Yönetim Komitesi - Insurance Information and Monitoring Center

Erol ÖZTÜRKOĞLU

Chairman / General Manager of HDI Fiba Emeklilik

Upon completing his studies at Yıldız Technical University, Department of Mathematics, Öztürkoğlu got his master's degree on Insurance at Marmara University and on Actuary at Bahçeşehir University.
Starting his career in insurance sector in 1996, Öztürkoğlu served in various positions at Garanti Sigorta A.Ş. and Emeklilik ve Hayat A.Ş. Following his position as Technical and Actuarial Unit Manager at Garanti Emeklilik ve Hayat A.Ş., he started to work as the Company's Assistant Managing Director in charge of Financial Affairs, in addition to Technical, Operations and IT Responsibility at Fiba Emeklilik ve Hayat A.Ş. as of November 26, 2012.
He was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of Fibaemeklilik as of 01.02.2017. He has been working as Chief Executive Officer of HDI Fibaemeklilik as of January 2023. He is also a member of Management Committee of Insurance Information and Oversight Center.

Uğur GÜLEN

Member / President of the Insurance Association of Turkey

Uğur Gülen holds a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from METU and a master's degree from the same department. In 1991, Mr Gülen started his professional career and held various positions at Interbank, Denizbank, Ak Internet and MNG Bank. Between 2004 and 2009, he served as Assistant General Manager at Ak Emeklilik, AvivaSA Emeklilik ve Hayat A.Ş. Between 2009 and 2024, he served as the General Manager of Aksigorta, and since 31 May 2024, he has been serving as an Executive Board Member on the Board of Directors of Aksigorta. Gülen is also a member of the Board of Directors of AgeSA Hayat ve Emeklilik A.Ş and MediSA Sigorta A.Ş, both Sabancı Holding Group companies, as of June 2024. As of 2022, Uğur Gülen continues to serve as a member of the Management Committee of the Insurance Information and Supervision Centre and has been the President of the Insurance Association of Turkey since September 2023.

Hande HATUNOĞLU KURTULAN

Member / Vice President of Insurance and Private Pension Regulatory and Supervisory Authority

Graduated in 2002 from TED Ankara College, Hande HATUNOĞLU KURTULAN received her bachelor's degree in Statistics from Ankara University in 2006. In December 2009, he joined the Insurance Supervisory Board of the Undersecretariat of Treasury (now Ministry of Treasury and Finance) as Assistant Insurance Supervisory Actuary. In 2012, he completed his master's degree in METU Department of Economics by submitting his master's thesis on "Efficiency Study in the Turkish Banking Sector after the BRSA Restructuring Program". Between 2015-2017, he completed his master's degree in Actuarial Science at Columbia University in New York, United States of America. With the establishment of the Insurance and Private Pension Regulatory and Supervisory Authority (SEDDK), Ms. Hande HATUNOĞLU KURTULAN, who has been working as the Head of Department in the Life and Private Pension Surveillance and Implementation Department since 2020, has been serving as the Vice President of SEDDK since 22.11.2023. He is registered in the Register of Actuaries with the registration number 162 and has been serving as a member of the Insurance Information and Supervision Center Management Committee since December 2023.

Serdar KUTLUER

Member / Head of Department at the Insurance and Private Pension Regulatory and Supervisory Authority

In 2006, Serdar KUTLUER completed his undergraduate degree in Finance at Dokuz Eylül University and completed the Banking School at Ziraat Bank in 2007. He worked as a Financial Analysis and Intelligence Specialist at the same bank until 2012. Between 2012 and 2020, he worked as an Insurance Supervision Specialist at the (abolished) Insurance Supervisory Board and conducted regulatory compliance audits at various insurance companies. With the establishment of the Insurance and Private Pension Regulatory and Supervisory Authority (SEDDK), he served as Group Head of the Supervision and Reporting Department since 2021, and was appointed as the Head of the Information Technologies and Data Management Department in 2022 and as the Head of the Audit-2 Department in 2023. Serdar KUTLUER, currently serving as the Head of Department responsible for "Oversight and Reporting", "Information Technologies" and "Data Management" functions, has been serving as a member of the Insurance Information and Oversight Center Management Committee since August 2024.

Serkan AVCI

Member / CEO

Serkan AVCI began his career at Ege Seramik after completing his undergraduate studies in computer engineering at Ege University in 1998. He participated in the bank's branch transformation initiative while working in the technology department of Yapı Kredi Bank in 2001. In 2005, he shifted to the insurance industry and joined Aksigorta. He began his employment with the Aksigorta Information Technologies team as the Special Programs Manager, and after taking on a variety of responsibilities in the organization's technological transformation projects, he was assigned the position of Information Technologies Group Manager. He was the Assistant General Manager in charge of Systems, Infrastructure, and Applications at Ergo Bilişim in 2010.
Thereafter, as CIO at Aviva Sigorta, he coordinated the business's technology transformation. As Assistant General Manager in charge of the CIO and E-PMO roles in Groupama Insurance and Hayat Emeklilik in 2015, he conducted infrastructure and strategic digital transformation projects.
Serkan Avcı, who most recently served as Gulf Sigorta's Assistant General Manager in charge of Information Technologies from 2019 to 2022, managed the organization's technology renewal and mobile application projects. He is still serving in this job as the Center Manager of the Insurance Information and Monitoring Center.