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. From 2018-2021 Mr. Kasher was an independent director of National Investment Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Bank of Kazakhstan JSC, whose primary mandate is to invest in alternative asset classes.

Currently, Mr. Kasher is a member of the Board of Directors and the Chairman of the Audit Committee of Softline Digital Lab, which facilitates cybersecurity services and digital transformation through the most effective use of technology.

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

Yernar Zhanadil  was born in 1984 and is a citizen of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

In 2006 he graduated from the Faculty of Accounting and Finance of KIMEP with a bachelor degree in Almaty. In 2009 he received his master degree from the University of Manchester.

Yernar Zhanadil began his career in 2006 as a senior consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. In the period from 2010 to 2016 he worked as the Head of the Internal Audit Service and in 2016 as the Financial Controller of Samruk-Kazyna JSC. In 2017 was appointed for the position of Managing Director for Economics and Finance of Samruk-Kazyna JSC. From 2018 to 2021 he was a Co-Managing Director for Economics and Finance at Samruk-Kazyna JSC.

He currently holds the position of Acting Managing Director for Development and Privatization of Samruk-Kazyna JSC.

Nazira Nurbaeva was born in 1975 and is a citizen of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

In 1994-1998 she studied at the Kazakh State University of International Relations and World Languages. In 1996 she graduated from the University of Wisconsin Center Richland with a degree in business administration. In 2000 she graduated from the Kazakh State Academy of Management in Almaty with a degree in finance and credit. In 2017, she completed Executive MBA Courses at KIMEP in Almaty.

Nazira Nurbaeva began her career in 1997 as an assistant in the tax department at the branch of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in Kazakhstan. From 1998 to 2003 she worked in the tax and legal services department at the branch of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. In 2003 she held the position of Senior Tax Consultant at LUKOIL Overseas Service Ltd. From 2004 to 2014 she took the position of Senior Manager in the Tax and Legal Services Department at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and in 2014 was appointed to the position of Director of the Tax and Legal Services Department at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

From June 2020 Nazira Nurbaeva worked in tax and legal services department as a partner in Deloitte TFC LLP. Since 2021 she has been taking the position of Managing Director for Economics and Finance in Samruk-Kazyna JSC.

Job functions:

M. Sharipov is the Chief Executive Officer of NAC Kazatomprom JSC (hereinafter – “the Company”), is the Chair of the Management Board, establishes the development strategy, determines the prospects and areas for international cooperation and the HR policy. He coordinates and manages the activities of Chief Officers and Managing Directors. M. Sharipov represents the Company’s interests in the government, law enforcement and judicial authorities of the Republic of Kazakhstan and international organizations on the Company’s matters.

M. Sharipov is a citizen of the Republic of Kazakhstan. He was born in 1964.

In 1988, he graduated from the Obninsk Nuclear Power Engineering Institute with a degree in Heat Power Engineering of the Nuclear Power Plants and Installations Faculty.

M. Sharipov began his career in 1988 at the Nuclear Physics Institute of the Academy of Science of the Kazakh SSR as a maintenance engineer of the Experimental Reactor Unit.

From 1992 to 2008, he held various positions at the Atomic Energy Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan, which was later reformed into the Atomic Energy Committee under the RoK Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources.

From December 2008 to 2013, he worked as Atomic Energy and Industry Director at the RoK Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, the RoK Ministry of Industry and New Technologies and the RoK Agency for Atomic Energy.

From August 2013 to October 2014, he chaired the Atomic Energy Committee under the RoK Ministry of Industry and New Technologies.

M. Sharipov began his career at NAC Kazatomprom JSC in September 2015 as Director for NFC Projects. In July 2017, he was appointed to the position of Managing Director for NFC. In January 2021, he was appointed to Chief NFC Officer of NAC Kazatomprom JSC.

On September 3, 2021, he was appointed to the position of the Chief Executive Officer of NAC Kazatomprom JSC.

M. Sharipov is not engaged in collateral employment.