AKENERJİ ELEKTRİK ÜRETİM A.Ş.

Board/Management Information • Feb 11, 2025

Demet ÖZDEMİR

Candidate for Independent Member of the Board of Directors

Ms. Demet Özdemir started her career at Arthur Andersen. During her nearly 30-year career, where she spent the last 15 years as a Corporate Finance Senior Partner at EY (Ernst & Young), she provided merger, acquisition, public offering, restructuring and financial advisory services to nearly 1000 local and international companies. As Private Equity Sector Leader and Corporate Finance Partner at EY Türkiye and Central and Southeast Europe region, Ms. Özdemir assumed the role of Emerging Markets Leader in EMEIA (Europe, Middle East, India and Africa). Ms. Özdemir, who has been actively working on gender equality and women's empowerment in business life, has been a member of the EY Global Businesswomen Advisory Board, a member of the Management Committee of the EY WomenFast Forward and Women 3 Forum, and the EMEIA Leader who implemented the EY Entrepreneurial Women Leaders (EWW) Program. In 2015, she co-chaired the session on "Empowering Women Entrepreneurs" at the W20 Summit, which was held for the first time within the scope of the G20 in Istanbul. Currently, she is the member of the Board of Directors of Çelebi Ground Handling and Gelecek Varlık Yönetim A.Ş. and the British Turkish Chamber of Commerce. She is a Board Member of the Women's Association and Young Success Foundation, of which she is one of the founders. Ms. Özdemir is a trustee member of the Young Achievement Education Foundation and Women's Association, of which she is one of the founders. A graduate of METU Business Administration, Ms. Özdemir has a graduate degree in International Finance from the London School of Economics. Ms. Özdemir, a former national skier who won Turkish championships between 1987-1991, is married and has a son.

Demet Özdemir qualifies as an independent member according to the CMB Corporate Governance Principles. The duties she has undertaken in the last ten years are essentially explained above and she has not had any relationship with Akenerji Elektrik Üretim A.Ş. and with related parties.