Senior Manager

Ali Hüroğlu has been working as Supply Chain Director since 2001. He started working in the Coca-Cola system under the responsibility of the Black Sea Region Sales Center in Trabzon in 1990 as plant manager. Subsequently, he took on duties in the construction of the Mersin plant, and assumed responsibility for the South and Southeastern Anatolia Region Sales Center. In 1995, he was transferred to the operations department, was appointed as Mersin Plant Operations Manager in 1996, and was then promoted as Ankara Plant and Eastern Region Group Operations Manager. Before joining the Coca-Cola system, he worked as process engineer at HEMA Dişli between 1983 and 1985, and as intern at General Dynamics in Fort Worth, Texas between 1985 and 1986. He returned to Turkey in 1986, working in the F16 design and production project at the Turkish Aviation Industry in Ankara until 1990. Holding a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Karadeniz Technical University, Mr. Hüroğlu is a member of the Association of Soft Beverage Producers (MEDER). He has been acting as member of the Coca-Cola Global Supply Chain Council Executive Committee since 2008. He has 36 years of business experience.
(*) Our company’s Supply Chain Director Mr. Ali Hüroğlu left his position due to retirement as of 31 December 2020.

A graduate of the Bilkent University Department of Economics, Ahmet Öztürk joined Anadolu Group in 1995. He continued his career, which he started as Financial Control Assistant-Specialist at the Head of Financial Affairs, with various assignments and responsibilities in other group companies. Working as CFO in the Coca-Cola Turkmenistan, Coca-Cola Azerbaijan, Efes Ukraine and Efes Serbia operations between 1999 and 2007, in July 2007 Mr. Öztürk took on the duty of Internal Auditor at Efes Breweries International, which manages Anadolu Efes’ beer operations abroad. Appointed as Anadolu Efes Internal Audit Director in January 2011, Mr. Öztürk has been working as Coca-Cola İçecek Internal Audit Director since January 2018.

Andriy Avramenko, was appointed Coca Cola İçecek Financial Affairs Director as of January 1, 2019. Mr. Avramenko has 25 years of experience, 20 of which has been in the Coca Cola system. He started his career in 1994, at the Kiev office of Arthur Andersen. He joined The Coca Cola Company as Internal Auditor in 1999 and transferred to the Mergers & Acquisitions team in 2003. He acted as Global Fruit Juice Supply Chain Development Director between 2008 and 2011. He worked as General Manager of the Fruit Juice category in the India & Southwest Asia Business Unit until 2013, and as the Assistant-General Manager responsible for Strategy, and the General Manager for Stills until 2015. Between March 2015 and May 2018, he worked as Mergers & Acquisitions Group Director responsible for the Eurasia & Africa region. Before joining CCI, Mr. Avramenko acted as the Group Business Development Director for Europa, the Middle East and Africa at The Coca Cola Company, and as Coca Cola Beverages Africa member of the Board.

Burak Başarır was appointed CEO as of January 1, 2014. Joining CCI in 1998, Mr. Başarır took on various roles at the finance and sales departments with increasing management responsibilities. In 2005 he was promoted to the position of CFO. Playing a key role in the public offering of CCI that took place in 2006, Mr. Başarır led the financial merger between CCI and Efes Invest. In 2009, he was named Best CFO of Turkey by Thomson Reuters Extel. Between 2010 and 2013, he managed CCI’s largest operation in terms of sales volume and revenue as President of the Turkey Region. After having been appointed CEO in 2014, he was named Best CEO of the beverages industry by the Europe, Middle East and Africa Region 2019 Management Team survey conducted by the world’s respectable corporate investor magazine ‘Institutional Investor’. Mr. Başarır received education on international business administration and computing at American River College. Studying business administration at California State University of Sacramento between 1990 and 1992, Mr. Başarır graduated from the Middle East Technical University Department of Business Administration in 1995. Mr. Başarır is a member of the Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜSİAD) and the Turkish-US Business Council (TAİK).

Acting as Coca-Cola İçecek Chief Legal Counsel since 2007, Atty. R. Ertuğrul Onur launched the CCI Ethics and Compliance Program in 2013 and took on the position of CCI Ethics and Compliance Manager between 2013 and 2016. Currently he performs the duty of Chairman of the Ethics and Compliance Committee in addition to his duty as Chief Legal Counsel. Before his assignment at Coca-Cola İçecek, he formed and managed Pfizer’s legal department. Acting as Assistant-General Manager and Legal Affairs Director at Pfizer Turkey, Atty. Onur also carried out the compliance programs. With professional experience of 29 years, Atty. Onur took on the duty of Legal Counsel for Mobil Oil Türk A.Ş. and BP Petrolleri between 1995 and 2000, and worked as BP Turkey Employees’ Representative, member of the BP Europe Employees’ Council, and member of the BP Europe Employees’ Council Liaison Committee. Having graduated from the Istanbul University Faculty of Law in 1988, Atty. Onur worked as Research Assistant at the same university following his law internship at the Konya Bar Association. Atty. Onur is a member of the Istanbul Bar Association.

