MANAGEMENT TEAM

• Şanda Kıray (Commercial Director)
  • Şanda Kıray, who has long years' management experience in the banking, production, construction and service sectors, founded SAS Group in 1999. Experience she acquired especially in the project finance, business development and joint ventures when measured against the needs of local and foreign companies was the rationale for the foundation of the SAS Group comprising two operational companies being, SAS Financial Advisory Services and MBR Wastewater Treatment Services. Sanda has managed direct investments, startups with equity participations and exits in a variety of sectors including facility management and the health center industries.
     
    Şanda started her career in 1979 at Turkish Eximbank and her last corporate post was as CEO at Çelebi Holding between 1999-2000. Previously, she worked in management positions at Modern Ofis Makinaları A.Ş. founded by DMO- DESİYAB-Olivetti and further as Assistant General Coordinator at ATA Construction. She is a graduate of Hacettepe University Faculty of Economics and TED Ankara College.
• Enver Emir Bahadırlı (Financial Director)
  • Emir Bahadirli joined SAS Group in 2011. Previously he had worked over three years at Garanti Asset Management, owned by Garanti Bank, managing TL 6 billion as an Investment Analyst at the Strategy and Research Department. He has a SPK (Capital Markets Board) Advenced Level Licence and a SPK Derivative Products Licence. During his undergraduate studies, Emir worked as an intern at the international credit rating corporation Fitch as well as with international audit, tax and financial services corporation Deloitte Touche in the Tax and Mergers department. Emir had a scholarship at Istanbul Bilgi University for Quantitative Financial Economy Masters Degree and a scholarship at Sabancı University Economics BA. He worked as a teaching assistant for Accounting classes in his last two senior years. He also serves at Young Tourism Leaders Association as Vice President responsible for Financial Businesses.
• Ian Hume (Engineering Director)
  • Ian has worked at UK's largest water and wastewater utilities as senior manager over 20 years and since 2004 is the managing partner of UK MBR Process Design Ltd and is the technical director and UK director of MBR Wastewater Treatment system Ltd. He manages and supervises the process design, and technical support services of MBR with his team in UK and Turkey.
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  • Ian was the managing partner of UK Aquas Vie during 2001-2004 after the managerial buy out of Aquator from Wessex Water as one of the five directors. Between 1999-2001, he was the assistant general manager of Azurix Services Ltd, owned by Wessex Water, one of the largest utilities in UK with 100 million pound capital and 230 engineers. Ian was especially responsible to promote advanced membrane technologies. 1997-1999, he was Strategy and Business Development manager of AMEC Mechanical & Electrical Services and general manager of AMEC Rail Ltd. 1991-1997, Ian worked as Technical and Infrastructure manager at South West Water Services Ltd., another large utility of UK. He also worked at  McCormick Inc. 1987-1991 and started his career at British Aircraft Corp. in 1968.

• Prof.Dr. Güçlü İnsel (Technical Advisor)

  • Dr. Insel is presently working as Professor (2017) at the Environmental Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University. He has been working since 20 years in Istanbul Technical University, and has worked 3 years in Gent University, Belgium.

    Dr. Insel has 22 years of experience in the projects including engineering of infrastructure, wastewater treatment plants, optimization of industrial and municipal wastewater treatment projects. He was actively involved in research and development projects in the most prestigious and important applied research. He has almost more than 3 years of international experience at Gent University, Applied Mathematics Biometrics and Process Control Department.
    He worked both in private sector and universities (ITU, GYTE and Gent). He was actively involved in the projects of Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Water and Sewerage Administrations of Municipalities, State Hydraulic Authority of Turkey (DSI) and EUREKA, LIFE. His experience is mostly related to the industrial pollution control, process design and control of large scale wastewater treatment plants. He is providing consultancy services for engineering companies, municipalities, industries etc.
    Professional use of wastewater treatment plant simulators and design software
    AQUASIM
    WEST (Worldwide Engine for Simulation Training and Automation)
    BIOWIN
    GPS-X
    AQUA DESIGNER
    AQUA AERO
    AutoCAD
    Microsoft Applications
    Statistica
• Mustafa Oğuz Akfırat (Technical Advisor)
  • Oğuz Akfırat is a graduate from ODTU Mechanical Engineering in 1985.
  • 37 years of experience in design and construction supervision, and construction of water and wastewater pumping stations and treatment plants as well as experience in feasibilities and or CBA of water and wastewater infrastructures which include pumping stations with the use of computer software for hydraulic calculations and CAD
  • Experience in procurement processes, including IBRD and EU guidelines, PRAG Tendering procedures  for various WTP and WWTP projects.
  • Worked as supervision engineer for Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant mechanical equipment installation and design supervision engineer for Wastewater Treatment Works and Dam Water Intake Structure and Pumping Station and rising main steel pipes factory tests.
  • Experience as senior designer and coordinator for several Wastewater Treatment Plant projects.
  • Involved in various IBRD and EU financed projects with wide experience in managing works under international tender documents such as FIDIC.
  • Member of Board and Deputy General Manager in İMECE A.Ş:

• İlyas Doğan (Marketing Administration)

• Muzaffer Değgez (Civil Engineer)

• Adnan Aktulga (Mechanical Engineer)