Hüseyin Cevdet Yılmaz graduated from the Business Management Department of Boğaziçi University and started his career in banking as Assistant Inspector at the Board of Auditors of Esbank. He worked at inspector and branch manager positions there before moving as Chairman of the Board of Auditors to Kuveyt Türk in September 2000. He was promoted to Chairman of Audit and Risk Group in 2003. He is Chairman of the Risk, Control and Compliance Group since 2012.