Leadership

Engin Çubukçu was a financial services partner at PwC Türkiye and worked for PwC for 17 years, leading various projects for major banking and financial institution clients. Engin has also been an investor in various start-up companies and had taken advisory roles in a number of fintech companies before joining Trive.

As Trive’s CEO, he leads and is responsible for defining and implementing the group’s strategy and vision, including the brand’s dedication to progression.

Prior to joining Trive, Anna worked for 17+ years in several roles at Naspers and Philips, gaining experience in people management, accounting, analysis, financial and management reporting, process and change management and M&A and strategic projects in various international markets. Through 2016 to 2019, she was a Director Group Consolidation and Reporting at Philips, and subsequently CFO of Philips Turkey. Anna has a strong track record of delivering value to shareholders, customers and employees and is passionate about advancing her teams in achieving set goals and beyond and automating existing processes by implementing new solutions.

Anna holds a Master’s in Finance and Banking from University of Lodz, Poland and is an ACCA member. She currently resides in Amsterdam, the Netherlands with prior roles located in Turkey, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Poland.

Hugo Berkhout started his career in 2001 at Delta Lloyd Bank NV in Amsterdam, where he traded FX, interest rates/derivatives, and fixed income/structured credits products. From 2007 he began focusing on treasury/ALM, managing the bank’s balance sheet, and wholesale funding via money markets and securitizations.

In 2012 Hugo was hired by Amsterdam Trade Bank NV part of Alfa Bank Group as head of trading/ALM where he also became ALCO member. From 2018, Hugo set up a treasury department for Regtech/Fintech PSP and Neobank ISX Financial plc in Nicosia and moved back to The Netherlands at end of 2020.

Hugo was board member and treasurer of ACI, The Financial Markets Association and chairperson of the board of education of Dutch Securities Institute from 2012-2018. He is registered by the Dutch Securities Institute and got his financial markets and treasury credentials with Amsterdam Institute of Finance and Dutch Institute for the Banking and Securities Industry.

Özer Burhan has over 15 years of finance experience. In his current role, Özer oversees the individual country CFOs. He is responsible for executing all finance-related activities and oversees the financial performance and strategies of the group.

Özer started his professional career at Ericsson and subsequently took on roles at various pioneering companies. Between 2005 and 2009, he worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers as an auditor. In 2009, he joined Turkcell, where he held senior management positions for more than 5 years.

Prior to joining Trive, he worked as Senior Director, Chief Financial Officer and member of the Board of Directors respectively at Aktif Bank between 2014 and 2020.

Özer holds a BS degree in Economics from Boğaziçi University.

In her role, as a board member of Trive, Defne is responsible for internal audit, internal control and corporate governance structures to ensure that the Group operates in line with international standards and good industry practices.

Defne started her career as a financial auditor at Deloitte. She then worked for Akbank, where she was an internal auditor, participating in the audits of different functions of the bank and its subsidiaries. She joined PwC in 2005, where she acted as the financial industry leader in risk assurance services for many years and created value for its clients both in and outside of Türkiye.

With an aim to enhance social and economic sustainability through the inclusion of women in work life, she played an active role in the development of a gender equality program, named “Equal Opportunities Model”, sponsored by The Women Entrepreneurs Association of Türkiye (KAGİDER) and worked in the certification of a number of corporations.

Defne graduated from the Middle East Technical University, Department of Civil Engineering, later she completed the MBA program at Bilkent University. She is a member of the Internal Audit Institute of Türkiye (TİDE) and holds Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) certificates.

Baran Engür is a seasoned investment banker with over 20 years of experience in complex cross-border M&A and corporate finance transactions. Baran was formerly an Advisory Services Partner at PwC in Istanbul, Dubai and London, focusing on mid-cap M&A deals. During his time in PwC, he led the Corporate Finance business unit, along with the Start-up & Scale up Program, Accelerator Initiative, PwC China, PwC Japan and PwC Middle East desks and was a member of PwC’s Technology Steering Committee.

Baran currently holds top board and executive positions in the Group. As a board member of Trive, his main focus area is executing groups’ inorganic growth vision and strategy, including but not limited to acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestments etc.; to maximize the equity value of Trive. Baran also leads the corporate venture capital initiative of the Group, working closely with successful entrepreneurs, start-up and scale-up companies operating in the financial technology (Fintech) space in Türkiye, Europe and Asia.

