Serkan Okandan has been a member of the Board of Directors of PJSC “VimpelCom” since June 2020.
Serkan was appointed as VEON’s Group Chief Financial Officer and a member of Group Executive Committee in May 2020. He brings more than 25 years' experience to VEON, including as Group CFO at the Etisalat Group and Group CFO at Turkcell. During his twenty years at the Etisalat Group and Turkcell, telecommunications providers in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa, he also held senior management and board positions of subsidiaries in Ukraine and Pakistan - two of VEON's largest operating countries. Serkan is a graduate of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at Bosphorus University in Istanbul, Turkey.