Mr. Erkan served as the general manager of Ticaret Securities for a short period following his departure from the Istanbul Stock Exchange as executive vice chairman in 2006. He was responsible for the international market, international relations and human resources among other responsibilities at the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) for twelve years, and was also a board member of Takasbank (Central Securities Depository, Settlement and Clearing Bank of ISE).

 

During his employment at the ISE between 1994 and 2006, he established the international relations, research and international market departments at the ISE as well as the Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges (FEAS) which currently has thirty-one stock exchanges as members. Mr. Erkan was promoted at the ISE as executive vice chairman in 1995.

 

Mr. Erkan had additional responsibilities during his term at the ISE as a member of the executive board of Turkish-Japanese Business Counsel; co-director of projects with the Organization of Economic Development and Co-operation (OECD) in SME financing and best practices for developing stock exchanges; representative of ISE at FEAS and other organizations such as the International Organization of Securities Commissioners (IOSCO), the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), as well as being the joint project coordinator of South East European Cooperative Initiative (SECI) to implement a cooperation project for the securities markets in the Balkans. He also initiated a project for the cooperation of securities markets of the Islamic countries in COMSEC Subcommittee under the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC).

 

Early in his career, Mr. Erkan had extensive experience in the transportation, petroleum and manufacturing sectors. He entered the capital markets in 1989 as a research analyst working with foreign institutional investors. Subsequently, he worked as a research analyst on a retainer basis for Bankers Trust following various sectors in the capital markets of Turkey between 1992 and 1993.