Executive Committees

Board of Directors have appointed the following members to lead the executive committees. Please note that president is a member of all the committees.

Mine Çağlar – Member at Large

Mine was born in 1968 in Istanbul . She studied in Suadiye Lisesi and graduated from Gazi University (German Language and Literature) in Ankara in 1989. Mine started her career in Tourism Industry in Antalya, Turkey (8 years). Her last success was creating and generating new tourism products which are related Turkey’s vital tourism activities. She represented Turkey in very competitive German tourism market. Her strong leadership and creative marketing talent brought her to finance field and she worked three years in Life insurance Industry in Istanbul as a Sales person, team leader and Marketing assistant.

After started her life in Los Angeles before six years ago, she choose to work in retail business as a sales consult.

Besides her strong work habit, She also likes to be helpful and supporter in society. She joined in 2007 in American-Turkish association of southern California (ATASC)
to be helpful to develop relationships between Turks who lives in Los Angeles and also all Americans from any other ethnic background. Her biggest passion is to see more Turkish people hand in hand like other ethnic cultures in Los Angeles. She wants to be a part of a peaceful life and share all the goodies with all other people around the world.

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Metin Mangır - Member at Large / By Laws Review Committee

Metin served in the ATASC public relations committee in 1982-3, at the ATASC school in Long Beach during late 1990s, and as VP of ATASC in 2009.
Metin came to SoCal in Sept 1968 as a sophomore to attend Caltech. He got his BS from Caltech in Engineering in 1971, and his PhD in Applied Physics from USC in 1975, specializing in lasers, optics, and materials. After several years of postdoctoral research positions at National Research Council and USC, in 1980 he started to work at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, CA, first as a scientist and then as department manager and later as laboratory director. He retired from HRL Laboratories in Sept 2008. Since then he is traveling in US and Turkey, consulting in technical areas, teaching at Koç University, and greatly enjoying the third stage of his life.

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Ayşegül Diri – Member at Large / School Director

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Doukan Onur – Member at Large

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Zafer Acar – Member at Large

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Ahmet Onerbay – Member at Large

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Melike Yersiz – Member at Large

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