EUROBAK PAGES
Saken Zhumashev
Managing Partner , KPMG in Central Asia
Julie Kussidi
EUROBAK Executive Director
Rob Vermeulen
Managing Director , Bayer
Rob Vermeulen is the Managing Director and Commercial Country Lead Pharma for Bayer in Kazakhstan since September , 2018 . Rob has over 10 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry and before moving to Kazakhstan , he was responsible for several successful product launches and leading medical affairs for Bayer and LEO Pharma in The Netherlands . Rob holds a Master Degree in Clinical Molecular Sciences ( Maastricht University , The Netherlands ) and a MBA from IE Business School ( Madrid , Spain ). His main ambitions as board member are to ensure an attractive business climate for international companies that are already doing business in Kazakhstan and to support the healthcare industry in Kazakhstan .
Saken Zhumashev works for KPMG in Central Asia as Managing Partner since 2018 , specializes on complex projects related to transformation and automatization of the companies ’ operations . Saken is engaged in promotion institutional and economic reforms in Central Asia , Russian Federation and countries of the European Union . He started his career in KPMG in 2008 in development of Management and Risk consulting and as a result led business to the largest consulting practice in Central Asia . Mr . Zhumashev is involved in the activities of international associations and stakeholders aimed at improving the investment climate in the region and addressing global challenges related to business development and digitalization .
Mikayel Tovmasyan
Managing Director , Pernod Ricard Kazakhstan
Mikayel Tovmasyan works for Pernod Ricard Group as Managing Director of Group ’ s direct affiliate in Kazakhstan . Mikayel has been with Pernod Ricard since 2004 , started with a position of lawyer at Yerevan Brandy Company . Prior to being promoted to his current position Mikayel was in charge of Legal and Corporate affair issues for Russia and Eastern European region , based in Moscow . He has been in Kazakhstan since July 2019 and joined Board of Directors of Eurobak in October last year . He studied Law at Yerevan State University and obtained his PhD degree in International Law from Moscow State Institute of International Relations . Mikayel is married and has a son and a daughter .
Yevgeniy Teremov
Managing Director , SAP Kazakhstan
Yevgeniy Teremov was appointed to the position of Managing Director in Kazakhstan in April 2019 . Prior to his appointment to the current role , Yevgeniy spent 3 years as Global Account Director and was responsible for working with SAP ’ s strategic client Sovereign Wealth Fund « Samruk-Kazyna » JSC and its portfolio companies . Before joining SAP , Yevgeniy worked at the Center for Electronic Commerce of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan for eight years , where he held the positions of department director , member of the Board and Director General in different periods . Over 5 years of work under the leadership of Yevgeniy , the team managed to achieve impressive results in building the “ e-MinFin ” public financial management system based on SAP technologies .
Sven-Olov Carlsson
Honorary EUROBAK Board Member / Ambassador of the European Union to the Republic of Kazakhstan
Ambassador Sven-Olov Carlsson is a European diplomat with his professional origin in the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs , where he worked from 1982 to 1996 . Since then he has been working in different positions as an official of the European Commission and within the European External Action Service . During his career , he has been posted in the Swedish Embassies in Moscow , Tunis , Warsaw and Copenhagen . Within the Commission he has held positions in the areas of EU enlargement , in particular the accession of Poland , and in the sphere of foreign policy . Since 2010 Mr Carlsson has been working on relations with Russia , first in Brussels and during the period 2013-2018 in Moscow as Deputy Head of the EU Delegation to Russia . Since October 2018 Mr Carlsson is Ambassador of the European Union to the Republic of Kazakhstan . He is an economist by education and speaks English , Italian , French and Russian .
Julie started her career working for a European company . She has worked in various sectors including the quality and verification control programme with the Customs Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan , the oil and gas industry during times of massive privatization in Kazakhstan , and banking . As of November 1999 , she has been in charge of the Secretariat Office of the European Business Association of Kazakhstan , working closely with the government of Kazakhstan . In this role with EUROBAK , she also works with European companies present and those planning to do business and invest in Kazakhstan . Her role also includes working with embassies represented in Kazakhstan as well as Kazakhstan embassies in other countries and the Delegation of the European Commission in Kazakhstan . She also works with various charity and business associations and chambers of commerce in Kazakhstan and worldwide . supported by EUROBAK
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