Board of Directors

İpek Ilıcak Kayaalp graduated from the Economics Department of the Middle East Technical University in 2000. She worked in the field of asset management and finance at various international companies until 2006. İpek Ilıcak Kayaalp has been the Executive Board member of Rönesans Holding and the Head of Treasury of Rönesans since 2006. As of 2014, she is the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Rönesans Holding. İpek Ilıcak Kayaalp is a member of TÜSİAD (Turkish Industry & Business Association), Kançoder (Association for Children with Cancer) and Rönesans Education Foundation.

After his graduation from Istanbul Technical University Mechanical Engineering Department in 1995, Özgür Canbaş completed a MBA program at Koç University in 1997. He worked in the corporate banking and investment banking departments at Istanbul, London and Singapore offices of Deutsche Bank between the years 1998-2009. Canbaş took up his position at Rönesans in 2009 and he carries out his role as a Board Member at a couple of group companies.

After graduating from the Middle East Technical University’s Department of Industrial Engineering in 2000, he started his career in the finance industry as an internal auditor. After ten years of experience in this position, he joined Rönesans Holding, where he served in various departments, including finance, compliance, internal auditing and risk management. In 2020, he was appointed a member of the Board of Directors.

Ilhan Alkan has graduated from Istanbul Technical University Mechanical Engineering Faculty in 2005, and afterwards he completed the MA in Economics & Finance Program of Bosphorus University in 2007. Before joining Ronesans in the beginning of 2017, he worked at PwC Turkey for 11 years in the corporate finance field. After working in corporate finance and project development for 4 years at Ronesans Holding he has been appointed as a member of the Board of Directors in 2021.

Kaan Arslan graduated from Middle East Technical University Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and afterwards, he completed his MBA program at Bilkent University. He began his career at Interbank and he assumed different roles in this bank between the years 1990-1998. After working as the General Manager of Commercial Banking at Bayındır Bank from 1998 until 2001, he assumed several positions as Executive Vice President of Ziraat Bankası and Finansbank before he joined Rönesans Holding and he acts as the Member of the Executive Board and Member of the Board of Directors at Rönesans Holding since 2010.

Hüseyin Özdemir graduated from TED Ankara College in 1998. He had his bachelor’s degree at METU Civil Engineering Department in 2003 and his master's degree at METU Industrial Engineering Department in 2005. Following his experience at construction companies since he had his bachelor’s degree, he joined the Rönesans group in 2008 and worked as the member of Rönesans Türkiye İnşaat Group’s Executive Board and Board Member after holding different positions in Turkish projects. Since 2021, he has been a Rönesans Holding Board Member.