Board of Directors

Pinar Bayrak Toydemir

President

Pinar is a professor of Pathology at the University of Utah, and a Medical Director of Genetics and Genomics at ARUP Laboratories….

Ahmet Emre

Vice President

Ahmet is a software architect/engineer at WCF Insurance. He was born and raised in Turkiye, studied Computer Science and ….

Aydin Aykanat

Treasurer

Aydin was born and grew up in Istanbul, Turkiye. He attended Kadikoy Anatolian High School and graduated from Bogazici …

Suzan Tahir

Secretary

Suzan was born in Bulgaria. At age eight, she and her family moved to Sweden for 2 years. Living in this lovely Scandinavian county (as we all know Sweden,
Vefa Bowen

Director of Cultural Affairs

Vefa was born in Baku, Azerbaijan and graduated from music school with a focus on the Kamancha, a traditional Azerbaijani …..

Isil Hessick

Director of Public Relations and Social Media

Işıl Gökgöz (Hessick) is a storyteller who fell in love with films from a young age. As she grew up, she ….

Sevda H. Salter

Director of Social Affairs

Sevda H. Salter has been living in the United States since 2017 and relocated to Utah in 2023. She graduated from Aegean University’s Faculty of Science as Biologist and earned a teaching ….

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Selman Tunc

Website Administrator

software developer for many years 😉

Advisory Board

Reha Toydemir

Advisory Board

Reha is a Medical Director of Genetics and Genomics at Quest Diagnostics. He obtained his medical degree from Ankara …

Can Cinbis

Advisory Board

Can was born and raised in Ankara, Turkiye. He attended Ankara Fen Lisesi (High school) and graduated from Middle East Technical University ..