/KASE, January 19, 15/ – Kazkommertsbank JSC (Almaty), whose securities are
officially listed on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), has provided KASE with
the following press-release:
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... at the Bank's Extraordinary General Meeting held today, Marc Holtzman and
Kenes Rakishev were elected members of the Board of Directors, subject to
regulatory approval.
Marc Holtzman has been elected an Independent Non-Executive Director. Mr.
Holtzman holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Lehigh University.
He has over 30 years' professional experience in economics and political and
public administration. Mr. Holtzman held positions of Vice Chairman at Barclays
Capital and ABN Amro Bank, he was a co-founder and President of MeesPierson
EurAmerica, Senior Adviser to Salomon Brothers, Chairman of Meridian Capital
Hong Kong. Mr. Holtzman was the First Secretary of Technology in the Cabinet of
the Governor of Colorado and President of the University of Denver. He acted as
a member of the Board of Directors of Kazyna Sustainable Development Fund in
2006-2008. During 1989-1998 he lived and worked in the Eastern Europe and
Russia, recently he lived in Hong-Kong. Mr. Holtzman is also a member of the
Board of Directors in a number of large international companies.
Kenes Rakishev has been elected a Non-Executive Director. He has been Chairman
of the Board of Directors of JSC BTA since 14 February 2014. Mr. Rakishev began
his professional career in 1998. He graduated from the Kazakh State Academy of
Management in 2000, and Ryskulov's Kazakh Economic University in 2002 with a
degree in Law and Economics. He also holds certificates in Advanced Management
from Oxford Saïd Business School and in Developing Strategy for Value Creation
from London Business School. Mr. Rakishev has also been Chairman of the Board of
Directors at JSC SAT & Company since 2006, and at Net Element International, a
US technology company, since 2012. In addition he holds directorship positions
at various major Russian and Kazakh industrial companies. It is expected that
Mr. Rakishev will become a new major shareholder of Kazkommertsbank.
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The full version of the press-release is available on KASE website at:
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http://www.kase.kz/files/emitters/KKGB/kkgb_reliz_190115.pdf – in Russian;
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http://www.kase.kz/files/emitters/KKGB/kkgb_reliz_190115_e.pdf – in English.
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