Emre Timurkan, the Turkish chief executive of AFB Bank, is a career investment banker who until the middle of last year was head of Citibank’s coverage of Turkey, Central Asia and the Caucasus based in Canary Wharf. He had been coming to Azerbaijan since 2006 and was hugely impressed by both the Azeri culture and the potential of the country. In early 2009 he was approached by Gilan Holding, one of the biggest conglomerates in Azerbaijan, to become the head of its banking subsidiary and on June 1 he started work as CEO.
Andrew Pospielovsky is a British ex-academic who taught Russian economics and politics at the University of London.
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