Testimonials
My name is Gregor Mowat and I am Managing Partner of KPMG in Kazakhstan and Central Asia
, a professional services firm with more than 400 staff providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services across Central Asia out of 4 offices in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Great managers need diverse skills to be able to operate at the top level in KPMG. As
well as providing the best technical advice, we need people who can lead teams, develop new go-to-market strategies, understand the dynamics of profitable growth and win new clients.
The diverse range of activities provided by NUGSB is designed to produce exactly this kind of person. Through their innovative approach to team building and the excellence of their programs, created together with the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University , as well as the quality of their teaching staff, NUGSB grads have what it takes to succeed in our firm or in other roles both in Kazakhstan and across the world.
Gregor Mowat KPMG
It has been a privilege for me to lead the Tengizchevroil (TCO) partnership for the last four years.
TCO operates the Tengiz and Korolev fields in Western Kazakhstan. Tengiz is the world’s deepest producing super giant field that was discovered in 1979. The TCO partnership was formed in 1993 and production from TCO accounts for 30% of the Republic of Kazakhstan’s crude oil output.
The success of TCO has been built on the hard work and dedication of its workforce through the years. Today, Kazakhstani citizens hold 86 percent of TCO positions, compared to 50 percent in 1993. Kazakhstani managers and supervisors represent 75 percent of the TCO managerial workforce. Ongoing training and development programs exist to support the advancement of employees to positions of increasing responsibility. The demanding work at TCO requires our leaders to be among the best in the world. Not only do they need deep functional expertise, but they must also have the right understanding of TCO’s business drivers and how a leader’s decisions can impact every element of the business and the workforce.
Tim Miller Tengizchevroil
CEO at “Samruk-Energy” JSCMy name is Almassadam Satkaliyev.
I am an EMBA student at Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Business (Class of 2014).Currently I work as a CEO at “Samruk-Energy” JSC. Samruk-Energy is a holding company with a mandate of implementing government policy in the energy sector. The company’s main spheres of activity are generation, transmission and distribution of electricity, and coal production. Samruk-Energy is represented almost in every region of the country, employing around 24 thousand people. The Company accounts for around 47% of Kazakhstan’s total electric capacity, almost 40% of the country’s electricity generation and coal production.
Today, in the era of globalization, the most important source of a company’s competitive advantage is its internal capabilities. Therefore, successful management of an organization requires a top manager to effectively mobilize a company’s resources in a way that both maximizes internal efficiency and meets external challenges.
Nazarbayev University, which was created on the initiative of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, today is one of the most successful educational and scientific projects in the region.
