Ersin Topan

Director, Commercial Sales Executive

Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye

About

Marketing professional with 17 years of experience in a leading domestic financial institution, specialized in payment systems. Proven track record in marketing, key account management, business development, loyalty and campaign management(CRM), product&process development regarding payment systems. Resilient, Organized and Systematic. Strong interpersonal skills.

Experience

  • Visa (Full-time · 4 yrs 10 mos)
    • Director, Visa Commercial Solutions
      Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

      Visa Commercial Solutions Sales Executive responsible for Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Malta and Israel

    • Senior Business Development Manager, Visa Business Solutions
      Sep 2021 - Feb 2025 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Garanti BBVA Payment Systems (9 yrs 5 mos)
    • Senior Vice President, Marketing&Key Account Management
      Feb 2018 - Sep 2021 · 3 yrs 8 mos

      Head of key account merchant relations team (of 12 people) responsible for boosting volume&profit with both issuing and acquiring perspective, via credit card campaigns, penetrating with new e-commerce and POI products&services, and business development projects with the top retailers in Turkey.

    • Senior Vice President, Business Development & Brand Partnership
      Mar 2016 - Feb 2018 · 2 yrs

      Head of account management team (of 4 people) with regards to Bonus brand partnerships with platform banks (DenizBank, TEB, ING mainly) Business development via extended acquiring regarding international credit card schemes (Amex, Discovery)

    • Director, Product&Process Management at Merchant Acquiring Services
      Jul 2013 - Mar 2016 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      Product&Service Development as the Supervisory role to increase brand value via end-to-end management of innovative Merchant Acquiring solutions POI Management as Supervisory role to maintain the latest POI technology with a strong P&L focus

  • Internal Auditor at Garanti Bank
    Jul 2006 - Apr 2012 · 5 yrs 10 mos

    Leaded Business Process Reengineering of Audit operations, with the aim of catching the best sampling rules and modeling those rules Managed the audit operations of headquarters departments and affiliates such as GarantiBank Romania, Garanti Payment Systems and Garanti Leasing