Ebru Özgen was appointed as Coca-Cola İçecek Human Resources Director as of 1 January 2017. She joined CCI as Budget and Planning Manager in 1997, after which she took on the duties of Finance Manager between 1998 and 2000, and Finance Manager for the Eastern Region between 2000 and 2005. With increasing management responsibilities at CCI, she acted as Turkey Budget Planning and Commercial Finance Manager between 2010 and 2013. She was appointed to the position of Turkey Finance Director as of 2013 and has been responsible for finance operations supporting strategic business targets as member of the CCI Turkey Leadership Team. Ms. Özgen, who started her career at the Arthur Andersen auditing company in 1992, graduated from the Middle East Technical University Department of Business Administration in 1991, and pursued an MBA degree on International Banking and Finance at Birmingham University. She received a Master’s Degree in Economics Law at Bilkent University in 2009. Holding the title of Independent Accountant and Financial Advisor (SMMM) and CIM certificates, Ms. Özgen is a mother of two.

A graduate of the Middle East Technical University Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kerem Kerimoğlu worked as R&D Engineer at Denizli Cam before he joined CCI. Since he joined CCI in 1993, he has occupied various positions such as Maintenance Chief at the Ankara Plant, Production, Manager, and Operations Manager, and worked as Operations Manager at the Ankara and Bursa plants between 2003 and 2006. Following his position as Turkey Supply Chain Director between 2006 and 2015, he acted as General Manager of CCI Turkmenistan between 2015 and 2017, and as General Manager of CCI Iraq between 2017 and 2019. Having been appointed as CCI Supply Chain Development Director in 2020, Mr. Kerimoğlu has been working as Supply Chain Director since 1 September 2020.

Leyla Deliç was appointed as Coca-Cola İçecek Informatics and Digital Director on 2 July 2018. Starting her career as Network Engineer at the company Time Trend Computers in the USA in 1995, Ms. Deliç then worked at various companies and in various countries until 2008. She acted as Information Technologies Director at Aras Holding between 2008 and 2010. Having taken on various duties at GE Healthcare in the US between 2010 and 2016 before joining CCI, Ms. Deliç worked as Information Technologies Director at GE Healthcare between 2016 and 2018. Ms. Deliç completed her undergraduate education at the Southwestern University Department of Electrical Engineering in 1995, and pursued a Master’s Degree at the Department of Computer Engineering of the same university in 1997.

Having graduated from the Department of Business Administration in English of Istanbul University, Meltem Metin started her professional life as assistant specialist at the Financial Control department of Pamukbank, after which she transferred to the Anadolu Group Coordination of Financial Affairs as specialist in December 1995. With professional experience of 19 years, Ms. Metin worked as Financial Controller and Regional Finance Manager first at Anadolu Endüstri Holding, and then at Efes Sınai as of 1998, after which she was appointed as Finance Manager to Efes Sınai’s Kazakhstan operation (CCAB) in May 2000. Ms. Metin, who also took on the duty of Finance Manager for the Kyrgyzstan operation (CCBB) during the same period, was appointed as CCAB General Manager in February 2002, and additionally as CCBB General Manager in June 2005. Ms. Metin has been working as Strategy and Business Development Director at Coca-Cola İçecek since 2009.
* She retired as of 31 January 2021.

Servet Yıldırım was appointed as CCI Corporate Relations Director as of September 2018. Starting his career as Assistant-Specialist of Economics at the Türkiye İş Bankası Directorate of Economic Research, Mr. Yıldırım subsequently took on duties at the bank’s Fund Management Department. Transferring to the Reuters News Agency as correspondent in late 1989, Mr. Yıldırım was brought in to head Reuters’ Turkish News Service in 1996. In 2004, Mr. Yıldırım was appointed News General Director at the CNBC-e TV channel, and was promoted to the position of the channel’s Chief Editor in 2005. Appointed Group President of the Doğuş Broadcasting Group in 2011, Mr. Yıldırım prepared various programs at CNBC-e until 2016, in addition to his management duties. Writing columns for the Yeni Binyıl, Sabah, Referans and Radikal newspapers, Mr. Yıldırım was a columnist at the Milliyet newspaper, as well as taking part in the NTVPara program on the NTV TV channel, which examined the latest developments in the Turkish and global economy, before joining Coca-Cola İçecek. Mr. Yıldırım completed his undergraduate education in 1986 at the Middle East Technical University Department of Business Administration.

Tugay Keskin was appointed Operations Director as of 1 April 2020. Joining CCI in 1993, Mr. Keskin carried out managerial duties at various positions in the Turkey sales function until 2007. Acting as Turkey Sales Director between 2007 and 2011, and as Turkey Commercial Director between 2011 and 2014, Mr. Keskin took on the duty of Coca-Cola İçecek Commercial Excellence Director between 2014 and 2016. Mr. Keskin, who carried out the roles of Turkey General Manager in 2017 - 2018, and CCI Turkey and Middle East General Manager in 2019, is a graduate of the Ankara University Department of Political Science.