Mehmet Usta

Born in 1950, Mehmet Usta is a graduate of Eskişehir Academy of Economics and Commercial Sciences, Department of Economics and Finance, and has more than 40 years of banking experience. Between 1979-1987, he worked as an inspector and manager at Anadolu Bank; Between 1987-1994, he held senior management positions at Emlak Bank in Turkey and abroad, as well as in the Netherlands and France. He served as the General Manager and Member of the Board of Directors at Banque du Bosphore - Paris from May 1994 to March 2007. He joined Aktif Bank as the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors in April 2008. He assumed the position of Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of Çalık Holding subsidiary Banka Kombetare Tregtare in Albania in December 2008 and has been serving as the Chairman of the Board of Directors since July 2009. In Banka Kombetare Tregtare Kosovo, he has been serving as the Chairman of the Board since May 2008. Member of the Board of Directors at the Brussels-based WSBI-World Savings and Retail Banking Institute since May 2012. Since March 2015, Aktif Bank subsidiaries UPT Payment Services A.Ş. and Sigortayeri Sigorta ve Reasürans Brokerlik A.Ş., as the Chairman of the Board of Directors.