Orhun Köstem

Orhun Köstem is the Group CFO of Sabanci Holding, Chairman of Carrefoursa and Member of the Board of Directors of Kordsa. He received his bachelor’s degree from Middle East Technical University Mechanical Engineering Department in 1991 and completed his MBA Program at the same university. He also has a master’s degree in Finance and Corporate Law from Bilgi University.

Mr. Köstem spent a majority of his 28 years in his long professional career in Anadolu Group, where he held various management positions between 1994-2008. In 2008, Mr. Orhun Köstem was appointed as CFO of Efes Breweries International and in 2009 continued his career as Corporate Finance Coordinator of Anadolu Group. Mr. Orhun Köstem pursued his career in Coca-Cola İçecek (CCI) where he worked from 2010 to 2016 as the CFO of CCI and from 2017 to 2018 as Regional Director responsible for Middle East and Pakistan at CCI. Mr. Köstem served as the CFO of Anadolu Efes between 2019 and 2021. Mr. Köstem has been in charge of Group CFO of Sabanci Holding since July 1, 2021.

Köstem is one of the three authors of the book “A Window to Capital Markets: The A to Z of Public Offering and Investor Relations” published in 2009. In 2016, 2019 and 2020, he was listed among “Turkey’s Most Influential 50 CFOs” by Fortune Turkey Magazine. He was awarded as Turkey’s Best CFO in the Investor Relations Awards organized by Thomson Reuters Extel in 2011 and 2013, while he was also honored with the “Best CFOs” by Sell Side analysts in Consumer Sector in Emerging EMEA by Institutional Investor Magazine and Institutional Investor Research Group in 2020.