Board of managing directors

Mr. Lavrenov is the Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of JSC NC “KazMunayGas”. He has a substantial in-house legal experience in many companies, holding different managerial positions: Head of Legal Department, Chief Legal Advisor of the Kazakhstan Branch of Bateman Kazakhstan Oil and Gas Company B.V., Director of the Legal Service of the oilfield services company Integra Management CJSC (Representative Office in Kazakhstan), Director of the Legal Department and General Counsel of Eastcomtrans Group. He was also a partner in Grata Law Firm LLP and Senior Partner, Consultant at Greenline Services Ltd in Budapest. Mr. Lavrenov graduated from the Kazakh State Law Academy in 2000. In 2004, he also obtained the degree in International Law from Duke University School of Law and Kyushu University in Japan.

Mr. Kairdenov has an extensive experience of almost 30 years in the oil and gas industry. He is the Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of JSC NC “KazMunayGas” for Oil Refining and Petrochemicals. Mr. Kairdenov started his career at the Atyrau Refinery, where he climbed his career ladder from a Process Unit Operator to the refinery Manager. His professional career is strongly connected to the unit in Atyrau, where he held the position of the CEO, between 2012 and 2013 and in 2021. From 2008 to 2012, he was the Deputy CEO and the CEO of Rompetrol Rafinare S.A. Through his career, he had many job responsibilities such as the Director of the Technical Development Department, the Managing Director for Oil Refining and the Director of the Oil Refining and Petrochemicals Department of JSC NC “KazMunayGas”. Mr. Kairdenov graduated from the Kazakh Institute of Chemical Engineering with a degree in Chemical Technology of Carbon Materials. In 2003, he graduated from the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration majoring in Oil and Gas Business.

Mr. Emile Wolff has over 20 years of experience in consulting services in areas such as project management in the oil industry, technical maintenance, engineering, innovations and IT systems. Currently he runs his own company, Emile Wolff B.V., providing consulting services, with focus on: project & program management, post-merger integration, innovation, business management and improvement, mentoring/coaching. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of KMG International N.V. since November 2014. Mr. Wolff was born in 1950 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He graduated from the Delft Technical University, The Netherlands, and majored in industrial engineering. He is a member of the Royal Dutch Society of Engineers.

Mr. Arman Saulebay has graduated in 2004 the Kazakh Humanities and Law University, in Astana, Faculty: Jurisprudence followed by the Kazakh National Technical University, in Almaty, Faculty: Economics and Management. He also added various advanced training courses and seminars to his educational background in such areas as: project management, strategic management system, effective corporate governance, structuring international business and corporate acquisitions, financial and economic modeling. Mr. Saulebay gathered extensive experience in managerial positions mainly within oil and gas companies: NC KazMunayGas JSC, Karagandy CCI LLP, KMG Global Solutions B.V., KazMunayGas Refining, and Marketing JSC, TH KazMunaiGaz N.V. He had various responsibilities in such areas like asset management restructuring, implementation of M&A projects, management of the department of strategy, risk management and transformation, implementation of development projects for the oil-refining sector, including coal and petrochemical projects.