Corporate governance

Mr. M. Tuğrul Tekbulut graduated from Boğaziçi University’s Department of Electrical Engineering in 1980 and received his master’s degree in 1983 from the same department. In 1999, he completed the Owner and President Management program, an executive education program offered by Harvard Business School. He received a master’s degree in bioengineering from the Sabancı University in 2006. In 1984, he established the software initiatives that come under the Logo Group. Mr. Tekbulut also led the establishment of various civil initiatives regarding informatics, innovation and entrepreneurship. He founded TÜSİAD Entrepreneurship and Innovation Working Group and co-founded Turkish Informatics Foundation and Software Industrialists Association between 2006 and 2009. During the same period Mr. Tekbulut served as the Chairman of TÜBİSAD Informatics Industry Association. He is serving as the Chairman of Logo’s Board of Directors and he is a member of Logo Group Committee.

Mr. M. Buğra Koyuncu graduated from Istanbul Technical University Department of Control and Computer Engineering Department in 1994. In 1993 he joined Logo as a system analyst. Following his service as a project manager and then as a product development manager, he was appointed as the General Manager of the company in 2004 and as the CEO in October 2011. He is currently serving as the Vice Chairman of Logo’s Board of Directors and Logo Group CEO. Also he is a member of Logo Group Committee.p>

Mr. Murat Erkurt is the founding partner of Mediterra Capital Partners. He graduated from the Middle East Technical University Electrical Engineering Department. He also holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, a MSc in Mathematics from Imperial College and a MSc in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University. Formerly Managing Director in the Private Equity Division of Lehman Brothers, where he worked for 15 years of which 14 years as a private equity investment professional in New York and London, as lead deal partner in investments in 12 companies. He served on the boards of portfolio companies and funds in various jurisdictions, including the UK, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Czech Republic, Israel, Luxemburg and Guernsey.

Mr. Ultav was born in Eskişehir on February 26th, 1950. He graduated from Ankara Science High School and received his BSc and MSc degrees from the Electrical Engineering Department (Computer and Control Option) of Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. He also has a diploma from Philips International Institute, Eindhoven, Netherlands. After working in technical and administrative departments of Bimsa and Info in Turkey, and Dornier System GmbH in Germany, he served as the Assistant General Manager of NCR, Turkey and as the General Manager of Sun Microsystems, Turkey. During the same period, he offered consultancy services to major groups such as Koç, Sabancı, and Eczacıbaşı. He has been supporting Vestel Elektronik’s Executive Committee since 1995 in the areas of strategic planning and investor relations and he was a Board Member of Vestel Elektronik till May 2016. He continues his post as a Board Member of Vestel Ventures ARGE. As an UNDP consultant in Vietnam, he conducted a study for the development of local electronics industry. He is the founding member of both Turkish Informatics Society (TBV) and Turkish Unix Users Group. He is also a certificated consultant of Microsoft in the area of Solution Development Discipline. Awarded by TUBİSAD with the "Lifelong Service Reward" in 2005, Mr. Ultav has been serving as the Chairman of the Executive Board of TTGV since August 2005.

Mollamustafaoğlu graduated from METU Electrical and Electronic Engineering. After completing his masters degree in Management Information Systems in Marywood University, he worked in number of technology companies including Smarts, Ernst & Young, and Predictive Systems between 1994 and 2005. In 2005, he co-founded his first software company iFountain in 2005, and in 2012 co-founded Opsgenie. Following acquisition of Opsgenie by Atlassian in 2018, he’s continuing his career leading Opsgenie business unit.

Afa Boran has over 22 years of experience initially as an equity research analyst and later as an equity portfolio manager. During his career as an analyst (at Natwest Markets and Credit Suisse), he has been ranked several times as the best analyst by Institutional Investor, Extel and Reuters for Southern Europe and Turkey, and later when working in the Middle East as a portfolio manager, he has been ranked several times as the best performing fund manager in the Middle East region. His interviews and commentaries have appeared several times on local as well as international media. Boran holds a masters degree from London Business School in Finance, an undergraduate degree from Jacksonville University, and a CFA degree.

