Ekrem Arıkan, an advisor to DFWG and Takas Istanbul CIO, will present Blockchain projects of Takas Istanbul. The presentation will take place on March 4th at 7 p.m. at Hisar Campus. The presentation will be exclusive to Boğaziçi University students.
Ekrem Arıkan received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi University and his Master of Business Administration degree at Yeditepe University. He is also continuing the PhD in Management Science. He knows English, German and beginner level of Arabic. He embarked on his career as Support Engineer on 1997 and started to work for Microsoft on 1998. He became Program Specialist on 1999 and then he was promoted as Windows International Program Manager on the year 2000 in Microsoft Windows International Product Group. He took responsibilities in development of many Microsoft Windows products in international projects until 2006 at Microsoft. In year 2007, he started to held positions at Ziraat Technology - Fintek Financial Technology Services Inc. (the IT company of the biggest governmental Bank of Turkey) as IT Architecture Manager. Then he became PMO Manager and coordinated many of financial technology projects. Afterwards, he became CISO and managed IT security and risk issues. Then, he was promoted as Enterprise Development Director at Ziraat Technology and managed IT Security, Quality and Risk Management as well as Human Resources and Support Services departments. He then moved at 2014 on to life and pension insurance company of Ziraat Bank which is Ziraat Hayat ve Emeklilik A.Ş. to serve as Group Manager responsible from Information Technologies, Customer Services and Call Center, HR and Support Services. As of 2015, he started to serve as Strategy Development Director in EPİAŞ - Energy Exchange Istanbul which was the newly established energy markets operator company of Turkey. He currently has been serving as Executive Vice President responsible from IT at Takasbank since June 2016.
