Board of Directors

Murat Polat was born in Istanbul in 1958. After completing his primary education at Işık High School, middle and high school at Yıldız College, he received business administration education in Switzerland. Upon his return to the country, he worked at Polat İnşaat, one of the group companies, and then worked at İzmir Ege Seramik between 1982-1985. Upon his return to Istanbul, he launched the hotel investment project of Polat Turizm Anonim Şirketi affiliated with İbrahim Polat Holding. In the following years, he served as General Manager, Member of the Board of Directors, Deputy Chairman of the Board and Chairman of the Board of Directors in group companies, especially for Polat İnşaat. During the same period, he also served as the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors at İbrahim Polat Holding. He worked as a founding member in various non-governmental organizations. He has implemented many projects on real estate development, construction, ceramics, industry and tourism. Murat Polat is married and has three children and speaks English.

He graduated from Marmara University, Department of Business Administration in 1997. Enver Sever, who started his working life since his university years, started to work as Budget Finance Chief in Ege Pazarlama A.Ş., one of the İbrahim Polat Holding companies, in 1999. In 2006, he was appointed as the Financial Affairs Manager of Polat Maden Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. He served as Financial Affairs Manager and General Manager at Polat Maden, respectively. He was elected as a member of the board of directors of Ege Seramik on March 30, 2022 and still works as a member of the Board of Directors in charge of Operations. Enver Sever, who is married and has two children, speaks English.

He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Florence in 1987. He worked as Güngör Decoration-Factory Production Manager between 1987-1991, and as Polat Turizm Renaissance Istanbul Hotel-Decoration Purchasing and Implementation Manager between 1991-1993. He worked as a partner of Lombra Architecture between 1993-1999 and Batı Architecture firm between 1999-2004. He served as Ege Seramik Domestic and Foreign Trade-Marble Department Director between 2004-2007, Ege Seramik Domestic and Foreign Trade-Sales Manager between 2007-2014, and Polat Mining-Sales and Marketing Manager from 2014 to 2022. He is still a member of the Board of Directors of Ege Seramik Sanayi ve Ticaret AŞ and works as the Sales Director. He is married, has two children and speaks Italian, English and Persian.

He studied at İzmir American High School. She graduated from the 9 Eylul University Departmnent of Law in 1987. She acted as General Coordinator Assisstant in BMC Otomobilcilik ve Tic. A.S.; lawyer, self-employed lawyer in Bulut& Bulut Law Office, respectively; still acting as legal advisor in USA Air Forces 425^th Air Base. Registered to Izmir Bar Association and member of Turkish Criminal Law Association. She speaks English.

He completed his Industrial Engineering Education in Karlsruhe-Germany between 1972-1979. Germany Siemens A.G. worked. He started to work in the Planning Department of Ege Seramik A.Ş. in 1980 and took on the duties of Planning-Information Processing-Budget Control Manager and Trade Manager, respectively. Represented Ege Seramik at the Sector Manufacturers Association SERKAP. In 1996, he managed the Sales Planning, Domestic-Foreign Sales, Production Planning, Import, Domestic Purchasing and Information Technology departments at Ege Vitrifiye AŞ,, afterwards, he acted as the Deputy General Manager and represented Ege Vitrifiye AŞ in SERSA, the Sector Producers Association. In 1997, he became the General Manager of Ege United Energy AŞ and represented the Turkish Energy and Cogeneration Association on the board of directors in the same company. In 1999, he served as the Deputy Head of Industry Group of İbrahim Polat Holding AŞ. In 2000, he has been working on Industrial Analysis Center Ltd. in many large and medium-sized organizations - Management Sciences, - Industrial Engineering, - Engineering Management projects and continuous consultancy. Between 2016-2021, he worked on Agile Management in Silicon Valley-USA (Agile - Management Projects). He still manages the Industry Analysis Center Ltd Company and speaks German and English.

He completed his high school education at CONCORD COLLEGE in England and graduated from the Department of Production and Industrial Engineering at LEEDS University, England in 1976. After returning to Turkey and working for a short time, he studied Business Administration at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey, USA. After returning home in 1980, he left Enka Pazarlama, where he started working, as Deputy General Manager responsible for the Construction Materials, Chemistry and Minerals Department in 1990, and joined the İbrahim Polat Holding family. He took part in the establishment and organization of Ege Seramik's foreign companies and in 1991, after establishing and organizing Ege Seramik's sales and marketing company in the United States, he served as General Manager. He returned to the country in 1997 and held various senior management positions within İbrahim Polat Holding. He established and organized Ege Seramik Dış Ticaret A.Ş. and served as the General Manager of this company until 2006. After retirement, he worked as a Management Consultant in the consultancy company he founded himself, in Çanakkale Seramik (2006-2009), Cleopatra Seramik (MISIR 2009-2010), Hitit Seramik (2010-2011) and Porcelanosa/Noken (SPAIN 2011-2023). He is married and has two children; speaks French, English and Spanish.