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XAVIER BLUTEL
Non-Executive Chairman
Xavier Blutel, 67, is currently member of the Strategic Board of Wagram Corporate Finance and President and founding partner of SAS Baudrimont. Xavier Blutel spent 33 years as an international executive in capital intensive industries such as the cement industry, with ItalcementiGroup and Ciments Français Group, and the petrochemicals industry. Besides managing various operations in numerous countries, he was actively involved in screening approach, negotiation and integration of new acquisitions, disposals of non-core businesses and potential mergers. He also spent 6 years (2002-2007) in international lobbying and developed and implemented the Sustainable Development approach in Italcementi Group. He was formerly a director of Shymkent JSC and Beton ATA LLP from 2008 to 2013.
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JAVIER DEL SER PEREZ
Chief Executive Officer
Javier del Ser Perez, 56, is a Chartered Engineer (Spain), master in Structural Engineering and has a degree in Finance from HEC. Javier has lived in Kazakhstan since 1996, when he was appointed as the Investment Adviser to a large investment fund focused on the country. It was through this role that Javier first became involved with the Group's cement business. He is the Chairman of the Company's operating subsidiaries, Central Asia Cement and Karcement. Javier has other business interests in Kazakhstan. Javier is also a Director of Steppe Cement Holding B.V. and Mechanical and Electrical Consulting Services Ltd.
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RUPERT WOOD
Non-Executive Director
Rupert Wood, 51, has been involved in Emerging Market Equities since the mid-1990s, predominantly in Central and Eastern Europe. Starting his career at NatWest Markets in 1996 covering Emerging Europe as an analyst and then in equity sales, he worked at CA-IB/Bank Austria and then at ING, where he managed distribution of Emerging Market Equities to institutional investors as Head of EMEA Equity Sales. He then joined Wood & Co as Head of Sales, before becoming Head of Equities and subsequently Senior Advisor. His wide capital markets experience has spanned the broader EMEA region including Central Asia, Turkey, the Gulf, South Africa, as well as Latin America. He holds degrees from the University of Oxford and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), now a part of University College London (UCL). He is a Board Advisor at Adtones, the mobile advertising technology platform.
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Wan Affan Wan Azmi
Director (Non-Independent Non-Executive)
Wan Affan Wan Azmi, 35, is currently the Chief Operating Officer (COO), Rohas-Euco Industries Berhad. He joined Rohas-Euco Industries Berhad in 2013 as a Business Executive, initially in Marketing and later directly involved in IT, Media and Communications. In 2019, he was assigned as Assistant to the COO, then promoted to Deputy COO in January 2020 and subsequently as COO in October 2020. He is currently running the day-to-day operations at both headquarters in Kuala Lumpur as well as the manufacturing facilities in Bentong, Pahang in Malaysia.
