
Our People
Our Team
A team built inside Kazakhstan's mining and metallurgical complex across resource geology, hydrometallurgical process development, plant construction and industrial operations.
Leadership
Maxim Seredkin
Technical Director
PhD geoscientist with 25+ years across exploration, resource geology, hydrometallurgy and in-situ recovery, leading all technical work at Koktenkol.
Full bioDmitry Zakharyan
Director
Chemical technologist and hydrometallurgist who helped take nitric-acid leaching of copper concentrates from laboratory bench to operating pilot plant.
Full bioTechnical Leadership
Alexander Salov
Chief Geologist
Geochemist and mineralogist responsible for the resource base, geological modelling and JORC / NI 43-101 reporting at Koktenkol.
Full bioDmitry Gille
Chief Specialist, Hydrometallurgy Development
Construction and engineering leader who delivered Kazakhstan's pilot hydrometallurgical plant for crude copper concentrates.
Full bioAidar Serikbay
Head of Research Center
Chemist and metallurgist focused on copper recovery from productive leach solutions and the scale-up of hydrometallurgical flowsheets.
Full bioIrina Aleksandrova
Head of Laboratory, R&D Center
Analytical chemist with three decades of laboratory leadership and accredited testing experience across metallurgy and environmental analysis.
Full bioSemyon Zakharyan
Project Manager
Doctor of Technical Sciences in metallurgy who took nitric-acid processing of copper concentrates from the laboratory to an operating pilot plant.
Full bioOperations & Corporate
Alexander Chukalovsky
Chief Power Engineer
Energy and technical director with 37 years of experience keeping industrial plant powered, safe and efficient.
Full bioGulsaya Akhmetova
HR Manager
Finance-trained HR manager building the workforce and administrative backbone behind the group's projects.
Full bioVyacheslav Beresnev
Chief Ecologist
Metallurgist and environmental leader with three decades managing emissions, permitting and environmental risk across Kazakhstan's smelting industry.
Full bioKonstantin Breusov
Lawyer
Corporate and subsoil-use lawyer with 25+ years advising mining, energy and industrial businesses across Kazakhstan.
Full bioSaule Boshchanova
Chief Economist
Chief economist with 22 years in budgeting, cost control and economic analysis across Kazakhstan's mining and metallurgical sector.
Full bioMarina Nesmeldinova
Chief Specialist, Materials and Technical Supply
Procurement and supply specialist who kept materials flowing through the construction of Kazakhstan's pilot hydrometallurgical plant.
Full bioVladimir Kim
Senior System Administrator
IT infrastructure specialist building the networks, servers and site systems that support the group's offices and operations.
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