İdil Yiğitbaşı completed her bachelor's degree in Business Administration at Boğaziçi University in 1986 and obtained an MBA at Indiana University in 1989. Yiğitbaşı, who started her career in Yaşar Group as an executive assistant in 1986, served as an Assistant System and Financial Analysis Coordinator between 1990-1995, the Coordinator of Pınar Food Group in 1995, the Vice President of Pınar Food Group between 1997-2001, the Vice President responsible for Pınar Food Group’s Milk and Dairy Products between 01 February 2001 and 31 January 2006, and as a Member of the Board of Directors in various Group companies. She served as the Vice-Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Yaşar Holding between 2003-2009 and as the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Yaşar Holding between 2009-2015. Idil Yiğitbaşı has been the Vice-Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Yaşar Holding and the Chairperson and member of the Board of Directors of Yaşar Group companies since April 2015. Yiğitbaşı is the Vice-Chairperson of the Selçuk Yaşar Sports and Education Foundation, a Member of the Board of Directors of Yaşar Education and Culture Foundation, a Member of the Board of Directors of the Aegean Region Chamber of Industry (EBSO), and Izmir Culture, Art and Education Foundation (İKSEV), Member of the Foreign Economic Relations Board of Turkey’s (DEİK) UK Business Council Executive Board, Member of the Advisory Board of the Aegean Young Businessmen Association (EGİAD), Member of the Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜSİAD), Member of the Turkish Dairy, Meat and Food Industrialists' and Producers' Association (SETBİR), Member of the Aegean Industry and Business Association (ESİAD), Member of the Family Businesses Association (TAİDER) Member of the Advertisers Association (RVD) and Member of the Corporate Governance Association of Turkey (TKYD).
Feyhan Yaşar started her career in 1978 at DYO, a Yaşar Group company. She then served in the Yaşar Group as a manager in finance and management. After Selçuk Yaşar became Honorary President, she assumed the position of Chairperson of Yaşar Holding Board of Directors from 2004 to 2009. Yaşar, who served on the Board of Directors of Group companies for many years, assumed the position of Deputy Chairperson of Yaşar Holding from 2014 to 2021. She became the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Yaşar Holding as of January 2022. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Group companies. Feyhan Yaşar, who has been active in many non-governmental organizations that support social development in the fields of education, culture, and the arts and sports, as well as business life, is also the Vice-Chairperson of the Yaşar Education and Culture Foundation Board of Directors, Member of Selçuk Yaşar Sports and Education Foundation Board of Directors and the Trustee Board Member of Yaşar University. In addition to her business life, she has served as a Member of the Board of Directors of TÜSİAD, Chairperson of the Beverage Industry Assembly of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB), Chairperson of the Danish Business Council of DEİK, and participated in the annual DAVOS meetings as a Member of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Currently, she is a member of the Executive Board of the United Arab Emirates Business Council of the Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEIK), a member of the EBSO Assembly, a member of the SEV Board of Trustees, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Bosphorus University Foundation, and a member of TUSIAD, SETBIR, and ESIAD. Feyhan Yaşar, who has been providing personal support to the Teos Ancient City excavations in Seferihisar, Izmir carried out by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism since 2011, has also been the Honorary Consul of Luxembourg since 2014. Yaşar completed her undergraduate education at Boğaziçi University, Faculty of Administrative Sciences, Department of Business Administration, and her master's degree in the Department of Economics at Dokuz Eylül University. She speaks English and French.
Born in 1966 in Ankara, Metin Akman received his bachelor's degree from the Department of Business Administration of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences of METU in 1989 and a master's degree from the Department of International Economic Law of the Faculty of Law of Bilkent University in 2013. Akman started his professional career at Unilever in 1989 and then continued as an entrepreneur. As chairperson of the Board of Directors at Nutreco - Trouw Nutrition Turkey until 2019, Akman currently serves as chairperson of the board of Directors at Yuniko, a joint venture company with Anaco egg products, Atilen, and Schaffelaarbos based in the Netherlands. In addition, since 2019, Metin Akman has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Yaşar University and a member of the Board of Directors of Pınar Süt. He was elected as the chairperson of the Board of Directors at YÜSAD, established in 2020 to increase the global competitiveness and sustainability of the Turkish egg industry. Believing in the importance of social development, Metin Akman actively contributes to the works of non-governmental organizations and sectoral associations that represent unity, volunteering and solidarity, and business life. Metin Akman, a member of TÜSİAD, TÜYEKAD, Hacettepe Nazmi Hosal Education Foundation, YUMBİR, IEC, and SKD, was elected a Member of the Board of Directors of TÜSİAD in 2014, serving until 2019. He is a corporate member of the United Nations Global Compact, a company of Anako Egg Products, of which he is the Chairman of the Board of Directors. Akman, who also actively takes part in international organizations, has been the President of Business at the OECD Agriculture and Food Commission since 2014.
