Orhan Öğücü, the President of the Board of Directors of Marmara Group of Companies was born in 1955 in Gaziantep.
He continued his education in Gaziantep until University. He went to the United Kingdom in 1973 for University Education. He graduated from “Department of Mechanical Engineering” in Manchester University, Faculty of Engineering and returned back to Gaziantep and worked as an Instructor for 2 years in METU, Gaziantep. He began his professional business life by working in the foundation and management of Marmara Cotton Fabric in 1984 in Çorlu.
After the foundation of Marmara Cotton Fabric 1984, the local investments have continued with the establishment of Dyeing Plant in 2004, Power Plant in 2005 and Lila Paper in 2007.
Orhan Öğücü who is married and the father of 2 children describes his photography interest which he first met in 1968 and since then he is continuing his passion as a hobby “Photographs teaches you how to look and to see while looking”. He shoots the details from the first day he started to take pictures and is expanding his archive day by day. He takes great pleasure of sharing his photos reflecting the details of life.
Celal Öğücü, Vice President of the Board of Directors of Marmara Group of Companies was born in 1958 in Gaziantep.
He continued his education in Gaziantep until University. He went to the United Kingdom in 1979 for University Education. He graduated from “Department of Chemical Engineering” in Manchester University, Faculty of Engineering and he completed his postgraduate study in “Polymer Chemistry” right after and turned back to Istanbul and began his professional business life by working in the foundation of Marmara Cotton Fabric in Çorlu.
Celal Öğücü who is married and the father of one child is interested in architecture which he met in his youth and since then he is continuing his passion as a hobby and also he is interested in history and fine arts. Moreover, he takes great pleasure of examining the history of different countries he has travelled.
Aydın Öğücü, Member of the Board of Directors of Marmara Group of Companies was born in 1961 in Gaziantep.
He continued his education in Gaziantep until University. He went to the United Kingdom in 1982 for University Education. He graduated from “Polymer Chemical Engineering” in Manchester University, Faculty of Engineering and turned back to Istanbul and began his professional business life by working in the foundation of Marmara Cotton Fabric.
Aydın Öğücü who is married and the father of 3 children is interested in playing guitar which he first met in his University years and since then he is continuing his passion as a hobby and he also plays piano which he had an interest in the following years.
Cengiz Solakoğlu was born in 1943 in Erzurum and graduated from Istanbul Academy of Economics and Commercial Sciences in 1964 and started his business life by working as a salesperson in Beko Trading Inc. in 1967.
He worked as the General Manager of Beko Trading Inc. in between 1977-1983 and the General Manager of Atılım Inc. in between 1983-1991 and then he has appointed as the Vice Chairman of Koç Holding Consumption Group in 1991. He was appointed as the Chairman of Koç Holding Consumption Group in 1994. Besides his current duty, he was also the Member of the Steering Committee of Koç Holding in between 1996-1998. After he was appointed as the Chairman of Durable Consumption Group in 2002, he retired from Koç Holding which he worked for 37 years and 8 months in 2004 due to 60-age limit.
Cengiz Solakoğlu is one of the Founders of the Educational Volunteers Foundation of Turkey and was involved in the Board of Directors of the Foundation continuously until today and was the President of the Board of Directors in between 2002-2004. He was selected as the Civil Society Leader of the Year in 2004 by the Economist magazine. He again undertook the duty of the President of Board of Directors of the Educational Volunteers Foundation of Turkey in 2007.
Solakoğlu is currently Member of the Board of Directors in many companies and is interested in photography art amateurishly. He enjoys to record the living moments through pictures.