İsmail Özdemir

He was born in Şavşat, Artvin in 1963. He received his primary and secondary education in Rize. He completed his higher education in Yıldız Technical University Department of Geodesy and Photogrammetric Engineering between the years of 1983 – 1988. He carried on his free commercial activities, which he started in 1988 as a student, in different areas until 1994. In 1994, he founded İSDAŞ San. ve Tic. A.Ş Dağdelen Doğal Mineralli Suları and he is still the Chairman of the company. In 2012, he was elected as Chairman of the Board of SUDER (Packaged Water Manufacturers Association) of which he was a founder member of board in 2002. He still holds the status of Chairman of Board of SUDER and İSDAŞ İçme Suyu Dağıtım San. ve Tic. A.Ş, which is his own family company. He is married with two children.