Halil Erdoğmuş

Group CEO

After graduating from Istanbul University, Department of Economics in 1991, Halil Erdoğmuş completed his master’s degree in International Business Administration from Istanbul University Social Sciences Institute between 1992-1993. Lastly, he completed the Executive MBA program at Sabancı University between 2018-2019.

He began his career in 1991 as an Operations Specialist at Türk Mitsui Bank A.Ş., and after leaving his position there, he worked as the Deputy General Manager of Erteks Erdoğmuş Tekstil Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş between 1992-1996. He also became the founding partner of Uşak Radyo TV A.Ş., which commenced its activities in 1992. Having worked as Business Development Manager at Benkar, a private-label credit card company, between 1997-1998, Erdoğmuş founded Ebebek Mağazacılık A.Ş. in 2000 and served as the General Manager of the Company from its foundation until the end of 2022.

Erdoğmuş, who is a Board Member at Evidea Mağazacılık A.Ş., is a founding member of the Baby Maternity Product Manufacturer, Importer and Retailer Association, as well as a member of TÜSİAD.

Can Karadeniz

General Manager

Can Karadeniz graduated from Galatasaray High School, then Koç University, Department of Business Administration, and completed his Executive MBA at Sabancı University.

Starting his career as an Audit Assistant at the Ernst and Young auditing company, he joined PepsiCo in 2012 as a Corporate Audit Manager, then worked as Türkiye Beverage Operations Commercial Projects Manager, Eastern Europe region Beverage Operations Projects Manager, and Control Manager responsible for Türkiye Operations. He joined ebebek as Financial and Administrative Affairs Director in March 2019 and has since taken the position of Store Operations Director in 2022. As of 1 January 2023, he was appointed as ebebek Turkey Operations General Manager. In addition, as of 2022, he has been serving as a Board Member at Tuna Cocuk. Can Karadeniz, who is married and has 1 child, is fluent in English and French.

Barış Şimşek

Information Technologies Director

Barış Şimşek, born in 1973, graduated from Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering in 1995. Şimşek started his professional career in the same year. In May 1997, he joined Koç Group at KoçSistem and worked as Solution and Integration Manager.

In 2013, he joined HSBC Türkiye as Application Development Leader and served there until he founded his own company in 2017. Between 2017-2020, he worked on software development and consultancy activities with his own company Tetrahedron Bilişim.

In 2020, Şimşek returned to corporate life as Data Team Leader at Türk Ekonomi Bankası, and in 2021, he stepped into the world of E-Commerce as E-Commerce Technology Manager at A101 Yeni Mağazacılık company. In 2023, he joined ebebek as Information Technologies Director.

Canay Otmanbölük

Human Resources Director

Canay Otmanbölük graduated from Istanbul University, Department of Economics in 2004 and started her career in the Human Resources department of one of Turkey's leading banks.

Otmanbölük, who has worked in senior management positions in the banking, private pension, and insurance sectors for more than 17 years. He joined the ebebek family as Human Resources Director in May 2024.

Emin Şimşek

CEO Office Director

Emin Şimşek holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Yıldız Technical University, a Master’s degree in the same branch from Yıldız Technical University and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Sabancı University. He received an education in Executive Leadership at Columbia Business School.

Having started his professional career as a Planning Engineer in 2004, Şimşek worked as Sales Manager and International Business Development Manager in various global companies.

Emin Şimşek, who started his ebebek journey as Commercial Director in 2020, has been working as ebebek CEO Office Director since 2022.

Erkan Kızılkaya

Regional Operations Director

Erkan Kızılkaya completed his education in Business Administration and Management at York University and received his master’s degree in Business Administration at Conley University.

Erkan Kızılkaya started his career at ebebek as a Babyologist in 2008. After working as Team Leader, Assistant Store Manager, Store Manager, Regional Manager, Stores Group Manager, he is now working as Store Operations Director.

Fahrettin Sami Bakkaloğlu

Regional Operations Director

Fahrettin Sami Bakkaloğlu completed his undergraduate education at Ankara University and continues his master's degree in Management and Strategy at the same university.

He started his ebebek career as a Store Manager in 2013, and was promoted to Regional Manager in 2016 and to Regions Group Manager in 2019. He continues his career journey at ebebek as Regional Operations Director.

Gönenç Şener

E-Commerce Director

Gönenç Şener graduated from Izmir High School for Science in 1990 and received his bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from ITU. He then completed the Manager Training Program at Istanbul Bilgi University.

Having started his career in 1995, Şener worked as Project Manager, Information and Communication Systems Coordinator, Project Management Office Manager, Process Development and Projects Manager, Head of Marketplace and Retail Operations and E-Commerce Director in the international air cargo transportation and e-commerce sectors.

Şener is a member of KalDer, ITU Alumni Association and Project Management Institute®, which is headquartered in the USA and from which he holds PMP® (Project Management Professional) and ATP (Authorized Training Partner) certificates.

