3rd Annual PPP Healthcare Summit 2017

Our 2017 Summit will bring together the key stakeholders in the Healthcare PPP Ecosystem including those working on successful PPP projects in North America, Europe and Asia, to share lessons learned so far. From establishing the legal framework and securing financing to operating and maintaining a profitable hospital, this event will explore the entire lifecycle of the agreement from the perspective of all parties.

With local focus, the summit will be a continuation from the event earlier this year, to focus on how the world’s largest hospitals will be operated and maintained sharing best practices and investment opportunities for the second batch of projects in Turkey due to be announced.

Exclusive to the PPP Healthcare event:

Ministerial and governmental presentation and Q&A from the Ministry of Health: lessons learned so far, future pipeline and what the government plans to do to support best-in-class partners to deliver on its ambitious vision
Invitation-only excellency roundtables for Ministers of Health from across the region to discuss and share knowledge on the future of healthcare PPP policy
International best-practice case studies from some of the most innovative projects in the world
Perspectives from the full PPP community: government, financiers, lenders, construction firms, service providers and clinicians

Past Expert Speakers

Dr. Mehmet Müezzinoğlu

Minister of Health
Republic of Turkey

Dr. Mehmet Müezzinoğlu

Mehmet Müezzinoğlu was born in Komotini on 9 January 1955. He graduated from Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty in 1982. He finished his specialization in Internal Medicine in Istanbul Haseki Training and Research Hospital. He performed as Istanbul Provincial Head of Justice and Development Party (AK Party).

He is the founder of a private hospital in Avcılar. He is a charter member of Avcılar Foundation of Social Help and Solidarity, Western Thrace Foundation of Education and Culture, Balkan Civilization Foundation and a member of Western Thrace Turks’ Foundation of Solidarity.

Dr. Ahmet Bilal Dostbil

Deputy General Manager, General Directorate of Health Investments
Ministry of Health, Turkey

Dr. Ahmet Bilal Dostbil

He was born in 1975, Adana. He completed his high school education in Ankara. He graduated from Medicine Faculty of Cukurova University in 2002. He completed his master on Health Facilities Administration at THK University in 2013. He is attending his Doctoral Programme at Department of Medical Pharmacology of Gazi University. Between 2002-2003 he served as Branch Manager of 112 Emergency Services in K. Maraş’s Tekinli district, between 2003-2008 he served as Head of Department of 112 Emergency Services and Medical Administration Models of Ankara, between 2009-2010 he served as Deputy Chief Physician of Dışkapı Yıldırım Beyazıt Education and Research Hospital, between 2010-2012 he served as Head Physician of Etlik Specialization Education and Research Hospital, between 2012 December and 2014 April he served as Head of Department of General Directorate of Health Investments and Medical Administration Models, between April and 2016 March he served as Head of Department of Public Private Partnerships of Health Investments General Directorate. Since March 2016 he is working as Deputy Director General of Health Investments. He has high proficiency in English.

Dr. FUAT KANTARCI

General Manager, General Directorate of Health Investments,
Ministry of Health, Turkey

Dr. FUAT KANTARCI

He was born in 1966 in Erzurum. He completed his primary, secondary and high school education in Istanbul. Mr. Kantarcı graduated from Medicine Faculty of Trakya University and started to his compulsory service in Çanakkale, in 1992. He was appointed to Istanbul Esenler District Healthcare Center in 1993.

He officiated as the Vice President of Esenler Healthcare Group from 2000 to 2002; as the President of Esenler Healthcare Group from 2002 to 2005. He was appointed as the Deputy Manager of Istanbul Provincial Directorate of Health in 2005.

He officiated as the Head of Department of Istanbul Special Provincial Administration Health, Sport, and Social Services Department between the years of 2006 and 2013.

He was appointed to Ministry of Health, General Directorate of Healthcare Investments in 2013. He served as the Vice Institution President of Financial Services in Turkish Public Hospitals Institution from 2013 to 2014. He is currently serving as the General Manager of General Directorate of Healthcare Investments, Ministry of Health.

Murat BİNİCİ

Deputy General Manager, General Directorate of Health Investments
Ministry of Health, Turkey

Murat BİNİCİ

He was born in 1976 in Bingöl. He graduated from Civil Engineering Faculty of Ataturk University in 1998 and from Vocational School of Justice of Anadolu University in 2015. He still continues his master education at Department of Real Estate Development of Ankara University that he has started in 2012. He served as construction supervisor at Kiptaş A.Ş., Istanbul Municipality between 1998-200; civil engineer at Provincial Bank, 13. Van Regional Directorate between 2001-2007; Unit Supervisor, Regional Director, Vice President at Department of Construction Maintenance, Ministry of Health. He is still serving as Deputy General Manager at General Directorate of Healthcare Investments, Ministry of Health. He is fluent in English.

