Deniz Parlak

I hold a key leadership role in directing the company’s operational strategy, optimizing asset performance, and driving the successful execution of new investments in the energy sector. With a diverse portfolio of conventional and renewable power assets, I work closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure reliable operations, long-term profitability, and alignment with our sustainability goals. Key Responsibilities: • Operational Leadership: Oversee the performance and availability of a multi-technology power generation portfolio, ensuring safety, compliance, and operational continuity. • New Investment Execution: Lead the operational due diligence, planning, and commissioning of new investments, including renewable and hybrid projects. Coordinate with technical, regulatory, and financial teams to ensure timely, cost-effective, and risk-mitigated project execution. • Performance Development Projects: Initiate and manage company-wide performance improvement programs focused on increasing asset efficiency, reducing O&M costs, and maximizing energy yield through digital tools, process optimization, and targeted CAPEX planning. • Strategic and Financial Planning: Lead transforming corporate strategy into actionable operational plans. Provide input on market positioning, asset development, and long-term value creation. • Commercial & Market Interface: Collaborate with the energy trading and market intelligence teams to align generation strategies with dynamic market opportunities, including day-ahead, balancing, and ancillary services markets. • Sustainability and Compliance: Drive integration of ESG principles into operational practices. Oversee environmental compliance and contribute to corporate sustainability reporting. • Team Development & Leadership: Lead multidisciplinary teams across operations, maintenance, engineering, and project management. Foster a results-driven and collaborative culture focused on accountability and continuous improvement.

Reporting to Chief Commercial Officer Under the Commercial Operations Group Presidency, responsible for overseeing and coordinating the commercial, operational, and financial conditions of the projects and operations carried out by the business units. • Coordinating with commercial operations leaders to ensure that all projects comply with sales contracts, conducting analyses, consolidating reports, and managing reporting to senior management. Attending all meetings, discussions, and decision-making processes related to signed contracts and obligations on behalf of the CCO. • Establishing project progress reporting and tracking standards and infrastructure for all projects, categorized by business unit, country, facility, and portfolio level. • Analyzing sales contract data, and in case of any discrepancies, developing action plans with business unit management. • Coordinating with the financial management to conduct monthly budget comparisons, financial statement reviews, operating cost assessments, and profit-loss analyses on a contract basis, and regularly tracking and reporting financial performance. • Tracking and reporting sales invoices and collections performance for all projects periodically. • Conducting financial evaluations and feasibility studies to propose and develop new strategies and efficiency-based projects, coordinating implementation process. • Conducting risk analyses related to sales contracts, consolidating risk information from other departments, and reporting findings by contract. • Supporting business units in drafting sales contracts for new projects in relevant countries and participating in sales contract negotiations on behalf of the CCO. • Coordinating Business Unit Management (EMCC) meetings at predetermined intervals. Reporting follow-up items from the meetings to the CCO. • Tracking the CCO's agenda and conducting all necessary research, reporting, and feasibility studies based on agenda priorities.

Drives the growth agenda of the company. As a crossing position for operational, commercial, and financial business units; works to set company strategy and priorities, strengthen operations, ensure employees and stakeholders are working toward common goals, establish agreement around intended outcomes/results, and assess and adjust the organization’s direction in response to a changing environment; • Developing long-term strategic plans, performing qualitative and quantitative analysis for strategic decision-making, conducting periodic value and fact-based reviews, and identifying and analyzing trends and opportunities. • Delivering structured information and analytical data to top management and assisting in strategic decision-making. • Driving strategic and transformation projects across the organization. • Developing renewable energy projects, especially in wind and solar areas. • Developing financial models for project finance, debt restructuring, and other specific business cases. • Managing the business development activities, stage gate processes, and any stakeholder relations throughout the growth plans in line with the corporate strategy. • Creating business development teams within the organization and leading due diligence of the development projects in coordination with other relevant departments • Executing corporate–wide enterprise risk management and strategy covering all business activities. Identifying, measuring, controlling, and monitoring top enterprise risk issues for the company. • Being head of the CEO Office, managing all regular and on-demand reports and presentations for C-level stakeholders. • Developing and monitoring company KPIs and scorecards. • Maintaining communication with a range of stakeholders, partners, and creditors. Ensuring opportunities for input, feedback, and collaboration are maximized.

Reporting to Deputy Managing Director, Execution & Operations and Asset Management • Driving development, integration and implementation of system and asset class policies, strategies, plans, and programs to ensure optimal life cycle performance of fleet. • Managing models, plans, procedures, methodologies and tools for identification, and improvement of KPIs of operating assets. • Managing data capture, and analytics studies for condition monitoring, predictive forecasting and reliability centered maintenance. • Coordinating preparation of schedules / plans and progress reports of new investments and/or sub-projects during execution phases. • Managing budget preparation, control and deviation analysis. • Driving development of risk management tools and models to allow consistent and robust corrective action, and CAPEX planning. • Managing prudent and efficient justification of renovation, compliance and reliability projects. • Providing technical support to electricity trading and dispatch. • Managing service contracts with third parties. • Providing support to achieving QHSE targets to comply with governmental obligations, responsibilities to stakeholders and related standards (ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001). • Providing support to development of best practice asset management standards for specific asset classes, preparation and implementation of quality procedures (ISO 55001 etc.). • Regularly travelling to site destinations, cooperate with field O&M team for operations optimization and monitoring.

• Oversaw design and construction of plant site systems from electrical perspective for execution of 853 MW İç Anadolu CCGT. • Managed two 380 kV OHL projects with 58 km and 17 km in length. • Managed governmental relations with relevant institutions (TEİAŞ, BOTAŞ and EMRA) during execution and commissioning phases. • Performed CCGT compatibility analysis in terms of Turkish grid code and other applicable standards. • Conducted studies on electrical market dynamics and market model of combined cycle gas turbine.

Focusing on Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage projects under the Energy and Climate practice

• Performed electrical simulation works for design, implementation and commissioning of two SVC systems with rated powers of 16 and 3MVAr in Saudi Arabia. • Performed electrical simulation works for modernization of reactive power compensation systems project for Turkish Coal Enterprises. • Performed panel design, selection of related low voltage equipment. • Provided technical support to and process monitoring of implementation and commissioning. • Provided technical support to protection logic and control algorithm design.

System Engineer at Airborne and Naval Systems Design Group

System engineer at Airborne and Naval Systems Design Group

R&D engineer at Product Development Group

Specialized in Power Electronics area Master Thesis: "Design, Implementation and Engineering Aspects of 12-pulse Thyristor Controlled Reactor"

Specialized in Power Systems area