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In This Issue IN THIS ISSUE: IN THIS ISSUE: NATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS NEW MEMBER SERVICES: Chairman Job Bank: post your job openings on our website LOU NAUMOVSKI NonExecutive Director, Amur Minerals Corporation; Consultant, CERBA attracts a lot of jobseekers who possess very specific Kinross Gold Corporation and Advisor on Russia to the World Gold Council OPINION Directors skills. Posting your opening on our website will enhance its visi BORIS ARYEV Stans Energy Corp. bility and outreach to potential candidates and will give you the CERBAKazakhstan Chairman’s Address . .4 GILLES BRETON International Affairs Consultant opportunity to target the desired audience. For CERBA members ERIN CHUTTER Global Energy Metals Corp. we are offering this service as a part of the membership package, HONOURABLE J. TREVOR EYTON Silver Bear but it is also available for nonmembers for an extra fee. MARTHA HARRISON Dentons NATIONAL EVENTS NATHAN HUNT Ronald A. Chisholm International DANIEL KIESELBACH Deloitte TaxLaw Interested in Posting a Career Opportunity? BRENT KNIGHT R1 Airlines Career postings can be listed on our website for: CERBAEurasia Construction and CHRIS WESTDAL Director, Silver Bear Resource Members free Infrastructure Conference 2016 . .5 NORMAN STORM General Director, Falcon Oil&Gas LLP Nonmembers $200 + tax PIOTR DUTKIEWICZ Carleton University PIERRE SEIN PYUN Bombardier Canada, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Mongolia Career postings should be sent to CERBA Toronto Chapter come together at CERBA Eurasia Mining Observers Past Chairman electronically to [email protected]. Submissions are accepted Conference during PDAC 2017 . .6 MARGARET SKOK Carleton University NATHAN HUNT Ronald A. Chisholm in Word or PDF. Requests for job postings from nonmembers WOLFGANG SPILLNER Logistics Consultant International should include billing information or a Visa, Mastercard or Amex Agreement signed between number. Positions are posted for 30 days or until resume closing MOSCOW BOARD OF DIRECTORS Observers date, whichever is earlier. For more information please contact Invest North Bay and the Republic Chairman Anis Ouanes Ministere de l'economie, CERBA Toronto Chapter via email: [email protected] of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia . .8 Nathan Hunt – Ronald A. Chisholm International de l'innovation et de l'exportation du Quebec Directors Alexander Skoblo Dentons Russia OTTAWA BOARD OF DIRECTORS Resume Bank: Meeting of the KazakhstanCanada Anatoly Andriash Norton Rose Fulbright Chairman Dear CERBA Members, we are happy to remind you of an Business Council Mining and Clark Bailey EuroChem Group Gilles Breton former Deputy Head of addedvalue service included into your membership package: Kelly Allin Deloitte Russia Mission, Canadian Embassy to Russia Natural Resources Working Group . .9 Luc Jones Antal Russia Directors Resume Bank. Among our dedicated volunteers and interns Madina Assylbekova Gowling WLG Greg Shields Hyperline there are a lot of talented bilingual and multilingual profession Matt Wills John Deere Construction & Pierre Pyun Bombardier als who are searching for new career opportunities. If you are Forestry Division Alexandra Logvin Fasken Martineau looking to fill in a position with your company please feel free to ASSOCIATION NEWS Mikhail Romanov Ernst & Young DuMoulin LLP Neil Withers CFA Russia Christopher Westdal Silver Bear have a look at the resumes in the Memberonly section of our website and contact the potential candidates directly. New Members . .10 Pavel Zhelvis Koch Industries Nicolas Temnikov Consultant Ron Lewin TerraLink Technologies Jacques Pomerleau Canada Pork Stanislav Borodyuk Kinross Gold Corporation International Member News . .14 Svetlana Bobrovich Barrick Gold Philip Murphy MDA Observers Observers Annick Goulet Embassy of Canada in Moscow Ohannes Keuylian DFATD CERBA LINKEDINspired Redouane Mekideche Embassy of Canada Stephen Wilhelm Export Development Would you like to be the first to know what is new in the CERBA LOOKING BACK in Moscow Canada community? Paul Godbout DFATD Please follow our company page on ALBERTA BOARD OF DIRECTORS Cecilia Silundika AANDC LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/company/canadaeurasiarussiabusi Events and Association Activities . .26 Chairman nessassociation. Brent Knight R1 Airlines VANCOUVER BOARD OF DIRECTORS Receive regular updates from us and feel free to like, share and comment! Directors Chairman Erkin Atakhanov Personal Finance Consulting Erin Chutter Chair of the Board, Global CERBA members, we would like to remind you that you are most wel Laurent Auger Alberta International Energy Metals Corp. come to start discussions, share your views and ask questions in our Intergovernmental Relations Directors