Elmas Melih Araz

Elmas Melih Araz has served on the board of directors of TFI since 2013 and on the board of directors of Pangaea Foods (China) Holdings Ltd (“BK China”) since 2012. Mr. Melih Araz has been with the Ata Group, a leading privately-owned group with investments mainly in the food and QSR industry, investment banking and real estate development, since 2006. Prior to joining the Ata Group, he worked at Interbank A.Ş., where he served as Chief Executive Officer for eight years. He previously worked at Citibank N.A., where he served for twelve years there in various roles, including as an FX and Money Market trader in Bahrain, head of the Corporate Banking Group in Turkey, and in New York within Citibank’s Credit Supervision EMEA Division. Mr. Melih Araz also sits on the board of Enka A.Ş., a leading contracting real estate development and energy conglomerate in Turkey. Previously, he served as an independent director of two other public firms in Turkey: Zorlu Energy A.Ş., an energy company that is part of the Zorlu Group, and Senocak A.Ş., an appliance manufacturer. He holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in Economics and Public Finance from Ankara University, School of Political Sciences and Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Kelley School of Business. He also attended Harvard Business School’s Program of Management Development.