Prof.Dr. Eyup Gümüş

Undersecretary
Department of Health
Turkey

Prof.Dr. Eyup Gümüş

He was born in 1966 in Malatya, Darene. He completed his primary and secondary education in Istanbul. He graduated from Medicine Faculty of Uludag University in 1990. He worked as practicing doctor in Lice village of Diyarbakır from 1990 to 1992. He started to his medical specialisation in Urology at the Şişli Hamidiye Etfal Hospital in 1992. He became the Urology Specialist in 1997. He received the title of Associate Professor in Urology in 2005. He was appointed to Ümraniye Training and Research Hospital as Head Physician and Clinic Chief of Urology. He received the title of full Professor in Urology in 2012. He is still serving as Executive Board Member of Turkish Urology Association and Eurasia Urooncology Association as well as Chairman of Robotic Surgery Association.

He is married and has two daughters. He has high proficiency in English.

Şuayip Birinci

Deputy Undersecretary
Ministry of Health, Turkey

Şuayip Birinci

Deputy Undersecretary of Ministry of Health of Republic of Turkey

He was born in 1973 in Rize. He completed his primary and secondary education in Rize and Trabzon. He graduated from Medicine Faculty of Ondokuz Mayis University in 1998. He started to practice in Rize, and worked in Primary Heathcare Center, 112 Emergency Services and Rize Public Hospital until 2001. In 2001, he was appointed to Istanbul and worked as a physician in various public institutions. He served as Deputy Chief Physician in Umraniye Training Research Hospital between 2005 and 2009 and he worked as Deputy Provincial Health Director between 2009 and 2012. In November 2012, he became the Istanbul Northern Anatolia Public Hospitals Association Secretary General. In 2014 May, he was appointed as Ministry of Health Deputy Undersecretary. In 2010, he completed Health Institutions Administration Master Programme and in 2013, Leadership and Global Entrepreneurship Master Programme. He is attending his Health Institutions Administration Doctoral Programme that he began in 2013. He has works on health technologies, health informatics, communication technologies, health management and computational administration. Also, he planned numerous public e-health projects at regional and national level and became the leader on successful service delivery.

Arda Ermut

President
ISPAT

Arda Ermut

Professor Isaac F. Adewole

Honourable Minister of Health
Nigeria

Professor Isaac F. Adewole

DR. ARVIND MAYARAM

Former Finance Secretary
Govt. Of India

DR. ARVIND MAYARAM

Arvind Mayaram has a PhD in Finance and is a Certified PPP Specialist. He was earlier the Finance Secretary of India. He has been the Alternate Governor of India on the Board of World Bank, ADB and African Development Bank. He was India’s finance deputy in G20 and BRICS. He was also on the Board of the Reserve Bank of India and the Securities Exchanges Board of India. He was India’s chief negotiator for BRICS New Development Bank and co-chair of the Framework Working Group of G-20.

In the Indian State of Rajasthan he worked, in addition to several other assignments, as Investment Commissioner, Secretary Industries & Commerce and Tourism Secretary. He has also had experience of senior management positions in several public sector enterprises.

He has been instrumental in several major initiatives in the area of investment, infrastructure development, Public Private Partnerships and institution building. He spearheaded the establishment of the framework for mainstreaming PPPs in India and accelerated the process of including newer areas for PPPs. He has worked extensively in the field of infrastructure finance. He also designed the first PPP module for delivering infrastructure in the rural areas deftly combining infrastructure asset creation and delivery of services with private investment in economic activities and skill development for the poor and an integrated education and skill certification programme for school dropouts.

He was Vice President of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA), formed under the aegis of UNCTAD, UNIDO, FIAS and MIGA for two terms in early 2000. He has been an investment promotion expert with the UNCTAD for several years and his expertise in the area of PPPs is internationally acknowledged. He has undertaken a large number of missions for the UN agencies in several developing countries such as Sudan, South Africa, Fiji, Ecuador, Uzbekistan, South Africa, Cambodia etc. and has led several foreign economic negotiations on behalf of the Government of India at sub-cabinet level strategic economic dialogues with countries such as the USA, China, the UK, Japan and South Korea.

He is an institution builder. He was one of the founder members of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA), a multilateral organisation. In addition to many other important initiatives in building institutions, he conceived of the unique public private partnership structure for Project Development Company of Rajasthan (PDCOR) and National Skill Development Corporation and the National Skill Development Trust, the foundation stones of the National Skill Development Mission in India.

Jean-Patrick Marquet

Country Director
EBRD

Jean-Patrick Marquet

Jean-Patrick MARQUET is the Country Director for Turkey at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, based in Istanbul. He was appointed in March 2015, heading a team of 85 staff across 3 offices in Istanbul, Ankara and Gaziantep. In 2014 EBRD signed 37 projects in Turkey for a total investment of €1.4 billion and the debt and equity portfolio exceeds €5 billion across the corporate, financial institutions, energy and infrastructure sectors.

