CERBA MAJOR EVENTS 2018 TABLE OF CONTENTS NATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEMBER SERVICES: Chairman Job Bank: post your job openings on our website GILLES BRETON International Affairs Consultant CERBA attracts a lot of jobseekers who possess very specific skills. Posting your opening on our website will enhance its visi JANUARY 23 OPINION Directors bility and outreach to potential candidates and will give you the BORIS ARYEV Stans Energy Corp opportunity to target the desired audience. For CERBA members BRENT KNIGHT R1 Airlines Conference Vancouver Resource CERBA Chairman's Message . .4 we are offering this service as a part of the membership package, CHRIS WESTDAL Silver Bear Resources but it is also available for nonmembers for an extra fee. Opportunities with DANIEL KIESELBACH Deloitte Tax Law ASSOCIATION NEWS ERIN CHUTTER Rare Capital Corp. Interested in Posting a Career Opportunity? One Belt, One HONOURABLE J. TREVOR EYTON Career postings can be listed on our website for: Road Central New Members . .5 MARTHA HARRISON McCarthy Tetrault MIKE VAN AKKOOI Kinross Gold Members free Asian Investment Nonmembers $200 + tax Member News . .7 NATHAN HUNT Ronald A. Chisholm International Policy NORMAN STORM Falcon Oil&Gas LLP PIERRE SEIN PYUN Bombardier Career postings should be sent to your local CERBA Regional NEW FACES PIOTR DUTKIEWICZ Carleton University Director electronically. Submissions are accepted in Word or MARCH 6 PDF. Requests for job postings from nonmembers should Meet Alexander Antonov, Chair of New Chairman Emeritus include billing information or a Visa, Mastercard or Amex num CERBA Chapter in Uzbekistan . .11 LOU NAUMOVSKI Amur Minerals Corporation, World Gold Council ber. Positions are posted for 30 days or until resume closing Conference Toronto CERBA Eurasia date, whichever is earlier. For more information please con Mining Meet Stephen Parkes, New Chair of ALBERTA BOARD OF DIRECTORS VANCOUVER BOARD OF DIRECTORS tact your local CERBA Regional Director. CERBA Chapter in Alberta . .13 Chairman Chairman Conference Stephen Parkes (Acting) PEMD Group Erin Chutter Global Energy Metals Corp. Resume Bank: within the official MAIN STORIES Directors Directors Dear CERBA Members, we are happy to remind you of an Erin Chutter Global Energy Metals (ex officio Bryan Hughes EDC addedvalue service included in your membership package: program of PDAC member) Daniel Kiselbach Deloitte Tax Law LLP Success Story: An UnprecedentedScale Resume Bank. Among our dedicated volunteers and interns Erkin Atakhanov Personal Finance Consulting Dominique Spragg Viking Air there are a lot of talented bilingual and multilingual profession Sports Infrastructure Projects in Georgia Laurent Auger Alberta International Dr. Stephen Ramsey Grey Owl Engineering als who are searching for new career opportunities. If you are MAY 2426 Constructed by Behlen Industries . .14 Intergovernmental Relations Vancouver looking to fill in a position with your company please feel free to John Kitchen Steveston Net and Gear have a look at the resumes in the Memberonly section of our Forum St. Petersburg SPIEF 2018 CERBA Delegation at St. Petersburg MOSCOW BOARD OF DIRECTORS John Sloan Former Ambassador of Canada Chairman to Russia, Armenia and Uzbekistan website and contact the potential candidates directly. International Economic Forum Nathan Hunt Ronald A. Chisholm International Joseph Bonvillain Manning Elliott LLP (SPIEF 2018) . .15 Directors Vladimir Scekic MIVA Engineering JUNE 11 Alexander Skoblo Dentons Russia Observers CERBA LINKEDINspired Zabaikalye and Krasnodar region Anatoly Andriash Norton Rose Fulbright Tulegen Kalau ENERTEKKazakhstan Would you like to be the first to know what is new in the CERBA Kelly Allin Deloitte Russia Victoria Hayes Ministry of International Trade community? Forum Ottawa KCBC Meeting mission to Toronto and Winnipeg . .16 Luc Jones Antal Russia (BC Provincial government) Madina Assylbekova Gowling WLG New Quebec Immigration Law Reform Please follow our company page on LinkedIn: Matt Wills John Deere Construction & TORONTO BOARD OF DIRECTORS http://www.linkedin.com/company/canadaeurasiarussiabusiness SEPTEMBER 1113 Speeds Up New Applications . .17 Forestry Division Chair association Mikhail Romanov Ernst & Young Martha Harrison McCarthy Tetrault LLP Receive regular updates from us and feel free to like, share and comment! NATIONAL CONFERENCES Neil Withers CFA Russia ViceChair Forum Vladivostok Canadian Round Pavel Zhelvis RusTechnip LLC Wolfgang Spillner Logistics Consultant CERBA members, we would like to remind you that you are most wel Table at the Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Robert Machowski Hatch Directors come to start discussions, share your