İbrahim Özgür Yıldırım holds a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Middle East Technical University and an MBA degree from Sabancı University. In 1998, he joined the Sabancı group and following the merger of Kordsa - Sakosa, he was appointed as Technical Manager in 2007 after taking various positions in the Technical and Production Departments. Between 2008 and 2013, he continued his career as the New Product and Process Development Management at the R&D Center. Joining the Executive Leadership Team in 2013 as Technology and Market Development Vice President, Yildirim played a major role in the development of the innovation culture at Kordsa. Yildirim, who has significantly contributed to the establishment of Construction and Composite Business Units at Kordsa since 2014, has also played a key part as the Composite Business Unit Leader during the establishment of the Composite Technologies Center of Excellence (CTCE), which is a business model for Industry-University cooperation in the field of composites in Turkey.

Since 2017, he has been assuming Chief Operating Officer role in the following regions of South America; Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and Asia Pacific (APAC). As of 1st of April 2022, Yıldırım was appointed as CEO.

Ömür Menteş, started his professional career at Mercedes-Benz Turkey as Research and Development Engineer. Between 1998-2008, Ömür worked at Beksa for Wire Products and Steel Cord and he hold Wire Products Sales Engineer, Wire Products Sales Manager, Steel Cord Production Manager, Steel Cord Marketing and Sales Manager roles respectively. He coordinated SA15+ as Process Management Committee Leader on behalf of Beksa. He attended INSEAD-Sabancı "Leadership and Value Based Management" programs. Following his role as System Development Manager in 2008, Ömür has been assigned to Bekaert Shanghai and took the roles as Global Account Manager and International Customers - Sales Director (Asia North) respectively. In 2012, he assumed Regional Marketing and Sales Director role of SEA in Bekaert Singapore. Since 2015, Ömür also held the responsibility of Global Account Manager (Sumitomo and Yokohama). He also has completed INSEAD "Driving Value Through Business Acumen" program in 2018. Between 2018-2019, he assumed his consultant role regarding recruitment, assessment and sales performance in Singapore. Ömür joined Kordsa in June 2019 as Sales Group Manager, Between 2022 and 2024, Ömür Menteş, held the role “Chief Operating Officer, Asia Pacific”.

As of July 1, 2024, Menteş was assigned as Global Chief Operating Officer, Tire.

Doğan Sevim received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University and his Master of Science degree in Computational Mechanics from the Technical University of Munich in 2006 and 2008, respectively. He started his professional career at Kordsa as Project Leader in Global R&D Center in 2009. During his assignment, he obtained various patents and publish articles. He was appointed as Technical and Quality Assurance Group Manager in Kordsa’s Thailand Facility in 2013. Throughout his assignment, he completed customer approval studies successfully. He started the Technical and Quality Assurance Group Manager - Asia Pacific position in 2014. In this role, he managed new customer approvals in Kordsa’s Indonesian subsidiary which was growing with new investments. He completed Harvard Business School General Management Program in 2017. He assumed the Global Account Manager role between 2017 and 2022. As of September 1, 2022, He was appointed as Chief Global Sales and Marketing Officer. 

Şermin Mutlu received her BSc degree in Mechanical Engineering from Boğaziçi University in 1998 and an MBA degree from Koç University in 2003. She started her career with the management trainee programme at Borusan Holding in 1998 and she worked at Deloitte Turkiye Management Consulting between 2004-2008. Şermin worked at Kordsa respectively as Senior Financial Analyst, Global Finance Manager, Marketing and Strategy Manager between 2009-2017. Between 2017-2021 she served as Finance Director at Sabancı Holding and appointed as Chief Finance Officer at Temsa Skoda Sabancı at the beginning of 2021.

As of June 1, 2024, Mutlu has been assigned to be Chief Finance Officer at Kordsa.

Deniz Korkmaz graduated from Middle East Technical University Department of Chemistry in 1996 and received her MSc. and Ph.D. degrees from the same department 1998 and 2006, respectively. She started her professional career at Middle East Technical University as Research Assistant in 1996. She worked as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at City University of New York between 2004 - 2006. She joined Kordsa as R&D Laboratory Leader in 2008. She worked as Platform Leader, Research & Labs between 2011 - 2013. She was assigned as Platform Leader, Composite Reinforcement between 2013-2018. Ms. Korkmaz assumed the position of Composite Technologies Director, EMEA in 2018 and continued this duty until September 2021. Korkmaz has been serving as Chief Operating Officer responsible for Composites in North America since February 14, 2023.