Before Turkey, Jean-Patrick Marquet was heading EBRD’s Municipal and Environmental Infrastructure team at the London headquarters. He originally joined EBRD in 2001 in the Natural Resources team, coming from a project finance background acquired at French bank Crédit Lyonnais. He is a graduate of HEC Paris School of Management and the Paris Assas law school.

Linda Abdullah

Head of Medical Tourism
Dubai Health Authority

Linda Abdullah

Layla al Marzouqi

Director of the Health Regulation
Dubai Health Authority

Layla al Marzouqi

Aisha Williams

Country Manager
IFC, Turkey

Aisha Williams

Aisha Williams is IFC’s Country Manager for Turkey. She oversees IFC’s program in Turkey and manages the day-to-day operations for the Istanbul Operations Center, IFC’s hub for the EMENA region and the corporation’s largest office outside of Washington, DC.

Aisha joined IFC in 2005 as an investment officer in the Telecom, Media, and Technology Department, where she led several landmark transactions, including’s IFC largest infrastructure investment in Iraq, a pioneering investment in Afghanistan’s mobile phone sector, and a PPP for a submarine telecommunications cable connecting East Africa to the rest of the world. In 2010, Aisha relocated to Istanbul. As Special Assistant to the Vice President for EMENA, Aisha’s portfolio included contributing to the design and implementation of the Istanbul Operations Center and supporting the development of IFC’s corporate and EMENA regional strategies.

Prior to joining IFC, Aisha worked as a strategy consultant with McKinsey & Co. in Chicago, USA, specializing in financial institutions. Aisha holds an MSc in Development Economics from Oxford University, an MBA from Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University) and a B.A. from Princeton.

Aisha is a dual citizen of the United States and Trinidad & Tobago.

Anthony Smith

Chairman
PPP Experts

Anthony Smith

Av. Dr. Ramazan Arıtürk

Co-Founder
Elmadag

Av. Dr. Ramazan Arıtürk

Dr. Atty. Ramazan Arıtürk has 20 years’ experience working on variety of infrastructure projects in Turkey. As co-founder of Elmadag Law Firm, Mr. Ariturk is consulting to Ministry of Health of Turkish Republic for 18 PPP City Hospital Projects, especially in the field of PPP Law, Administrative Law and Law of Contracts. At the same time, Mr. Ariturk is giving lectures in different leading Turkish Universities such as Istanbul Trade University and Sabahattin Zaim University.

Christophe Dualé

Head of Business Development
Interserve

Christophe Dualé

Graduated from the Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics (ESTP) in Paris, Christophe started his career in the construction development arm of Compagnie Générale des Eaux (prior to becoming Vivendi). Then at Vivendi, Christophe extended his competence to building operations. Christophe moved into the UK, where there is the most developed and matured Facilities Management market in Europe to strengthen his knowledge in support services and operations. This is how Christophe has been involved in the PFI/PPP UK market for more than 16 years. Christophe has been working at Interserve since 2006 to be responsible of all aspects of operating solutions in PPP projects covering all sectors but predominantly healthcare.

Esen Tümer

Head of Business to Goverment Middle East & Turkey Region
Philips

Esen Tümer

Esen Tümer is the General Manager of Philips Healthcare in Turkey. Besides her role at Philips she is the President of National Trade Association in Medical Technologies field called TıpGörDer which is the official Member of COCIR in Europe. She has 18 years of experience in Healthcare Industry and held many executive positions in different companies. She worked at Johnson and Johnson between 1996-2000 and Tyco Healthcare between 2000-2008. She had bachelor’s degree from İstanbul University and MBA degree from University of California Los Angeles UCLA/USA. She was responsible from many international projects based in Cincinnati / USA , London /UK and New Delhi/ India.

Esra Tutek

Project Finance
Finansbank

Esra Tutek

Esra Tutek has been working at Finansbank Project and Structured Group as a Project Manager since 2010. Her specialized area is composed of financing privatization, PPP and energy projects. She has taken an active role in negotiations with the Ministry of Health in respect of the Project Agreement and the Funders Direct Agreement of Health Care PPP Projects. She has been leading two major PPP projects in Turkey that Finansbank has participated and also working on other potential PPP projects in the healthcare sector. Previously, Mrs. Tutek worked at an Investment Bank, EFG Istanbul, as an Assistant Vice President between 2007 and 2010. Here, she focused on M&A transactions in the energy sector. She advised an international electricity generation company in the acquisition of a Turkish company owning the license of the largest wind farm in Turkey. She also advised during the privatization of ADUAS (the first privatized electricity generation company in Turkey), which had a portfolio of 7 HEPP’s and 1 geothermal power plant. Moreover, she advised the privatization of İzgaz; a natural gas distribution company. Before joining EFG Istanbul, she worked at the investment banking group of Finansbank, where she gave M&A consulting services to the clients of the bank, evaluated and monitored medium-long term corporate credits and developed financial consultancy services to meet specific needs of clients. Prior to that, she worked at a boutique consultancy company focused on SME’s as Business Development Manager and Co-Owner, where she established and coordinated all relationships with clients and developed business strategies to create pipeline projects (business finance consulting, financial and trade training programs, consulting services for EU contracts). Before establishing this company, she was an equity analyst at Is Investment Securities and she covered the Turkish electricity sector. Mrs. Tutek. holds an MBA from Bilkent University and a B.S. in Mathematics from Middle East Technical University

Günay Gökçen

Head of Legal
MR İşletme Hizmetleri Danışmanlığı A.Ş.

