Corporate Governance

2004 – 2008 - Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Faculty of General and Applied Physics

Specialty: applied mathematics and physics (bachelor).

2008 – 2010 - Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Faculty of General and Applied Physics

Specialty: Applied Mathematics and Physics (Master).

April 2023 - present, Samruk-Kazyna JSC, Co-Managing Director for Strategy and Asset Management

May 2021 – April 2023 - “Kazakhstan Investment Development Fund (KIDF) Management Company” Ltd., Deputy Chairman of the Board (since July 2021)

December 2019 - May 2021 - PlanetCare Management LLP, Deputy General Director for Investment and Development

May 2019 – December 2019 “Kazakhstan Investment Development Fund (KIDF) Management Company” Ltd., Senior Analyst / VP, Private Equity Department

January 2018 - May 2019 - Samruk-Kazyna JSC, Head of the Mining Asset Development Sector of the Asset Development Department

April 2016 - January 2018 - Samruk-Kazyna JSC, Project Director of the Department for the Development of New Projects (management of growing portfolio companies).

January 2014 - April 2016 - Samruk-Kazyna Invest LLP (seconded to Samruk-Kazyna JSC), Director of the Department for Project Analysis of Investment Activities of the Fund.

April 2012 - January 2014 - Samruk-Kazyna JSC, Investment Projects Department, General Manager

July 2009 - April 2012 - National Mining Company "Tau-Ken Samruk" JSC, Investment Projects Department, Financial Institutions Department, from manager to Department Director

September 2008 – July 2009 - Ernst & Young (Moscow), Valuation and Business Modeling Department, Analyst

October 2007 – September 2008 - Ernst & Young (Moscow), Audit and Advisory Services, Technology and Security Services, from Analyst to Senior Analyst

2004-2005 - Marysville Pilchuck High School, program for future leaders (FLEX)

2004-2007 - Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Department of International Relations, Almaty

2007-2010 - University of Toronto, State Policy and International Relations (International Economy)

2015-2018 - University of Warwick, Master of Business Administration

Since 02/2022 Managing Director for Strategy and Asset Management of JSC "Samruk-Kazyna"

04/2021-02/2022 – Co-Managing Director for Strategy, Sustainable Development and Digital Transformation of JSC "Samruk-Kazyna"

11/2021-present – Member of the Board of Directors of KEGOS JSC, representative of Samruk-Kazyna JSC

05/2019-04/2021 – Project manager, WhiteshieldPartners international consulting company (in different years he was a senior analyst, consultant)

08/2018-04/2019 – Analyst of the Asset Management Directorate of JSC "Samruk-Kazyna"

01/2013-05/2018 – Advisor to the Chairman of the Board of JSC "Samruk-Energo" (on financial and economic issues). Also in different years he was the director of the analytical support Department, the director of the Strategic Development Department, the director of the project management department

04/2011-12/2012 – Project Manager, Project Office for the implementation of the Management Reporting System (MRS) of JSC "Samruk-Kazyna"

08/2010-03/2011 – Chief Specialist of the Business Administration Department, Semizbay-U LLP (a subsidiary of JSC NAC Kazatomprom)

Jubilee medal "30 years of Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan", 2021

Gratitude of the Assistant to the President - Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 2020

Gratitude of the Deputy Head of the President Administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 2020

Jubilee medal for the 10th anniversary of JSC "Samruk-Energo", 2017

Certificate of Honor of the Minister of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the Day of the Power engineer, 2015

Certificate of Honor of the Chairman of the Board of JSC "Samruk-Kazyna", 2013

In 1975 graduated from the Kazakh Polytechnic Institute named after V. I. Lenin with a degree in Technology and Integrated Mechanization of the Development of Oil and Gas Fields, qualifications - Mining Engineer

Member of the Public Council of the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Honorary Citizen of the Burlinsky District, West Kazakhstan Region.

10/17/1975 - 04/20/1990 - from the Master of the production site and gas transportation, having passed all the stages of production, he has grown to the Chief Engineer - Deputy Head of Department, Head of the Mangyshlak Gas Production Department, Mangyshlakneft Production Association (POMN) in Novy Uzen.

04/20/1090-07/31/1992 - Deputy Chief Engineer of the Mangyshlakneft Production Association

08/11/1992 - 05/19/1998 - Chief Engineer - Deputy General Director of the State Enterprise "Karachaganakgazprom", First Vice-President,

President of Karachaganakgazprom JSC

05/19/1998-03/25/01 - President of AksaiGazService JSC

03/25/01-01/28/02 - President of JSC "KazBurGas"

28.01.02-22.04.02 - Vice President of ABE Corporation JSC

04/19/2002-09/19/2002 - Deputy General Director of CJSC "KazTransGas"

05/12/2003-11/09/2004 - General Director of DMD-Service LLP

12/01/2004 - 06/04/2012 - Deputy General Director of KazTransGas JSC

09/03/2012 - 02/09/2017 - General Director of KazMunayGas Karachaganak LLP

05.02.2018-30.03.2021 – Ombudsman of JSC NC KazMunayGas

04/01/2021 - 09/01/2021 - Deputy General Director of the Republican Public Association "Veterans of the Oil and Gas Complex" (ROO "VNGK")

09/02/2021 - to the present - General Director of the Regional Public Organization "VNGK"

In 1975 he graduated from the Almaty Institute of National Economy with a degree in economics;

In 1991, he studied in France (in Paris) with a degree in Audit Service in a Market Economy. Doctor of Economic Sciences.

