%. It offers a full range of banking services with a focus on retail banking. The bank has 1.3 million active retail customers and 13,500 SME customers. In total it has 365 branches throughout Turkey, with a good representation in all major cities.

Mr. Doğu is an expert in general on Capital Markets Regulation, corporate finance and corporate governance and is mainly specialized in the areas of valuation, due diligence, the issuance and public offer of capital market instruments, mergers&acquisitions, spin-offs, tender offers, financial analysis, financial reporting and accounting. His first book, “Emerging Capital Markets and Turkey” was published in 1995 among the CMB Publications. He also participated in the preparation of the book titled “Securities Markets in OECD Countries: Organization and Regulation”. He had delivered several speeches and gave seminars on corporate governance and has articles published locally and in foreign magazines. Mr. Doğu received his MBA Degree from Warwick Business School, UK in 1997 and Phd degree in business administration from Hacettepe University, Ankara in 2008. He is married and has two children. Doğan Yayın Holding is the groundbreaker, innovator and leader of Turkish media, with operations in newspaper, magazine, book publishing, radio and TV broadcasting, production, printing, digital media, distribution, retailing and alternative telecommunications. The Doğan Group is one of the largest business conglomerates in Turkey. It has secured this position thanks to foresighted processes that allow the right decisions to be made in all business fields, its capacity to set and achieve goals quickly, its global vision and its continuously evolving structure.

İzlem Erdem was born in 1968 in Istanbul. She graduated from Marmara University, Department of Economics in 1990. She began her professional career at Isbank in 1990 as a junior economist at Economic Research Department and in 1998 she was promoted to a managerial position at the same department. In 2000 she was appointed to Capital Markets Department of the bank as an assistant manager. In Capital Markets Department, she got the reponsibility of the content management of the Bank’s financial portal. After being a group manager in this department she also got the responsibility of product management, including the mutual funds business at which the Bank is a dominant market leader for more than 20 years. After seventeen years of experience in both economics and capital markets, she was appointed to Isbank’s Economic Research Department in April 2008. She is currently the head of Economic Research Department at Isbank and an auditor member of the board of directors of Is Investment Company which is the leading brokerage company in Turkey and a subsidiary of Isbank. Isbank was established in 1924 at the initiative of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, with the aim of financing the nation’s industry through the provision of both loans and equity participations. Isbank is the leading private bank in Turkey in terms of total assets (U.S.$ 68.8 billion, as of 31 December 2007), total deposits (U.S.$ 41.7 billion) and shareholders’ equity (with 20.5% CAR). With 928 domestic and 11 overseas branches (9 in Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, 1 in London and 1 in Bahrain), Isbank has the largest branch network among privately owned banks in Turkey. Isbank has also a representative office in Shanghai, a financial subsidiary in Dublin and a wholly owned subsidiary (Isbank GmbH) with 12 branches in Germany, 1 in Zurich, 1 in Paris and 1 in Amsterdam. Isbank today serves more than ten million customers in the retail, corporate, commercial, and SME segments. The Bank’s financial services subsidiaries, which are active in a wide range of endeavors from investment banking to portfolio management and from leasing to private pensions, make Isbank’s ability to supply banking products and services unchallenged.

Dr. Erelçin is the CEO of HSBC Asset Management, Managing Director of te HSBC Yatırım and Executive Committee Member of HSBC Bank A.Ş., Turkey. Starting his career in Turkish Financial markets at 1985, he acted as General Manager of Demir Yatırım from 1995 to 2000, prior to joining HSBC Group in Turkey. Ahmet has received his M.Sc. in Accounting and Finance from London School of Economics and his Ph.D. from Lehigh University in USA. During his Ph.D. studies, he was a Teaching Assistant for Economics and, after returning to Turkey, lectured in Banking to the MBA class of Koç University. Ahmet is also the Vice President of the Turkish Institutional Investment Managers’ Association. Through an international network linked by advanced technology, including a rapidly growing e-commerce capability, HSBC provides a comprehensive range of financial services: personal financial services; commercial banking; corporate, investment banking and markets; private banking; and other activities. HSBC was founded as Midland Bank in 1990 in Istanbul. Right after HSBC bought Midland Bank in 1999 Turkey operation’s name also revised as HSBC. In 2001 Demirbank and in 2002 Benkar has been added to its operations and with that progression HSBC has been fully dedicated to its growing strategy. Now with that enthusiasm, HSBC is serving its customers with excellence in its nationwide branch network numbering over 250 with personal financial services; commercial banking; corporate, investment banking and markets; and private banking.

