About Cenk
Cenk Alper has been serving as the CEO and a Board Member of Sabanc? Holding since 2019, leading the sustainable, technology-driven, entrepreneurial, and operational excellence transformation of the Group's business areas, while working diligently for the maturation of these concepts on both global and Turkish scales.
Between 2017 and 2019, Mr. Alper served as the President of Sabanc? Holding Industrial Group, where he particularly spearheaded the global expansion of the group in the fields of mobility and material technologies.
From 2007 to 2017, he held successive positions as CTO, COO, and then CEO at Kordsa, guiding the company's transformation into an advanced material and technology company and executing its secondary public offering.
Cenk Alper's career in Sabanc? Group began in 1996 at the Sabanc?-Bekaert partnership, Beksa. Between 2002 and 2007, he gained international business operations experience by holding managerial positions within Bekaert in Belgium and the USA.
Cenk Alper holds a bachelor's and master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Middle East Technical University and has completed an MBA at Sabanc? University.
About Sabanc? Holding
Hac? Ömer Sabanc? Holding A.?. (Sabanc? Holding), Türkiye's leading conglomerate, is a holding company engaged in a wide variety of business activities through its subsidiaries and affiliates, mainly in the banking, financial services, energy and climate technologies, industrials, building materials and digital sectors.
Sabanc? Holding coordinates and supports the finance, strategy, business development, legal, human capital and sustainability functions of Group companies. The Holding aims to ensure that Group companies operate in a manner that is profitable and sustainable with favorable competitive conditions. In addition, Sabanc? Holding sets and monitors the investor relations and corporate governance practices that apply across Sabanc? Group.
Sabanc? Holding's higher purpose is to unite Türkiye and the World for a sustainable life with leading enterprises. With this core reason for being, Sabanc? Holding works to create value for its stakeholders. As of the end of 2023, Sabanc? Group companies supply their products and services around the globe with more than 60 thousand employees in 14 countries worldwide. Sabanc? Holding's multinational business partners include leading global companies such as Ageas, Bridgestone, Carrefour, E.ON, Heidelberg Materials, and Skoda. Sustainability is a central aspect of Sabanc? Holding's higher purpose. To this end, the Holding has adopted a target of net zero emissions and net zero waste by 2050.
Sabanc? Holding is managed by an Executive Committee, a team of senior executives including the Chief Executive Officer, Group Chief Financial Officer, Strategic Business Unit Presidents and function-based Group Presidents. The Executive Committee is mainly responsible for major capital allocation decisions and reports to the Board of Directors, which is the ultimate decision-making body of the Holding.
Sabanc? Holding is registered with the Capital Markets Board, the securities regulator of Türkiye. Since 1997, Sabanc? Holding has been listed on Borsa Istanbul. The Sabanc? Family jointly controls Sabanc? Holding as a majority shareholder, while 50.47% of the Holding's shares is publicly traded. As of year-end 2023, Sabanc? Holding and its 11 listed subsidiaries' shares constitute around 5% of the total market capitalization of Borsa Istanbul. In 2023, Sabanc? Group delivered combined revenue of TL 811 billion and consolidated net income of TL 15 billion.