Baran holds a BA in Business Administration from Bilkent University.

Engin Çubukçu was a financial services partner at PwC Türkiye and worked for PwC for 17 years, leading various projects for major banking and financial institution clients. Engin has also been an investor in various start-up companies and had taken advisory roles in a number of fintech companies before joining Trive.

As Trive’s CEO, he leads and is responsible for defining and implementing the group’s strategy and vision, including the brand’s dedication to progression.

Prior to joining Trive, Anna worked for 17+ years in several roles at Naspers and Philips, gaining experience in people management, accounting, analysis, financial and management reporting, process and change management and M&A and strategic projects in various international markets. Through 2016 to 2019, she was a Director Group Consolidation and Reporting at Philips, and subsequently CFO of Philips Turkey. Anna has a strong track record of delivering value to shareholders, customers and employees and is passionate about advancing her teams in achieving set goals and beyond and automating existing processes by implementing new solutions.

Anna holds a Master’s in Finance and Banking from University of Lodz, Poland and is an ACCA member. She currently resides in Amsterdam, the Netherlands with prior roles located in Turkey, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Poland.

Ozan Eryavuz has a strong track record of setting-up consumer finance, retail banking, risk and payment businesses, and building automated lending and payment platform in several financial services markets.

Within Trive, Ozan built the credit business, which operates in eight countries, a P2P lending brand and a payments brand. The credit business serves primarily in the EU and Asian markets.

Prior to his role at Trive, Ozan was the Head of Financial Services of Peppers & Rogers Group, a consumer-centered management consulting firm.

Hugo Berkhout started his career in 2001 at Delta Lloyd Bank NV in Amsterdam, where he traded FX, interest rates/derivatives, and fixed income/structured credits products. From 2007 he began focusing on treasury/ALM, managing the bank’s balance sheet, and wholesale funding via money markets and securitizations.

In 2012 Hugo was hired by Amsterdam Trade Bank NV part of Alfa Bank Group as head of trading/ALM where he also became ALCO member. From 2018, Hugo set up a treasury department for Regtech/Fintech PSP and Neobank ISX Financial plc in Nicosia and moved back to The Netherlands at end of 2020.

Hugo was board member and treasurer of ACI, The Financial Markets Association and chairperson of the board of education of Dutch Securities Institute from 2012-2018. He is registered by the Dutch Securities Institute and got his financial markets and treasury credentials with Amsterdam Institute of Finance and Dutch Institute for the Banking and Securities Industry.

In her role, as a board member of Trive, Defne is responsible for internal audit, internal control and corporate governance structures to ensure that the Group operates in line with international standards and good industry practices.

Defne started her career as a financial auditor at Deloitte. She then worked for Akbank, where she was an internal auditor, participating in the audits of different functions of the bank and its subsidiaries. She joined PwC in 2005, where she acted as the financial industry leader in risk assurance services for many years and created value for its clients both in and outside of Türkiye.

With an aim to enhance social and economic sustainability through the inclusion of women in work life, she played an active role in the development of a gender equality program, named “Equal Opportunities Model”, sponsored by The Women Entrepreneurs Association of Türkiye (KAGİDER) and worked in the certification of a number of corporations.

Defne graduated from the Middle East Technical University, Department of Civil Engineering, later she completed the MBA program at Bilkent University. She is a member of the Internal Audit Institute of Türkiye (TİDE) and holds Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) certificates.

Baran Engür is a seasoned investment banker with over 20 years of experience in complex cross-border M&A and corporate finance transactions. Baran was formerly an Advisory Services Partner at PwC in Istanbul, Dubai and London, focusing on mid-cap M&A deals. During his time in PwC, he led the Corporate Finance business unit, along with the Start-up & Scale up Program, Accelerator Initiative, PwC China, PwC Japan and PwC Middle East desks and was a member of PwC’s Technology Steering Committee.

Baran currently holds top board and executive positions in the Group. As a board member of Trive, his main focus area is executing groups’ inorganic growth vision and strategy, including but not limited to acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestments etc.; to maximize the equity value of Trive. Baran also leads the corporate venture capital initiative of the Group, working closely with successful entrepreneurs, start-up and scale-up companies operating in the financial technology (Fintech) space in Türkiye, Europe and Asia.

Baran holds a BA in Business Administration from Bilkent University.