The Board of Directors

Mr Mehmet Dalman

Chairman and non-executive Director

Mr Dalman is the Chairman and non-executive Director of the Company having been Senior Independent Director until February 2012.  He was appointed Chairman of the Investment Committee of ENRC upon its formation in September 2009 (formerly known as Mergers and Acquisitions Committee). Mr Dalman has spent 20 years as an investment banker, working in Japan, Hong Kong, Frankfurt and London. He retired as a partner of Toscafund Asset Management LLP in December 2011.

Prior to that he was Chief Executive Officer of WMG Group, a financial services firm that he founded in 2004, and a member of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Börse and the Board of Commerzbank AG.

Mr Gerhard Ammann

Independent non-executive Director

Mr Ammann is a non-executive Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of ENRC.  Mr Ammann is currently President of Bank Von Roll, a private bank in Switzerland.  

Prior to joining the ENRC Board he was Chairman and CEO of Deloitte in Switzerland until May 2007 and has over 30 years experience as an auditor of international companies, primarily in banking, finance and international trade.

Sir Paul Judge

Independent non-executive Director

Sir Paul Judge is a non-executive Director of the Company and Chairman of the Remuneration Committee of ENRC. 

Previously, Sir Paul Judge spent 13 years with Cadbury Schweppes plc, where he led the buyout of its food companies to form Premier Brands Ltd.  Sir Paul is the Chairman of Schroder Income Growth Fund plc and Director of the United Kingdom Accreditation Service, Standard Bank Group Ltd of Johannesburg, of Tempur-Pedic International Inc. of Kentucky and of Abraaj Capital of Dubai.

Mr Marat Beketayev

Non-executive Director and representative of the Government of Kazakhstan

Mr Beketayev is a non-executive Director of the Company.  Mr Beketayev is Vice-minister of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan and was previously an advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

 Mr Beketayev graduated in 1998 from the Kazakh State Law Institute.  In 2000 he completed an LLM in International Business Law at the London School of Economics.

Mr Jim Cochrane

Chief Commercial Officer, Head of Sales & Marketing and Logistics

Mr Cochrane was appointed Chief Commercial Officer in August 2010, responsible for the development and implementation of the sales and marketing and logistics strategy of the Group.  A mining engineer with 22 years experience in the industry, Jim joined ENRC in February 2001 with responsibility for ferroalloys sales. 

In 2007 he was appointed Head of the Sales & Marketing function.  Prior to ENRC he worked for 12 years with BHP Billiton, of which 6 years were underground with Impala Platinum.

Professor Dr Ameling

Independent non-executive Director

Professor Dr Dieter Ameling is a non-executive Director of the Company.  Since 2008, he has been Senior Councellor of ThyssenKrupp Steel AG and is an associate professor at the Technical University Clausthal.  

Prior to joining the Group in January 2010, Professor Dr Ameling was the Chairman of the Steel Institute VDEh and President of the German Steel Federation.

Mr Roderick Thomson

Independent non-executive Director

Mr Thomson is a non-executive Director of the Company.  Mr Thomson is an international financier, venture capitalist and philanthropist with over 40 years of international business experience.  

He has provided capital from his own private investment portfolios to numerous companies in the information technology, biotechnology, oil and gas, real estate and telecommunications sectors.

Mr Felix Vulis

Chief Executive Officer

Mr Vulis has been Chief Executive Officer since August 2009.  He has been Chairman of the Health, Safety, Environment and Sustainability Committee since August 2009.  Prior to his appointment as Chief Executive Officer Mr Vulis was Chief Operating Officer of ENRC from December 2006.  

Between 2002 and 2006 Mr Vulis was First Vice President of Eurasia Industrial Association.  Before joining the Group in 2001, Mr Vulis was President of UNICHEM K, LLC.  From 1990 until 1995 he was President and CEO of AGC Group, Inc.

Mr Terence Wilkinson

Independent non-executive Director

Mr Wilkinson is a non-executive Director of the Company and a member of the Audit and Remuneration Committees since December 2011. He was Chief Executive and Chairman of Lonrho South Africa Limited from 1985 to 1996, then an Executive Director of Lonhro Plc. In 2000 he joined Ridge Mining plc as an Executive Director, serving as Chief Executive from 2003 to 2009.

Mr Wilkinson is currently the non-executive Chairman of Century Aluminum Co.

Ms Zaure Zaurbekova

Chief Financial Officer

Ms Zaurbekova became Chief Financial Officer on 30 September 2009, having been acting Chief Financial Officer since June 2009 and having been Chief Financial Officer of Kazakhstan operations since 2001.  Prior to that she was Finance Director and later, First Vice-President of Kazchrome. 

Before joining ENRC, Ms Zaurbekova worked in the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Republic of Kazakhstan and began her career in the Kazakh Research Institute of Automation of Planning.

Ms Zaurbekova is a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions Committee since December 2011.