Günay Gökçen

Atty. Günay Gökçen has fourteen years experience of working with hundreds of domestic and international clients on foreign investment law, commercial law, PPP Law, Banking and Finance Law, Law of Contracts and Corporate Law. She has served in a vast number of end – to – end PPP Projects with Professional recognized PPP training qualifications in PPP Project Negotiation, Mobilisation, Fundraising and Legal Arrangements for Ministry of Health of Turkey. She has more than 6 years of experience in Banking and Finance Law in Canada

Hakan Adanalı

PPP coordinator
Bozlu holding

Hakan Adanalı

Dr. Hasan Senol

Chairman of the Executive Board
Bilim Özel Sağlık Hizmetleri A.Ş.

Dr. Hasan Senol

Eskişehir Maarif High School

Dokuz Eylül University School of Economics and Administrative Sciences – Tourism Business Management

Ankara University School of Medicine

Osmangazi University Department of Radiology Specialty Programme

USA Ohio – MR Training

USA – the UK – Germany – Italy – various medical seminar and training programmes

SDU Biomedical Teaching Fellow (one year)

Research on Medical Physics – Nuclear Physics

Research on economic, cultural and psychological impact of relations of production on people and society

Research on theology and parapsychology

Reaserch on pre-Islam Turkish history and Turkish culture

John DM Davie

Chairman
Altra Capital

John DM Davie

He served two three-year terms as chairman of the UKTI (UK Government) Advisory Group on Public Private Partnerships, served as a member of the UK Financial Services Sector Advisory Board and as Chairman of British Expertise. He is chairman of the British Expertise Project Finance and PPP working group. John is a member the UN Economic Council for Europe Panel of PPP Experts. He has been involved the evolution of contemporary theory of PPP since its inception in the UK in 1992.

John is well known in the City of London, where he is an adviser to The Lord Mayor of the City of London on PPP. John runs the British Expertise series of PPP Master Classes providing training for novices and experts in PPP.

With a background in project management of major real estate and infrastructure developments John has developed a thorough appreciation of both finance and management. He has gained wide-ranging hands-on experience in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East, where he has advised many major private sector clients and governments on various strategic issues.

Mr Davie is a Visiting Professor at the London Metropolitan Business School.

John McKendrick

Vice President
Infrastructure Ontario

John McKendrick

John McKendrick has been with Infrastructure Ontario since its inception in November 2005. Having been an integral part of the major projects division from the outset, he has had the unique opportunity to participate in and drive the evolution of the program.

As the interim Executive Vice President and Group Head of Major Projects, John is responsible for the planning, development, and procurement of major public infrastructure projects. His portfolio includes hospitals, colleges, courthouses, a data centre, Pan Am Games’ infrastructure projects, and the Civil Infrastructure program.

John came to Infrastructure Ontario with over 17 years of experience in the Provincial government. During that time, he gained expertise in finance and infrastructure project development and delivery. Before joining Infrastructure Ontario, he was an Assistant Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Public Infrastructure Renewal (now the Ministry of Infrastructure).

John had also served as the Director of the Corporate Finance Branch at the Ontario Financing Authority. During that time, he was involved in the financing of a number of infrastructure projects across various sectors, including asset-based and other financing structures.

John Seed

Head of Infrastructure Finance Europe, Russia & Africa
Mott MacDonald

John Seed

John is the head of the Mott MacDonald infrastructure finance advisory business in the Europe, Russia and Africa regions. He supports PPP and private finance advisory teams in London, Paris, Arnhem, Warsaw, Istanbul, Prague, Moscow, Kampala, Nairobi and Johannesburg. John and his 60+ colleagues from these teams also support Mott MacDonald technical teams elsewhere in the world where such advisory services are required.

John’s PPP experience includes all types of social infrastructure such as hospitals, schools and housing as well as waste, transportation and railway infrastructure. He regularly presents at conferences and seminars and runs training and knowledge sharing workshops on PPP procurement and was responsible for the drafting of several UK standard PPP procedures and guidelines including the 4ps PPP Project Directors Guide and PPP Contract Management Guide. John is also a work stream lead for the UNECE initiative to draft a new Healthcare PPP policy.

The advisory teams that John manages provide cross-sector technical, transactional and commercial advisory services to governments, sponsors and lenders. In 2013 alone, Mott MacDonald infrastructure finance advisors were involved in over 350 PPP projects in 62 different countries around the world making them the number one global provider of PPP technical advisory services.