During Mr. Erkan’s stint at the ISE between 1994 and 2006, he established the International Relations, Research and International Market departments at the ISE as well as the Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges (FEAS) which currently has 31 stock exchanges as members. Mr. Erkan was promoted at the ISE as Executive Vice Chairman in 1995. Mr. Erkan had additional responsibilities during his term at the ISE as a member of the Executive Board of Turkish-Japanese Business Counsel; Co-Director of projects with the OECD in SME financing and best practices for devoloping stock exchanges; representative of ISE at FEAS and other organisations such as the International Organisation of Securities Commissioners (IOSCO), the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), as well as being the Joint Project Coordinator of South East European Cooperative Initiative (SECI) to implement a cooperation Project for the securities markets in the Balkans. He also initiated a project for the cooperation of securities markets of the islamic countries in COMSEC Subcommittee under the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC). Mr. Erkan graduated from New York University Stern Business School with a B.S degree in Economics (1981) and an MBA in the fields of International Business and Finance (1984) with a thesis project on currency risk management at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) . The Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) is the only securities exchange in Turkey which is a dynamic and growing emerging market with an increasing number of publicly traded companies, state-of-the-art technology and strong foreign participation. The ISE provides a transparent and fair trading environment not only for domestic participants, but also for foreign issuers and investors. The ISE aims to establish a technology center which will facilitate the efficient functioning of all markets in Turkey. It aims to develop an efficient network through which all the capital market institutions will communicate with each other; strengthen the ISE’s competitive strength and develop a structure that will ensure immediate and sound reaction to external shocks; make the international integration process an advantage for Turkey; increase the corporate value of the ISE prior to privatization; and decrease the overall transaction costs in the market.

Mr. Igor Erker has been involved with asset management during the entire time of his professional career. He started at the commodities exchange within MP Stock brokerage house. Later he worked as an asset manager at KD and as a head of trading and head of institutional sales in Poteza. From 2003 he has been engaged at MP AM as CIO and a Board member, also sharing responsibility for product and business development. MP Asset Management Inc. was incorporated on 29 November 2002 in Slovenia. Experience, professionalism, internationalism and innovation are its definitive characteristics. The company has a team of highly educated research analysts and asset managers search for fresh, new investment opportunities on foreign as well as local markets every day. Large financial institutions, pension funds and other public sector organizations trust MP Asset Management with their assets as well as a whole range of companies and of course, individuals.

EROL was born in 1961 in Trabzon (Akçaabat). He had B.Sc. in economics in 1985, had M.Sc. in 1989 and lastly received Ph.D. degree in 1996 from Erasmus University in the Netherlands. When he was associate professor in Başkent University in Ankara, in February 2003 he assigned as a board member and in June 2007 and assigned as a chairman to the Capital Markets Board of Turkey. EROL is married and has two children. He had lots of academic publications both in Turkey and abroad in the field of economics and finance. Some of the articles of EROL are: Corporate debt and output pricing in developing countries: Industry-level evidence from Turkey, Journal of Development Economics, Vol.:76 (2005); Strategic Debt with Diverse Maturity in Developing Countries, Emerging Markets Finance & Trade, Vol.:40 (2004); Capital structure and output pricing in a developing country, Economics Letters, Vol.:78 (2003); Exchange rate policy and fiscal stability, METU Studies in Development, Vol.:25 (1998); Nominal anchors of the Turkish economy: Evidence from a VAR model, METU Studies in Development, Vol.:24, No:3 (1997); Exchange rate policy in Turkey: Internal stability and external balance, Tinbergen Institute Research Series, No:113 (1996); and Real exchange rate targeting and inflation in Turkey: An empirical analysis with policy credibility, World Development, Vol.:25 (1997).

Ugur has been working as an economist, equity analyst and fund manager on behalf of several Istanbul-based financial companies since 1993. Having managed life accounts portfolio in Iktisat Group for four years during 1995-1999, Ugur has been ranked in top five returns among life funds three years in a row. He has been involved in investment planning of the privatization of National Lottery and energy projects for the sake of the local groups he has worked for. In his recent career, Ugur focused on macro–economic research, particularly on growth dynamics and financing of growth, as well as establishing investment strategies for institutional clients through newly-introduced financial instruments. Ugur is now chief-economist at Ekinvest. Established in 1990, Ekinciler Investment and Securities Inc. (EkInvest) is mainly active in equities trading, IPOs, investment counselling, portfolio management and fixed income securities transactions. The major shareholder of Ekinvest is a local conglomerate, Ekinciler Group, which is mainly involved in iron & stell production and real-estate business. With the 11 branches, the company poses a geographically optimized network throughout Turkey. The main clientele base of Ekinvest is comprised of local investors, as well as some international institutional investors from Europe and Gulf region. Ekinvest is ranked among top ten among local brokerage houses with TRY3.2bn equity trading volume and TRY6.5bn fixed income securities trading volume in 2007. Having all the operating licences regarding Turkish capital markets, Ekinvest is a boutique brokerage house with a CRM aproach.

