FINANCE AND TECHNOLOGIES EXPO- FINTEX ISTANBUL

Graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, and Department of Public Administration. In 1996, Çakar started to work as an Assistant Auditor in our Bank, served as Auditor and Department Manager and was appointed as Regional Director-in-chief in 2005.

Çakar, became the Head of Department in September 2007, served as Executive Vice President for Retail Banking, Executive Vice President for Operations, Executive Vice President for Consumer Banking and Executive Vice President for Retail Banking, he served as Executive Vice President for Distribution Channels Management between January 2016-July 2017, Executive Vice President for Payment Systems between July 2017-June 2018, Executive Vice President for Retail Banking-2 between June 2018-March 2021.

He served as member of the Board of Directors/member of the Audit Board of Ziraat Leasing, Bileşim Alternatif Dağıtım Kanalları Ödeme Sistemi A.Ş., Ziraat Life & Pension, Ziraat Insurance, Credit Registry Bureau, Ziraat Bank (Moscow) JSC, Turkmen Turkish Joint Stock Commercial Bank, Ziraat Technology, Interbank Card Center, Ziraat Gayrimenkul Yatırım Ortaklığı A.Ş. (Ziraat REIT), Ziraat Bank (Moscow) JSC, respectively, between the years of 2003-2019.

Çakar has been serving as the CEO and member of Board of Ziraat Bank since March 2021. He is the Chairman of the Credit Committee since March 2021. He has been the Chairman of The Banks Association of Türkiye since April 2021. He is member to the Board of Türkiye Wealth Fund since May, 2021. He has been carrying out the duty as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ziraat Participation Bank since February 2022.

Dr. Ekrem Keskin was born in Aydın, Turkey in 1961. He received his Bachelor Degree in Management from the Technical University of Istanbul in 1983. He gained his Masters Degree in 1987 and his Ph.D. in Economics in 1991 from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Istanbul.

Dr. Keskin joined the University of Istanbul as an academic member in 1984, and worked there as an Associate Professor until 1998. Dr. Ekrem Keskin has became the Secretary General of the Banks Association of Turkey in 1995 and served as an auditor of OYAK between 1999 - 2003. He has been a member of the European Economic and Social Committee since 1999.

Dr. Keskin carries on giving lectures on financial and banking policies at several academies and universities.

After graduating from the secondary school he was admitted to the department of “Accounting” at Azerbaijan State Economic University and completed the full course on the speciality of “Economist” in 1981. Zakir Nuriyev started his labour activity as Leading Accountant at the “Control and Inspection” department of the Ministry of Communications, Azerbaijan Republic in 1981.

 Zakir Nuriyev did his military service during 1981-1983. He worked in the capacity of Accountant – Inspector, Chief Inspector and Deputy Chief Accountant at the “Control and Inspection” department of the Ministry of Communications, Azerbaijan Republic from July, 1983 until January, 1989 after having served in the military.

 He was appointed to the post of Manager of the “Control and Accounting” division at “Regional Communication” Production Association of the Ministry of Communications, Azerbaijan Republic in 1989. Zakir Nuriyev worked in the capacity of Chairman of the Management Board at “Rabitabank” Joint-Stock Commercial Bank during 1993-1998 and has been acting as Chairman of the Supervisory Board at “Rabitabank” Open Joint-Stock Company since 1998 up to date. He was elected President of the Azerbaijan Banks Association in 1996 and worked in that capacity until 2006. He has been member of the Presidium at Azerbaijan Banks Association from 2006 till 2015. He was re-elected President of Azerbaijan Banks Association in 2015.

Participation Banks Association of Türkiye, Director

Participation Banks Association of Türkiye, Chairman

Participation Banks Association of Türkiye, General Secretary

Kyrgyzstan Banks Union, President

Association of Banks of the Republic of Kazakhstan, First vice president

Uzbekistan Banking Association, General Director

Reka Hamori graduated from Benilde St. Margaret High School in Minnesota, Minneapolis in June 2000, as she was a Rotary Exchange Student for one year there. She graduated from Budapest Business School with a degree in Economics in 2006 She obtained a postgraduate diploma in Digital Business from MIT Sloan and Columbia Business School in 2020 and achieved her Master of Business Administration degree from Arden University, London in 2021. She has excellent communication skills.

 She has worked in various banks, and since September 2013, she has been a Chief Economist at the Hungarian Banking Association, responsible for numerous Working Groups, including SME lending, sustainability, distributed ledger technology, and many more, and liaising the Hungarian sector and the financial sector within various European Banking Federation meetings. Since 2023 she has been a board member of the Women in IT Security Association in Hungary.

Georgian Banks Association, President