Levent Kirazoğlu

Project Finance Department
Garanti Bank

Levent Kirazoğlu

Levent Kirazoglu has been working at Garanti Bank – Project Finance Department- since 2006 and is the Manager of the Infrastructure&Real Estate team. He has a banking experience of 12 years. Levent has an undergraduate degree on Business Administration (with the major in finance) from Marmara University and has his masters degree in the Executive-MBA programme of Sabancı University. He has hands-on experience on project finance deals in many different sectors including infrastructure, energy, commercial real estate, healthcare and many other industries. He also worked for many acquisition finance transactions in various sectors during his ongoing career in Garanti.

Mr Birhan Emre Yazici

CEO
NKY Architects & Engineers

Mr Birhan Emre Yazici

Mr Birhan Emre Yazici was appointed CEO of NKY after graduating from Atilim University in 2006 from the department of Industrial Engineering. As an experienced leader and project manager for his company, his expertise includes knowledge of Public Private Partnership investments and multi billion pound projects specializing primarily in healthcare projects, which has helped him grow the company throughout Turkey and internationally.

Nasser Massoud

Executive Board Director, Global Head of Transactions & Corporate Development
InterHealth Canada

Nasser Massoud

Nasser Massoud holds the position of Executive Board Director at InterHealth Canada where he is responsible for transactions and corporate development worldwide. Prior, Mr. Massoud held a senior executive position with Saraya Holdings, a real estate developer and asset manager specializing in tourism and leisure. He previously ran his own business (Concept Realisation) which focused on strategic consulting, investment advisory and enterprise transformation. Leading up to that Mr. Massoud was a director in PricewaterhouseCoopers, both in the Middle East and in the UK. He started his career working on high profile projects in the field of construction project management.

Mr. Massoud holds academic and professional qualifications in a broad range of disciplines: Master in Finance (London Business School), Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Chartered Engineer, Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Master in Construction Economics and Management (Bartlett School of Architecture, London), and Bachelors in Civil Engineering (University College London).

During his association with InterHealth Canada, Mr. Massoud led the negotiations and financial closure on the PPP in Orthopaedics at Runcorn and Kidderminster and has in the last year led several transactions in the UK, Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, Eastern Europe and the Caribbean. He has facilitated the establishment of InterHealth’s strategy in terms of its products/ services and markets; and has introduced corporate-level.

Peter Aurich

Managing Director
Head of Infrastructure Turkey
UniCredit Bank Austria AG

Peter Aurich

Peter has more than 19 years experience working on a variety of infrastructure projects. Within the Project Finance team of UniCredit Corporate & Investment Banking he started in 1995 with a focus on PFI and infrastructure projects in Europe. He has been responsible for the structuring and arranging of several landmark transportation projects mainly in the railway sector as well as for financial advisory mandates for private and public clients.

Starting in 1999 but more actively since 2003 he developed the project finance business in Turkey for UniCredit Group and built up a broad network to Turkish customers and authorities. He was in charge for the structuring and arranging of the privatizations of Istanbul Airport, Ankara Airport and Antalya Airport among others.

As the most recent deal highlights in 2013 Peter closed his Financial Advisory mandate for the Eurasia Road Tunnel Crossing in Istanbul, a landmark USD 1.2bn financing involving Multilaterals, ECAs, intl. and Turkish commercial banks. Furthermore Peter closed the refinancing of Mersin Port using for the first time a corporate bond issue for an infrastructure concession based asset in Turkey.

Since 2010 Peter is heading UniCredit’s cross border Infrastructure Turkey Team based in Istanbul and Munich. Beginning with 2014 the Munich part of the Infrastructure Turkey team has moved to the CEE Division of UniCredit Group headquartered in UniCredit Bank Austria AG, Vienna.

Peter’s main focus is now on the upcoming large Privatizations and Hospital PPPs in Turkey. The first of its kind, the Mersin PPP Hospital has been signed on 21 November 2014. He is a graduate of the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich with a degree in Business Administration.

Peter Ward

Director of Healthcare Projects
John Laing and Project Team, UNECE

Peter Ward

Peter is responsible for business development in the healthcare sector for John Laing, a leading international investor in economic and social infrastructure which has delivered more than 20 major healthcare PPP projects and over 40 clinics and primary care facilities.

He has worked on the development of public infrastructure since 1989 and has substantial experience in the successful structuring and delivery of a diverse range of Public-Private Partnerships in the healthcare, water and transportation sectors in the UK, Africa, the Middle East, South East Asia and the Caribbean. Since 2001 he has focussed specifically on healthcare projects, managing the development and delivery of major acute and mental health schemes with a capital value exceeding £2bn.

Peter is a Chartered Civil Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He is also a Non-Executive Director of the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust which operates one of the UK’s leading teaching hospitals, and is leading a project to develop a standard for the implementation of Healthcare PPP projects globally for the United Nations.