Cenk Goksan joined Akbank in 1995 as the Senior Vice President of Investor Relations. Mr. Goksan previously worked for Ak Securities as an Investment Manager and for Carnegie International in London as an Investment Analyst. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Bosphorus University and a post-graduate degree in Economics from Johns Hopkins University. As of the end of 2007, Akbank ranked as Turkey’s most valuable bank having the most profitable banking operations among privately owned banks in Turkey. In addition, with its extensive branch network, Akbank is one of the largest banks in Turkey in terms of loan volume. With its strong and extensive domestic distribution network that includes 715 branches and 13,513 employees, Akbank operates from its headquarters in Istanbul and 20 regional directorates around Turkey.

Didem Gordon is presently General Manager and Board Member of Yapı Kredi Asset Management. She is also the Board Member of Yapı Kredi Yatırım (Yapı Kredi Investment) and is Chairman of Yapı Kredi Investment Trust. Ms. Gordon serves as a member of the Audit Committee of the Istanbul Stock Exchange. She started her carreer in the United States in 1987 and was working at Mitsui Manufacturers Bank’s Corporate Banking Regional Office before returning to Turkey in 1992. Didem held several executive positions in Turkish Capital Markets prior to joining Koç Financial Services as the General Manager and Board Member of Koç Asset Management in 2002. Currently a member of the Board of Turkish Institutional Asset Management Association, Didem an MBA in Finance from San Diego State University and a BA from the Bogazici Universitesi, Faculty of Administration. As one of the leading institutions in the Turkish Asset Management Sector, Yapı Kredi Asset Management manages mutual funds, pension funds, and discretionary portfolios for institutions and high net worth individuals (HNWIs). The Company holds the leading position in Turkish Mutual Funds market with its TRY 5.4 Billion (USD 4.6 billion) portfolio size in 22 A and B Type Funds and its 21% market share. The total assets under management together with the Private Pension Funds and Discretionary Portfolio Management correspond to TRY 6.8 Billion (USD 5.8 Billion). As of December 31, 2007, Yapı Kredi Asset Management has 50 employees, 22 of which are investment professionals. Yapı Kredi Asset Management obtained a M2 (tur) rating from Fitch Ratings on February, 2008.

Funda Gungor is the coordinator of Investor Relations and Strategic Planning of Koc Holding. Ms. Gungor is responsible from managing the IR and macroeconomic research activities of Koc Holding as well as the coordination of the IR activities in 17 other publicly-listed Koc Group companies. Ms. Gungor assumed different responsibilities in relation to the equity markets for over 10 years, including her prior positions as the Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy, Business Development and Investor Relations of Garanti Bank and as the chief economist of HSBC Bank, Turkey. Ms. Gungor has a B.Sc. degree in Economics and M.A. degrees both in Economics and also in Marketing Communications and Public Relations. Koç Holding is Turkey’s largest conglomerate and a flagship of the fast-growing consumer demand in Turkey with leadership positions in lucrative business lines such as automotive, finance, energy and consumer durables. As of the third quarter of 2007, Koç Holding’s combined revenues comprise 12% of Turkish GDP, its exports are 10% of Turkey’s total exports and the Group’s share in Istanbul Stock Exchange market capitalization, with its 18 listed companies, is as high as 16%. Koç Holding ranks 190th in Fortune 500 and is within Europe’s 50 largest companies according to the rankings compiled by the Wall Street Journal Europe and Handelsblatt.

Jonathan Hausman is Head of Emerging Markets Fixed Income at the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP). He was previously Executive Director at Goldman Sachs in London where he managed the firm's sovereign risk strategy and advised government clients on their external financings and international credit ratings. His clients included the Republic of South Africa, the Republic of Korea and the People's Republic of China. Since joining OTPP in 2004 he has built a large and diverse portfolio of public and private emerging market debt, making the fund a significant player in these markets globally. Mr. Hausman also advises the fund on its other strategic investments in emerging markets. Before beginning his career in international finance Mr. Hausman worked as Special Assistant to the Premier of the Province of Ontario. He holds a Masters of Science from the London School of Economics and a Masters of Public Administration from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Mr. Hausman is a native of Toronto.

Gregor Holek is one of the senior fund managers in the team “Emerging Markets Equities” at Raiffeisen Capital Management, Austria’s leading asset manager and an affiliate of RZB. With his 10 years of investment experience, Gregor gained large expertise in the capital markets of Central and Eastern Europe. During the past years – and through the expansion of RCMs competences towards Asia - he became RCM’s specialist for the markets Turkey, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. Gregor Holek holds a Master's degree in Economics from Vienna University. Furthermore, he is a Certified European Financial Analyst (CEFA). Raiffeisen Capital Management is the undisputed Number One on the Austrian market for investment funds, with EUR 40 bn (as of January 2008) in assets under management and a market share of 23 percent. Founded in 1985, the company captured the frontrunner position eighteen years ago and has held on to it ever since. Beyond the Austrian market, Raiffeisen is also a major player in the Central and Eastern European fund business.

