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Fırat Erkan Balcı, General Manager, TAV İzmir, 36.
Fırat Erkan Balcı was appointed as the General Manager of TAV İzmir in 2009. Balcı was appointed
as the Assistant General Manager of TAV İzmir in 2006 and served as the Acting General Manager
from March 2008 to January 2009.Graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering, the Middle
East Technical University in 1996, he served as the Assistant General Manager of TAV İzmir
between 2006 and 2008. Before joining TAV Airports, Balcı worked as the Operations Manager at
the Antalya Airport International Terminal I, IT Project Manager at Fraport, and IT Chief at Bayındır
Antalya Airport.
Ersel Göral, General Manager, TAV Tunisia, 37.
Ersel Göral was appointed as the General Manager of TAV Tunisie in 2007. Graduated from the
Department of Business Administration, İstanbul University in 1998, he served at the Tbilisi and
Batumi International Airports as the General Manager of TAV Georgia between 2005 and 2007.
Göral joined TAV İstanbul in 1999, worked as Terminal Operations Manager and Assistant General
Manager. Beginning his career as an Operations Chief at Çelebi Ground Handling in 1993, he later
served as Assistant Station Manager at Gözen Air.
K. Mete ERKAL, Assistant General Manager (Deputy General Manager), TAV Georgia, 44.
K. Mete Erkal was appointed as the Assistant General Manager and will be serving as the Deputy
General Manager of TAV Georgia as of September 2009. Graduated from the Department of
Finance, the Southern Illinois University in 1993, Erkal served as the Operations Coordination
Manager of TAV Airports Holding between 2008 and 2009. He was a Management Trainee at the
Blinder&Robinson Co., in St. Louis, USA and served as the New York and Paris Lines Manager at
Turkish Airlines before1995. He served as the Assistant General Manager, responsible from Sales
and Services in the privatization of HAVAS and in the partnership with Swissport between 1995-
1999, and from 1999 to 2002 he served as the Commerce Director at Celebi Air Services. Erkal,
who served as the Marketing Director at ATA Holding for three years before joining TAV Airports, is
also a member of the “American Marketing Association”.
Eda Bildiricioğlu, General Manager, TAV Operations Services, 40.
Eda Bildiricioğlu was appointed as the General Manager of TAV Operation Services in 2006.
Graduated from the Department of Business Administration and Economics, Eastern Mediterranean
University in 1991, Bildiricioğlu served as marketing manager at various companies before joining
TAV Airports in 1997 as the Commercial Affairs Manager.
Binnur Onaran, System Support and Application Assistant General Manager (Deputy General
Manager), TAV IT, 41.
Binnur Onaran was appointed as the Assistant General Manager of TAV Information Technologies
Co. in 2006 and has been acting as the Deputy General Manager since October 2009. Having
attended the Computer Programmer/Analyst Program in Conestoga College between 1990-1993,
Onaran served as training manager at Vancouver, CDI College between 1993 and 1995 and
presented trainings on Computer Programming and Network Administration. She worked in various
managerial positions in the Information Technology and Organization Department of Mercedes Benz
Turkey between 1995 and 2002. After completing the executive training program at Daimler
Chrysler, she was appointed as “Senior Manager, Organization & IT (CIO)” of Mercedes Benz
Turkey in 2002. Having worked as IT Director of TÜVTURK before joining TAV Airports, Onaran
carried out various network, telecommunication, software development, ERP and infrastructure
projects, and served in organizational structuring, process optimization and system development
projects as well.