Mr. M. Buğra Koyuncu graduated from Istanbul Technical University Department of Control and Computer Engineering Department in 1994. In 1993 he joined Logo as a system analyst. Following his service as a project manager and then as a product development manager, he was appointed as the General Manager of the company in 2004 and as the CEO in October 2011. He is currently serving as the Vice Chairman of Logo’s Board of Directors and Logo Group CEO. Also he is a member of Logo Group Committee.

A graduate of Middle East Technical University, Gülnur Anlaş holds an MBA from Texas Tech University, and MA in Economics from University of Delaware. Started her career in banking as an assistant auditor at Interbank in 1984 and thereafter worked at Chemical Bank and Westdeutsche Landesbank AG in corporate finance. Prior to joining Logo, she served as vice president of finance at the Teba. Gülnur Anlaş joined Logo in 2006 as the Chief Financial Officer. During this period, she has supported Logo's operational efficiency projects and played an active role in the company's acquisitions of nine companies and their efficient integration into Logo. Parallel to Logo’s ongoing strategy to excel in corporate governance, she has focused on conducting ratings and sustainability. Logo is the first software company to become public in 2000, and Anlaş has been responsible for managing investor relations with domestic and international investors. In 2016, she played an active role in the fully marketed offering of Logo’s shares to qualified investors, marking the first successful internationally marketed deal in Turkey since November 2014. Also she is a member of Logo Group Committee.

Duran graduated from Middle East Technical University’s Mechanical Engineering department. After working on Construction Tender and Progress software solutions, Duran joined Logo Special Projects department as a Software Developer in 1999. He continued his career outside of Logo between 2001 and 2003 by developing Hospital Automation as Uluslararası Bilgisayar A.Ş.’s partner and being a guest faculty member in a private university. After rejoining Logo family in 2003, he worked in various levels of R&D and infrastructure department for four years. Duran served as R&D Manager between 2007 and 2015, as Head Software Architect between 2015-2017 and as the Director of Software Architecture between 2016-2019. Since December 2019, he has been serving as the Chief Technology Officer of Logo Group. Also, he is a member of the Logo Group Committee.

Mr. Uğur Nuri Sipahi graduated from Bosphorus University Department of Industrial Engineering in 1993 and received his master’s degree in the field of industrial engineering from Marmara University in 1997. Between 1995 and 1997, he worked in the automotive supply industry on quality management. In 1997, he joined Logo as a system analyst and has served for 10 years in the product development department at different levels. Between 2007 and 2009, he has served as a business solutions advisor and between 2009 and 2011 as a product manager. He served as a member of the Executive Committee between January 2012 and May 2019, and as the Group Coordinator for Logo’s Information Technologies and Business Processes between June 2019 and September 2020. Since October 2020, he has been serving as the Chief Information Officer of Logo Group. Also, he is a member of the Logo Group Committee.

After graduating from Yeditepe University’s Department of Industrial Engineering Begüm Arş Türk received her MBA degree from the same university. Ms. Türk began her career in 2003, and served as the Marketing Manager at Zorlu Moscow, Russia operations in 2004. She served as the Commercial Marketing Manager at Turkcell, after various positions in Consumer Sales, Commercial Marketing, Retail Development and Product Planning areas between 2007-2015.

Begüm Arş Türk joined Logo as Functional Solutions Marketing Manager in 2016 and was appointed as Logo Yazılım Türkiye Marketing and Loyalty Management Director in 2019. She led the restructuring of marketing product management processes, end-to-end management of go-to-market processes, and creation and execution of customer-centric strategic marketing plans. She also led the transformation of product-focused customer segmentation to a revenue and value-focused customer segmentation, the execution of competition and profitability-focused pricing strategies, the management of market and field research projects targeting customers and business partners, and the development projects strengthening the ties with the Logo ecosystem. Since December 2020, she has been serving as the Chief Marketing Officer of Logo Group. Also, she is a member of Logo Group Committee.