Riko Vanezis

Partner
Clifford Chance

Riko Vanezis

Riko Vanezis has been a partner at Clifford Chance since 1994. Riko has a broad range of experience in project finance and other structured finance transactions. He regularly acts for finance providers, sponsors and other transaction parties in domestic and international project financings in many sectors, including infrastructure, healthcare, energy, ports and airports.

Riko Vanezis joined Clifford Chance in London in 1986 and qualified as an English law solicitor in 1988. From 1988 to 1990 Riko worked in Clifford Chance’s Tokyo office. From 1990 onwards, Riko Vanezis has been working in the Frankfurt office of Clifford Chance. Riko is now one of the partners responsible for Clifford Chance’s Istanbul office.

Since 2010 Riko has been very active in the Turkish healthcare privatisations, and is currently acting in the Etlik, Bilkent, Gaziantep and Mersin healthcare PPPs in Turkey.

Riko has been involved in many of the landmark infrastructure projects in Turkey, including advising the lenders in the financing of the Bosphorus Road Tunnel and advising lenders in the financing of the Third Bosphorus Bridge. Riko also acted either for sponsors and lenders in the project financings of Atatürk Airport, Sabiha Gökcen Airport, Esenboga Airport, Izmir Airport, Antalya Airport, Zafer Airport and Milas-Bodrum Airport. In the port sector, Riko advised the lenders in the Bandirma Port project and the sponsors in the financing of the Mersin Port privatisation and in the Iskenderun Port project financing.

Serhat İnanç

PPP & Finance Expert

Serhat İnanç

Serhat Inanc is the Board Member of Turkerler Holding from Turkey.

Prior to joining Turkerler, Serhat was CFO of Emek Proje Company, a semi private investment firm dedicated to redevelop landmark 5 star Hotels with International Chains in Turkey owned by the Turkish Pension Fund. Prior to Emek Proje, Serhat was Coordinator in Akfen Holding, a Turkish conglomerate dedicated to infrastructure investments including airports and ports. He started his career in PwC.

Serhat joined Turkerler in 2006. He was Coordinator in Turkerler Construction Company, admiral ship of the Group. He was responsible for finance, mergers & acquisitions, information technology, corporate strategy and planning.

In 2010, Serhat started to serve as an Executive Board Member in Turkerler Holding. He is responsible from business development, mergers & acquisitions, and corporate strategy. He is also leading Healthcare PPP Investments of the Holding with executive positions as Board Member and/or CEO.

Serhat earned a BS degree from Middle East Technical University on Management. He speaks English and German.

Sıla Cılız İnanç

CLO
Akfen

Sıla Cılız İnanç

Sıla Cılız İnanç, graduated from Marmara University, Faculty of Law in 1995, joined Akfen Holding in 1997 upon having carried out law internship in 1996.She took part in Public Private Partnership projects (PPP) in Turkey, mergers and acquisitions, worked in concern with construction, energy and competition law. She took an active role in secondary legislation of Public Tender Law. She worked at every stage of build-operate-transfer projects, transfer of rights/concession and all process of privatizations implementations including tenders and transfers in which Akfen and its subsidiaries participated, also dealt with establishment of financial structures, facility agreements and both public offering and legal adaptation process to CMB laws and regulations. She conducted company and holding structure works. She is now Deputy General Manager of Akfen Holding A.Ş. and also Board Member of various Akfen Holding subsidiaries.

Val Jovevski

Global Healthcare Director
Honeywell Building Solutions

Val Jovevski

Val joined Honeywell in 2003, and has over 14 years experience in the area of Business Development in the construction industry.
In his current role he is responsible for coaching and developing business solutions within the South East Asia, Pacific, India, Middle East and South Africa region for Major Projects. He has led several successful bid teams for specific projects that required innovative solution and delivery systems for PPP, public and private sector projects.
He has been heavily involved with technological improvements across integrated systems, specialising in the area of mission critical. Val has a deep and thorough understanding of multiple disciplines within many Hospital services requirements, including Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Mechanical, Electrical, Fire, Hydraulics,
Val has extensive experience with converged solutions, digital health enterprise systems specifically for healthcare sector.

Şule Kılıç

Deputy Country Director, Turkey
EBRD

Şule Kılıç

Sule has over 22 years experience working on a variety of Project Finance/Financial Advisory, M&A, Private Equity, Bank Acquisition

She is currently working as the Deputy Country Director for Turkey at EBRD since June 2014. In this position, she reports directly to the Country Director, provide support to develop the Istanbul RO as the main operational hub in Turkey, and assist to develop and deliver the country strategy. Responsibilities in her position: Take the lead in the Bank’s strategy business development and execution (infrastructure (municipalities, transportation, social infrastructure, PPPs), energy (power and natural resources)). Portfolio monitoring. Policy Dialogue and Representation of the Bank to the Turkish Government. Staff Management.

