Senior Management

Ms Mounissa Chodieva

Head of Investor & Public Relations

Ms Chodieva has been Head of Investor and Public Relations since 2006, having previously held the position of Vice President of Corporate Finance.  

Prior to this Ms Chodieva acted as Vice President of Corporate Restructuring at CIM Global AG, and undertook a legal training contract at Nicholson Graham & Jones, now Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP.

Mr Beat Ehrensberger

General Counsel

Mr Ehrensberger was appointed General Counsel of the Group in June 2011, and is responsible for the Group’s legal affairs.   He has previously acted as Head of Mergers & Acquisitions, leading and executing the Group’s M&A transactions and supporting the CEO and the Head of Business Development.  Mr Ehrensberger originally joined ENRC as General Counsel in 2003, prior to the Group’s IPO in 2007, and served in this role until mid-2008.  He began his career as an Associate of the Tax and Legal Department at Ernst & Young in Switzerland.  He later worked at a Zurich-based law firm, practising commercial and corporate law.

Mr Almaz Ibragimov

President of JSC Aluminium Kazakhstan

Mr Ibragimov has been the President of JSC Aluminium of Kazakhstan since 2001.  From 1994 until 2001 he held various positions at the JSC ‘Pavlodar Alumina Plant’.  

Prior to that he was Chief Engineer at the collective farm ‘Pervoye Maya’ in Kyrgyzstan.

Mr Bereke Mukhametkaliev

President of JSC Zhairem GOK

Mr Mukhametkaliev started his career in the metals and mining industry as technical geologist at the JSC ‘Karagaily’ in 1994.  

He joined RU ‘Kazamarganets’ in 2000 as a geologist and by 2004 held the position of Chief Engineer.  In 2004 he became the Chief Engineer at the JSC ‘ Zharemsky GOK’ and in 2005 was appointed as the President.

Mr Abduazim Rustambayev

President of JSC Eurasian Energy Corporation

Mr Rustambayev has been the President of JSC Eurasian Energy Corporation since 1999.  Prior to assuming this role Mr Rustambayev held the position of General Director of the Yermakovskaya GRESS (State district power plant in Kazakhstan) for three years.  

Mr Rustambayev previously worked at The Regional Consumer Cooperation Society of Frunze, Kyrgyzstan as the Deputy Chief Manager for seven years.

Mr Victor Til

President of JSC Kazchrome

Mr Til started his career at one of the Kazchrome mines ‘Molodejnaya’ in 1977 and worked in various positions within Kazchrome.  In 2004 he was appointed as the General Director and later became President of JSC Kazchrome.

Mr Arif Shadiev

General Director of ENRC Logistics

Mr Shadiev held the position of Deputy General Director at LLP ‘Transystema’ from 1999 to 2006.  He was appointed as General Director of ENRC Logistics in 2007.

Mr Mukhamejan Turdakhunov

President of SSGPO

Mr Turdakhunov has held the position of President of SSGPO since 1999.

He began his career in the metals and mining industry in 1995 as the Director of the Aksu Factory of the Ferroalloys Division in the Pavlodar Region in Kazakhstan.  Mr Turdakhunov then spent two years as the General Director of the public corporation ‘Khimfarm’ in Shymkent City, Kazakhstan.  He joined SSGPO as the First Vice President of SSGPO in 1997.