Executive Board

Selva Eren was born in Istanbul in 1975. She graduated from the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Economics at Istanbul University in 2000. She pursued her Master’s degree at San Diego State University from 2001 to 2003.

She began her career in the United States and continued as an entrepreneur between 2004 and 2008.

She entered the insurance industry in 2009 and specialized in reinsurance. Accordingly, she founded the Rönesans Reasürans ve Sigorta Brokerlik A.Ş. She served as a Board Member of the International Competition and Technology Association between 2016-2018. In 2017, she became the founding partner and board member of the Clean Energy Agency.

Selva Eren was appointed as the CEO of Türk Reasürans A.Ş. by the Ministry of Treasury and Finance on September 6, 2019 and still serves as the Board Member and the CEO of Türk Reasürans.
Selva Eren is also board member at the Agricultural Insurance Pool and board member at the Special Risk Management Center.

Özgür Bülent Koç, was born in 1975 in Ankara, completed his secondary and high school education at Bursa Erkek High School. He graduated from the Middle East Technical University, Department of Industrial Engineering in 1996 and completed his military service in 1999. Koç is married with four children and is fluent in English.

Koç started his career in July 1996 at Işık (Bereket) Insurance as a Risk Engineer and Reinsurance Specialist. While serving as the Technical and Reinsurance Manager at the same company, he transferd to Willis Re Turkey as a Director in September 2007. After working in its London and Turkey offices for nearly 1,5 years, he transferred to Neova Insurance in January 2009 as the Founder General Manager.

During his 13,5 years tenure as the General Manager at Neova Insurance, Koç also held several notable positions:

• Member and Chairman of the Management Committee of the Insurance Information and Monitoring Center (2012-2022)
• President of the Participation Insurance Association established in 2015
• Member of the Prime Ministry Interest-Free Finance Coordination Board (January 2016 - June 2019)
• Member of the Non-Life Management Committee of the Insurance Association of Türkiye (May 2018 - July 2022)
• Member of the Management Committee of the Assurance Account (July 2019 - July 2022)

After leaving Neova Insurance in July 2022, Koç became a Member of the Board of Directors at T-Rupt Technology in March 2023. Since March 2023, he has been serving as the Strategy and Project Consultant for Türk Reasürans A.Ş. and the Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool (TCIP).

As of August 1, 2024, Özgür Bülent Koç has been appointed as the I. Deputy General Manager of Türk Reasürans A.Ş.

Çağrı Çulha was born in Istanbul in 1981. He received his bachelor’s degree from the Department of Business Administration in the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at Dokuz Eylül University in 2005 and his Master’s degree from the Department of Maritime Business Administration in the Maritime Faculty in 2007.

Çağrı Çulha began his career as an executive in the Department of Risk Management at AON in 2006 and worked as a broker for HSBC Insurance Brokers and for SSL Insurance Brokers in the UK from 2009 to 2012. After receiving a degree in Insurance from the Chartered Insurance Institute, Çağrı Çulha worked as an Assistant Manager for Willis Towers Watson from 2012 to 2017 and as a Department Manager for BMS Group from 2017 to 2019.

He became the Assistant General Manager in charge of Retrocession, Pool Management, Corporate Solutions & Casualty Facultative Reinsurance, Risk Engineering, Claims Management at Türk Reasürans A.Ş. on September 6, 2019.

Ali Sertaç Canal was born in Istanbul in 1978. In 2004 he received his bachelor’s degree in Economy  at Bilkent University and his Master’s degree from Business Administration in Maltepe University  Institute of Social Sciences  in  2011.

Ali Setaç Canal began his career as an officer at Milli Re and worked as a executive at Coface Insurance between 2008-2012. In the same year, he started to worked as an commercial underwriting manager at Euler Hermes Sigorta and he continued this duty until 2014.

Between 2014-2018, he worked as various broker companies in the field of financial insurance. Between 2018 - 2020, he worked as a financial insurance director at Halk Insurance.

Ali Sertaç Canal worked as Director of  Special Risks Management Center at Türk Reasürans A.Ş. as of July 2020 and he became Assistant General Manager in charge of Special Risks Management Center.Since January 2023, he is  responsible for Special Risks Management Center, Human Resources & Process Management, Corporate Communication, Purchasing and Administrative Affairs