About Us

Dr. Ozan Özerk was involved in numerous start-ups from a young age and has a long track record of establishing successful businesses in the fintech space. Alongside Ozan Elektronik Para, he is the founder of the banking-as-a-service provider OpenPayd, European Merchant Bank and online trading platform Eurotrader.

Ömer Suner received a Bachelor of Economics degree from Yıldız Teknik University, followed by a Master of Business (MBA) degree in Digital Marketing from Yeditepe University. He completed the “Stanford-Endeavor Innovation and Growth” programme at Stanford University Graduate School of Business…

Erdal Özcan represents our company at the Association of Payment and Electronic Money Institutions of Turkey (TÖDEB). Özcan received a Bachelor of Economics from the Middle East Technical University, and went on to receive a Master’s degree in Corporate and Financial Risk Management…

Tarık Onat has completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in Yıldız Technical University in the Deaprtment of Industrial Engineering. After his graduation he started his career in the marketing department for merchants of Garanti Payment Systems focusing on’ Acquiring’ for six years…

Leman Derin is currently the CFO at OpenPayd Turkey and a board member at Ozan. Derin completed her undergraduate education at Marmara University Department of Economics and started her career more than 20 years ago at Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC)…

Ahmet Türkay Varlı completed his undergraduate education at the Business Administration Department of Gazi University and received a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Ankara University. Varlı was responsible for bank supervision and surveillance, bank accounting, and bank surveillance methods and techniques at the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (TCMB), where he worked for 15 years. Varlı contributed to the establishment of the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency and acted as the Head of Information Management Department he founded for 10 years. Later, he worked as Advisor to Chairman for 7 years and represented BRSA and Turkey as a Member of the Executive Committee of ROC, which supervises the entire Global Legal Entity Identifier established by the FSB-G20. After working at BRSA for a total of 20 years as supervisor and advisor, Varlı joined the Ozan Electronic Money family as a Board Member.