Kenneth Mack

President

Managing Partner, Chadbourne & Parke LLP

Kenneth Mack is Managing Partner of the Chadbourne & Parke law firm's Kazakhstan office. He has extensive experience in transactions involving Kazakhstan, other countries in Central Asia and Russia, in oil and gas, minerals, capital markets, bank finance, project finance, electric energy and telecommunications. He has also been counsel to multinational companies in a variety of investment disputes with private entities in Kazakhstan, and has resided in Kazakhstan for the past 13 years.
Kenneth Mack has been ranked by Legal 500 and Chambers Global (2006 and 2007) for corporate/commercial law and energy and natural resources.
 
Since 2005 he has served on the American Chamber of Commerce in Kazakhstan Board of Directors, and was elected AmCham President in March 2006. 

Courtney Fowler

Vice-President

Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers

 

Courtney is a Texas CPA with a Master's Degree in Professional Accounting from the University of Texas, Austin.  Since arriving in Kazakhstan in March 1998, Courtney has focused her tax experience on major oil & gas projects. Courtney’s clients have implemented some of the most progressive structures and financing arrangements seen in Kazakhstan today.  Her primary engagements include Karachaganak, Agip Karachaganak, British Gas, Chevron, AES, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Korean National Oil Company, PetroKazakhstan, Partex Kazakhstan Corporation, Oman Oil Company Limited, Maersk Oil, Rio Tinto, Shell Kazakhstan, Statoil, and Rosneft, which collectively represent over USD 1 billion of investment into Kazakhstan each year.  Courtney also represented Marathon Oil, Anadarko, Union Texas Petroleum, and Newmont Gold Mining over the course of their Kazakhstan activities.
 
Courtney is very active in the community and the professional environment, both in Kazakhstan and internationally.  She has been appointed to the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators and has held several Board and/or Officer positions (including the position of President and now Vice President) in the American Chamber of Commerce for over 5 years.   Courtney is also on the Board of Directors for the International Taxation & Investment Center, and is active in Junior Achievement Kazakhstan.

Paul Cohn

Treasurer
Partner, Ernst & Young

Paul is an Assurance Partner based in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and the Oil and Gas leader for Ernst & Young’s Central Asia and Caucasus practice. Paul holds a Bachelor of Business and Bachelor of Law degrees from Queensland University of Technology, Australia. He is a member of the Association of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and a member of the Association of the Securities Institute of Australia. Prior to his relocation to Kazakhstan, he worked in Ernst & Young practices in Azerbaijan, Russia and Australia. Paul has 16 years experience providing assurance services to clients in the oil and gas and mining sector including IPO transactions with focus on audit of financial statements prepared in accordance with IFRS. Paul has also worked on numerous private equity placements and debt offerings with clients in the resources sector in Kazakhstan.

Tomas Bravenec

Senior Banker, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Resident Office in Almaty

Tomas Bravenec was born in 1967 in the Czech Republic. He graduated from The Economics University in Berlin (1985-89) and speaks English, German, Russian and Mongolian, in addition to his mother tongue, Czech. Since graduation, Tomas has worked in a variety of corporate and commercial banking positions with leading banks in Austria and later in the Czech Republic (GiroCredit Vienna, Creditanstalt, BankAustria-Creditanstalt Prague). In December 2001 he was hired by Citibank Prague with responsibility for Structured Trade Finance and later on for Strategy and Planning for Corporate Banking in Central Europe.

In March 2005 Tomas Bravenec was assigned to Kazakhstan as GTS Country Head at Citibank in Almaty with responsibility for Global Transaction Services (cash management, payment systems & electronic banking, trade finance and services, securities and fund services as well as customer service) and Commercial Banking for all global/international customers and selected local clients of Citi in Kazakhstan.  In November 2007 Tomas joined the EBRD Resident Office in Almaty as Senior Banker with responsibility for the Corporate Sector, including GI, telecommunications, natural resources, agribusiness and property.

Daniel Connelly

CEO, Citigroup

Daniel Connelly assumed his present position as Citigroup Country Officer (CCO) and Chief Executive Officer of Citibank Kazakhstan in December of 2003. Prior to his CCO appointment, Dan was in Moscow for five years with Citibank Russia, beginning as Corporate Bank Head, then with additional responsibility for the Financial Institutions and Securities Services businesses. In 2002, he was also appointed CIS Division Marketing Group Head and worked with the CCO's of Kazakhstan and Ukraine in developing Citigroup's client businesses in those countries. His previous international experience includes over six years with Citibank Indonesia in several Marketing Group Head positions and over four years with Citibank Korea as Country Risk Manager.
 
Dan joined the Atlanta regional office of Citicorp Industrial Credit, Inc. in 1983 and moved to Irvine, California in 1984 as the Regional Credit Head for CIC's Direct Finance/Leasing business. Prior to joining Citigroup, Dan spent six years with Westinghouse Credit Corporation in credit management positions at the district, group and headquarters levels. A native of Windsor, Connecticut, Dan attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Morehead Scholar and graduated in 1975 with a BA in English. In Almaty, Dan currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Junior Achievement Kazakhstan and on the Board of Trustees of the Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research.

Ivan Doudin

General Manager, Honeywell

Ivan Doudin is the Country General Manager for Honeywell in Kazakhstan.  He holds an engineering diploma from the Higher Institute of Chemical Technology in Sofia, Bulgaria.  Ivan joined Honeywell in Sofia in 1992 as a Project Engineer, was promoted to Senior DCS and Service Engineer for Honeywell Control International in Tengiz in 2001, became Site Operation Manager for Honeywell International at Aksai in 2005, and was then appointed Country Manager for Kazakhstan .  Ivan is a Bulgarian citizen.

Konstantin Nazarov

Director for Kazakhstan, Central Asia and Caucasus, General Electric

Konstantin Nazarov is Country Director for General Electric in Kazakhstan, Central Asia and the Caucasus. In this position he is responsible for the development and growth of GE Corporation and all its businesses in the region.  He began his career in 1999 as Business Development Manager for Shell in Almaty. In 2001 he was assigned to Beirut as Shell’s Regional Sales Manager for Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, returning to Almaty as Regional Sales Manager for Kazakhstan and Central Asia at the end of 2002.  In 2004 he was appointed Deputy Project Director for the Kazakhstan Competitiveness Development project, an initiative launched by President Nazarbayev and implemented by Center for Marketing and Analytical Research together with Harvard University and several U.S.-based consulting companies.  In 2005  Konstantin Nazarov joined General Electric in Astana.  Over this period GE has shown stable and dynamic growth, doubling regional earnings and strengthening its presence in Kazakhstan and the region.

Mr. Nazarov earned a BA degree with honors from Rundy Industrial Institute in 1996, and an MBA degree from Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic research (KIMEP) in 1999.  He is fluent in Russian and English and is learning French. He is a private pilot as well as a basketball player and a skier.