D-MARKET Electronic Services & Trading (d/b/a "Hepsiburada") (NASDAQ:HEPS), a leading Turkish e-commerce platform (referred to herein as "Hepsiburada" or the "Company"), today announced the appointment of Hakan Karadoğan to the role of Chief Executive Officer of Logistics, effective from March 25, 2024. Mr. Karadoğan will lead Hepsiburada's overall logistics operations, including warehousing, fulfillment, and last-mile delivery services for both on-platform and off-platform customers. Effective from March 31, 2024, the Company's Chief Logistics Officer, Mehmethan Yallagöz, has decided to step down from his role to pursue other business interests.
"Hakan Karadoğan is a seasoned leader with nearly three decades of broad-based experience within logistics services, engineering and supply chain management." Nilhan Onal Gökçetekin, Hepsiburada's CEO commented. "With his vast global and local experience, Hakan will lead our logistics business towards new heights. Building on his former tenure at Amazon, he will also contribute greatly to our strategic priority of differentiating our superior delivery services in the market and offering Hepsiburada logistics services to external customers. Under his leadership, Hepsiburada will scale its B2B business from warehousing to fulfillment and to last-mile delivery services." Mrs. Onal Gökçetekin added. "On behalf of the Company, I thank Mehmethan for his leadership and significant contributions to Hepsiburada's logistics and operations teams over the years and welcome Hakan to the Hepsiburada team."
Prior to joining Hepsiburada, Hakan Karadoğan was the General Manager of Amazon Türkiye Operations during which he, among other things, led the launch of Amazon's Türkiye Operations in 2018. Mr. Karadoğan also has 22 years of management experience from General Electric and its predecessors, where he held various management roles in the fields of engineering, manufacturing, supply-chain and business management. During his time at General Electric, he worked in China for six years as Product Line General Manager as well as held the role as Global Leader of Power Transformers Product Line overseeing its twelve factories worldwide. He has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University and completed leadership programs at Harvard Business School and Insead.