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.

Assem Mamutova was born in 1975 and is a citizen of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

In 1997 Assem Mamutova graduated from the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University and in 1999 she graduated from the University of Essex in the UK with a master's degree in economics. She also has a master's degree in metallurgy from K.I. Satpayev Kazakh National Technical University.

Asem Mamutova began her career as a Senior Research Engineer at the Institute for Economic Research in Almaty. From 1999 to 2002 she was a Senior Economic Consultant in European Union in London. In the period from 2002 to 2007 she held the position of Executive Director of National Company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy JSC. In 2007 she was appointed as a Financial Director of Ust-Kamenogorsk Titanium-Magnesium Combine JSC.

From 2013 till present she is the President of Ust-Kamenogorsk Titanium-Magnesium Combine JSC.

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

Bolat Akchulakov was born in 1971 and is a citizen of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

In 1993 he graduated from the Alma-Ata Institute of National Economy with a bachelor degree in economics.

In the period from 1993 to 2006 Bolat Akchulakov worked in oil companies and banks: JV NOK Kazmunaigas CJSC, Commonwealth and British Services Ltd., NOC Kazakhoil CJSC, Alem Bank Kazakhstan. From 2006 to 2008 took a position of Vice Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan and in 2009 was appointed as Managing Director for Management of Electric Power and Oil and Gas Assets of Samruk-Kazyna JSC. In 2010-2011 he worked as General Director of PSA LLP and President of KazMunayGas JSC. In 2012 was appointed to the position of Vice Minister of Oil and Gas of the Republic of Kazakhstan. From 2014 to 2016 he worked as the General Director of Almex Petrochemical LLP and since 2016 as the General Director of the Association of Legal Entities “Kazakhstan Association of Oil and Gas and Energy Complex Organizations “KAZENERGY”. From 2017 to 2019 he served as Vice Minister of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan. From 2019 to 2021 he worked as the General Director of the KAZENERGY Association.

Since March 2021 he has been taking the position of the Managing Director for Asset Management of Samruk-Kazyna JSC.

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 Managing Director for Investments, Privatization and International Cooperation 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.