Board Of Directors
Chair of the Board
Erhan TOPAÇ
Born in 1953, Erhan Topaç completed his master’s degree at Boğaziçi University Department of Mechanical Engineering and doctorate studies in Mathematical Modeling at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the same university. Between 1979 and 1989, Mr. Topaç worked in various positions at Eczacıbaşı Holding and served as Marketing Manager of Pepsi Cola between 1989 and 1990. Erhan Topaç served as Vice Chairman of the Turkish Capital Markets Association between 2001 and 2003, Chairman of the Board of HUB Venture Capital Investment Trust between 2006 and 2015, and Chairman of the Board of Gedik Portföy Yönetimi AŞ between 2008 and 2015. He served as Board Member of Borsa Istanbul AŞ and Chairman of the Turkish Capital Markets Association between 2018-2019, Vice Chairman of the Turkish Capital Markets Association between 2019-2021, Member of the Board of Trustees of Gedik University between 2010-2021, Chairman of the Board of Marbaş Menkul Değerler AŞ between 2004-2022 and Chairman of the Board of Gedik Yatırım Menkul Değerler AŞ between 1991-2022.
Erhan Topaç has been the Chairman of the Board of Inveo Yatırım Holding AŞ since its establishment in 1998 and is also the Chairman of the Board of Misyon Yatırım Bankası AŞ. He also continues to serve as Chairman of the Board of Misyon Destek ve Finansal Hizmetler AŞ, Misyon Finansal Teknolojiler AŞ, and İstanbul Kandilli Gayrimenkul Yatırım AŞ.
Vice Chair of the Board and General Manager
Onur TOPAÇ
Born in Istanbul in 1990, Onur Topaç graduated from Austrian High School, was awarded a Bachelor of Engineering degree in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Koç University in 2013, and then completed a master’s degree in the Department of Financial Engineering at Özyeğin University. In 2008, Onur Topaç embarked on his finance career at Gedik Yatırım and took part in the establishment phase of the Banking Department in 2013. Mr. Topaç, a pioneer of technological transformation, served as General Manager and Chairman of the Board at HUB Girişim Sermayesi Yatırım Ortaklığı AŞ between 2015 and 2020, and as Vice Chairman of the Board at Marbaş Menkul Değerler AŞ between 2015 and 2019.
Mr. Topaç serves as the Vice Chair of the Board and General Manager of Inveo Yatırım Holding AŞ. He is also the Chair and General Manager of Gedik Yatırım Menkul Değerler AŞ, Vice Chairman of the Board of Misyon Yatırım Bankası AŞ, and continues to serve as a Board Member at Turpe Girişim Sermayesi Yatırım Ortaklığı AŞ, Inveo Ventures Girişim Sermayesi Yatırım Ortaklığı AŞ, Ichain Yatırım Holding AŞ, Inveo Araç Kiralama Hizmetleri AŞ, GYT Bilişim ve Ticaret AŞ, and GY Varlık Kiralama A.Ş. In addition to these roles, he is the Chairman of the Board at Misyon Kripto Varlık Alım Satım Platformu AŞ, Vice Chairman of the Board at Misyon Finansal Teknolojiler AŞ, Misyon Destek ve Finansal Hizmetler AŞ and İstanbul Kandilli Gayrimenkul Yatırım AŞ, and serves as a Board Member on behalf of the legal entity at BV Teknoloji İş Geliştirme Danışmanlık ve Organizasyon Hizmetleri AŞ.
Board Member
Bora ORUÇ
Bora Oruç graduated from the Department of Economics at Middle East Technical University in 1999 and completed his Master of Business Administration (MBA) at the University of Cambridge in 2009. Bora Oruç began his career at the Capital Markets Board of Türkiye in 1999. From 2014 to 2020, he served as Vice Chairman of the Capital Markets Board of Türkiye, responsible for publicly traded companies, capital market instrument issuances, investment institutions, institutional investors, financial infrastructure institutions and relations with international financial institutions. From 2017 to 2020, Bora Oruç was a Member of the Standing Committee on Regulatory Cooperation of the G20 Financial Stability Board, and from 2018 to 2020, he served as Chairman of the Board of Merkezi Kayıt Kuruluşu AŞ.
Bora Oruç currently serves as a Managing Partner at OMG Capital Advisors and as an Independent Board Member at İş Yatırım Ortaklığı AŞ.
Independent Board Member
Rüya ESER
Rüya Eser graduated from Istanbul University's Faculty of Economics and completed her master's degree in the Business Finance Program at the same university's Institute of Social Sciences. In addition, she completed a master's degree in Money, Banking, and Finance at the University of Birmingham in the UK. Then she received her PhD from Yıldız Technical University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Economics. She started her professional career as an assistant financial analyst at T. Vakıflar Bankası in 1985, and then worked as an expert and chief expert at the Capital Markets Board between 1987 and 2013 in the research and audit departments.
She worked as Quality Control and Corporate Governance Director at an independent audit company from 2013 to 2017. She also served as an Independent Member of the Board of Directors of the Türkiye Capital Markets Association from 2016 to 2018. She has articles published in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters on capital markets, independent auditing, and complexity economics, as well as papers presented and published at national and international scientific conferences. She is currently teaching as a part-time lecturer in the undergraduate program at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Department of Statistics. Additionally, she holds a SMMM license, independent auditor certificate, and other various licenses issued by the Capital Markets Licensing and Training Company, and is also a member of the Independent Audit Companies Association and the Turkish Economic Association. Rüya Eser is an Independent Board Member at Inveo Yatırım Holding AŞ and also serves as an Independent Board Member at Gedik Yatırım Menkul Değerler AŞ, Marbaş Menkul Değerler AŞ, and Kartonsan Karton Sanayi ve Ticaret AŞ.
Independent Board Member
Ahmet AKA
Born in 1952 in Istanbul, Ahmet Aka graduated from Boğaziçi University, Department of Electrical Engineering in 1976 and received his Master’s degree in the same department in 1979. Between 1979-1981, he worked as a Technical Consultant at Saran AŞ / Plaser AŞ. Ahmet Aka then worked as Business Partner at CSA Electronik between 1981-1983, Assistant General Manager at Nebim Neyir Bilgisayar Sanayii ve Hizmetleri AŞ, a distributor of Texas Instruments computers, between 1983-1988, and Assistant General Manager at Hewlett Packard Turkey between 1989-2001. He served as founding shareholder and General Manager at Fotomobil AŞ between 2001-2006, Independent Board Member at Inci Holding between 2007-2009, Strategic Planning and Marketing consultant at Gedik Yatırım Menkul Değerler AŞ between 2010-2012, and Independent Board Member at Gedik Yatırım Menkul Değerler AŞ between 2012-2018. Since March 2024, Ahmet Aka has been serving as an Independent Board Member at Gedik Yatırım Menkul Değerler AŞ, and since August 2024, at Marbaş Menkul Değerler AŞ. In addition, he continues to serve as an Independent Board Member at GY Varlık Kiralama AŞ.