Corporate Governance
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Orman Nurbaev
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Independent Director
Date of birth: December 12, 1966
Citizenship: Republic of Kazakhstan
Date of first election to the Board of Directors: August 23, 2023, Order No. 433.
Date of election to the current Board of Directors: October 13, 2025, Order No. 476.
Education
Krasnoyarsk Higher Command School of Air Defense Radio Electronics (1987)
National Higher School of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (1997)
Work Experience
Head of a radar station in various military units (1987-1994)
Manager, General Director of the 'Narbota' charitable commercial and entrepreneurial center (1994-1996)
Student of the National Higher School of Public Administration (1996-1997)
Third, Second, First Secretary, Head of Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1997-2000)
First Secretary of the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Malaysia (2000-2001)
First Secretary of the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Tajikistan (2001-2002)
First Secretary, Counselor of the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Uzbekistan (2002-2004)
Head of Sector of the Situation Center of the Internal Policy Department of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2005-2006)
Director of the International Relations Department of the Ministry of Economy and Budget Planning of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2006-2007)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to Mongolia (2007-2012)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to Turkmenistan (2012-2017)
Chairman of the Board of 'Kazakhstan Engineering' NC' JSC (08.2017-07.2018)
Deputy Head of the Office of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2018-2019)
Managing Director of 'KUSTO GROUP' LLP, freelance advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2019-2022)
Chairman of the Management Board of 'QazaqGeography' RPO (30.10.2019-03.06.2020)
Chairman of the Board of 'QazaqGeography' RPO (04.06.2020 – present)
Member of the Board of Directors, Independent Director of L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University NJSC (21.04.2021-22.08.2023)
Managing director of Gateway Ventures (CA) LTD LLP (2023-2024)
Member of the Board of Directors, regional director of Gateway Ventures (CA) LTD LLP (Astana) (from 2024 to present)
Chairman of the board of directors of "NAO Football Club Elimai" (from 10.08.2025 to present)
Chairman of the Board of Directors of "Shakarim University"
Duman Orynbekov
Chairman of the Board - Rector, Member of the Board of Directors
Date of birth: July 24, 1983
Citizenship: Republic of Kazakhstan
Date of first election to the Board of Directors: July 21, 2023, order No. 326
Date of election to the current composition of the Board of Directors: October 13, 2025, order No. 476
Education
2005 - Shakarim Semey State University, awarded the qualification 'Mechanical Engineer' in the specialty 'Technological machines and equipment in food production (by industry)'
2020 - Kazakh Innovative Humanitarian and Law University, awarded the bachelor's degree 'Economics and Business' in the specialty 'Economics'
Work Experience
01.11.2008 - 01.04.2011 - Senior Lecturer at the Department of 'Machines and Apparatuses of Food Production', Shakarim Semey State University
01.04.2011 - 01.09.2012 - Head of the Department of Science, International Relations and Postgraduate Education at Shakarim Semey State University
06.09.2012 - 03.01.2019 - Head of the Scientific and Technical Programs Department at L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University
04.01.2019 - 14.11.2019 - Deputy Director of the 'National Testing Center' RSE of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan
15.11.2019 - 27.11.2020 - Director of the Science and Innovation Department at L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University
30.11.2020 - 06.10.2022 - Deputy Chairman of the Science Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan
10.10.2022 - 30.06.2023 - Deputy Chairman of the Science Committee of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan
01.07.2023 - present - Chairman of the Board - Rector of 'Shakarim University' NJSC
Madiyar Kozhakhmet
Member of the Board of Directors, Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Date of birth: February 13, 1984
Citizenship: Republic of Kazakhstan
Date of first election to the Board of Directors: April 26, 2024, Order No. 192.
Date of election to the current Board of Directors: October 13, 2025, Order No. 476.