As of July 1, 2024, Korkmaz will serve as Global Chief Operating Officer, Composite.

Eray Karaduman, received his BSc degree in Economics from Çukurova University in 1999 and MSc degree from the same university in 2004. He started his professional career in 1999 and joined Sabancı Group in 2002, worked in Bossa and Temsa HR teams between 2002 and 2007. After working in Frito Lay as Human Resources Manager between 2007 and 2009, he joined Enerjisa as Human Resources Manager and keep that position until 2012. Thereafter, He worked in Coca-Cola Beverages Company as Group Human Resources and Industrial Relations Director. He joined Unilever in 2015 as Human Resources Director for Supply Chain responsible for North Africa, Middle East, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia and Russia countries and double hatted Global Supply Chain HR Lead position for Sustainable Employment Project and served as Sales and Marketing Human Resources Director, to which he was appointed in 2019, until August 2020. Karaduman has served as Kordsa Deputy General Manager, Human Resources and Corporate Communications since September 1, 2020.

As of July 1, 2024, Karaduman will act as Regional General Manager, North America in addition to his role of Chief Human Resources Officer

Müge Arifoğlu Yenmez received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Department of Chemical Engineering at Middle East Technical University in 2002 and 2004, respectively. In 2015, she completed the executive development program at Sabancı University. Yenmez, started her professional career as a Research Assistant at Middle East Technical University in 2002 and she continued this role as a research assistant at Istanbul Technical University in 2006. Joining Kordsa as a Product Development Engineer in 2006, Yenmez worked as a Project Leader in R&D between 2007 and 2011. She worked as the Application Development Manager responsible for the commercialization of new products in the Market Development Department between 2011 and 2012, and as the Sales Manager between 2012 and 2013, undertook different duties in the Marketing Department between 2013-2016. Yenmez, who assumed the roles of Tire Reinforcement Platform Leadership in R&D between 2016-2017 and Market Development Group Manager between 2017-2021, continued as R&D Director until September 2022, when she was appointed in 2021. Yenmez has been serving as Assistant General Manager, Composites, Europe, Middle East, and Africa since September 1, 2022. As of July 1, 2024, Yenmez has been appointed as Chief Technology Officer and will be double-hatting as Composite EMEA General Manager.

 

Boudewijn holds a Master’s degree in Materials Engineering from KU Leuven and earned an MBA from Cornell University. His professional trajectory commenced in 1992 at Procter & Gamble, where he served as a "Financial Analyst." Subsequently, he assumed diverse responsibilities across various locations of Bekaert Fibre Technologies. From 1995 to 2000, he functioned as the "Business Development Manager" in Belgium, followed by the role of Regional Manager for SEA + Australia in Singapore from 2000 to 2001. Continuing his career, he took on the position of General Manager at ACOTECH, an intrapreneurial joint venture within Bekaert/Shell, situated in Belgium, from 2001 to 2002. He proceeded to serve as the Marketing and Sales Director for Asia at Bekaert from 2002 to 2006, followed by the role of Global Marketing Director between 2006 and 2009, with locations in Belgium and China. Afterward, in 2015, he assumed the role of Vice President of Marketing at Bekaert, based in Belgium. Accumulating substantial experience throughout his career, he assumed the position of Global Commercial Director for Tire Additives at Eastman Chemical Company from 2015 to 2021. His most recent role was as the Chief Commercial Officer at Flexsys from 2021 to 2023. As of December 1, 2023, he joined KORDSA as Assistant General Manager of Business Development.

Graduated from Marmara University Faculty of Business Administration, Department of Accounting and Finance, İlker Çalışkan started his professional career at Deloitte as an accountant in 1993 and after several positions in İstanbul and London Office was assigned as Senior Audit Manager assuming his role until 2003. He worked at Family Financial Institution as Financial Controller between 2003 and 2005. İlker Çalışkan joined NETAŞ Telecommunication in 2005 as Finance Director. He continued his career as Chief Financial Officer between 2008 and 2019. In addition to this role he assumed Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board role as double hatted in 2019 and represented Netaş as a Board Member in Netaş subsidiaries. He is a Certified Public Accountant. İlker Çalışkan joined KORDSA as of 4th of October 2021 as “Chief Strategy and Business Development Officer". He continued his duty as Deputy General Manager of Strategy, Business Development and Integration until December 1, 2023, He has been appointed as the Deputy General Manager of Digitalization and Integration since December 1, 2023.