exclusive memberonly LinkedIn group. Created specifically for the con Nick Bryanskiy Bennett Jones LLP John Kitchen Owner, Steveston Net and Gear venience of our members, this group is an excellent tool to start a new Erin Chutter Global Energy Metals John Sloan ExAmbassador of Canada to Russia conversation, bring up a pertinent issue or just reconnect to someone (ex officio member) Joseph Bonvillain Partner, Manning Elliott LLP who shares the same values. John Kemp First Medics International Vladimir Scekic President, MIVA Engineering Pat Wories Enersul Daniel Kiselbach Partner, Deloitte Tax Law LLP Dominique Spragg VP Viking Air TORONTO BOARD OF DIRECTORS Bryan Hughes Regional Director, EDC Chairman Brent Knight Director, Business development Martha Harrison – Dentons and Partnerships, R1 Airlines Vice Chairman Daniel Chowny Principal, Pattison High School Wolfgang Spillner Logistics Consultant Observers Directors Victoria Hayes Director, Ministry of International Boris Aryev Stans Energy Corp. trade (BC Provincial government) John Coll Bombardier Tulegen Kalau General Director (ENERTEK Mark Gilbert Bombardier Commercial Aircraft Kazakhstan) Wendy Harris CESO Robert C Kay Migao Corporation KAZAKHSTAN BOARD OF DIRECTORS Lou Naumovski NonExecutive Director, Chairman Amur Minerals Corporation; Consultant, Norman Storm Falcon Oil&Gas Kinross Gold Corporation and Advisor on Vice Chairman Russia to the World Gold Council Alexey Chernov PetroKazakhstan Alina Pekarsky SciTech Ventures Directors Associates; Schulich Executive Education Kirill Afanasyev Schneider Group Kazakhstan Centre, York University Ksenia Babushkina Ernst&Young Alex Peshekhonov Global Performance Darryl Clark Cameco Kazakhstan Improvement Inc. Natalia Kurkchi Antal Kazakhstan Alex Shifrin LP/AD Elmar Khussainov ALmatyBus Service Bayrzhan Nugymanov AsiaCredit Bank CERBA NEWSLETTER Special Edition MONTREAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS Saniya Perzadayeva Unicase Law Firm Chairman Kanat Skakov DENTONS SPOTLIGHT ON KAZAKHSTAN Gilles Breton former Deputy Head of Artem Yermilov Uranium One Design: Dmitry Radomsky Mission, Canadian Embassy to Russia Observers Directors Adam Barbolet Embassy of Canada in Ilya Kalnish BCF Kazakhstan Leo Knaapen Bombardier Rustem Ikramov CTP Equipment Alexandre Borduas BRP Alexandr Skorov ProTax&Accounting Rehan Wasti SNCLavalin Inna Popova McGill University Nicolas Fresne Former Head of Quebec mission in Russia OPINION NATIONAL CONFERENCES The similarities between Kazakhstan and Canada are nu CERBA KAZAKHSTAN merous everything from the extreme weather conditions to CERBA EURASIA CONSTRUCTION AND the importance of the resource and agriculture sectors to the economies of both countries. The large distances bet CHAIRMAN’S ween population centers and markets encourage enterpris INFRASTRUCTURE CONFERENCE 2016 ing logistic, transportation and infrastructure solutions. Many TORONTO, NOVEMBER 29, 2016 ADDRESS of the learning experiences of Canadian companies can be directly applied to Kazakhstan and one of the goals of Norman Storm, CERBA CERBA is to promote the ideas and international business Kazakhstan Board of Directors acumen of its members to government bodies in order to Chairman, General Director make it easier for companies from Eurasia and Canada to "Falcon Oil&Gas" engage in commercial activities with one another. One of the primary objectives of CERBA visavis the KCBC Meeting is to use CERBA and its members, in conjunction with KazCIC and the Ministry of Investment and Develop ment of the Republic of Kazakhstan, to initiate a dialogue with the respective government bodies to determine what changes could be made to promote more foreign direct Dear CERBA Members, investment to flow into Kazakhstan to further develop the As the recently elected Chairman of the Kazakhstan Chap economies and expand bilateral trade activities. ter of CERBA, I would like to wholeheartedly greet all of the There have been many Canadian success stories written in members of CERBA in Canada, as well as in Kazakhstan Kazakhstan over the years, in mining, oil & gas and in agri and throughout Eurasia. culture, but given the opportunities that still exist in the coun I would especially like to thank Mr. Dan Bastien, the outgoing try for Canadian companies I believe that many more stories Chairman of CERBA Kazakhstan for his years of dedicated will be written in the coming years. service to the organization, as well as the CERBA National On June 10, 2017, Expo2017 will open its doors in Astana and Chairman, Mr. Lou Naumovski, and all of the other Board Kazakhstan and its achievements will be showcased to a glob Members for their support in electing me to this position. al audience. More than 100 countries will take part in this event The timing of my appointment
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