Board of Directors

Chairperson of the Board

MERAL MURATHAN

Meral Murathan was born in Erzurum in 1977, and graduated from the department of Economics at Boğaziçi University.

She started her career in TSKB Treasury Department in 1998. After serving in a variety of roles and positions, she was promoted as Head of Financial Institutions in 2012. Meral Murathan promoted to Executive Vice President position in 1 April 2019.

She has been currently in charge of Financial Institutions and Investor Relations, Development Finance Institutions, Loan Monitoring, Treasury and Corporate Communications Departments.

Board Member

S. HÜSEYİN GÜREL

Born in 1983 in Istanbul, Seyit Hüseyin Gürel graduated from the Department of Economics at the Middle East Technical University in 2007.

Starting his professional life at Industrial Development Bank of Turkey (TSKB), Gürel held various positions in Financial Analysis Department between 2007 and 2015. Gürel was positioned in Corporate Banking Department in 2015. Gürel was promoted as the Department Head of Corporate Banking Marketing in 2019 and appointed as Department Head of Advisory Services and Marketing in 2020. As of 1 September 2023, Hüseyin Gürel has been appointed as Executive Vice President in charge of Advisory Services Sales, Financial and Technical Advisory Department, Loan Allocation, Credit Restructure and Resolution, Engineering Departments.

Deputy Chairperson of the Board

ÇAĞLA EKER ALTINKULP

Çağla Eker Altınkulp has a double major in Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering from Yıldız Technical University. She earned her master’s degree (non-thesis) in Construction Management at Yıldız Technical University. She holds international certificates as a green building expert such as LEED AP BD+C and International BREEAM Assessor.

Prior to joining TSKB, she managed the LEED green building certification process of a construction company’s mixed-use high rise building project. Furthermore, she worked on developing real estate projects and delivering project cost control as well as project management.
Altınkulp has been working at TSKB since 2014 in the fields of development and assessment of technical feasibility studies in various sectors, corporate sustainability, and environmental and social risk management. After the Group Manager position she held in Engineering Department, she has been appointed as the Head of Climate Change and Sustainability Management Department.