1975 -1976 - Senior Economist of the Almaty Regional Financial Department.

1976 - 1977 - service in the ranks of the group of Soviet troops in the GDR.

1977 - 1979 - Senior Economist of the Almaty Regional Financial Department.

1979 - 1984 - Chief Economist of the state farm "25 Years of Tselina" of the Balkhash region, head of the planning and economic department of the Almaty Regional Department for the Development of Irrigated Lands.

1984 - 1992 - senior controller-auditor, chief controller-auditor, head of org. inspection department, deputy head of department of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

1992 - 1996 - Head of the Department of the State Committee for Financial Control of the Republic of Kazakhstan, member of the board.

From February to April 1996 - Head of the Department of Interstate Relations of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

1996 - 1998 - Member of the Accounts Committee for Control over the Execution of the Republican Budget.

1998 - 2000 - Member of the State Commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Combating Corruption.

2000 - 2002 - Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Since February 2002 - Head of the Main Control Inspectorate of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

From July 2002 to June 2003 - Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

2003 - 2012 - Chairman of the Accounts Committee for Control over the Execution of the Republican Budget.

From September 2012 to January 2016 - Deputy of the Mazhilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan of the fifth convocation, member of the People's Democratic Party "Nur Otan", elected on the party list.

Since March 25, 2016 - Deputy of the Majilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan of the sixth convocation, member of the People's Democratic Party "Nur Otan", elected on the party list.

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.

1987 - 1992 - Kazakh State Economic University, Almaty, Accounting and analysis of economic activity

2008 - 2010 - Graduate School of Business of Moscow State University, Executive MBA

Certified Independent Director (IOD) Institute of Directors, UK

Auditor (state license No. 0000174 MF RK)

Tax consultant of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 1st category

09/2018 - present, Director of the Tax Policy Department, AIFC Administration, Astana

02/2015 - 08/2018, Deputy Chairman of the Board, JSC NC "Kazakhstan Engineering", Astana

12/2008 – 02/2015, Director of the Audit and Control Department, Samruk-Kazyna NWF JSC, Astana

2007 - 2008, Chief Accountant, JSC FRMP "Damu", Almaty

2003 – 2007, Chief Accountant, National Innovation Fund JSC, Almaty

1995–2003, Chief accountant, auditor in private commercial organizations

Independent Director of Samruk-Kazyna Construction JSC

Medal for the 20th anniversary of Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Letter of gratitude from the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan - 2011

Republic of Kazakhstan

Bachelor of Science, Management (B.Sc. in Management), Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 1994-1998.

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 1998-2000.

Master of Science in Finance (M.Sc. in Finance), London Business School (LBS), London, Great Britain, 2003-2004.

Work experience:

From July 2000 to October 2002 - internal control specialist of "Demir Kazakhstan Bank" JSC, subsidiary bank of Demir Bank (Turkey);

From October 2002 to January 2005 - manager of control and communications of the Treasury Department, deputy director of the Project Financing Department of Nauryz Bank JSC;

From January 2005 to March 2007 - Head of Custodial Services and Capital Operations Department of JSC "ATF Bank";

From April 2007 to September 2010 - Financial Director (CFO), Member of the Board of Bank Positive Kazakhstan JSC, subsidiary bank of Hapoalim Bank (Israel);

From October 2010 to October 2013 - Financial Director (CFO), member of the Board of "Alliance Bank" JSC;

From April 2014 to August 2018 - Financial Director (CFO), Deputy Chairman of the Board of Astana Bank JSC, Chairman of the Board;

2018 - until now - the organizer and consultant of a number of fintech projects in the Republic of Kazakhstan and abroad;

From April 26, 2023 to the present - member of the Board of Directors of Kazposhta JSC - independent director.

2008-2010 – Research Engineer at the Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering to improve oil and gas recovery through the use of chemical technologies, Austin, Texas (USA).

2010-2016 – Drilling Engineer at ExxonMobil Corporation in California, Colorado and Texas (USA), and in Atyrau region; Senior Drilling Engineer in Iraq; Supervising Drilling Engineer in Russian Federation (Sakhalin Island); Senior Project Engineer for well ties at oil and gas complex treatment unit of Kashagan project in Atyrau city.

2016-2018 – Head of Field Supervisors and Senior Drilling Engineer at Merlin ERD, Perth, Scotland.

2018-2019 – Managerial Adviser and Global Oil and Gas Industry Expert at London office of McKinsey and Company for the projects in Columbia, Oman, Russian Federation, Alaska (USA) and UK.

2019-2020 – Sanzhar Serikbayevich Zharkeshov supervised geological industry as a Vice Minister of Ecology, Geology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

2020-2022 – Deputy CEO for Geology and Development at Naftogaz - Deputy Director of Exploration and Production Division of Ukraine National Oil and Gas Company “Naftogaz”.

Since February 2022 – Acting Chairman of the Management Board of NC “QazaqGaz” JSC. Since March 2022 – Chairman of the Management Board of NC “QazaqGaz” JSC.

Sanzhar Serikbayevich Zharkeshov is a member of the Council of the British Institute of Mechanical Engineers, and a holder of “Chartered Engineer” British title.

Международные премии: “For Innovation”, Houston, USA, and “SPE Drilling Engineering Award” of the World Society of Petroleum Engineers, Baku, Azerbaijan; the Queen Elizabeth II’s Award for Enterprise "For Contribution to the Development of the UK Oil and Gas Industry” (as part of Merlin ERD), London, UK.

Kazakh, Russian and English languages fluency.