Mr. Levent Çakıroğlu completed his graduate degree at Business Management Department, Political Sciences School in Ankara University and completed his Master’s Degree at the University of Illinois. He started his work life as a Junior Accountant at the Ministry of Finance in 1988, and then he worked as a Senior Accountant at the same Ministry from 1991 to 1997. From 1997 to 1998, he worked as the Deputy Chair of the Financial Crimes Investigation Board of the Ministry of Finance, while at the same time working as a part-time Academic at Bilkent University. Çakıroğlu attended the Koç Group as the Financial Group Coordinator in 1998. He worked as the CEO of Koçtaş from 2002 to 2007, and as the CEO of Migros from 2007 to 2008. In 2008, he was assigned as the CEO of Arçelik. He has also served as the Chair of the Consumer Durables Group at Koç Holding since 2010. In April 2015, Çakıroğlu was appointed as the CEO of Koç Holding, which is the title he currently holds today. Being a Member of the Board of Directors of Koç Holding since April 2016, Levent Çakıroğlu is the Chair of the Board of Directors at ArçelikLG and TürkTraktör, Deputy Chair of the Board of Directors at Otokar and Yapı Kredi Bankası, and a Member of the Board of Directors at various Koç Group companies. Mr. Levent Çakıroğlu, who was a non-executive board member, is not an independent member pursuant to the Corporate Governance Principles of the CMB. The positions he has undertaken for the last ten years are listed above and currently he is taking office in the Board of Directors of some Koç Group companies.
Levent Çakırıoğlu
Board Member