BORUSAN BİRLEŞİK BORU FABRİKALARI SANAYİ VE TİCARET A.Ş.

Board/Management Information • Mar 25, 2025

İbrahim Romano

İbrahim Romano received his master's degree in International Relations from Istanbul University in 1993 following his graduation from the Department of Economics at Boğaziçi University in 1992. He served as the Deputy Manager at Yatırım Bank from 1994 to 1996. After having worked as the Manager at Dundas Ünlü between 1996 and 2002, Romano started heading the Corporate Finance Unit at Standard Ünlü. Romano is currently the Managing Director of the Corporate Finance Unit at ÜNLÜ & Co. Being also a member of the Executive Board responsible for Investment Banking Consultancy, Romano continues to serve as a member of the Board of Directors at ÜNLÜ & Co. İbrahim Romano is an independent board member at Borusan Boru.

Bülent Bozdoğan

Having graduated from the Department of Business Administration at the Middle East Technical University in 1980, Bülent Bozdoğan started working as an independent auditor at PwC. From 1982 to 1991, he assumed a variety of management positions at the finance and commerce departments of Unilever Türkiye. In 1991, he joined Brisa, a company within Sabancı Group, as Deputy General Manager Responsible for Finance, Planning, and Control Functions. Between 2001 and 2009, he served as CFO at DUSA International LLC – a joint venture of Sabancı and Du Pont with headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware – and later at Kordsa Global A.Ş. after the company had been acquired by Sabancı Holding. From 2009 to 2017, he was the Head of the Audit Department at Sabancı Holding. After 26 years at Sabancı Holding, he retired at 62 years old as per the company policies. He served as CEO at Dedeman Holding which was active in the mining and tourism sectors in the 2018-2019 period. He currently is an independent board member at Carrefoursa, Akçansa, Kordsa Indonesia, and Borusan Boru.

Tayfun Bayazıt

Having received his master's degree in Finance and International Relations from Columbia University (MBA-1983) following his undergraduate education in Mechanical Engineering, Tayfun Bayazıt started his banking career at Citibank. He then assumed senior executive roles at Çukurova Group companies, namely Yapı Kredi (Executive Vice President), Interbank (General Manager), and Banque de Commerce et de Placement S.A. Switzerland (CEO), for 13 years. After being appointed as Vice Chairman at Doğan Holding and Executive Director at Dışbank in 1999, he started serving as CEO at Dışbank in 2001. Mr. Bayazıt was elected the Chairman of the Board of Directors in 2003, and he was appointed as CEO at Fortis Türkiye and became a member of the global executive committee at Fortis after it acquired majority shares of Dışbank in July 2005. At the General Assembly held in 2006, he was elected the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Fortis Türkiye. In 2007, he returned to Yapı Kredi (UniCredit and Koç partnership) as an Executive Director and General Manager, and he started serving as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the bank in 2009. Mr. Bayazıt left his position at Yapı Kredi in August 2011 in order to start his management and consultancy firm. He currently serves as an independent board member at some publicly-traded companies in addition to his roles as the Chairman of the Board of Directors at Polisan Holding, Marsh McLennan Group-Türkiye, and Aura Portföy. Alongside his membership at the High Advisory Council of TÜSİAD, Mr. Bayazıt assumes active roles in civil society organizations such as the Global Relations Forum, the Educational Volunteers Foundation of Türkiye (TEGV), Darüşşafaka Society, and World Resources Institute.