Itır Erel Ergül

Marketing Director

After graduating from TED Ankara College in 2003 and Bilkent University, Department of Business Administration in 2007, she completed her Master's degree in Strategic Marketing and Management Consultancy at the University of Birmingham as an Honor Student.

After working in the family business between 2009 and 2010, she worked as a Management Trainee at HSBC as of April 2010, first as a Specialist in Cash Management and then in Credit Card Product Management departments, and then as Advantage Credit Card Manager. In 2012, he worked as Product and Marketing Manager at Turkcell Cüzdan, Turkey's first digital financial payment method and digital wallet solution. She then worked as Loyalty Programs Manager in the Segment Management department. Between 2015 and 2024, she worked as Beymen Club Marketing Manager, Beymen Club Marketing Manager, Beymen Marketing Manager, Beymen Marketing Manager and finally Beymen Commercial Marketing Director responsible for all category, channel, brand, campaign and marketing analytics at Beymen, the luxury retail leader.

She is married and the mother of a 5-year-old son. Itır Erel Ergül joined us as Marketing Director as of March 28th.

İlker Naimoğlu

Internal Control, Risk Management and Audit Director

After graduating from Istanbul Technical University, Department of Management Engineering and completing his Master’s Degree in Information Technologies at Bahçeşehir University, he started his career at Ernst & Young Risk Consultancy in 2004 and transferred to Deloitte Risk Consultancy in 2006. After providing audit and consultancy services to many companies in different industries, he worked at Vodafone, TTNET and Mazars Türkiye in the fields of internal control, compliance, risk management, internal audit and IT audit.

In 2015, Naimoğlu joined ABB Türkiye as Country Internal Control and Risk Management Manager. In 2019, he was transferred to the United States of America within ABB and managed internal control, risk and compliance activities in ABB America for about 3.5 years.

In 2023, he joined ebebek as Internal Control & Risk Management and Audit Director.

Müge Tekin

Commercial Director

After graduating from Istanbul High School in 1998 and Boğaziçi University, Department of International Relations in 2003, she completed her Master’s Degree in International Political Economy at Warwick University in England as an Honor Student.

As of December 2004, she worked at Metro Cash&Carry Türkiye in the Purchasing Department, first as a Specialist and GMS-MMS transition Process Manager responsible for all Non-Food, and then as Non-Food Merchandising Coordinator and Assistant Purchasing Manager, respectively.

In 2012, she worked as Commercial Manager at Dore Direkt Pazarlama, a subsidiary of Yıldız Holding. In 2015, she became the Category Manager of the Electrical Hand Tools, Hardware and Electricity Groups at Koçtaş Group, which is the Organized Retail Leader in the Home Decoration Group, for four years. In 2019, she worked as Group Manager at MediaMarkt in the IT and Accessories categories, respectively.

In 2023, she joined ebebek as Commercial Director. Müge Tekin is the mother of one child and fluent in German and English.

Onur Topgül

Supply Chain Director

Onur Topgül received his bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Ecole Centrale Paris in 2004. He then completed his master’s degree in two different departments at the same university, one in Production and Logistics and the other in Strategy-Marketing-Finance in 2005.

Onur Topgül started his professional career in the manufacturing sector in Paris in 2005 and worked in different roles in supply chain and project management in industries such as consumer durables, retail, textile, energy and logistics in the following years.

Having worked as Operations Manager - Europe in international distribution operations just before joining ebebek, Topgül continues his career journey as ebebek Supply Chain Director. Topgül is married and has two children. He is fluent in English, French and Italian.

Pınar Küçüktürköz

Textile Commercial Director

Pınar Küçüktürköz graduated from Galatasaray University, International Relations department and received her master’s degree in Production Management and Marketing from Marmara University.

Having started her professional career as a product planner in the textile retail sector in 2010 and worked in various managerial positions, Pınar Küçüktürköz has been continuing her career journey as Textile Commercial Director at ebebek since 2022.

Pınar Topsakal Eşici

Planning and Analysis Director

Pınar Topsakal Eşici graduated from Notre Dame De Sion French High School and received her undergraduate degree from Marquette University in the United States with highest honors in International Business, Marketing and French branches. She spent a semester as an exchange student at Edhec Business School in France. In 2007, she started her professional career in banking and continued in retail and food and beverage sectors assuming various responsibilities in Category Management, Marketing, Project Management and Analytics. In 2012, she graduated from Boğaziçi University Executive MBA Program with the first rank.

Pınar Topsakal Eşici, who is fluent in French and English, started her ebebek career journey as Budget, Reporting, Strategic Planning Manager in 2019 and was appointed as Planning and Analysis Director in 2023.

Tolga Koyuncu

Financial and Administrative Affairs Director

Tolga Koyuncu received his bachelor’s degree from Boğaziçi University.

He started his career in the financial audit sector in 2008 and worked as a manager in internal audit and budget-reporting and financial control departments in food and beverage, retail and energy sectors respectively.

Tolga Koyuncu worked as Budget, Reporting and Financial Control Manager at one of the major players in the energy sector just before joining ebebek. He has been working as the Financial and Administrative Affairs Director at ebebek since 2022.