Mr. Berik started his banking career as a Management Trainee in Ziraat Bank Banking School. After16 years of banking experience in Turkey, Kazakhstan and Germany, he took on the role of Chief Compliance Officer of Ziraat Bank in 2006.

In 2009, he earned his CAMS(Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist) certification as well as ICA’s Certificate in Financial Crime Prevention. In the same year, he was invited to the “Combatting International Crime” program by the US Department of State under International Visitors Leadership Exchange Program. 

In 2014, he took on the role of Compliance Director at Türkiye Finans Bank (a subsidiary of National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia). Since October 2018, he has been offering consultancy services to domestic and international companies.  Mr. Berik has extensive experience in mitigating risks that are associated with AML/CTF, international sanctions and in ethics investigations. In 2019, he obtained his CGSS (Certified Global Sanctions Specialist) certification."

Che Sidanius is the Global Head of Financial Crime & Industry Affairs at Refinitiv (an LSEG business). His role is to identify regulatory changes and lead programs of action with the sole purpose of enhancing the fight against financial crime more effective and delivering the best possible outcome for the industry. Together with the World Economic Forum and Europol, he’s the founder of the Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime and Co-Chair of the B20’s Integrity and Compliance Taskforce.

Prior to joining Refinitiv, his work experiences include being a Senior Advisor to the Bank of England's Financial Stability Directorate and previously a Senior Bank Examiner at the Federal Reserve Bank of NY. His most notable awards included receiving the Presidential Award for managing the 2007-09 Financial Crisis and a driving force behind Refinitiv’s Impact Company of the year award in 2019 and contributor to the same award in 2021.

Che received his Master’s in International Affairs from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University and undergraduate degree in Political Science from UC Berkeley in California.  

 

Attorney, certified mediator and corporate governance & compliance advisor.

20 years of legal, compliance and corporate governance experiences in local and global companies. Focused on tailoring group corporate governance framework, improving operations of the board and committees, and defining decision-making processes and controls within parent company and subsidiaries. Experienced in establishing compliance program within group companies.

She is a board member and professional trainer in Corporate Governance Association of Turkey.

Mashaki speaks English, French, Arabic and Turkish.

Gökçe Serez is a senior associate at Esin Attorney Partnership, a Member Firm of Baker McKenzie International, a Swiss Verein.

She advises local and foreign multinational companies on internal and regulatory investigations deriving from complex violations in various sectors including defence, healthcare, construction, energy, insurance, banking and financial services, hospitality, consumer goods, e-commerce and manufacturing.

Her compliance practice focuses on anti-bribery and anti-corruption, trade sanctions, collusive tendering, anti-money laundering, fraud, gifts and hospitality, white-collar crimes, data privacy, environmental issues, establishment of compliance programs, compliance due diligence during M&A processes, third party compliance due diligence, implementation of corrective measures within corporations and provision of compliance training.

Gökçe Serez graduated from Galatasaray University and she holds an LLM degree from King's College London. She is a lecturer on compliance topics and drafted several articles on compliance matters. She frequently organizes compliance training and webinars to increase compliance awareness in corporations and general public. She is also recognized by the Legal 500 in Turkish compliance chapter.

Gökhan Yılmaz, who has worked as an internal auditor, consultant and manager in multinational banks and consultancy companies for many years. He is the Leader of Fraud, Compliance and Crisis Management Services as a Partner in PwC Turkey.

Gökhan Yılmaz has managed numerous projects in different countries on compliance, fraud investigations, internal audit, internal control, data analytics and risk management.

Gökhan Yılmaz, who completed the Marmara University Department of Business Administration with a degree, completed his master's thesis on the use of computer aided control tools at the same university. He completed his second master's degree in Forensic Psychology and Behavioral Evidence at Üsküdar University, Institute of Forensic Sciences. Dr. Gökhan Yılmaz, who completed it under the supervision of Sevil Atasoy, earned his doctorate at Marmara University with his thesis on the detection of frauds with big data analytics. He continues his education in data analytics at Harvard Business School.