Prior to that, she worked as Head of Financial Advisory Turkey for PCF based in Istanbul and as a Managing Director in Unicredit Group for over 6.5 years, representing Unicredit CIB in Turkey for its financial advisory, structured and project finance activities across all industry sectors including infrastructure, PPPs, energy, commodity industries, oil and gas. She has been responsible for the structuring and arranging of several transportation, infrastructure, PPP and privatisation projects in Turkey. An excerpt of her transactions include: Financial Advisory of ETLIK PPP, BILKENT PPP and IKITELLI PPP Projects, Financial Advisory for EURASIA TUNNEL Project, Financial Advisory for STAR Refinery Project and TOLLROAD PRIVATISATION, structuring & arranging mandates of DALAMAN AIRPORT, IZMIR AIRPORT; ZAFER AIRPORT; ANTALYA AIRPORT, ATATURK AIRPORT; ESENBOGA AIRPORT, MERSIN PORT; BANDIRMA PORT and ISKENDERUN PORT, BASKENT GAZ Privatisation, structuring and coordinating roles in various other BOT schemed projects and other infrastructure projects currently in progress.

Previous to her employment with UniCredit, Sule worked for Garanti Bank (Project Finance-Transportation & Infrastructure), Emporiki Venture Capital (Representative Head of Turkey Desk), Dogus Holding (Advisor to Chairman), Citibank (as the Head of Strategy & Business Development, Bank Acquisitions and M&A) and the Privatisation Administration of Turkey (Project Manager for PETKIM Privatisation).

Sule is a graduate of Istanbul Technical University (with 1st degree honour), Turkey, a BSc in Industrial Engineering and has acquired an MBA and MSc from the University of Manchester, UMIST, UK (graduated with Distinction). She is currently proceeding with PhD in Finance at Bosphorus University, Istanbul.

Sekip Agdaviç

President of the Assembly
ICC0

Sekip Agdaviç

Bülent Ayhan

Business Development Director
Dia Holding

Bülent Ayhan

Metin Genc

Advisor
Health Policies Committee

Metin Genc

Gulcan Ustay

Fitch Ratings

Gulcan Ustay

Özlem Özgür Arslan

Partner
Elmadag Law

Özlem Özgür Arslan

Sharmila Chavaly

Joint Secretary
Ministry of Finance Government of India

Sharmila Chavaly

Ms. Sharmila Chavaly is an officer of the Indian Government, posted in the Ministry of Finance, Department of Economic Affairs. She is in charge of Infrastructure Policy, Financing of Infrastructure and Public Private Partnership. In previous stints in the Ministries of Railways and Finance, she has had wide experience in the fields of Transport Economics, Infrastructure Finance, Project Management, Foreign Exchange Management, Public Procurement, Multilateral and bilateral relations and PPPs. In her current assignment, she has overseen the development and structuring of innovative long term financing vehicles like the Infrastructure Investment Trusts.

Abdul Rahman Bin Mohammed Al Owais

Minister of Health
UAE

Abdul Rahman Bin Mohammed Al Owais

Murat Bayar

Dia Holding

Murat Bayar

Dr. Cagdas Evrim Ergun

Partner
Çakmak Avukatlık Bürosu

Dr. Cagdas Evrim Ergun

Ömer Tontus

General Manager of the General Directorate of Health
Ministry of Health, Turkey

Ömer Tontus

Hakan Adanalı

PPP Projects Coordinator
Bozlu Holding

Hakan Adanalı

Hakan Adanalı was born in Ankara in 1963. He graduated from Middle East Technical University – Department of Industrial Engineering in 1985 and completed his Master’s Degree program at the same department in 1988, along with being a research assistant during the same period.

He started his career in Capital Markets of Development Bank of Turkey and continued in some other private banks until 1998 when he headed towards healthcare industry. Between 1998 and 2013, he has managed various hospitals in Turkey and abroad. In 2013, he joined Bozlu group as PPP Projects Coordinator and currently holds the CEO position of Clinical Support Services Companies of Bilkent and Mersin Integrated Health Campus PPP projects in Turkey with 3,804 and 1,259 bed capacity respectively

Metin Genc

Board Member of Health Policies
Ministry of Health, Turkey

Metin Genc

He is an Electronic Engineer. He has a M.Sc degree in Biomedical Engineering. He worked for General Electric as a Biomed. service Engineer between 1989-1990. He has been in the private healthcare investment and management sectore since 1992. He was councillor in İstanbul Metropolitian Municipality for 4 years. During this years he was the president of the Environmental and Health Committee.

He also takes responsibilities in the NGOs.
• Member of Assembly of European Region, in Strassburg., Committee of Social, Policy,V.President, Represented İstanbul Provincial Council.
• Board Member of Green Crescent, V.President, Beykoz region,İstanbul
• Former Board Member Association of Private Hospitals, Istanbul Turkey.

Currently he has been working for MOH, Turkey as a Board Member of Health Policies..