Alper Ince, CFA is a Partner, Managing Director and the Sector Specialist responsible for evaluation and management of the non-US Long/Short Equity hedge funds in the various PAAMCO portfolios. He is a member of the Investment Management Committee, and also the Asset Allocation Committee. Alper focuses on establishing and assessing overall asset allocation among the various hedge fund strategies and the impact on overall portfolio risk. Prior to joining PAAMCO, Alper was Associate Director at BARRA RogersCasey, a major pension-consulting firm, where he led the firm’s hedge fund investment and manager research effort. Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company ("PAAMCO") is a hedge fund-of-funds dedicated to offering strategic investment solutions to large, sophisticated institutional investors. Based in Irvine, California, PAAMCO was started in March 2000, and currently has approximately $10 billion under management. The firm's portfolio management team has both a strong academic background and years of experience in working with institutions and analyzing hedge funds with a focus on convertible bond hedging, sovereign debt & mortgage hedging, equity market neutral, merger arbitrage, credit hedging, distressed debt, long/short equity and short biased. PAAMCO has a global staff of 103 including 31 senior investment professionals and is owned by 9 of its employees. In 2003, PAAMCO established a subsidiary in London ("PAAMCO Europe"), which is majority-owned by PAAMCO in the US. PAAMCO is registered with the SEC and the CFTC, and PAAMCO Europe is registered with the FSA. Website: www.paamco.com.

Mr. Jafar has been with EMP Bahrain since 2005 where he is responsible for managing the portfolio of the US$730 million Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Infrastructure Fund. Before moving to Bahrain Mr. Jafar was based in London as an Associate Director at Henderson Global Investors, where he was responsible for principal investments in leveraged loans, mezzanine and second lien financings on behalf of structured and life funds. Prior to this, he was a Director at Fitch Ratings, London, for two years, and was responsible for rating and monitoring leveraged transactions, including senior, mezzanine and high yield debt, across a range of industries. Mr. Jafar has also worked as an Associate at JP Morgan in the Leverage Finance group and has been an Assistant Manager at KPMG in London for three years. He started his career at Smith & Williamson in Audit & Corporate Finance where he worked for five years. Junaid is a member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), and has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science from Middlebury College, USA. EMP (Bahrain) is the General Partner and Manager of the US$730 million Islamic Development Bank Infrastructure Fund (the ‘IDB Fund’). The IDB Fund is fully invested in 11 investments across a range of countries and sectors. The IDB Fund’s investments in Turkey include TAV and Turk Telekom. As at December 2007 the IDB Fund had fully exited from three and partially exited from one of its investments with very attractive returns. EMP (Bahrain) is part of EMP Global, the principal adviser for US$6.1 billion of private equity infrastructure funds. EMP Global has sourced, structured and closed over a 100 direct investments in 52 emerging market countries.

Guray Karacar is graduated from Saint-Joseph French High School and University of Marmara Communication Sciences. Following his studies in USA, he worked as Director in Tribecca Communication Consultancy Group for Tetra Pak, Colgate, Bridgestone, Ford and led national programs. He became the Coordinator of Corporate Governance Association of Turkey in 2003. He was also the National Program Coordinator for United Nations Development Programme from 2005 till 2007. He is a member of TUSIAD (Turkish Businessmen and Industrialists Association) Corporate Governance Committee since 2004 and Project Coordinator of Center for International Private Enterprise. Founded in year 2003, Corporate Governance Association of Turkey (TKYD) is the pioneer organization in Turkey for disseminating best practices of corporate governance, through developing the culture and assisting the implementation. Corporate members and around 400 board members and top level executives meet in TKYD to discuss and shape the future of governance in Turkey. TKYD conducts academic research projects to determine strategic priorities in Turkey with respect to corporate governance. TKYD publications bring international research and reports into attention of readers. Effective Governance in Boardrooms” training program aims at training current and prospective board members on constructing a better governance structure within their organizations. TKYD also takes “Effective Governance in Boardrooms” training programs to different cities in Anatolia with the purpose of sharing the experiences of business men and directors with companies in Anatolia. Work groups composed within TKYD, in accordance with the agenda, which aim at increasing the efficiency in the activities. To increase the awareness upon corporate governance and promote the best practices, intensive communication studies are carried out both by print and visual media. Newsletter, quarterly Corporate Governance periodical and www.tkyd.org are an extension of this strategy. “Effective Governance in Boardrooms” training program, “corporate social responsibility reporting” and “reporting in international standards for institutions” are the main areas supported by TKYD via cooperation with both national and international institutions. TKYD completed a project with UNDP, is an organizational stakeholder of Global Reporting Initiative and cooperates with Center for Sustainability and Excellence.

