Senior Management

Ayşegül Akay

Financial Institutions and Debt Capital Markets
Executive Vice President

Ayşegül Akay received her degree in Business Administration from the Middle East Technical University. After holding various positions at a private bank, she joined ING Group in 1997. Since then, she worked in Risk Management, and served as Executive Vice President of Corporate Customers Sales and Marketing and Deputy CEO at ING Bank Turkey Representative Office. Following the acquisition of Oyakbank by ING Group, Akay joined ING Bank Turkey.

Bohdan Robert Stepkowski

Financial Markets Executive Vice President

Having been graduated from Warsaw University - Economics Department, Robert Bohdan Stepkowski started his career in 1989. After taking on various roles in Banking and Finance, he joined ING Group in 1995.

Günce Çakır

Legal Executive Vice President

Günce Çakır graduated from Ankara University Law Faculty at 1998 and continued her education in New York to specialize in corporate and international law. She completed her master’s degree in the State University of New York. She started her career at Garanti Bank at 2000, where she worked for 6 years as a lawyer. She then joined Deutsche Bank Group at 2006, where she stayed for 11 years and worked as Legal Director, Turkey and Malta. She joined ING Bank Turkey in 2018 as Executive Vice President, Legal.

Ebru Sönmez Yanık

Corporate Customers
Executive Vice President

Ebru Sönmez Yanık graduated from the Middle East Technical University Management Department in 1997, and completed her graduate degree in Management at Duke University. After holding various positions at a private bank, she joined ING Bank Turkey in 2016.

Öcal Ağar

Business Lending and Risk Analytics Executive Vice President

Öcal Ağar completed his undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering at Istanbul Technical University, received an MBA Degree from Yeditepe University and completed the Executive Leadership program at Stanford University. After starting his career at Garanti Bank in 1998, he assumed important roles in the field of Sales and Marketing for 9 years. In 2008, he started to work at VakıfBank as Head of Mid-Corporote&SME Banking. He joined ING Bank Turkey in 2011 as Mid-Corporote Banking Sales Senior Vice President, he rotated to Credits Group as Head of Restructuring and finally Head of Business Lending and Risk Analytics.

İlker Kayseri

Treasury Executive Vice President

İlker Kayseri graduated from the Mechanical Engineering department of Boğaziçi University in 1996, and completed his graduate degree in Management at Özyeğin University in 2013. After holding various positions at private banks, he joined ING Bank Turkey in 2016.

Murat Tursun

Chief Audit Executive

Murat Tursun received his undergraduate and graduate degree in Chemical Engineering from the Middle East Technical University. After holding various positions at a private bank, he joined ING Bank Turkey in 2015.

Nermin Güney Diriksoy

Executive Vice President for Financial Risk Management

Nermin Güney Diriksoy received her degree in Economics from Ankara University. She joined ING Bank Turkey in 2003 after holding various positions at private banks.