Hakan Ateş

Hakan ATEŞ was born in Ankara in 1959.

He graduated from TED Ankara College in 1976 and from METU Business Administration in 1980. He started his banking career as an Inspector at İşbank in 1981 and worked in various departments of Interbank between 1985 and 1994, serving as Branch Manager in Bakırköy, İzmir and Central Branches.

He established Interbank's Cash Management system and was appointed as the Bank's Assistant General Manager in charge of Central Operations in 1993.

Between December 1994 and January 1996, he worked as Assistant General Manager in charge of Financial Affairs and Operations at Bank Ekspres, a subsidiary of Doğuş Group.

He led the Bank's restructuring project under the consultancy of Bank of America. He established GarantiBank Moscow, a subsidiary of Garanti Bank, in Moscow and served as the Founding General Manager for one and a half years starting from June 1996. In June 1997, he joined DenizBank as the founding General Manager and Board Member.

Hakan ATEŞ served as DenizBank CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of 14 subsidiaries for 27 years. He assumed the CEO role in the Bank's rise from 82nd place to the fifth place among private banks. On 31.12.2024, he left his position at DenizBank Financial Services Group and joined ENBD Bank, which owns DenizBank shares.