Metin Kilci received his BA degree from the Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences of Erciyes University, and his MS degree from the Delaware University, Department of Economics in 1997. He worked as Accounting Chief in the Foreign Exchange Department of Central Bank in 1987 and as Assistant Expert and as Expert in State Planning Organization between 1989-2001. Mr. Kilci served as Director in the Agriculture, Industry and Health Directorate of the Economic Cooperation Organization in Iran. Kilci was appointed as the Vice President of Privatization Administration in 2003. Subsequently, he served as the Acting President after which he was appointed as President of Privatization Administration on June 16, 2003. Metin Kilci also chairs Turk Telekom Tender and Valuation Committees and has several publications about privatization implementations. Turkey has transformed its outdated state-owned economic enterprises into competitive companies through a comprehensive and radical privatization program during the last two decades. The Privatization Administration (PA) which is a legal public entity with an exclusive budget and works under the supervision of Privatization High Council is responsible for the execution of privatization implementations in Turkey. PA raised over 30 billion USD as privatization proceeds during the last twenty years, has a crucial role for Turkish economy.

As the leading individual pensions and life insurance company in Turkey, AvivaSA Emeklilik ve Hayat A.Ş. has been founded on the 31st of October 2007 by the merger of AK Emeklilik A.Ş. and Aviva Hayat Emeklilik A.Ş. The merger agreement between Ak Emeklilik, one of the participations of Aksigorta within the body of Sabancı Holding and Aviva Hayat ve Emeklilik A.Ş., the enterprise of UK-based insurance giant Aviva plc in Turkey, has been announced to public on the 8th of June 2007.

Gokhan began his career in British Petroleum in 1990 as an Assistant of Engineering Manager and became Manager in Marketing Services and Product in 1996. He then worked in Beiersdorf Chemical A.Ş in 1996 as a Sales and Marketing Manager. After he joined Citibank in 1996 he worked as Credit Card Sales and Marketing Manager and in 1998 he continued his duties as Credit Cards Marketing Director. In 1999 he became Vice President, Head of Business Development, UK Citibank. He holds a BSc degree in Civil Engineering of Istanbul Technical University, an MBA of Istanbul University and an Executive MBA of London Business School. Mendi has started working in Finansbank Netherlands as Executive Vice President, Head of Consumer Banking in July 2001 to be responsible from consumer banking activities of Holland, Germany and Belgium and he became Assistant General Manager in Finansbank Turkey in July 2003 and be responsible from all consumer banking activities until August 2007. He joined Fortis as Head of Fortis Turkey Retail Banking and Executive Vice President in August 2007. Mr Mendi is married and has two children. He is fluent in English and French.

Abrar Mir is a senior investment professional with over eighteen years of financial industries and private equity experience. He has led private equity transactions with an aggregate value of over $40 billion and financings (equity and debt) of over $30 billion. Abrar’s international experience has included leading several high profile private equity transactions in the US, Europe and several Emerging Markets (including the Middle East, North Africa, Turkey and India). He has played a leadership role in a diverse range of transactions ranging from highly successful investments in large leveraged buy outs, corporate carve-outs of non-core assets, expansion capital investments in fast growth companies, to investments in turn-around / special situations. Abrar holds an M.A. in Law and M.Phil degree in International Law from the University of Cambridge. He is also fluent in five languages. NBD Sana Capital’s key anchor investor is NBD Investment Bank and benefits strongly from the backing of the Emirates NBD, the GCC’s biggest banking group. This adds significant strategic value to the fund. Emirates NBD has a strong reputation regionally and its depth of network is a compelling competitive advantage for NBD Sana Capital. With a robust market capitalisation of over $18 billion, and the biggest asset base in the region, Emirates NBD provides NBD Sana Capital with considerable financial firepower.

Tarkan Ozkan is presently Assistant General Manager and Group Head of Marketing and Sales Management of Yapi Kredi Asset Management. Tarkan Ozkan started his career in Turkiye Is Bankasi (Isbank) in Istanbul, as a Dealer in Treasury, in 1993. Tarkan Ozkan joined Koc Financial Services in 1997 as Division Manager of Treasury Fixed Income Group in Kocbank and in 2003 he continued the post as Head of Marketing and Sales Support in Koc Portfoy Yonetimi (Koc Asset Management). In 2006, he became Group Head of Sales and Marketing Unit. Tarkan Ozkan continues his current position since March, 2007. Tarkan Ozkan has a BS degree in Industrial Engineering at Bilkent University (1993) and an Executive MBA at Koc University (2002).

A professional conventional & Islamic banker, Waheed is considered a pioneer of Islamic Banking in the West for over a decade. He held various senior management roles at Citibank NA. Waheed was Head of First dedicated Islamic Investment Banking Unit of a British Bank, based in UK. This was the first European entity which offered Islamic mortgages, leasing fund, Health care and Student property fund in the West as a program. Waheed held senior management roles in Private Banking at UBS and HSBC and has joined the executive management of Islamic Bank of Britain right from the outset in 2003 and played a key role in the establishment of the Bank from concept to the overall implementation level. Waheed was AGM & Head of Retail Banking and Director – Head of Private Clients/Private Banking including Bank’s media spokesperson. QCC was established in August 2006, headquartered in Qatar to enable financial institutions, commercial organisations and entrepreneurs to take advantage of QCC’s intellectual capital that has a unique skill-base. The team comprises of dedicated world renowned Islamic Banking experts, Corporate Finance and venture capital experts with financial analytical skills. QCC consultants are able to help clients implement value-creating strategies, policies and viable transactions.

