Ivchenko Yelena Dmitrievna

Managing Director for GR, Development and IT, member of the Management Board

Date of birth: April 9, 1975.

Education:

In 1997 - graduated from EKSTU named after D. Serikbaev with major in “Economics and Management in Infrastructure”;

In 2015 - graduated from EKSTU named after D. Serikbaev with major in “Electric Power Engineering”.

MBA - "Master of Business Administration" City Business school;

CAP - International Professional Certification Program;

CIPA qualification level CAP: Certified Accounting Practitioner;

IPFM DiplFRS - International Diploma of the Institute of Professional Financial Managers of Great Britain "The Diploma in basic competence in IFRS";

IMS - Certification under the program "Internal Auditor, Integrated Management Systems".

Professional experience:
1997-2008 - EKSTU named after D. Serikbaev, Senior Lecturer, Department of “Business economics”;

2007-2008 – “Promtekhmontazh” LLP, quantity surveyor;

2008-2014 –  “KEGOC” JSC branch “East MPN”, Leading economist of the planning and economic department, leading engineer of production and technical service;

2014-2018 – “Shygysenergotrade” LLP, Head of Budget Planning and Economic Analysis Department, Acting Deputy General Director for Economy and Finance;

2018-2019 - "EC REC" JSC, Deputy Chairman of the Board for Economy and Finance - Member of the Management Board;

05.2019–10.2019 - Advisor to the Minister of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

10.2019-04.2021 - Committee for the Regulation of Natural Monopolies under the RK Ministry of National Economy, Deputy Chairman;

04.2021-05.2022 – “Samruk-Energy” JSC, Managing Director for Development and Sales;

06.2022 – to present - Managing Director for Development, Sales and Changes.

Roles and responsibilities:

  • control over and arranging of work at the Company in international cooperation and coordination of this work at SA;
  • development, implementation of the Sales Strategy and control over its execution;
  • ensuring and control over the conduct of trade operations for entering new markets for selling electricity and coal;
  • ensuring and control over the sales of the planned volumes of electricity and coal by SA, as well as the receipt of the planned revenue from SA principal activities in accordance with the budget (planning and execution);
  • ensuring, coordinating and monitoring the review of legislation in the field of the Company's operations and the development of relevant proposals;
  • ensuring, coordinating, and monitoring the analysis of the state of the internal market of electricity and capacity, coal, as well as the markets of neighboring countries and beyond and the development of appropriate proposals for development;
  • ensuring, coordinating, and monitoring the analysis of changes in electricity and coal markets environment;
  • investment projects management;
  • ensuring and monitoring the performance of a feasibility study (FS) of projects with the involvement of special engineering organizations;
  • coordination and control of structuring and organization of project financing (together with the Managing Director for Economy and Finance);
  • negotiations with investors to attract investments;
  • secure compliance with requirements of legislation, standards and rules of international financial organizations, terms of agreements on projects implemented with the use of funds from international financial institutions;
  • ensuring and monitoring the compliance of projects with the requirements of the investment policy of the Company's Strategy;
  • interaction with external consultants in the performance of services and works related to the evaluation and implementation of investment projects;
  • evaluation of projects to be included in the Company's portfolio of investment projects and control over execution of decisions on projects;
  • coordination and control over creating, monitoring and management of changes in a balanced portfolio of operational projects and its approval in accordance with corporate procedures;
  • project management of the Transformation Program, as well as digitization and IT of the Company, including SA;
  • implementation and improvement of the corporate management system of the Company and SA;
  • development, updating and control over the implementation of the Company and SA IT strategy;
  • optimization, automation, and digitization of business processes, as well as the corresponding amendments to the internal regulatory documents of the Company, including SA;
  • ensuring the trouble-free operation of corporate IT systems;
  • enhancing reliability and efficiency of the IT infrastructure;
  • create data management processes and their automation;
  • digitization of analytical systems in energy conservation and energy efficiency;