Management

Serkan AVCI

CEO Chairman of Executive Committee
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.

Salih TAŞYON

Head of Insurance Fraud Bureau of Turkey
Mr. Taşyon earned his bachelor’s degree in Chemistry at Yıldız Technical University, Mr. Taşyon completed his postgraduate degree in Business at School of Business Economics at Istanbul University.


He completed the Casualty and Motor Insurances department at the Turkish Insurance Institution. He attended a wide range of personal development trainings as part of the management trainee program offered by the Sabancı Holding.
He started his professional career as a quality control engineer at Pepsi. He worked in Aksigorta as an account representative and then he worked there for a total of 15 years at Agencies Marketing, Istanbul First Regional Directorate Office and Claims Directorate, he held executive positions during 9 years of that period. In 2013, he joined Zurich Sigorta as Motor Claims Manager.
In 2015, he was appointed as the Director of SISEB (Insurance Fraud Bureau), which was established under Insurance Information and Monitoring Center, and he is still officiating as the Director.
Since March 2018, he is also performing duties in the ACFE TURKEY - USİUD (Association of Certified Fraud Examiners) as a board member.

İbrahim GÖKALP

Director of Technology Operations
Mr. Gokalp completed his BSc in Computer Engineering at the Ege University and his Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) at Yeditepe University. He started his career in 1995 as a Software Development Engineer at Intertech. Later, he worked as Senior Software Development Engineer and Project Manager at Oyakbank and Yapi Kredi Bank, Senior Software Consultant at BilgeAdam Technology, and Manager in Network, CRM, Call Center, Mobile Sales Solutions and Healthcare Solutions departments at Turkcell Superonline and Turkcell Technology Research and Development. As of July 2021, he joined the Insurance Information and Monitoring Center and is currently working as Director of Technology Operations.

Yusuf ÖZER

Information Security Director
Mr. Özer completed his undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering at the Boğaziçi University. He started his professional career at Fortis Bank as Application Management Assistant Manager. Then, respectively, he worked for Akbank as the System Architect, for TTNET as the Application Manager, and for Ayrotek as the Head of IT Services and Sales. In addition to his professional career, he completed the Leadership School program at the Bilgi University and he worked as a guest lecturer at Medipol University. As of July 2018, he joined the Insurance Information and Monitoring Center and assigned as a Director of Director Information Security .

Mehmet BARUTCU

Insurance Solution Development Director.
After completing his undergraduate degree in Mathematics-Computer Science at Bilgi University, he started his professional career as a Software Specialist at Mapfre Sigorta (formerly Genel Sigorta). He actively participated in the technology transformation projects of the insurance sector. In 2010, he started his career at the Insurance Information and Surveillance Center and continued with various responsibilities such as Software Team Leadership and Software Management. In addition to more than 8 years as Software Manager, he also served as Test and Release Management Manager and Business Owner. As of August 2023, he has been serving as Insurance Solution Development Director.