Before joining Tofaş Türk Otomobil Fabrikası A.Ş. in 1991, Dr. Salepçioğlu started his career in Garanti Bankası A.Ş. and is currently working in the Corporate Governance and Shareholder Relations Unit in Tofaş A.Ş. Head Office. Furthermore, he has been delivering graduate and postgraduate lectures in the subjects of Capital Markets, Securities and Stock Exchanges, Economic History of Turkey, etc. in T.R. Maltepe University since his assignment as the lecturer in 2002. Dr. Salepçioğlu speaks English and is married with one child. Having been established in 1968, Tofaş Türk Otomobil Fabrikası A.Ş is the pioneer of the Turkish automotive industry with 40 years of history and is one of the most important industrial companies in the Turkish economy under partnership between Koç Holding and Fiat Auto. Tofaş is the only company that represents the sales and aftersales services of all Fiat Group brands outside of Italy. Being one of the most important production centers of Fiat with regards to production and sales of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in both local and global markets, Tofaş carries out its activities in Bursa and its Head Office is based in Istanbul.

Currently the Global Head of Emerging Markets Bonds at DWS, Christian is a certified European financial analyst who has won “Fund manager of the year 2002” in Germany. He was also awarded No.1 “Convergence-Fund” in 2002 and 2003 in Germany “Deka Convergence Renten CF/TF.” He is also a recipient of Standard&Poors Fund Awards for the Fund Deka Europabond TF in 2003 and 2004; Sauren Fund Awards in 2005, 2006 and 2007; and Standard&Poors Fund Award for the Fund DWS Europe Convergence Bonds 2006. DWS Investments is the mutual fund arm of Deutsche Asset Management, being with more than EUR 140 bn. AuM1) the largest mutual fund company in its home country, Germany, with EUR 177 bn. AuM number two of the leading retail mutual fund companies across Europe2) and with EUR 268 bn. within the top 10 globally3). Founded in 1956, DWS’s activities span not only all the key in European markets. Over the last few years, the DWS Investments brand has been rolled out to cover countries and products across the United States, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Leading positions in rankings of independent fund rating agencies and consistently awarded prizes confirm the sustainable success and the outstanding performance of DWS.

Mehmet Simsek was elected to Parliament in the general election on July 22, 2007 and appointed as the state minister in charge of the economy on August 29. Prior to joining politics, Mr. Simsek was the chief economist and strategist for emerging Europe, Middle East and Africa region at Merrill Lynch in London for 7 years. He also served as senior economist and bank analyst for Deutsche-Bender Securities from 1998 to 2000. Mr. Simsek spent about a year in New York where he worked for UBS Securities in 1997. Prior to that, he was a senior economist at the US Embassy in Ankara for almost four years. A native of Batman, Mr Simsek earned his B.Sc. in Economics from Ankara University in 1988. After working as research assistant in the chair of international economics and economic development, he was awarded a state scholorship to the University of Exeter (UK), where he earned his M Phil in Finance and Investments in 1993. Mr. Simsek is married to Annalise and is fluent in English.

Since 2006, Mr. Tataroglu has been working as the Managing Director of NBK Capital (National Bank of Kuwait Capital) Turkey; with the capacity as the advisor of the funds within NBK Capital and the strategic and financial investors in the region who are evaluating investment opportunities in Turkey. Having executed over 100 corporate finance projects including M&A transactions, company valuations, project finance and financial restructuring projects Ahmet Tataroglu has significant experience in corporate finance, M&A and private equity transactions. Mr. Tataroglu worked as the Head of PricewaterhouseCoopers M&A - Turkey before joining to NBK Capital. He has a BS Industrial Engineering Degree from the Middle East Technical University.

