Serkan Çelik

Serkan Çelik, who has been the CEO of Arena Group since the beginning of 2018, joined Arena Group as CFO in 2007. Çelik lead the establishment of Paynet, one of Turkey’s first FinTech Companies, as a separate company in Arena Group. Çelik is currently is the Chairman of our subsidiaries Paynet and Arena Mobile. He has developed the unique business model and has built the organization of Paynet to be the leader FinTech company in B2B and B2B2C segments in Turkey. Çelik also leaded the expansion of Arena Group to Mobile Technologies, Renewable Energy Technologies, IoT and Automation Technologies segments.

Serkan Çelik graduated from Harvard Business School GMP and Istanbul University, School of Economics.

Prior to his joining to Arena Group, Çelik served in PricewaterhouseCoopers as a consultant on tax financial law and accounting technique between 1998 – 2007. During this period, Çelik has consulted more than 200 companies with domestic and foreign partners in different sectors. He has also advised many companies on the general structure and establishment and development of financial structures.