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Digital Committee Executive Team
Ainur Mukhanbetzhanova
Chairperson / EUROBAK Digital Committee
Advisor, Government Relations for Central Asia and Caucasus, SAP
On this position Ainur supports SAP Market Units in 7 countries (Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan,
Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia). Ainur’s activities in this role include
engaging with governments and policy makers on the policy issues and positioning SAP’s political
demands, building coalitions with other companies and associations and development institutions
in order to drive digital agenda in the countries. Working with international teams and government
administrations on organizing high-level political meetings with SAP Board members and top-
management on big global events (e.g. World Economic Forum, Saint-Petersburg International
Economic Forum etc), German delegation visits, Official visits etc. is also in the scope of Ainur’s
functions in this role.
Saken Zhumashev
Deputy Chairperson / EUROBAK Digital Committee
Managing Partner /KPMG in Kazakhstan and Central Asia
Saken Zhumashev joined KPMG in 2008, and has been leading KPMG in Kazakhstan and Central
Asia as a Managing Partner from 1 December 2018. Mr Zhumashev has professional experience
for more than 15 years and most of his career devoted to KPMG where he started development of
Management and Risk consulting and as a result led business to the largest consulting practice in
Central Asia. Saken specializes on complex projects related to transformation and automatization
of the companies’ operations, as well as on promoting institutional and economic reforms in
Central Asia, Russian Federation and countries of the European Union.
Andrey Bogdanchikov
Deputy Chairperson / EUROBAK Digital Committee
Dean of Engineering and Natural Sciences Faculty / Suleyman Demirel University
Andrey has more than 10 years of experience in educating IT specialist for Kazakhstan industry.
He acquired his PhD degree in 2015 in the same university and since working there to increase
the professional awareness of Bachelor, Master and PhD students in IT sphere. In the faculty he
promotes various projects to integrate IT education with IT industry like Applied Masters Data
Science program with ChocoFamily, Beta Career to transfer industrial experience as academic
credits, number of Hackathons organized with industrial partners, and other activities.
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