Dr. Tevfik is the CEO of Is Asset Management. Prior to joining İş Asset Management, he served at the Securities Department of Turkiye İs Bankasi between 1982 and 2001. He received his MS degree from Univ.of N.Colorado and his PhD from Istanbul University. Dr. Tevfik published numerous essays and six books on banking and finance (five of which were co-authored by Dr.Tevfik) Dr. Tevfik is the former board member of the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) to represent Turkey and the president of the International Investment Funds Association (IIFA) Steering Committee in 2006. Is Asset Management is one of the group companies of Türkiye İş Bankası (Isbank). As a leading Asset Management company providing discretionary and nondiscretionary asset management services to institutional clients globally, it manages Mutual Funds, Pension Funds, Turkisfund (SICAV) funds, foreign funds and discretionary asset management services to institutional clients. The total assets under the company’s management at the end-2007 amounted to USD 5.8 billion in value. Currently Is Asset Management is managing 19 mutual funds owned by Isbank, 13 pension funds of Anadolu Hayat Retirement Corp., 3 subfunds of Turkisfund, and other institutional clients’ funds. Is Asset Management is the sole manager of Turkisfund (SICAV) funds. Domiciled in Luxemburg and promoted by Isbank GMBH, a subsidiary of Isbank with headquaters in Frankfurt, Turkisfund (SICAV) is an open-ended collective investment scheme that fully complies with EU Regulations. Turkisfund (SICAV) with its shares denominated in Euros, was the first international mutual fund launched in Europe to invest exclusively in Turkish capital markets. Accordingly with UCITS III Directives, Turkisfunds were registered in London in 2007 and is now available for sale at Isbank London Branch. Is Asset Management was accepted as a corporate member of the European Funds and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) in December 2006 and became the first Turkish Asset Management Company to join EFAMA.

Mr. Kemal Unakitan is a Member of Parliament serving as Minister of Finance, 58th-59th Turkish Governments, 2002-present. He was previously the Minister in Charge of Privatization, 58th-59th Turkish Governments, 2003-2007. Among his great achievements are serving in private companies such as the Family Finance Corporation (Member of Board of Directors, 2001-2002); BEM Foreign Trade Company (Director General, Chairman of Board of Directors, 1988-2002); Albaraka Türk Corporation (Member of Board of Directors, 1985-2001); Bahariye Textiles Corporation (Director General, 1978-1989); Turkish Cellulose and Paper Factories (Director General, Chairman of Board of Directors, 1977-1978); Turkish Cellulose and Paper Factories (Deputy Director General, 1976-1977); BIRKO Commercial and Industrial Company (Deputy Director General, Financial Coordinator, 1976-1977); Ministry of Finance (Tax Inspector, 1971-1976). His educational exposure was in Ankara Academy of Economic and Commercial Sciences, Ankara. He is married with 3 children

Murat Ünal is the CEO of Funds@Work AG and has completed with his team over 80 projects in over a dozen of countries over the last 7 years - previously he has been in managing positions at well known asset management companies and Citibank. He is a doctoral candidate and holds B.Com, MBA, and LL.M. degrees from well known universities around the world. Funds@Work AG is an international strategy consulting firm focusing on the asset management sector and is particularly known for its unique, model-based market intelligence and track record in setting the agenda for many trends in the industry. Since its establishment at the end of 2001, Funds@Work has carried out roughly more than 80 projects in 14 countries.

Prior to joining Connexion Capital, Cenk was a Director within the Portfolio Strategies Group at Heritage Capital Ltd, the London-based investment banking unit of Heritage.Bank. From 2000 to 2007, Cenk was a Partner and Sales Director at Fortune Asset Management Ltd, a leading multi-manager hedge fund and hedge fund incubator which was acquired by Close Brothers in 2006. At Fortune, Cenk raised capital for single manager and multi-manager hedge funds, and fund-linked notes in Europe, the Middle East, Canada and South Africa. Cenk holds a Maitrise in Law from Robert Schuman University in Strasbourg, France, an LLM in International Business Law from the University of Manchester, and an Executive MBA from Tanaka Business School, Imperial College, London. Cenk is an FSA registered representative. He is also the Managing Director of Hedgeswap Ltd, a secondary market for hedge funds, and the London representative of Inlawco, an Istanbul-based law firm. Connexion Capital is an alternative investment advisory firm founded in 2005, with offices in London and Geneva and representatives in the United States, Europe , & the Middle East. Connexion Capital's team has great breadth of industry knowledge and contacts, enabling it to anticipate profitable fund investment opportunities and help investors capitalize on them.

A graduate of Robert College, Department of Civil Engineering in 1971, he received his Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering from Bogazici University and completed his doctorate in Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana in 1976. He started his academic career in 1976 as a lecturer at Middle Esat Technical University, Department of Environmental Engineering, followed by Bogazici University, Department of Civil Engineering, between 1977 and 1982, and then Yarmouk University, Jordan, between 1982 and 1986; followed by the Jordan University of Science and Technology from 1986 to 1987, and the Civil Engineering Department of the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, in Saudi Arabia. After an academic career spanning some 13 years, he joined Yapı Kredi Sigorta* in 1989 as their Risk Engineering Manager and has been a General Manager and a Board Member at Yapı Kredi Emeklilik** since 1 March 1997. Yapı Kredi Emeklilik was originally established as Halk Yaşam on 29 January 1991, to provide services in health, life and accidental death insurance areas. The name of the company was changed to Yapı Kredi Yaşam on 1 October 2000 to provide synergy with other financial companies in the same group, then to Yapı Kredi Emeklilik on 30 December 2002, as a legal requirement to operate in the Private Pension System. Yapı Kredi Emeklilik, a subsidiary of Yapı Kredi Bank, is a Koç Financial Services company since 2005, an equal partnership between Koç Holding and the Italian UniCredit, an international banking group. As of 31 March 2008, Yapı Kredi Emeklilik manages YTL 743 mio funds of 266,368 pension plan holders and YTL 502 mio funds of 514,063 life insurance customers. In Capital magazine’s prestigious survey of ‘The Most Admired Companies’, Yapı Kredi Emeklilik was selected as ‘The Most Admired Company in the Private Pension Industry’ for 2004.

