Ahmet Turgut was born on March 14, 1979 in Adana. After graduating from Adana Anatolian High School and Çukurova University, Department of Business Administration, he started his professional life at Nestlé Professional in 2004. Turgut joined the Nestlé Professional family as a sales chief, established Vending operations all over Turkey as the Channel Sales Development Chief after working as a sales chief for 1 year.After managing the sales organization as Vending Sales Manager in 2007, he led the team that manages the 'investments and service operation of coffee machines', one of the most important business line at Nestlé Professional, as Technical Operations Manager in 2010. After establishing the Channel Category Sales Development department at Nestlé Professional in 2013, Turgut managed the marketing and technical operations teams as the Beverages Business Unit Group Manager in 2016. Turgut, who contributed to the company by playing important roles in the company's 15-year growth journey, also signed many 'best practices' with his teammates.Ahmet Turgut joined Barry Callebaut Turkey in 2019 as Gourmet Sales Director, after 15 years of experience at Nestlé Professional, which he gained by taking important responsibilities in different roles and positions. Turgut, who restructured Barry Callebaut Turkey's gourmet team and led the implementation of the gourmet strategy until 2021, assumed the position of General Manager of Barry Callebaut Turkey as of November 2021.Ahmet Turgut is married and has two children.

Hans Broucke (1964) is a Belgian national and graduated from the Catholic University of Louvain in 1986 as Master in Applied Economics. His banking career started with ING Bank in Belgium. In 1993 he became Head of Corporate Banking at ING Bank Czech Republic based in Prague. In 1998, he joined the Executive Committee of ING Bank Ukraine based in Kyiv. He joined Fortis Bank, later to become part of BNP Paribas, in 2003 as responsible for Business Development Commercial Banking with specific focus on CEE. He became General Manager of Fortis Bank Czech Republic in 2005 and Country Head of BNP Paribas Czech Republic in 2008. Between 2012 and 2017, he became Country Head for BNP Paribas Bulgaria based in Sofia.In 2017, he was appointed Head of Corporate Banking and Member of the Management Board of Ukrsibbank Ukraine. In August 2020, he was appointed as resident Board Member of TEB A.S.

Holder of a BA in Economics and Politics Sciences, and a Master degree in Banking and Finance from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University.He began his career in 1996 at Interbank and became respectively Corporate Banking Sales VP and Retail Banking Marketing and Sales VP. He joined Çukurova Group as Trade Finance Director in 2001. For more than 20 years he has worked for retail companies as foreign trade and finance director.He has been a member of the chamber since 2009, was on the board of directors last decade, and for 6 years he has been leading the audit committee. He is married and has a son.Languages: English, French

Gürcan İmdat was born on 16.07.1970 in Istanbul.After graduating from İçel Anatolian High School and Agean University,Department of Textile Engineering,he started his proffessional life at Çukurova Sanayi İşletmeleri in 1993.He took important responsibilities in different roles and position at the Weaving department.He joined tp PICANOL  in 2002 as TLM Manager  and than continue as service manager he managed to set up the organisation with his teammates at Weaving sector and serve  all Turkish customers successfully.He assumed the position of General Manager of Picanol Tekstil Makinaları Türkiye as of 2008.Gürcan İmdat is married and has two children.

Nil Tunaşar holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English Language and Literature from Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.She started her career as General Manager Coordinator in Ford Motor Company Turkey Laison office in Istanbul.  She then transitioned into the logistics sector as Branch Manager at AEI Ankara. Nil is the Managing Partner and shareholder in Transorient Global Logistics Inc. since 1991. Her role in Transorient covers Management of Sales & Marketing, Financial Affairs and Quality. Between 2008 and 2022, she held several prominent roles, including Membership on the Boards of UTIKAD, Chair of the UTIKAD E-commerce and Innovation Focus Groups, Board Membership in the Logistics Committee of the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TIM), E-commerce Assembly of TOBB, E-commerce Committee of Istanbul Chamber of Commerce (ITO), and Vice Presidency of FIATA’s ABIT Committee.Nil is married and the mother of twin daughters.

