Ajay Kumar Singh is a Certified Port Executive with over 25 years of experience in terminals, shipping and ocean transport industry, with having P/L responsibility and having diverse experience in business development, marketing & project management. He has a unique blend of management experience, an understanding of processes along with an overview of business realities and a grip over systems design along with an eye for the real need for solutions.
Over the past 15 years, his managerial responsibilities have spanned every level, from small regions to headquarters. He has gained wide cross-cultural experience, working in countries as Africa, U.K, Gulf, India and North America.
Ajay Kumar Singh is a highly accomplished executive with a successful record of improving business results through productivity enhancements and elimination of waste. This has been accomplished through matching internal performance drivers with customer service level. As a Certified Corporate Director, having a degree in Master of Business Management in International Trade which has subsequently augmented with a Post graduate diploma is Shipping and Export Management.
Javier Lozano, who is originally from Mexico, joins the MIP team as CFO. He graduated from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronic Systems and Computer Science. Javier brings with him 25 years of management experience developed in the Financial Industry at Global Companies in different sectors such as Construction, FMCG and Ports and different geographies in the Americas and Asia.
Javier comes to MIP with functional experience in Business transformation management, focused on change management and high complexity across the whole business. He has developed as Commercial Finance business partner and delivered top line growth and cost reduction initiatives. He has experience in Marketing & Operations Finance, Risk Management, Strategic Business Planning, Business Development, Project Management and excellent problem-solving skills where swiftly identifies the roots and develops effective solutions.
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Kerem Kavrar, who has over 20 years of experience in the maritime and logistics sector, worked as a manager in leading companies in the sector before joining Mersin International Port. He has experience in ship brokerage and chartering, maritime transportation, freight brokerage, supply chain and warehouse management.
Kerem KAVRAR joined the Mersin International Port team in 2010, serving from 2010 to 2013 as the CFS Manager in the operations department. He subsequently spent five years as the Sales and Marketing Manager in the commercial department until taking on the role of Trade Group Manager in 2018. Kerem KAVRAR holds a master's degree in logistics management in addition to a bachelor's degree in marketing with a focus in business administration. Since 2019, he has been on the Logistics department advisory board at Çağ University, which prepares young, skilled workers for the industry.
Çağdaş Çetinkaya graduated from Bilkent University, Department of Economics. Starting his career in a Logistics company in Mersin Free Zone, Jan 2004, and joined in 2005 P&O Nedlloyd and had a role of North America shipments coordinator in Mersin local agent. After having some experiences in Logistics and Shipping, started in PSA&Akfen joint venture company before privatization in 2006 and had responsibilities in takeover Project of Mersin Port.
Çağdaş Çetinkaya started to work as Shift Operations Executive after takeover of Mersin Port and continued to work in various units under Operations Management until today. He is serving now as Head of Operations in MIP since 2019.
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Born in Singapore in 1980, Kian Hwee Lee served in the military for 2.5 years after graduating from high school. Having studied Banking and Finance during his university education, Lee started his duty at PSA in 2004. After leaving PSA in 2008, he worked as Port Consultant in Bandar Abbas and Operational Management in Iran.
Lee, who started his duty at MIP in 2011 in the fields of Engineering, IT and Operations, continues his duty as Project Group Manager.
Özge Yılmaz Doğan, who received her Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Dokuz Eylul University and MBA from Bilgi University, worked in the field of Accounting and Finance between 2000-2006. She joined the PSA & Akfen joint venture in 2006 and assumed various responsibilities during the takeover of Mersin Port. While she worked as Accounting Manager for 12 years and as Procurement Manager for 3 years at MIP, she also led process improvement and digital transformation projects in the field of finance.
Following conducting several internal audit projects of PSA terminals for one year as Manager in the PSA Internal Audit Group, she was assigned as MIP Internal Audit and Risk Group Manager at the beginning of 2022. Özge Yılmaz Doğan holds a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) License and an Independent Audit License in the Capital Markets, and her Internal Audit License (CIA) process is ongoing.
Erdem Aksoy is currently the Head of IT at MIP. A proud graduate of Budapest University of Technology and Economics, he is inspired to pursue a career in information technologies while studying software engineering in the university. Prior to his current position as the Acting Head of IT, he was the IT Project, Compliance & Governance Manager in MIP. Before joining MIP, he worked in Hungary, Italy and Turkey on information technologies, information security and R&D management for leading companies in various sectors for over 20 years.
Erdem Aksoy holds CISA and CDPSE certifications issued by ISACA where he is also serving as a board member in ISACA Ankara Chapter. He is a lead auditor for various IT related management systems and an accredited trainer for ISO 20000:1 IT Service Management System. In his free time, he can be found camping and wine tasting. Erdem Aksoy is a trained wine expert and a member of Turkish Society of Wine Experts and Educators