Cem is responsible for the management of the 3rd largest asset management company in Turkey with AUM of USD 4 bn. As CEO, he has built up the discretionary portfolio management business line to serve HNW/UHNW clients. Cen has also set up structured products business line that launched Turkey’s first capital protected funds. As a member of board of directors of Ak Investment Trust, Cem is proud to have set up research, risk management and internal control units within the organization. Cem has previously worked for Garanti Asset Management as the Executive Vice President – Fund Management, Marketing & Sales. He served as Chief Investment Officer responsible from management of equity and fixed income mutual funds, pension funds and segregated accounts with AUM of USD 2 bn. Cem has a B.A. in the Faculty of Economics where he graduated with Honor Degree in top 5 of Istanbul University. He is fluent in English, French, and native Turkish. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Turkish Institutional Investment Managers Association.

Mr Yazıcı has started working in the Undersecretariat of the Treasury as an associate in 1992, and held various positions in the Directorate General of Insurance since then. He has worked as economic counsellor in the Permanent Delegation of Turkey to the OECD (Paris) for three years before appointed as the head of department for private pensions in the Undersecretariat of the Treasury in 2007. Mr. Yazıcı holds an MBA degree in actuarial sciences from St. John’s University/School of Risk Management (New York) and a BA degree in economics from Marmara University (Istanbul).

Mert Yazıcıoğlu currently serves as the Executive Vice President of Yapı Kredi Treasury Management. He holds a B.A. in Management Sciences and Engineering from I.T.U. (Istanbul Technical University) and a Master’s Degree in Management Sciences from I.T.U. in 1994. He has started to work in S. BOLTON AND SONS as a Foreign Relations Responsible. Taking a post as a Customer Relations Officer in Koçbank in 1989, Yazıcıoğlu has taken different responsibilites until he he is promoted to Executive Vice President in 2006. Mert Yazıcıoğlu is married and speaks English and German. Established in 1944 Yapi Kredi is the fourth largest privately held bank with more than 16,000 employees, around 700 service points and over 6 million customers. Under the 50-50 ownership of Koç Group, one of the leading conglomerate in Turkey and UniCredit Group, the third largest banking group of Europe, Yapı Kredi continues its understanding of limitless service and its distinctive products, with its strong capital structure and its corporate organization renewed with international experience. Yapı Kredi not only fulfills the financial expectations of its customers but also helps shape the culturel life of our country. Since the time it was founded, Yapı Kredi makes continuous and substantial cultural contributions and continues introducing new cultural projects, aided by the vast experience of Yapı Kredi Culture and Arts in this field.

Ömer Yenidoğan has been the CEO of TEB Asset Management (a JV of BNP Paribas) since May 2003. He is also a member of the TEB Bank Management Committee since 2006. His current responsibilities cover both asset management & private banking activities in the Group. Prior to joining TEB Group in 1998, he worked at Global Securities Company Research Department as an equity analyst and at Citibank Consumer Banking in Turkey, Ömer Yenidoğan has an undergraduate degree in Political Sciences from Marmara University (1994) and a Financial MBA degree from Nottingham School Of Management and Finance, UK (1995). He also completed JP Morgan Investment Banking Training Program in New York, in 1999. TEB Group introduced its first mutual fund in 1993, and has been a leading institution in the asset management industry in Turkey since then. The Group spinned off its asset management operations and set-up the TEB Asset Management subsidiary in 1999. In 2003, TEB Asset Management merged with ABN AMRO Asset Management Inc. In 2005, TEB Group made a 50%- 50% joint venture agreement with BNP Paribas, and as a result of this joint venture ABN AMRO transferred its shares to BNP Paribas.

Taliye Yesilurdu works in the Institutional Investors Department of the Capital Markets Board of Turkey (CMB) where she manages the regulation and supervision of investment funds, venture capital investment trusts, private pension funds, real estate investment trusts and asset management companies. She has worked on a European Union Compliance Twinning Project to make Turkish legislation fully in compliance with European Union capital markets’ Standards and Directives. She has a key role in drafting legislation in the area of investment funds and their management companies, has prepared written reports on hedge funds and has drafted legislation for the establishment of hedge funds in Turkey. Taliye holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and completed a certificate program in Finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 2003.