Zeynep, who studied Econometrics at Istanbul University, started her career at Koçbank and taking on various managerial positions at Yapı Kredi, Citibank, Garanti Payment Systems and Garanti Bank Romania. She then moved to telecommunications sector and worked for Avea and Türk Telekom respectively. After more than 20 years of corporate experience in the finance and telecom sectors, in the field of marketing, she became the Turkey Distributor of the Leonidas brand in 2021.Leonidas Turkey started to serve as of November 2021 with its first store opened in the concept of chocolate & cafe in Nişantaşı, Istanbul and the website www.leonidas-lezzetleri.com.tr.Their goal is to reach 15 stores across Turkey in 5 years.“We believe that Leonidas is the most beautiful chocolate brand in the world. We are very happy to have brought Belgium's most popular chocolate brand to Turkey. All chocolates are produced in Belgium and brought to our country fresh with the best quality ingredients, using 100% cocoa butter and fresh ingredients without the use of Palm oil. We welcome all chocolate lovers who know the Leonidas brand and those who have not yet tasted these delicious chocolates to our store or website.”

He was born in Adana in 1975. He completed his primary, secondary and high school education in Istanbul. He completed the 19 Mayıs University Faculty of Science Biology Department between 1992-1996, 19 Mayıs University Science Faculty Molecular Biology Master program between 1996-1999, and Marmara University Faculty of Pharmacy Pharmaceutical Technology Pharmaceutical Biotechnology pHD program between 2000-2007.He worked as R&D Specialist between at Bilim Pharmaceuticals between 1996-2003, R&D Formulation Development Manager at Hexal AG between 2003-2005, Process Development Manager at Novartis Sandoz between 2005-2009 and Regional Technical Manager Turkey and Middle East at Colorcon  between 2009-2012. He established CT farma Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology R&D company in 2012 Turkey,  TFLL Pharmaceuticals and Food Supplements company in 2016 Turkey, and TFLL BVBA company in 2017 Belgium.He worked as an associate member in the Turkish Belgium Luxembourg Trade Association between the dates of 2019-2021.He is a member of FladersBio and HappyAging platforms based in Belgium.He is married and has a child.

Arzu Özer, Belgium-born, holds a law degree from Université libre de Bruxelles and is fluent in English, French, Turkish, Italian, and Dutch. Over the course of her career, she has held senior leadership positions across various industries.

Burak Bektaş was born in Trabzon in 1974. After graduating from Trabzon Anatolian High School, he graduated from ITU Management Engineering. He started his professional life in 1997 at Halk Yaşam Sigorta within Yapı Kredi Group. He worked on process analysis and efficiency increasing projects.

Cem Huryan was born Ghent, Belgium, studied at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and holds a Master Degree of Commercial Engineering. Driven by a passion for business growth, operational excellence and financial management, Cem has built his career around navigating change, fostering networks, and adapting seamlessly to diverse business environments.

Gözde Esen Sakar was born in 1977 in Adana. She completed her middle and high school education at Adana Anatolian High School. Her law career started 24 years ago, she graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Law (LLB), then completed LLM degree at University of Liverpool, UK, LLM (International Business Law), Mastering of Contract Management at Villanova University, US.

Neslihan Nigiz Ulak Robert Kolej & Boğaziçi Üniversitesi İşletme Bölümü’nden yüksek onurla mezun olmuştur. Ayrıca CIMA (Uluslararası Yönetim Muhasebesi) ve Insead Women Leadership sertifikalarına sahiptir. Toplam 24 senelik bir B2C & B2B tecrübesi vardır.

Mr. Kapancı has a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree from the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, with a double major in Finance and International Business.

Was born in Istanbul in 1954. He began his education at Galatasaray High School and continued there until the second year of high school.

Born in Istanbul in 1955, after Istanbul Saint Michel French School, he graduated from Strasbourg Hotel Management School and studied Visual Communication, Graphics Design and Advertising at the Brussels Royal Academy of Fine Arts.

Born in 1969 in Brussels. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Modern Languages. She continued her studies at ISTI Bruxelles and received education in fashion design at Kadir Has University. She started her career as the Assistant of the Consul General and she was in charge of Cultural Affairs at the Belgian Consulate.