Date and place of birthBorn on 17 December 1965 in the East Kazakhstan Oblast
CitizenshipRepublic of Kazakhstan
Marital statusMarried
EducationCertified Independent Director (Cert IoD) Institute of Directors, UK.
Labor activities

For more than 22 years he worked in senior executive positions in the oil and gas sector, including more than 12 years as a financial director in Kazakhstan’s national oil and gas companies. He has work experience abroad in senior executive positions at PDO Petroleum Development of Oman in the Sultanate of Oman (Shell operating company) during the Company’s Business Transformation and implementation of the New Operation Model of Shell holding, and was an active participant of these processes. He has expertise in finance, risk management, and auditing. The experience of implementing the transformation of oil and gas companies, change management and crisis management. He was engaged as one of the key employees by the competent authority of Kazakhstan, in the implementation of such important oil and gas projects as the North Caspian project (Kashagan) and the Beineu-Bozoy-Shymkent gas pipeline.

Main areas of work and achievements: development and implementation of new enterprise strategies, reorganisation (transformation) of outdated business models of companies, its adaptation to a changing business environment, development of corporate governance systems for companies.

He is a member of the Governing Council of the Kazakhstan Taxpayers Association "KTA", the Expert Council of the KazEnergy Association and the Association of Independent Directors of Russia (AID).

For more than 6 years, he was an independent director, a member of the Board of Directors of AlfaBank Kazakhstan subsidiary JSC (Chairman of the Audit Committee). He was an independent director, the members of the Board of Directors of Kazakhstan Engineering National Company JSC (Chairman of the strategy and investment committee, member of the audit and nomination committees) and Engineering and Technology Transfer Centre JSC. Currently, he is an independent member of the Board of Directors of AstanaGaz KMG JSC and Areqet High-Tech Fund JSC.