In 1990, Mr. Akın Sertcan graduated from İzmir Dokuz Eylül University Department of Computer Programming. In 1989, he started to work in the IT industry as a sales representative and then served as a sales manager and as a sales coordinator in various companies. In 1996, he joined Logo as a sales channel manager responsible for the Aegean Region. In 2008, he was appointed as the regional manager of the Aegean Region. Between January 2012-June 2019, he has served as an Executive Committee Member. Since June 2019, he has been serving as the General Manager of Logo Yazılım Turkey. Also he is a member of Logo Group Committee.

Arslan Arslan graduated from the Middle East Technical University - Department of Computer Engineering in 1996 and completed his master’s degree in the Middle East Technical University - Department of Computer Engineering in 1999. He is one of the founding partners of Özgün Yazılım Software Company, a Logo solutions partner. In 1998, he joined Logo as an R&D Software Engineer. Between 2000 and 2005 he worked on R&D projects at Logo’s Frankfurt office. He returned to Turkey in 2005 to work as R&D group manager at Logo’s Ankara office, prior to his appointment as the Director of Infrastructure and Tools in 2006. Between January 2012 and June 2019, he has served as an Executive Committee Member. Since June 2019, he has been serving as the General Manager of Logo Retail Solutions.

Kural graduated from İstanbul Technical University Faculty of Business Administration, Industrial Engineering Department in 2003 and from Bilgi University MBA program in 2017. She started her career as a product manager in Beko Elektronik A.Ş. Kural, who started to work in the marketing department of Turkcell İletişim A.Ş. as of 2007, served as the Group Manager responsible from Mobile Internet Revenues in Avea between 2010 and 2014 and then as the Strategy Director responsible from Technology and Regulation Strategies in Turk Telekom Group between 2014-2017. Since March 2017, she has been serving as the General Manager of Logo Elektronik.

After graduating from İstanbul Technical University, Engineering Mathematics in 1988 Süheyla Özgül started her career at Link Bilgisayar as software developer. She served as package program developer at Eczacıbaşı Holding and transferred to Eczacıbaşı Group’s new founded IT company Eczacıbaşı Bilişim. Özgül was responsible for the Group’s Software Development and Quality when she left the Group after serving in various position in software develoment processes within the Group between 1992-2009. Between the years 2009-2011, she was responsible for Ceva Logistics’ Cargo, FTL and Internal Porcesses under IT department. She joined Logo as Group Manager for Special Software Projects in 2011 and became the Director for Special Projects in the following year. Since June 2019, Özgül has been serving as the General Manager of Logo Digital Transformation comprising Logo’s all project services and digital transformation consultancy services.

After graduating from Boğaziçi University, Department of Computer Programming in 1997 M. Bora Buluş joined Logo as software engineer under Information Systems department. He was appointed as Information Systems Manager in 2001 and executed infrastructure projects under this role. He served as IT Director between June 2014 and April 2020, and he played an active role in Logo’s ISO 27001-ISO 22301 Quality Management Systems implementation and execution in addition to his IT related responsibilities. Since April 2020, he has been serving as the Group Director executing transformation projects of the Logo Group. As an contributor to the social responsibility projects, M. Bora Buluş is an active participant of Business Against Domestic Violence (BADV) project of Sabancı University and is a volunteer providing extracurricular IT and Technology related training to Mehmet Tuğrul Tekbulut Technical Vocational High School students.

A graduate of Anadolu University’s Labor Economics and Industrial Relations, Nebahat Kesgin started her career in 1993. After her experience in food and banking sectors, Kesgin continued her career in Human Resources. Kesgin joined Logo as Human Resources Manager in 2012 after various responsibilities within in HR functions in aviation and manufacturing industries.

Kesgin was appointed as Logo Group Director for Pay&Rewards&Employee Relations in 2019. She lead organizational capacity and efficiency, personnel and payroll, budget, pay and benefits, rewards, discipline processes, People and Organisational Development Business Partnership, employee branding, talent acquisition and reporting processes. Since March 2021, she has been serving as the People and Organisational Transformation Director responsible for all P&OT units.