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Section II Management and Corporate Governance<br />

Board of Directors<br />

Dirk Bruneel<br />

Chairman of the Board of Directors<br />

Born in 1950, Bruneel graduated from Ghent<br />

University, Department of General Economics.<br />

He began his career at Caisse Générale<br />

d’Epargne et de Retraite (CGER) in 1973. He<br />

served as the Board Member responsible<br />

for Commercial <strong>Banking</strong> and Commercial<br />

Network. He served as the Board Member<br />

of Bacop Bank between 1993 and 1995 and<br />

as Chairman of Artesia from 1995 to 2001.<br />

After Artesia’s acquisition by the Dexia Group<br />

in 2001, he became the Member responsible<br />

for Treasury and Markets on the Dexia Board<br />

of Directors. He has been the Chairman of<br />

Dexia Bank Netherlands since 2002 and was<br />

elected as Chairman of the <strong>DenizBank</strong> Board<br />

of Directors in October 2006. He is also<br />

serving as a member of the <strong>DenizBank</strong> Audit<br />

Committee and the Corporate Governance and<br />

Nomination Committee.<br />

Tenure on the Board of Directors: 3 years<br />

M. Tınas Titiz<br />

Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors<br />

(Independent Member)<br />

Born in 1942, Titiz graduated from Istanbul<br />

Technical University, Faculty of Engineering<br />

and Architecture, Department of the Electrical<br />

Engineering. He worked as the Chief Engineer<br />

and Manager in the Ereğli Coal Plants,<br />

Zonguldak, until the end of 1980. Between<br />

1981 and 1983 he was General Manager of<br />

Elektro-Akustik A.Ş. before being elected to<br />

the Turkish Parliament in 1983. He served<br />

as member of the Parliament between 1983<br />

and 1995, and as State Minister, Minister of<br />

Culture and Tourism between 1985 and 1989.<br />

He is a member of the Turkish Informatics<br />

Foundation, Association of Entrepreneurs,<br />

Istanbul Science and Technology Centers<br />

Foundation, World Productivity Academy,<br />

Chairman of Beyaz Nokta Development<br />

Foundation and Executive Director of Private<br />

Izmir College, and a recipient of Melvin<br />

Jones Award. Since 1990, Titiz has had<br />

several books published and taught several<br />

courses at Middle East Technical University.<br />

He has been a Board Member of <strong>DenizBank</strong><br />

since 1997. He currently serves as the Vice<br />

Chairman of the Board of Directors and also<br />

as a Member of <strong>DenizBank</strong>’s Audit Committee<br />

and the Corporate Governance and Nomination<br />

Committee.<br />

Tenure on the Board of Directors: 12 years<br />

Hakan Ateş<br />

Member of the Board of Directors,<br />

President and CEO<br />

Born in 1959, Ateş graduated from<br />

Middle East Technical University, Faculty<br />

of Administrative Sciences, Department<br />

of Business Administration. He began his<br />

banking career in 1981 as an Internal Auditor<br />

at İşbank. After serving as manager in<br />

the head office and branches at Interbank<br />

from 1986 to 1994, he was appointed as<br />

Executive Vice President responsible for<br />

Centralized Operations. Between 1994 and<br />

1996, he worked as Executive Vice President<br />

responsible for Financial Affairs, Technology<br />

and Operations at Bank Ekspres, leading the<br />

Bank’s restructuring project. He served as the<br />

Founding General Manager at Garanti Bank<br />

Moscow. He continues to serve as Board<br />

Member, President and CEO at <strong>DenizBank</strong>,<br />

since joining the Bank in June 1997 as the<br />

Founding President and CEO. Additionally,<br />

Ateş is the Chairman of the Board of Directors<br />

at <strong>DenizBank</strong> subsidiaries DenizLeasing,<br />

DenizFactoring, DenizYatırım Securities,<br />

EkspresInvest Securities, DenizPortfolio<br />

Management, DenizTürev Securities,<br />

DenizInvestment Trust, CJSC Dexia Bank and<br />

<strong>DenizBank</strong> AG as well as a Member of the<br />

<strong>DenizBank</strong> Credit Committee.<br />

Tenure on the Board of Directors: 12 years<br />

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