Kaan Terzioglu is the Chief Executive Officer and a Board Member of VEON Group, the largest Nasdaq-listed company with a Dubai headquarters. In 5 markets that are home to 528 million people - Pakistan, Ukraine, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan - VEON Group serves more than 150 million customers on its mobile and fixed networks, and more than 140 million users across its digital services. Terzioglu is also a Board Member of the GSMA, the mobile industry's global organization, and the Chair of the GSMA Foundation. In 2019, Mr. Terzioglu received GSMA’s “Outstanding Contribution to the Industry” award for his leadership in defining a digital transformation model for the telecoms industry, and for his contributions to socially responsible business. Between June 2019 and March 2024, Terzioglu served as a member of Digicel Group Board of Directors.
Prior to joining VEON in 2019, Terzioglu was the CEO of Turkcell Group from 2015 to 2019. Before that, Mr. Terzioglu was a board member at Turkey’s leading banking, retail, technology and pharmaceutical companies from 2012 to 2015. He held regional and global leadership roles in management consulting, technology and telecommunications with Arthur Andersen from 1990 to 1999 and CISCO from 1999 to 2012 in Turkey, Belgium and the U.S. Terzioglu holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Bogazici University and is a Certified Public Accountant (Istanbul Chamber of Certified Independent Public Accountants). He is married to Catherine Varsami Terzioglu.
Serdar Çetin serves as a member of the Kyivstar Group Ltd. Board and a member of the Audit and Risk Committee and the Remuneration Committee. He is a board member of Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S., serving since June 2022, and is a member of its Audit, Corporate Governance, and Strategy and Digitalization Committees. Previously, he co-founded and served as a board member of PLAY, a leading Polish mobile operator, from 2007 to November 2020. He also co-founded and was a board member of WOM Chile from February 2015 to December 2023, and an advisory board member of WOM Colombia from May 2020 to November 2023. Mr. Çetin is a partner at PurpleCrest, an investment and advisory platform focused on telecommunications, technology, digital infrastructure, and special situations. From 2004 to 2023, he led telecommunications and high-growth technology investments as a partner at Novator Partners LLP. He serves on the boards of several companies in the telecom and tech sectors, leveraging his expertise in corporate governance and strategic growth. Mr. Çetin holds an MSc in Management from HEC Paris and a BSc in Civil Engineering from Middle East Technical University.
Betsy has 50+ years experience running companies and investing across the capital markets.
Betsy is a creator of financial businesses with decades of experience in banking, real estate and financial law. Betsy was the second female law professor on the east coast, teaching antitrust law and government regulation of business at Rutgers University Law School. Later, she co-founded a Philadelphia law firm specializing in complex real estate and financial concerns.
In 1974, Betsy founded Jefferson Bank in Pennsylvania where she served continuously as Chairman and CEO. In 1999, she founded The Bancorp, an FDIC-insured virtual bank providing services to thousands of fintech companies, including Paypal, where she served as the CEO for 15 years.
Betsy is the recipient of numerous awards, including being named a 2023 and 2022 Forbes Most Powerful Self-Made Woman and a leading female entrepreneur of the world by National Foundation for Women Business Owners. She has ranked in several years among the 25 outstanding Women Bankers and in 2009 was named by US Banker as one of 25 Women to Watch.
Betsy is affiliated with many corporate and non-profit boards, currently serving as Vice Chairman, Executive Committee member and Secretary of Asia Society; Founding Member of the Asia Society Policy Institute; Trustee of The Brookings Institute; Honorary Trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Treasurer, Managing Director, and Finance Committee member of The Metropolitan Opera.
Betsy is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and received a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
Augie K Fabela II is the Chairman of the Board and Founder of VEON. He also serves as Chair of the Remuneration and Governance Committee and a Member of the Audit and Risk Committee.
Mr. Fabela has been an independent director of VEON since June 2022. He previously served as Chairman of the Board of VEON from June 2011 to December 2012, and previously from 1994 to 2001, when the Company went public on the NYSE. Mr. Fabela is also the Founder and Executive Chairman of FastForward.ai, an E-commerce-as-a-Service company, and a Board director and member of the Finance Committee at Shareability, a brand performance agency, since 2019. Mr. Fabela is a proven serial entrepreneur, #1 best-selling author, and innovative leader having served as a founding member of the Chairmen's Community of the World Economic Forum. He holds a B.A. and M.A. in International Relations and International Policy Studies from Stanford University.
Sir Brandon Lewis is an experienced policy professional with a background in both government affairs and public policy and is skilled in digital strategy development and public and private sector engagement and advocacy. He was a Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth from 2010 until 2024. Sir Brandon Lewis served 10 years in the UK Government with 5.5 of those years in Cabinet in a range of roles: Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Ministry of Justice UK in 2022; Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office from 2020 to 2022; Minister of State (National Security) and UK Home Office from 2019 to 2020; Cabinet Minister without Portfolio as well as Chairman of Conservative Party from 2018 to 2019. Between 2016 and 2018, Sir Lewis served the UK Home Office in consecutive roles as Minister of State for Policing & the Fire Service, and then as Minister of State (Immigration & International). Prior to that, he was Minister of State from 2014 to 2016 and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government from 2012 to 2014 with Department for Communities and Local Government. Currently, he is a strategic advisor to each of LetterOne, Civitas Investment Management, FM Conway and Thakeham since 2023. He also serves as a non-executive director of Woodlands Schools since 2023, having also been a director there from 2001 to 2012. Sir Brandon holds a BSc (Econ) and an LLB, Law from the University of Buckingham, and an LLM, Law (Commercial) from King’s College London. He is also a qualified a Barrister, Law from Inns of Court School of Law.
