EGENDA - Key Persons
Ahmet Metin Tarhan was born in Samsun in 1947. He graduated from METU in 1970 as a Mechanical Engineer. He moved to Izmir after completing a graduate degree from METU in 1974. There, he founded Ege Servis Ltd. to operate in the automotive sector. Since 1985, as Ege Servis he is the Authorised Dealer for Borusan Automotive in Izmir. He is also one of the founding members of Enda Energy Holding Co.
Ahmet Sırrı Yırcalı was born in Istanbul in 1975. He graduated from Bryant University (USA), Faculties of Business Management and Social Sciences in 1999. To date he has acted as the Vice President of Balıkesir Chamber of Industry, Board Chairperson of Turkish Union of Chamber and Commodity Exchange (TOBB) Balıkesir Province Young Entrepreneurs, Member of the Board of Directors at the Confederation of the Young Businesspeople of Turkey (TUGIK), Vice President of Balıkesir Young Businesspeople Association and President of the Board of Executives at the Aegean Young Businesspeople Federation. He currently acts as Vice President of the Board of Executives at Yırcalı Holding Co., Vice President of the Board of Executives and Executive Director at BEST Co., Vice President of the Board of Executives at Balyem Co., President of the Board of Executives at Yersa Co., Vice President of the Board of Executives at Karesi Energy Co., Vice President of the Board of Executives at Akhisar Energy Co., Member of the Board of Executives at Gönen HPP Co., Vice President of the Board of Executives at Mortas Energy Co., President of the Board of Executives at Balikesir Weaving Co., Member of the Board of Executives at Pamuk HPP Co., Member of the Board of Executives at TARKEM, Vice President of the Board of Executives at BEST Electricity Co. and Member of the Senior Advisory Board at the Young Businesspeople Confederation of Turkey.
Currently the Chairman of Bakioğlu Holding, Cem Bakioğlu was born in Izmir in 1945. He studied at the Izmir Financial and Commercial Sciences Academy. In 1973 he founded Bak Packaging Industry and Trade Co.
He is the chairman and member of the boards of directors of a series of companies mainly in the packaging business but also in media, construction, insurance, IT and logistics that are mostly concentrated in the Izmir Ataturk Organised Industrial Zone. In 2017 Bakioğlu entered the food industry after completing investments in Turkey's first freeze drying fruit and vegetable processing plant.
Bakioğlu was briefly in the media sector as the owner of Ege TV and Radio Ege before donating all the equipment to Ege University's Faculty of Communication. In 1995, he planted 70,000 trees in the Bakioğlu Forest, in close proximity to Izmir Adnan Menderes Airport. Known for his passion for nature and the wellbeing of the environment, Cem Bakioğlu founded the Aegean Forest Foundation in 1995 and contributed to the afforestation of the Aegean Region by organising the planting of nearly 10 million saplings with donations, and to the environmental future of the country with educational activities and lasting projects.
Born in 1940 in Urla-Izmir, Murat Demirer graduated from the Department of Architecture at Istanbul Technical University in 1964. Today, other than DEMIRER Group of Companies, he acts as manager and a consultant in companies from a variety of sectors. Apart from being President of the Board of Directors and Assembly Member at EBSO, Vice President of TOBB's Turkish Chambers of Industry Council, President of IAOSB Administrative Committee, President of the Board of Directors at KOSBI, Member of the Board of Directors at ESBAS, Vice President of the Board of Directors at EGEV, Demirer is a partner of Enda Energy Holding and Egenda Co.
Selçuk Borovalı was born in Izmir in 1970. He graduated from Bosporus University, Faculty of Sciences and Letters in 1993 with a degree in Chemistry. Later, he completed a degree in Milling Engineering at the Swiss Milling School in St. Gallen and worked at Söke Mills for about a year after his return to the country. Having completed his compulsory military service, he worked at family companies until 2006. Subsequently, he founded Ege Agricultural Energy Co. and DB Agricultural Energy Co. to grow domestic agricultural products based on contracted agriculture model and producing biofuel from the agricultural products and waste to eventually create an import substitution. In 2014 he expanded his field of activity after succeeded in producing "refined glycerine" from agricultural products. Besides being the Honorary Consul for the Republic of Slovakia in Izmir, he still acts as a Member of the Board of Directors at family companies and several associations and foundations.
Born in Izmir in 1973, Serdar Dağıstan graduated from Izmir Bornova Anatolian High School before completing an undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering at Bosporus University.
After completing MBA and MPM degrees at Northwestern University, USA, he acted as a manager at Chicago's Valenti Builders between 1997 and 2006. He founded CDS Construction Co. after his return to Turkey in 2006. After 2007, he focused on numerous residential and public development projects featuring a range of concepts in different locations under the brand Palmiye Park.
Dağıstan is also the founder of GoyaHub Shared Office company. He is on the board of directors of Deren Co. and Tarkem Co. Formerly a director at the Bornova Anatolian High School Education Foundation, Dağıstan now acts as a member of the Board of Trustees and Bursary Committee of the same institution. Serdar Dağıstan is married and is a father of one.