Yerzhan Yelekeyev

Political council member

EXPERIENCE:

November, 2022 – to date JSC “NMH “Baiterek”

Position: Managing Director for Asset Management and Projects

August, 2021 – August, 2022 (1 year) Alfa-Bank Kazakhstan JSC.

Position: Project Office Director (CEO-2) Achievements:

the whole team was assembled from scratch;

developed an approach for managing projects and a portfolio of projects;

developed and launched a new process for evaluating projects, prioritizing and setting KPIs.

March, 2020 – August, 2021 (1.5 years) Center for Social and Economic Reforms under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Position: Deputy Head of the Analytical Group.

Projects:

anti-crisis measures in the economic sector;

the concept of public administration reform;

industry analysis according to the Ministry of Agriculture.

May, 2019 – January, 2020 (10 months) International company “Boston Consulting Group” (Moscow, Russia and Baku, Azerbaijan).

Position: Head of Project Management.

Project: Support for the development of the General Plan of Baku until 2040

Results:

a set of strategic projects (environment, urban development, etc.) for the implementation of the General Plan of Baku until 2040 was presented and approved by the government of Azerbaijan;

key project milestones are achieved on time and within the approved budget;

successfully introduced the principles and tools of project management in a project team of 60 employees;

the main stakeholders (government bodies and experts) were involved throughout the project.

2014 – 2019 (5 years) Samruk-Kazyna JSC.

Position: Head of project office for transformation (more than 30 employees under management) (CEO-2),

Director of Transformation Project Management

Results:

the economic effect of the transformation in the amount of 30 billion tenge was achieved.

developed and implemented a transformation approach (methodologies, processes and tools) in various areas (IT, supply chain management, production and economic planning, etc.);

2012-2014 (3 years) Samruk-Kazyna JSC.

Position: Chief Manager of the Strategy Department.

Achievements:

a new Samruk-Kazyna Strategy was developed and approved;

a comparative analysis of Samruk-Kazyna with other international companies was carried out;

the transformation program was developed and approved.

2007 – 2012 (4 years) KazMunayGas Exploration Production JSC.

Position: Senior Analyst, Analyst, Investor Relations Specialist

Achievements:

successful IPO on the London Stock Exchange (~$2 billion raised)

developed a financial model of the enterprise for cost analysis;

provided valuable recommendations for the board of directors of the enterprise on interaction with investors and shareholders

Awards/Achievements:

  1. Certificates in project change, change management “Agile” and “Scrum”;
  2. Venture financing course at Astana Hub;
  3. Private Investment and Venture Capital (Bocconi University) https://coursera.org/share/95d2f80fa2209dbe205caddcd39266cf
  4. Data Science: For Beginners (certified by IBM) https://coursera.org/share/a69e75f9641be448e11688e246d443d4
  5. Data Science: Methodology (certified by IBM) https://coursera.org/share/728e9bda7e07e0ee59e2f02878ed155e
  6. By the decision of the National Commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the presidential personnel reserve, he was included in the reserve https://pkrezerv.kz/results

Education:

Bolashak Presidential Scholarship, Master of Arts in Financial Economics, University of Glasgow (UK).

Kazakh-British Technical University, specialty: management, GPA: 3.4/4.0