Gökhan Yılmaz, who gives trainings and seminars on Fraud Investigation, Investigation, Interview and Query Techniques, Ethics and Compliance, Internal Audit and Risk Management, Lie Deception and Manipulation Techniques, is the President of the International Association of Fraud Investigation Experts and ACFE Turkey. He serves as the Chairman of the Audit Committee. Yılmaz, who has carried out many research and article studies related to his profession, has CFE, CIA, CISA, SMMM, CCSA, CRMA and Certified Metaverse Expert certificates.

Dr. Yazgan is the Board Member of Pay Fix Electronic Money and Payment Services Inc. His main responsibility is to overview the risk management, compliance, internal control and internal audit activities of Pay Fix. His career commenced at the Central Bank of Turkey (Bank) as an Assistant Inspector after his graduation from the Faculty of Political Science of the Ankara University with BS degree in Economics. He used to serve at the Bank in several distinguished positions such as the Manager of Banking Supervision, and the President of the Inspection Unit. He worked at the Representative Office of the Bank in New York, and he was the founding Vice General Manager of the Internal Audit Department which is the leader in public sector.

Dr. Yazgan has MA degree in Applied Economics from the American University, Washington, DC, and Ph.D. in Economics from Hacettepe Universities. His doctoral thesis titled “Monetary Policy: Estimating a Reaction Function for the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey As an Example” was awarded as the best doctoral thesis and printed as a book by the Economic Research Foundation in 2016. He has also taught the course of “Money and Banking”, Internal Audit”, and “IFRS, Bank Accounting and Derivatives” at several universities as a guest lecturer.

He holds CIA, CRMA, CPA qualifications, and he is an Independent Auditor of KGK. He has been a guest speaker in several national and international conferences, panels, and forums. 

Graduated from Boğaziçi University with bachelor’s and MA degrees on Economics. He holds Ph-d degree on Banking – Operational Risk Management.

Started to work for Garanti Bank in 2000 as an assistant internal auditor. In 2011 became the assistant director of Internal Audit Department. He was then appointed as Head of Anti-Fraud Monitoring Department by 2014. He is working with 70 colleagues to keep the Customers safe and defend the Bank’s channels and products from fraudsters.

Born in Ankara, Ece Saraçoğlu graduated from Istanbul University, Department of Economics and completed her master's degree at Bilgi University, Department of International Finance. She worked in different institutions before transferring to Reuters in 2008. Since 2018, the Financial & Risk business of Thomson Reuters operates under the name Refinitiv, an LSEG Business (*London Stock Exchange Group).

She started her banking career at Citibank in 1997 and took part in the establishment of the Citibank Retail Banking Compliance Department in 2003. Between 2003 and 2016, she held various positions, including Citibank Retail Banking Compliance Department Head, Corporate Banking SGA/TF Country Compliance Group Head. She became the Head of the Compliance Department at Turkland Bank in 2016 and has been serving as the Internal Control and Compliance Director since December 2020.

As a member of the National Risk Assessment (URD) ​​Working Group operating within the Banks Association of Turkey (TBB), she has participated in the studies carried out since 2017. She gave trainings at the TBB, and also acted as a referee in the TBB Bankers Journal, which includes original scientific articles on economics, finance, banking and related fields. She gives lectures in Compliance Officer certificate programs coordinated by some universities. She is the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Legislation Compliance Association.

Professor Guler Aras is an academic, a civil society leader, and a researcher who leads key studies on finance, corporate governance, corporate sustainability, and integrated reporting. She is a professor of Finance and Accounting at Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul, where she served as the Dean of the Faculty of Business and Dean of the Graduate School for many years. She spent a year as a visiting professor at Georgetown University McDonough School of Business in Washington DC. She has founded the Center for Finance Governance and Sustainability (CFGS) and she also started the ground-breaking initiative on Integrated Reporting Association Turkey (ERTA), where she is still founding chair. Professor Aras is the author of more than 25 international books. She contributed to more than 300 articles in international journals and conferences and carried out numerous granted international projects. She is also the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Capital Market Studies, and Editor of Routledge’s Finance Governance and Sustainability Book Series. Professor Aras is the founder and board member of numerous national and international professional and academic organizations and a member of the Accountancy Europe Corporate Governance Task Force. She has spoken extensively at professional and academic conferences and has served as a consultant to a number of governmental and commercial organizations such as Minister of Development, Minister of Finance, Undersecretary of Treasury, and Minister of Labour and Social Security Employment in Turkey. She also served as a board member of Turkish Capital Markets Association. Professor Aras writes a newspaper column. She is the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) Ambassador and known as the ambassador of governance, sustainability and focuses on the education of the next generation of academics and business leaders who could promote sustainable solutions for societal and corporate challenges. She has been crowned one of the most inspirational women in Turkey for 2020.

