Rengin Ekmekçioğlu

Employed as Managing Director of Fortis Commercial Finance, Turkey

Employed as Vice President of Tekfenbank, Eurobank EFG Group – to start and develop factoring business in Turkey. Also responsible for establishment of factoring subsidiaries of Eurobank Group in New Europe.

Heller Factoring A.Ş/Yapi Kredi Faktoring A.Ş (YKF) – joined at the company formation stage as Deputy General Manager designate and was instrumental in creating the structure, culture and successful strategic development of the business. Appointed General Manager in December 1994 following the departure of the expatriate General Manager. Initially, the company was majority foreign owned but in 1995 was acquired 100% but Yapi Kredi Bank. Was responsible for 1.2 bio USD business volume.

Facto Finans Alacak Alımı A.Ş. (a wholly owned subsidiary of İktisat Bankası) – as been the pioneer in the form of the first factoring business in Turkey as Marketing Manager with total responsibility for business development. Later transferred to Client Security Control with a Client portfolio in excess of USD 200 million. Promoted to Assistant General Manager with continuing responsibility for portfolio control but also acting as deputy to the General Manager with overall control in his absence.

İktisat Bankası T.A.Ş - Credit Marketing Officer with special responsibility for corporate in textiles sector. Sector analysis, business development and branch liaison were an integral part of the job. Created and managed a substantial portfolio of clients in these sectors.

Industrial Development Bank of Turkey (TSKB) - Research and Development Department. Systems analyst specialising in finance. Responsibilities included analysing and designing financial systems; putting these systems in use and controlling them; training and assisting other specialists (financial analysts and economists) within the Bank to use these systems. (Also worked in TSKB in 1979 for a year as a computer programmer).

The American University (AU) Washington D.C. USA - Worked as a research assistant in the Quantitative Teaching & Research Laboratory at AU. Responsibilities included instructing and assisting graduate and undergraduate students in quantitative methods and computer programming. Also worked in National Public Radio (NPR) designed data methods and computer programming.