Serdar Yerli has undergraduate degree from Middle East Technical University (METU), Department of Economics (2000) and completed Koc University Executive MBA program (2022). He started his career in HSBC and worked as assistant portfolio manager between 2000-2003 years in Bursa corporate branch. In 2004, he joined Kocbank as credit analyst in corporate credit underwriting department. In Yapı Kredi, he worked as manager position in corporate & specialized credits monitoring unit and commercial credit underwriting region office between 2008 - 2013 years. In 2014, he was appointed as vice president at head office and worked in commercial credit underwriting, corporate & subsidiaries & specialized credits underwriting unit and finally in commercial monitoring and workout unit. In 2021, he was appointed as Executive Vice President in Collection and Workout Management and he is responsible from restructuring, collection and workout activities of Yapı Kredi’s Stage 2 and Stage 3 clients.