About us

Mr. Longfellow was born in 1958 and is a citizen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Mr. Longfellow is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Nuclear Institute and a Fellow of the Institute of Measurement and Control.

Mr. Longfellow started his career in electrical engineering in the United Kingdom. In 1991, he joined British Nuclear Fuels Limited, working at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in West Cumbria where he was Head of Reprocessing, before becoming Deputy Managing Director in 2007.

In 2009, Mr. Longfellow joined Westinghouse Electric Company as the Managing Director of Springfields Fuels Limited and Vice President of the European Fuel Business.

In 2013, Mr. Longfellow joined Costain PLC as Director of Major Projects for the nuclear, oil and gas sectors in the UK.

Since 2015, Mr. Longfellow has been an independent consultant to the international nuclear sector.

*Meets the criteria of an independent director in accordance with the Regulations on the Board of Directors of Kazatomprom JSC NAC.

Mr. Banham was born in 1954 and is a citizen of Australia.

Mr. Banham has a Bachelor of Commerce from University of New South Wales. He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

He began his career as an auditor in 1974 in the Australian operations of Andersen, where he worked until 2002, and his last position was as an Audit partner.

In 2002–2007 he was the Advisory Services practice leader of Ernst & Young in Brisbane, Australia.

In 2007, he was appointed as the Audit function leader and an Executive Committee member of Deloitte CIS based in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

In 2011–2014 Mr. Banham was Energy and Resources Industry group leader of Deloitte CIS based in Moscow, Russia.

Since 2014 he has worked as an independent director on the Boards of a number of international companies.

*Meets the criteria of an independent director in accordance with the Regulations on the Board of Directors of Kazatomprom JSC NAC.

Marc Kasher was born in 1970. He is a citizen of the United States of America.

Mr. Kasher has over 20 years of experience in private equity and investment management.

In 1992, Mr. Kasher graduated from Tufts University and received a bachelor's degree in Soviet Studies. In 1997, he received an MBA from Georgetown University.

Mr. Kasher began his career as an associate in private equity at AIG Capital Partners in 1997 (later re-branded PineBridge Investments). From 2010 to 2015, he was CEO of PineBridge Russia.  In 2013, he founded Sapiens Advisors.

From 2013 to 2019, Marc Kasher was an independent director of Luxoft where he chaired the Audit, Compensation and M&A committees, and from 2018 he has been an independent director of NIC.

Currently, Mr. Kasher is an independent director of the National Investment Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Bank of Kazakhstan JSC, whose primary mandate is to invest in alternative asset classes.

* Meets the criteria of an independent director in accordance with the Regulations on the Board of Directors of Kazatomprom JSC NAC.

Mr. Karymsakov was born in 1962 and is a citizen of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Mr. Karymsakov graduated from the Almaty Institute of National Economy with a degree in the “organization of mechanised processing of economic information” and from Taraz State University with a law degree.

Mr. Karymsakov has worked in the Tien-Shan cooperative as an accountant and head of the Kordai district finance department. In 2003–2015 Mr. Karymsakov held a senior position with the Almaty City tax authority.

In August 2015, Mr. Karymsakov was appointed as Managing Director of National Company Astana EXPO-2017 JSC.

Mr. Karymsakov was elected as a member of the Board of Directors of the Company in April 2018.

Almassadam Satkaliyev was born in 1970 and is a citizen of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

He holds a degree in mechanics (applied mathematics) from Al-Farabi Kazakh National University and a master's degree in economics from the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation. He also received an EMBA degree from Nazarbayev University and a master’s degree from Stanford University (Stanford Executive Program). Over the years, Mr. Satkaliyev held senior positions at Tassat LLP, KazTransOil JSC, Samruk JSC, and KEGOC JSC. In 2007, he was appointed as Vice Minister of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

He was the Chairman of the Management Board of Samruk-Energy JSC from 2012 to 2018. Currently, Mr. Satkaliyev is the Managing Director for Asset Management and Privatization of Samruk-Kazyna JSC. In May 2019, he was elected as a member of the Board of Directors of NAC Kazatomprom JSC. 

Mr. Kudaibergen was born in 1979 and is a citizen of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Mr. Kudaibergen holds an MBA in International Management from the Geneva Business School and an MBA in Mining Management from the NUST Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys.

Mr. Kudaibergen started his career in 2001 as a senior prosecutor’s assistant at the Semirechenskaya transport prosecutor's office.

In 2007–2016, Mr. Kudaibergen worked at Trading and Transportation Company LLP, in various senior positions including Lead Specialist of the Legal Department, Chief Manager – Head of the Legal Department, Deputy General Director, First Deputy General Director and Chief Executive Officer.

Since 2018, he has served as the Managing Director of the Company’s uranium mining division and the Chief Executive Officer of NMC “Tau-Ken Samruk” JSC.

Mr. Pirmatov was born in 1972 and is a citizen of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

He graduated from the Novosibirsk State University, Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research (University of KIMEP), Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Willamette University, and INSEAD Leadership Development Programme.

At different times, he held positions of Financial Director of Altyn-Tas JV, Director for Investments at AIG Silk Road Capital Management, Financial and Commercial Director at AES Company in Ukraine, Managing Director – Director of the Investment Banking Department at Halyk Bank JSC. In 2007–2009, he was Vice-Minister of Economy and Budget Planning of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in 2009–2011, Vice-President for Economics and Finance, Deputy Chair of the Management Board of Kazatomprom, in 2011–2015, President of Cameco Kazakhstan Company. In 2015 – 2017, Mr. Pirmatov was Deputy Chairman of the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Since August 2017, he has been the Chief Executive Officer of NAC Kazatomprom JSC.

Mr. Pirmatov is not employed in any other companies.