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TEKNOSA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Sitare SEZGIN - CEO

After graduating from Izmir American College, Sitare Sezgin completed her undergraduate education at Bilkent University Department of Business Administration in 1997 and finance-focused Master of Business Administration program at UMIST/Manchester Business School.

Sitare Sezgin started her career as a Consultant at Bain & Company in 1999 and went on to work as a Senior Consultant at Boston Consulting Group between 2001 and 2004. She joined Sabancı Group in 2004 and served as Strategy and Business Development Manager at Sabancı Holding Retail Group in 2004-2009 and President of New Product and Channel Development at Akbank in 2010-2011. After assuming the duty of Assistant General Manager in Charge of Sales, Marketing and Supplier Relations at Back-Up company affiliated to Boyner Group at the beginning of 2011, she worked as the General Manager of Back-Up and Bofis Turizm companies from August 2011 to 2018. Having served as an Independent Board Member at Carrefoursa and Avivasa from March 2016 to 2018, Sitare Sezgin continued her duty as the General Manager and Board Member of AkÖde, a subsidiary of Akbank, as of February 2018. She also acted as an Independent Member of the Board of Directors of Doğtaş Mobilya in the same period. Sezgin is a Board Member of Chain Stores Association, and the first and only female member in the Board of Directors of Euronics, Europe’s largest electronic purchasing group. She also takes active role in the associations of “Women in Management Boards” and “Women in Technology” that operate especially in the field of gender equality.

Sitare Sezgin has been working as the CEO of Teknosa since September 1, 2021.

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