Board Of Directors
Name Lastname | Title |
---|---|
Ali Ercan | Chairman of Board |
Cihan Küçükgöze | Board Member & General Manager |
Hüseyin Çalışkan | Board Member |
Hakkı Çatman | Board Member |
Azra Deniz Kızılkaya | Board Member |
Kazım Pehlivan | Board Member |
Tevfik Rüştü Ayhan Albayrak | Board Member |
Ali Ercan
Chairman of Board
Ali Ercan was born in Konya in 1986. He completed his high school education at TED Ankara College and his bachelor's degree in Business Administration at the University of Leicester, England.
Ali Ercan serves as General Manager, Member of the Board of Directors, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Board of Directors within the Ercan Corporate Group, which operates in sectors such as ceramics, tourism and mining. He has a high level of knowledge and experience, especially in ceramic and granite production and financial management.
Ali Ercan, who has implemented many projects in the fields of construction, tourism and ceramics, is also a founding member of various non-governmental organizations.
M. Latif Adaoğulları
Vice Chairman of Board
He completed his bachelor's degree in Business Administration at Istanbul University and his master's degree in Business Management at Istanbul Arel University. Murat Latif Adaoğulları, who started his professional career at Pamukbank A.Ş. in 1996, worked at Pamukbank, Halk Bankası, Ziraat Girişim Equity A.Ş. He worked in the analysis, allocation and marketing departments at Ziraat Bank.
Murat Latif Adaoğulları will be working at Q Yatırım Holding A.Ş. as of September 2023. He continues his worklife within the company.
Cem Ferdi Ordu
Board Member
Born in Uşak in 1979, Cem Ferdi Ordu graduated from Anadolu University with a Bachelor's Degree in Labor Economics (2002), Adnan Menderes University with a Master's Degree in Economics (2013) and Doğuş University with a Bachelor's Degree in Law (2021).
In 2005, he started his professional career at Koçbank and continued his professional career in Yapı Kredi, Alternatifbank, Finansbank in the fields of corporate and commercial banking until 2019.
Cem Ferdi Ordu left his position as Finance Director at Qua Granite Group, which he started in 2021, in the last quarter of 2023 and was appointed as the General Manager of Bien Finans Faktoring A.Ş. He still holds this position.
Cem Ferdi Ordu is a member of the Board of Directors of our Bank and also serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Allbatross Global Logistics Inc.
Hüseyin Çalışkan
Board Member
Hüseyin Çalışkan, who was born in Manisa in 1971, graduated from the Department of Management at Middle East Technical University in 1993.
Hüseyin Çalışkan started his career at Türkiye İş Bankası as Deputy Inspector and served as Inspector between 1993-2002. He worked as Assistant Manager of the Commercial Loans Underwriting Department between 2002-2007 and then promoted to Division Manager of the SME Loans Underwriting Department in 2007 at the same bank. In 2013, he was appointed as Deputy General Manager at İş Faktoring.
After serving in this position for 11 years at İş Faktoring, Hüseyin Çalışkan retired from Türkiye İş Bankası in November 2024 and then started to work as General Manager at Q Finans Faktoring.
Yavuz Erkmen
Board Member
He was born in Istanbul in 1977. He graduated from Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Faculty of Economics in 2002. Following his military service, Erkmen left the Marmara University Social Sciences Institute Development Economics and Economic Growth Master's program at the thesis stage, which he entered in 2003, and he worked as a regional manager in the publishing industry for a while. He started his banking career as a Financial Analyst at Finansbank A.Ş. in 2005 and continued his job at this institution until 2009. He started his duty in 2009 at T.R. Ziraat Bankası A.Ş. He worked in the Financial Analysis and Credit Allocation departments of the general directorate with the titles of expert, director, supervisor and manager. Since 2018, he served as manager, deputy general manager, general manager and board member at Ziraat Girişim Girişim Yatırım Ortaklığı A.Ş. until June 2021. During the same period, he also served as a board member in various subsidiaries of Ziraat GSYO A.Ş. Erkmen, who started working as a consultant within the Qua Group in August 2021, has been serving as the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors at Bien Finans Faktoring A.Ş., one of the group companies, since February 2022.
Hakkı Çatman
Board Member
Hakkı Çatman was born in Bilecik in 1988. After completing his high school education at Mustafa Şeker Anatolian High School, he received his bachelor's degree from Eskişehir Anadolu University, Department of Business Administration in 2011. He holds a Certified Public Accountant/CPA certificate.
Between 2009 and 2011, he worked as Assistant Accounting Specialist at Euro Dekor Inc. and between 2012 and 2016, he worked as Accounting Specialist at Bien Construction Products Tourism Industry and Trade Inc. Finally, he worked as an Accounting Specialist at Qua Granite Hayal Construction and Product. Industry. Trade. Inc. as Accounting Manager since 2016 until today.
He also continues to serve as a board member in Q Investment Holding group companies.
Azra Deniz Kızılkaya
Board Member
Deniz Kızılkaya was born in Istanbul on 1971. After completing her high school education at Beşiktaş Atatürk High School, Istanbul, she graduated from Istanbul University, Department of Economics (English curriculum) in 1993. She is currently pursuing her thesis program in International Finance, MS at Istanbul Bilgi University.
After starting her career at Enka Holding A.Ş., She started working as a management trainee in the marketing department of Aktif Finans Factoring A.Ş. (now Garanti Factoring A.Ş.), the first factoring company in Turkey. Afterwards, She was head of different departments in both in-bank factoring departments and factoring companies. She took part in the founding of the International Factoring and Correspondent Relations business at İş Faktoring A.Ş. and Garanti Factoring A.Ş. as the head. In early 2021, she was the founding General Manager of a fintech company and the group's international bank relations manager.
