BOARD OF DIRECTORS

BOARD OF DIRECTORS


Philipp Haas

Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of DEVA Holding, Philipp Haas took MBA degree in the specialty of banking at St. Gallen Economy, Law and Business Administration University. He speaks German, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Turkish fluently. Having served as investment consultant and director since 1992, Philipp Haas has a broad experience in markets of Eastern European Countries and particularly Turkish market. Having taken part in many restructuring projects in Ukraine and Türkiye, Philipp Haas performed membership of many boards of directors on behalf of foreign corporate investors in 90s, among which are Rogan Brewery in Ukraine and Net Holding in Türkiye. Having a broad experience in pharmaceutical industry, Philipp Haas served as consultant to funds in pharmaceutical industry in developing markets and oriented their investments to Eastern Europe. Among such firms is Slovakopharma named afterwards as Zentiva. Being the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Eastpharma Ltd and DEVA Holding, Haas also serves as the Chairman of Board of Directors in Saba İlaç Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş., New Life Yaşam Sigorta A.Ş., Eastpharma İlaç Üretim Pazarlama San. ve Tic. A.Ş., and member of Board of Directors in Eastpharma Sarl. He also serves as manager in Devatis Ltd, Devatis Gmbh, Devatis AG, Devatis de Mexico S.DE RL. DE C.V, Devatis Pty Ltd, Devatis Canada Inc, Devatis d.o.o. Beograde, Devatis B.V. , Devatis MMC and as member of Board of Directors and CEO in Devatis Inc.

 

Mesut Çetin

The Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors and CFO of DEVA Holding, Mesut Çetin started his professional career within GEM Global Equities Management S.A., a fund management company, in 1999, and has served in various positions as clearing, research assistant, trader and management. Within the same group, he served actively in several private equity projects, and assumed the duty of project supervision in some projects. Mesut Çetin is the member of the BOD in Eastpharma Ltd. Ltd and Saba İlaç Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. He also performs the duty of CFO in various companies within the group. Mesut Çetin is the graduate of Mathematics Teaching at Boğaziçi University and completed his EMBA program at Koç University.
 
 

John Coombe-Tennant

Independent Board Member

Mr. Coombe-Tennant is the managing director of Port Tennant Co Ltd. and responsible for the company’s equity and real estate investment operations. He is a director of Trophy Asset Management Ltd, which is the investment manager to two Asian equity funds and 100% owner of Trophy Property GP Ltd., Between 1997 and 2001 Mr. Coombe-Tennant worked for the Hong Kong and London offices of Societe Generale where he specialized in global emerging markets and UK financial institutions. Prior to that he worked in Hong Kong for Jardine Fleming Securities in equity and sales research for five years. He worked at the Economist Intelligence Unit as a banking and European markets consultant and at Euromoney Publications between 1988 and 1991. He worked at Cazenove & Co in the equity fund management division between 1980 and 1987.

 
 

Christoph Sven Hoffmann

Independent Board Member

Mr. Hoffmann is an attorney and consultant specialized in commercial law and in the establishment of international distribution networks for consumer goods. Mr. Hoffmann worked for Roche in Switzerland, Argentina, Peru and as a Regional Manager of the Pharmaceutical Division in Hong Kong between 1983 and 1991. Mr. Hoffmann holds a Licentiate of Law degree from the University of Basel in Switzerland.