views and ask questions in our exclusive memberonly LinkedIn group. Created specifically for the con Armenia featured at Cerba Eurasia Ron Lewin TerraLink Technologies Alex Peshekhonov Global Performance Eastern Economic Stanislav Borodyuk Kinross Gold Corporation Improvement Inc. venience of our members, this group is an excellent tool to start a new Forum in Mining Conference . .18 Svetlana Bobrovich Barrick Gold Corporation Alex Shifrin LP/AD conversation, bring up a pertinent issue or just reconnect to someone Observers Alina Pekarsky SciTech Ventures who shares the same values. Vladivostok (TBC) CanadaRussia Mining Working Annick Goulet Embassy of Canada in Moscow Associates; Schulich Executive Education Group Session . .19 Redouane Mekideche Embassy of Canada in Centre, York University SEPTEMBER 2628 Moscow Boris Aryev Stans Energy Corp. Business and Government Commit to John Coll Bombardier MEMBERSHIP MONTREAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS Lou Naumovski Amur Minerals Corporation; For membership inquiries, please contact your regional CERBA office: Intensifying Relations at The Kazakhstan Chairman World Gold Council Business Belarus Visit of Canadian TORONTO CHAPTER Katherine Balabanova Nicolas Fresne Director Strategies and Mark Gilbert Bombardier Commercial Aircraft Canada Business Council . .20 email: [email protected] Delegation Business International Affairs, Investissement Quebec Mike Van Akkooi Kinross Gold Phone: 1 (416) 862 4403 Directors Robert C Kay Migao Corporation Delegation LOOKING BACK MONTREAL CHAPTER Sebastien Dakin Alexandre Borduas BRP Wendy Harris CESO email: [email protected] to the Republic Ilya Kalnish BCF Events and Association Activities . .22 Phone: 1 (514) 575 6334 of Belarus Inna Popova McGill University KAZAKHSTAN BOARD OF DIRECTORS VANCOUVER CHAPTER Tatiana Domilovskaya Leo Knaapen Bombardier Chairman email: [email protected] Observers Norman Storm Condor Petroleum Phone: 1 (604) 720 2905 SEPTEMBER 2628 CERBA NEWSLETTER Design: Jocelyn Neron Ministere de l'economie, de Vice Chairman ALBERTA CHAPTER Frank Kense Dmitry Radomsky l'innovation et de l'exportation du Quebec Alex Chernoff PetroKazakhstan email: [email protected] Forum / Almaty KIOGE 2018 Directors Phone: 1 (780) 915 1110 OTTAWA BOARD OF DIRECTORS Aigul Shamshildayeva Orion Group Kazakhstan OTTAWA CHAPTER Sebastien Dakin trade show On the cover: Chairman Bolat Dosmukhametov AsiaCredit Bank email: [email protected] Gilles Breton International Affairs Consultant Darryl Clark Cameco Kazakhstan The Honourable FrancoisPhilippe Champagne, Phone: 1 (514) 575 6334 Directors Dauren Alybayev NAC Kazatomprom KAZAKHSTAN CHAPTER Taskyn Koshman NOVEMBER 27 Canadian Minister of International Trade, speaking Alexandra Logvin Fasken Martineau Dauren Amirov Bombardier Transportation Rail email: [email protected] at the 3rd Session of KCBC DuMoulin LLP Signal Ltd Phone: 7 (747) 555 1319 Conference Toronto CERBA Eurasia Christopher Westdal Silver Bear Resources Kanat Skakov Dentons MOSCOW CHAPTER Alex Grichine Greg Shields Hyperline Kehler George Glenwood CanAgroExports email: [email protected] Construction and Nicolas Temnikov Consultant Kirill Afanasyev Schneider Group Kazakhstan Phone: 7 (985) 762 1240 Pierre Pyun Bombardier Ksenia Babushkina Ernst &Young MANITOBA CHAPTER Tom Nevakshonoff Infrastructure Observers Observers email: [email protected] Conference Cecilia Silundika AANDC Alexandr Skorov ProTax & Accounting Phone: 1 (204) 664 2111 Bruce Gaston Darmen Technology UZBEKISTAN CHAPTER Alexander Antonov Darren Smith Embassy of Canada email: [email protected] to Kazakhstan Phone: 998 (71) 2539205 OPINION ASSOCIATION NEWS beyond the SPIEF, but SPIEF confirmed it in a spectacular way Geometrik's acoustical wood ceiling and wall systems combine CERBA CHAIRMAN'S with its 17,000 participants, including one of the largest ever NEW MEMBERS noise control and beauty natural wood. Our products blend Canadian participation. seamlessly into both traditional and modern settings. Only the The observations from the Astana Global Challenges Forum B+H Architects is a global, silence will tell you that these highend wood ceiling and wall MESSAGE strike a note in a different register, but that note is no less rel awardwinning firm with a 65 panels are designed to control noise. evant to the work of CERBA. year legacy of building creative In addition to our existing product line, we have the technical Dear CERBA Members, Since it became independent in 1991, Kazakhstan has had solutions for clients through the expertise to create our own designs and the manufacturing only one president, Nursultan Nazarbayev. In managing the delivery of architecture, interior facility to produce those design. Therefore, we