KAAN KEMAL EKERMEN

General Manager
Rönesans Healthcare Investment Group

KAAN KEMAL EKERMEN

Born in Ankara in 1966, Kaan Kemal Ekermen graduated from Civil Engineering Department of the Middle East Technical University in 1989. He then earned his M.S. degree in 1992.

Having started his business life in 1989, Kaan Kemal Ekermen worked as civil engineer at Attila Dogan Construction, as site manager at Mensel Construction between 1993-1995, as project manager at EPE Construction between 1995-1996, as Deputy Project Manager at Urban Construction between 1996-1998, as Deputy General Manager at Prekons Construction between 1998-2000, as company partner at Vebkon Construction between 2000-2001, as Project Coordinator at UTM Trade Eng between 2001-2003, as Business Development Manager at Oyak Construction between 2003-2005, as Overseas Projects Coordinator at Tepe Construction between 2005-2006, and as Deputy General Manager at Dia Holding (IC Ictas Subsidiary) between 2006-2009.

In 2009, Kaan Kemal Ekermen joined the Renaissance Group. He acted as a Business Developer until 2013. Since 2013 he has been acting as General Manager of Rönesans Healthcare Investment Group.

Agah DURUKAL

General Manager
Ankara Etlik Hastane Sağlık Hizmetleri A.Ş.

Agah DURUKAL

Please note: * Speakers invited and awaiting confirmation

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08:00	Registration & Refreshments
09:15	Chairperson’s welcome address
09:30	Official Opening
THE GOVERNMENT’S VISION, PIPELINE PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENTS
09:40	Assessing the progress of Turkey’s strategic healthcare transformation Program
10.00	Keynote Ministerial Address and Announcement from Prof. Dr. Recep Akdağ, Minister of Health
10:20	Networking Coffee Break
11:00	Keynote Address: Governments overview on abundant Healthcare PPP Programme
11:20	Case Study: Reserved for Sponsor
11:40	Contractor Perspectives Panel Session: Discussing flexible methods of financing for PPP healthcare Projects, with particular focus on Izmir Bayrakli and Kocaeli Healthcare Integrated Healthcare Campus Projects.
12:20	Innovation and Connected Health– What transformational technologies will really help to optimize healthcare operations?
12:40	Networking Lunch
EXAMINING THE FINANCING IMPLICATIONS OF HEALTHCARE PPP PROJECTS: UNDERSTANDING THE CONSIDERATIONS OF LENDERS AND INVESTORS
14:00	Assessing and updating alternative financing models
14:20	Investors Panel Session: Discussing long term financing challenges facing PPP Projects and discussing pragmatic solutions. What other alternatives can open up the debt funding avenue to source financing for infrastructure related projects.
15:00	Networking Coffee Break
15:30	Case Study: Financing new hospitals in Turkey’s healthcare public-private partnership projects
15:50	Session: Reserved for Sponsor
16:10	Legal Panel Session: Clarifying the latest legal framework for healthcare PPPs
16:50	IFI Lending capacity: What are the key challenges and ambitions for Turkey going forward
17:10	End of Conference Day One & Networking Evening Reception

EXPLORING BEST-PRACTICE IN OPERATIONS, MAINTENANCE, AND SERVICE DELIVERY OF HEALTHCARE ASSETS
08:30	Registration & Refreshments
09:00	Chair’s Opening remarks
09:10	Case Study: Bursa Hospital PPP Campus: Reserved for Sponsor
09:30	Key Panel Session: Insights from Across the Globe
10:10	Networking Coffee Break
10:40	Case Study: International Perspective: This session will discuss the best international practises in operational leadership focusing on quality initiatives and risk management.
11:00	Operators Perspective Panel Session: Optimizing Operations in the Ever-Changing Environment of Healthcare Providers
11:40	Panel Session: Environmental Sustainability in Hospitals: The Value of Efficiency
12:00	Session: Reserved for Sponsor
12:30	Networking Lunch
14:00	Panel Session: Rapid technological advances and product innovation: Can the movement to embrace technology further the future of healthcare organizations
14:40	Data & Storage Management Solutions for Hospitals
15:00	Networking Coffee Break
15:30	Increasing medical tourism in the region: Opportunities for investment in specialised healthcare service
15:50	Building Skill workforce for strengthening of Health systems and The Importance of clear and transparent regulations for creating successful PPP in Healthcare and the role of the governments in that aspect
16:00	Designing Smart Future Hospitals
16:30	Chair’s Closing Remarks
16:45	End of Conference and Closing Speech

Conference package	EARLYBIRD PRICES (€)	Standard Prices (€)
Conference Only (1 Day)	€ 995 Save € 200	€ 1,195
Conference Only (2 Days)	€ 1,695 Save € 300	€ 1,995
Conference and Workshop	€ 1,995 Save € 300	€ 2,295
Government Employee	€ 450 Save € 50	€ 500