She graduated from Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Business Administration in 1985. Seçkin Şenol, who started his career in the private sector in 1986 in the Budget Control and Analysis Department, worked at various levels until 1998. She was appointed as Budget and Planning Department Manager in 1997, and as Yaşar Holding Budget Control and Analysis Coordinator in 2003. In addition to his current duties; she took part in investment evaluation, performance evaluation, efficiency and sustainability committees. Seçkin Şenol worked as Budget Control and Analysis Coordinator until 2017. Seçkin Şenol, who has a Free Accountant and Financial Advisor (CPA) license, also works in various non-governmental organizations.
Having completed his primary, secondary, and high school education in Izmir, Yılmaz Gökoğlu graduated from the Department of Economics and Finance, Faculty of Political Sciences, Ankara University, in 1977. From 1978 to 1982, he served as an Account Specialist at the Ministry of Finance. Yılmaz Gökoğlu, who left his Ministry position in 1983 to join the Yaşar Group as Assistant Financial Affairs Coordinator, then worked as Assistant General Manager of Financial Affairs at Dyosad A.Ş. between 1988 and1990, and Assistant General Manager of Financial Affairs at Tuborg A.Ş. between 1990 and1995. Gökoğlu has served as Audit Coordinator and Financial Affairs and Subsidiaries Coordinator at Yaşar Holding from 1995, Vice President of Financial Affairs and Subsidiaries from July 2000, and Vice President of Audit in addition to his current duties since April 2001. He was elected a Member of the Board of Directors of Yaşar Holding in April 2007. She served as the Deputy Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Yaşar Holding between April 2009 and April 2014. Yılmaz Gökoğlu, who also serves as the General Secretary of the Boards of Directors at Yaşar Holding, is also a Board Member and Committee Member of Group companies. He is also a member of the Administrative Committee of the Yaşar Education and Culture Foundation. Gökoğlu is a Member of the Chamber of Chartered Accountants, a Member of the Association of Account Specialists, a Member of the Mülkiyeliler Association, and a Member of the Assembly of the Aegean Region Chamber of Industry. Yılmaz Gökoğlu holds Independent Auditor and Certified Public Accountant licenses.
Mehmet Aktaş, who started his career as an Assistant Auditor in the Presidency of the Court of Accounts in 1983, joined the Ministry of Finance, Tax Inspectors Board in 1984 and was appointed Chief Accountant of the Ministry of Finance in 1994. He served as an Advisor to the State Minister Responsible for the Economy. In 1995, he left his duties in the state to join Yaşar Group as Presidency Advisor. After serving in various senior management positions within the Group, in 2000, he was appointed as the Vice-Chairman of Strategic Planning, Budget, and Corporate Finance. Having been appointed as Yaşar Holding’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in July 2007, Aktaş has served as a Board Member and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Yaşar Holding since May 2009. Mehmet Aktaş serves on the Board of Directors of Yaşar Group companies and the Tax Inspectors Foundation and is a Member of the Board of Trustees of Yaşar University. He has been the Chairperson of the Food Working Group at TUSIAD since 2017. He is actively involved in civil society activities in the economic arena with memberships of TUSIAD, ESIAD, KOTEDER, the Mülkiyeliler Association, and TURMOB. In addition, he holds Certified Public Accountant and Independent Auditor licenses. Mehmet Aktaş graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences in 1983, completed his master's degree in the Department of Economics at Vanderbilt University in the USA in 1992, and received a Ph.D. in finance from the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at 9 Eylül University in 2003.