Petrol Ofisi gets new chairwoman

“Our company’s board chairman, Aydın Doğan, has willingly resigned from his post as chairman of the board of directors and member of the board of directors. Hanzade Doğan Boyner has been appointed to fill the vacant seat as chairwoman for the board while Yahya Üzdiyen has been appointed as a board member,” said Petrol Ofisi in a statement published.

Boyner is a graduate of the London School of Economics. Immediately after receiving her bachelor’s degree in economics in 1995, she joined Goldman Sachs London as a financial analyst, becoming involved in large mergers and acquisition deals.

Later, she received an MBA in finance and marketing from Columbia University in 1999, moving to Turkey later that year. Boyner launched Doğan On-Line as an ISP and developed the firm into the country’s leading Internet company with various portals and commerce sites. She was later appointed as deputy chairwoman of Doğan Gazetecilik, a company with five major newspaper brands to its portfolio, including Milliyet, Radikal, Posta, Fanatik and Vatan.

At the same time, she also served on the boards of Petrol Ofisi and Doğan Holding.

She is currently the vice president at the World Association of Newspapers and a founding member of the Global Relations Forum. She is further a member of the Brookings Institute International Advisory Council, the Association of Turkish Businessmen and Industrialists, the Foreign Economic Relations Board, the Young Presidents’ Organization and the Association of Woman Entrepreneurs.

Apart from her business affiliations, she is also the founder and head of the successful “social mobilization” project “Dad, Send Me to School." The campaign aims to overcome barriers restricting girls’ education in Turkey. Within four years, the campaign managed to raise more than 32 million Turkish Liras for scholarships, girls’ dormitories and other training.