Board of Directors and Committees

Mr. M. Tuğrul Tekbulut graduated from Boğaziçi University’s Department of Electrical Engineering in 1980 and received his master’s degree in 1983 from the same department. In 1999, he completed the Owner and President Management program, an executive education program offered by Harvard Business School. He received a master’s degree in bioengineering from the Sabancı University in 2006. In 1984, he established the software initiatives that come under the Logo Group. Mr. Tekbulut also led the establishment of various civil initiatives regarding informatics, innovation and entrepreneurship. He founded TÜSİAD Entrepreneurship and Innovation Working Group and co-founded Turkish Informatics Foundation and Software Industrialists Association between 2006 and 2009. During the same period Mr. Tekbulut served as the Chairman of TÜBİSAD Informatics Industry Association. He is serving as the Chairman of Logo’s Board of Directors and he is a member of Logo Group Committee.​

Mr. M. Buğra Koyuncu graduated from Istanbul Technical University Department of Control and Computer Engineering Department in 1994. In 1993 he joined Logo as a system analyst. Following his service as a project manager and then as a product development manager, he was appointed as the General Manager of the company in 2004 and as the CEO in October 2011. He is currently serving as the Vice Chairman of Logo’s Board of Directors and Logo Group CEO. Also he is a member of Logo Group Committee.​

Söz Ar graduated from Koç University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Economics and Business Administration departments with high honors in 2014. Mr. Ar started his career in Eczacıbaşı Building Group in the Financial Analysis and Category Finance departments in 2014. Between 2018-2021, he took part in investment and merger-acquisition projects in the Eczacıbaşı Holding Strategic Planning department as a manager. He still continues his career as Eczacıbaşı VitrA Karo Market Development Manager.​

Nezahat has over 20 years of experience as a strategic advisor, investor, business owner and ecosystem builder in Silicon Valley and Europe.
She served as Head of Advisory practice of UniCredit from its foundation. Previously she was Managing Director and Head of Technology Investment Banking for EMEA at Nomura.
Prior to Nomura, Nezahat served as Director at Temasek, spearheading direct TMT investments in Europe, and served on the boards of Secret Escapes and BluJay. Previously, she provided independent strategic advisory services including as a Senior Advisor to Atlantic Bridge Capital in early and growth stage investments, and as a founding member of the Future Fifty Programme of Tech Nation, a Downing Street supported initiative to foster UK tech ecosystem, as well as initiating Tech Nation’s fintech efforts.
Nezahat had previous technology investment banking experience with Credit Suisse and Lehman Brothers where she advised on a number of M&A and capital raisings across software, internet, payments and deep tech verticals. She currently serves as independent NED on the board of Logo Yazilim, largest software company in Turkey, and on the Advisory Board of Emotion Network in Italy, and on the voting panel of UK Tech Awards.
Nezahat has an MS in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University as a Fulbright Scholar and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Turkey, as top of the graduating class.​

Ergin graduated from Middle East Technical University, School of Business Administration and completed the Executive MBA program at Koç University in 2001. In her 23 years of professional experience at the Borusan Group, she has established the strategy, business development, M&A and innovation functions groupwide and assumed the leadership role in all these functions for many years. Within this role, she was responsible from the preparation and management of the Group portfolio strategy, assessment of the step growth investment feasibilities, managing the merger, acquisition, divestment and partnership projects of the whole Group companies and incubation of new innovative, disruptive business models. She also led the digital transformation project among the Group. Ms Ergin has been appointed as one of the 3 Executive Committee members as of the beginning of 2018 and she has assumed direct responsibility of 4 Group subsidiaries, namely Borusan Lojistik, Borusan EnBW Enerji, Supsan and Borusan Manheim as the Executive Board Member in all these companies. She was also a longterm board member at many of Borusan Group subsidiaries. She has joined ESA Esports & Media, which operates in the esports and video games industry, as Co-Founder and CEO in 2020. ESA, a new media entertainment platform that produces content in the field of esports and video games, also operates as an independent esports organization company with offline and online esports tournaments organized in its own esports arena. Ms. Ergin is also Independent Board Member of Turcas Petrol.​

​Boğaç Şimşir graduated from Istanbul Technical University, Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1993 and then took Economics courses at the University of South Florida. He started his professional career as a project engineer at Delphi, a subsidiary of General Motors. He then joined Hyundai Motors, where he was trained in South Korea and Indonesia and played an important role as the engineer in charge of production during the commissioning of the Hyundai Plant in Turkey. Between 1998 and 2003, he served as chief engineer in the field of heavy and commercial vehicle product development at Ford Otomotiv, where these projects contributed to the expansion of Ford's operations in Turkey and the Turkish automotive industry's stronger position in the global arena. Between 2003 and 2006, he worked as an R&D specialist engineer in innovative projects at Arçelik, where he played an important role in the development of products that set an example for the world. These projects have been strategic steps that reinforced Arçelik's technological leadership in the global arena. In 2007, he co-founded Maybe Tasarım and in 2012 he co-founded BOxEr Design and Strategy. Between 2014 and 2024, he served as the Director of Innovation at Eczacıbaşı Building Products Group and under his leadership, he made the R&D center the best in Turkey for six consecutive years and took Eczacıbaşı to the top 5 of the companies with the most inventions in Turkey. He also pioneered the development of many innovative products by launching a smart and connected product development initiative. In his more than 30 years of engineering and management career, he has had the opportunity to work with multidisciplinary teams in international projects in countries such as the USA, Germany and the UK. Since 2024, he has been co-founder and innovation leader of 021Works and co-founder, board member and technology advisor of Good Sanitation Company. He has been an inventor on more than 250 patents and is one of the few inventors from Turkey on the global patent ownership list. He was also selected as a 2020 UN Global Compact SDG Pioneer for the sustainability and hygiene projects he and his team carried out during the pandemic.