Ece Sevin is the Executive Vice President of the Turkish consultancy company Escarus, an initiative of the Turkey’s first privately-owned development and investment bank, Industrial Development Bank of Turkey (“TSKB”) founded in 1950.

Sevin has been working at Escarus since 2014, dealing with the identification of sustainability related non-financial (environmental, social and governance) risks of corporations and projects, establishment of sustainability, environmental and social management systems, and establishment of sustainability and decarbonization strategies and reporting on sustainability performance for national and international institutions and investors.

Born in Istanbul on 21 July 1986. Graduated from Koc University with a B.A. degree in Business Administration in 2008.

Worked in Deloitte Turkey Tax Department Mergers and Acquisitions Division between 2008-2015. Lastly employed as a Manager in Deloitte, reporting to M&A Tax Partner.

From 2015 onwards, worked in Arçelik in the Financial Projects, Strategic Planning and Internal Audit Department. Currently employed at Arçelik as Sustainability Manager in the global organization. 

After graduating from Boğaziçi University, Department of Business Administration, Mrs. Yildiz began her career at the Industrial Development Bank of Turkey in 1998. She held various managerial positions at Bayerische Hypo-und Vereinsbank AG, UniCredit Invesment Securities and ING Bank where she assumed wide variety of investment banking roles. Mrs. Yildiz joined to the Development and Investment Bank of Türkiye in 2019 as the Executive Vice President, responsible from Investment Banking, Project Evaluation, Corporate Communications and Sustainability and Environmental Social Impact Management. Mrs. Yildiz is also chair of Development Asset Leasing Companies and board member of Turkey Securitization Company and Development Venture Capital Portfolio Management Company.

She graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Law and Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of International Relations. She had a short-term education at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

She completed his master's degree in Marmara University, Capital Markets and Stock Exchange and is in the thesis stage. She started her professional life in an international law firm working on capital markets and banking, working with the Steel Exporters' Association and Yatırım Finansman Menkul Değerler A.Ş. and Finans Yatırım Menkul Değerler A.Ş., as a Company lawyer. She is currently working as the General Counsel at the BtcTurk cryptocurrency trading platform. She is also the Chairman of the Banking and Finance Law Commission at the Istanbul Bar Association, a member of the TUSIAD Capital Markets working group and a member of the Blockchain Turkey Legislation and Public Relations Group. She has over 10 years of experience in the financial sector and a Capital Markets License.

Murat Ayaz is the General Secretary of the International Association of Fraud Investigators (ACFE Turkey). He has more than 25 years of experience in Fraud, Risk Management, Internal Audit, Internal Control and Compliance in the Banking and Finance sector. He worked as a senior business consultant in International Consulting companies. He has provided consultancy services to important institutions operating in the banking and finance sector and has managed projects at the national level. He is still working as the Business Development Director at Quants Turkey and also provides training and consultancy services through the Cyber ​​Consultancy firm he is the founder of.

Murat completed his master's and doctorate studies at Marmara University Banking and Insurance Institute and received language training at the London Institute of Technology and English College, England. He currently teaches Financial Crime & Compliance as an Instructor in the Department of Banking and Finance at Bilgi University.

Murat also works as a forensic expert on banking and fraud issues at the Ministry of Justice. He is certified as an International Fraud Investigator (CFE). It provides consultancy services in the field of fraud investigation and investigation. It organizes trainings and seminars on Fraud Risk Management and Cyber ​​Security Awareness.