Education
Graduated from L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Master of International Law
Studied for a Master's degree in Economics and Management in the Czech Republic under the 'Bolashak' program
Fluent in Kazakh, Russian, English, and Turkish
Work Experience
In the higher education system, held positions as Head of Department, Deputy Director of Department, and Director of Department at the Ministry of Education and Science of the RK (2008-2012)
Inspector of the Department of State Control and Territorial-Organizational Work of the Administration of the President of the RK (2012-2014)
Head of the Administration of the Akim of North Kazakhstan Region (2014-2017)
Deputy Akim of North Kazakhstan Region. Supervised the education sector (2017-2019)
Chairman of the Committee for Youth and Family Affairs of the Ministry of Information and Social Development (2019-2020)
Chairman of the Committee for Civil Society Affairs of the Ministry of Information and Social Development (2020-2023)
Head of the apparatus of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan (since 12.2023)
Mamyr Karibaeva
Member of the Board of Directors, Chief Expert of the Committee for State Property and Privatization of the Ministry of Finance of the RoK
Date of birth: August 31, 1970
Citizenship: Republic of Kazakhstan
Date of first election to the Board of Directors: August 23, 2023, order No. 433
Date of election to the current composition of the Board of Directors: October 13, 2025, order No. 476
Education
Almaty Kazakh State Women's Pedagogical Institute, teacher of Russian language and literature in a national school (1993)
S. Seifullin Kazakh Agrarian University, Astana, economist (2003)
Work Experience
Leading specialist of the department for work with departmental acts of the Organizational and Inspection Work Department of the State Property and Privatization Committee of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan (04.07.2001-03.01.2002)
Chief specialist of the department for organizing the sale of republican state property objects of the Department for the Sale of Republican State Property Objects of the State Property and Privatization Committee of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan (14.01.2002 - 01.06.2008)
Expert of the department for organizing the activities of the State Property and Privatization Committee of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan (01.06.2008 - 15.08.2014)
Chief expert of the department for work with non-state legal entities with state participation of the State Property and Privatization Committee of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Astana. (15.08.2014 - present)
Meruert Makhmutova
Member of the Board of Directors, Independent Director
Date of birth: October 16, 1963
Citizenship: Republic of Kazakhstan
Date of election to the Board of Directors: October 13, 2025, order No. 476
Education
Faculty of Physics of the S.M. Kirov Kazakh State University (1985).
National Higher School of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (1997).
Defended her dissertation on inter-budgetary relations at the Kazakh State Academy of Management (2000).
Work Experience
1985 – 1987 - Teacher of physics and informatics at secondary school No. 48 in Almaty
1987 – 1993 – engineer at the Kazakh Research Institute of Energy
1997 – 1997 - Consultant of the Control and Analytical Department of the Agency for Control over Strategic Resources under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan
1997 – 1999 - Manager of the securities and investment department of the Semey Financial and Industrial Group
1999 – 2003 - Head of the public finance research department, Institute of Economics of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan
2001 - present – expert, consultant...
2022 – lecturer, University of International Business, Master of Business School
2022 - present – Director of Public Policy Research Center (PPRC), member of the Board of Trustees
Baltabek Mukashev
Member of the Board of Directors, Independent Director
Date of birth: January 22, 1968
Citizenship: Republic of Kazakhstan
Date of first election to the Board of Directors: October 20, 2022, order No. 118
Date of election to the current composition of the Board of Directors: October 13, 2025, order No. 476
Education
Semey Pedagogical Institute, Teacher of History and Social Studies, Methodist for educational work (1991)
Academy of National Economy in Moscow, Russian Federation, MBA (2001)
Work Experience
1991-2001 – Director of 'Eurasia Gold' company
2007-2010 – Director of 'Kazakh Cape Gold' company
From 2010 to the present – Chairman of the Board of Directors of:
Eurasia Gold (exploration and production of minerals)
Eurasia RED (Real Estate)
Eurasia Agroholding (Semey Meat Processing Plant)
Al-Karal (biotechnology holding)