Burak Ozer serves as a member of the Kyivstar Group Ltd. Board. He is the VEON Group Chief Financial Officer and a member of the VEON Group Executive Committee, effective January 9, 2025. Previously, he served as Global CFO at Noventiq from 2022 to 2024. He held senior roles within the Xerox group, including General Manager of Xerox Turkey from 2014 to 2018, Financial Planning Director at Xerox Developing Markets (UK) from 2006 to 2009, and Chief Financial Officer at Xerox CIT (Central Eastern Europe) from 2009 to 2014. He began his career at Xerox as a Financial Analyst in Istanbul in 1997 and worked at Xerox HQ in Connecticut from 2001 to 2003. Mr. Ozer graduated from İstanbul Technical University and holds a Master of Science degree in business management.
Duncan Perry is a lawyer with 30 years of legal experience and has been a senior legal adviser at the international investment firm LetterOne since July 2023. Prior to this, Mr. Perry was a general counsel and entrepreneur for 10 years, involved in a number of diverse projects, including being a founding team member and director of the UK regulated FinTech bank Kroo. Mr Perry was Global General Counsel at Barclays Wealth for 7 years, where he was a member of the Barclays Wealth executive committee and responsible for legal and compliance risk across 24 jurisdictions. At Barclays he was a member of several committees, including the chair of the Risk and Reputation Committee. Mr Perry also previously had roles, including European COO and General Counsel of the hedge fund Amaranth and European Head of Compliance (FIRC) at UBS Investment Bank, where he was also Global legal head of Syndicated Finance and Debt Trading. Prior to this, Mr. Perry was a banking lawyer at both Sherman & Sterling and Allen & Overy, in London and New York. Mr Perry attended Exeter University where he obtained a First Class law degree. He is currently an adjunct lecturer at Exeter University Business School on the MSc FinTech programme. Mr. Perry is also currently a board member of a charity which helps students from underrepresented communities obtain employment at elite institutions.
Michael R. Pompeo served as the 70th Secretary of State of the United States, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and was elected to four terms in Congress representing the Fourth District of Kansas. Mike graduated first in his class from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1986. He served as a cavalry officer in the U.S. Army, leading troops patrolling the Iron Curtain. Mike left the military in 1991 and then graduated from Harvard Law School, having served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Up next was almost a decade leading two manufacturing businesses in South Central Kansas – first in the aerospace industry and then making energy drilling and production equipment.
In 2010, Mike watched the government grow too big and decided to run for Congress. He won and was re-elected three more times to represent South Central Kansas – the heartland of America. Becoming America’s most senior spy, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, was Mike’s next chance to champion American values. President Donald Trump saw that good work and decided to make Mike America’s 70th Secretary of State. As the nation’s most senior diplomat in the Trump Administration and President Trump’s chief negotiator, Mike helped to craft U.S. foreign policy based on the nation’s founding ideals, emphasizing religious freedom as central to human dignity. During this time, America became a massive energy exporter and a force for good in the Middle East, with real peace cemented in the Abraham Accords.
Since leaving government, Mike has remained active on the global stage advancing American interests. Currently, he serves as a partner in Niobrara Investment Partners, a private equity firm he co-founded, is of counsel at Torridon Law, and chairs the Helms School of Government at Liberty University.
Married to Susan, Mike and his wife have one son, Nick. Mike and Susan were thrilled to see their family grow to include a daughter-in-law when Nick married his wife, Rachael, in 2022, and then welcomed their first grandson, Jack Michael, in 2025. Mike and Susan’s two retrievers, Sherman and Mercer, each named after important American generals, are patriots too!
Dmytro Shymkiv serves as a member of the Kyivstar Group Ltd. Board. He provides advisory services in strategic business development, government relations, technological transformation, and venture strategy through Delta Strategy & Ventures. He is an independent member of the Supervisory Board of JSC Kyivstar and represents the company on the Board of Directors of Helsi. As a technology investor, he is involved with AeroDrone, a Ukrainian startup focused on large unmanned aerial systems for heavy payloads and long-range operations. Previously, he was General Manager of Microsoft Ukraine from 2007 to 2014, Deputy Chief of Staff to the President of Ukraine from 2014 to 2018, and Executive Chairman of Darnitsa Group, Ukraine’s largest pharmaceutical company, from 2018 to 2022.
Mr. Michiel Soeting has been a director of VEON Ltd. since March 2022 and the Company deemed Mr. Soeting to be an independent director. Mr. Soeting has 32 years of experience with KPMG, one of the leading audit firms worldwide. While at KPMG, he worked in key locations in the EMEA, ASPAC and the Americas regions, becoming KMPG partner in 1998 and leading some of its largest global advisory and audit clients, including BHP Group, Equinor, LafargeHolcim, Philips Electronics, RD Shell, and Wolters Kluwer. From 2008, Mr. Soeting served as a global head of the KPMG Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) sector, and as a global Chairman of the KPMG ENR Board. From 2009 to 2014, he was a member of the KPMG Global Markets Steering Committee. From 2012 to 2014, Mr. Soeting served as a member of the European Resource Efficiency Platform of the European Commission. From 2019, Mr. Soeting has taken on various oversight roles, in particular, as a member of the Advisory Board of Parker College of Business of Georgia Southern University in the United States and, from January 2021, as a member of the Board of Governors of Reed’s Foundation in the United Kingdom. Mr. Soeting graduated from Vrije University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands as a Chartered Accountant where he completed his Doctoral studies in Economics. He holds an MBA from Georgia Southern University in the United States. In addition, Mr. Soeting is a qualified Chartered Accountant in the United Kingdom.