As of November 2021, she is Executive Vice Presdent of groups’s exporter companies (Bien Trading A.Ş and Qua Trading A.Ş.), General Manager of groups subsidiary in Germany, Demireks GmbH, and board member in Bien Finans Faktoring A.Ş., Allbatross Portföy Yönetimi A.Ş. Deniz Kızılkaya speaks fluent English and intermediate French.
Erman Peker
Board Member & Deputy General Manager
Erman Peker, who has a bachelor's degree in Statistics and a master's degree in Management Information Systems, completed the Executive Leadership Programme at the University of Oxford, Said Business School.
Peker, who started his professional career at Türkiye İş Bankası in 2006, served at Aktif Bank as Internal Control Manager between 2013-2014, at İş Faktoring as Internal Control and Compliance Manager between 2014-2018, and at İş Faktoring as Information Technologies Department Manager between 2018-2022. Erman Peker, who was appointed as Deputy General Manager to Q Yatırım Bankası A.Ş. in December 2022, has been serving as a Board Member and Deputy General Manager since December 2023.
Mr. Peker also serves as the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors at QTech Bilgi Teknolojileri A.Ş. and as a Member of the Board of Directors at Allbatross Girişim Sermayesi Yatırım Ortaklığı A.Ş.
Uğur Yüce
Deputy General Manager
Uğur YÜCE was born in Denizli in 1977. He graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Finance and completed his master's degree at Emory University Goizueta Business School (MBA) in the USA. He is currently continuing his PhD studies in Banking at Istanbul Commerce University Finance Institute at the thesis stage. Uğur YÜCE worked as an audit staff at the Ministry of Finance between 2002 and 2004, and served as Banking Specialist, Coordinator, Group Head and Head of Implementation I Department at the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency, where he started working in 2004. He is married to Özlem YÜCE and has a daughter named Bilge.
Cihan Küçükgöze
Board Member & General Manager
Cihan Küçükgöze, who was born in Ankara in 1981, completed his secondary education at Gazi Anatolian High School and then graduated from the Department of Industrial Engineering at Middle East Technical University.
Cihan Küçükgöze started his career as Deputy Inspector at the Board of Inspectors in Türkiye İş Bankası A.Ş. in 2006, served as Inspector between 2011-2015. He worked as Deputy Manager of the Asset-Liability Management Risk Unit in the Risk Management Department of the same bank between 2016 and 2020 and Asset-Liability Management Risk Unit Manager between 2021-2022. He started working at Q Yatırım Bankası A.Ş. at the beginning of 2023.
Cihan Küçükgöze worked as the Head of the Risk Management Department between January and May 2023 and was appointed as the Deputy General Manager responsible for financial affairs and finance in June of the same year. After serving in this position for one year, he was elected as a Board Member and appointed as Acting General Manager in July 2024. Starting from March 2025, Mr. Küçükgöze is serving as Board Member and General Manager.
Cihan Küçükgöze is a member of the Risk Managers Association since the beginning of 2016, undertook the role of Auditor in the same association between 2018-2020. In addition to the Financial Risk Manager certificate issued by the Global Association of Risk Professionals, Cihan Küçükgöze holds Capital Market Activities Level 3, Derivative Instruments and Credit Rating Specialist licenses.
Kazım Pehlivan
Board Member
Born in 1981 in Bozüyük, Bilecik, Kazım Pehlivan is married and has one child. After completing his education at an Anatolian High School, he pursued an associate degree in Restoration, followed by studies at the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Fine Arts. Continuing his studies in Economics and a Master's program in Management Information Systems in Computer Engineering, Kazım Pehlivan specialized in software, has been working as a senior executive in the IT and software industry for almost 23 years. Throughout his career, he has held senior management positions in construction, IT, tourism, and finance sectors, as well as working in software and IT-related roles within these industries.
As of 2022, he established a joint-stock company in the Eskişehir Technology Development Zone. Since 2007, he has been serving as the Software Director responsible for Software and IT at Ercan Group of Companies. As of 2024, he is also working at Albatross Investment Securities Company. Additionally, he holds board memberships in various sectors.
In his professional life, he has chosen to specialize in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. He has provided and continues to provide ERP Software Consultancy, primarily in the fields of accounting and finance, to numerous prominent organizations.
Tevfik Rüştü Ayhan Albayrak
Board Member
Tevfik Rüştü Ayhan Albayrak was born in 1955 in Osmancık, Turkey. He graduated in 1981 from the Faculty of Business Administration at the Ankara Academy of Economic and Commercial Sciences.
He began his banking career in 1984 at Türkiye İş Bankası A.Ş., Mithatpaşa Branch in Ankara. From 1987 to 2000, he held various managerial positions at the Başkent Branch, serving as Chief and Deputy Branch Manager. Between 2000 and 2003, he served as Assistant Regional Manager at the Ankara 2nd Regional Directorate. In 2003, he was appointed Branch Manager of the İncesu Branch in Ankara. He retired in 2007 after completing his service in this role.
In 2009, he was appointed Credit Manager at Bien Seramik A.Ş. and Qua Hayal Seramik A.Ş., companies within the Ercan Group. In 2025, he joined Q Yatırım Bankası A.Ş., initially as an Advisor and subsequently as a Member of the Board of Directors. He also serves as a Member of the Board of Directors at Q Finans Faktoring A.Ş., and continues to hold both positions.