Galim Khussainov
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Galim Khussainov

Chairman of the Board of Directors of Solva. Chairman of the Management Board of Bank CenterCredit from 2017 to 2022, and before that the bank's Chief Financial Officer. ACCA member, MBA from Swiss Business School, alumnus of Harvard Business School's General Management Program. Writes on monetary policy, banking, taxation and public finance in Kazakhstan.

Galim Khussainov

Career

  1. since 2026
    Chairman of the Board of Directors, Solva

    a fintech company financing small and medium-sized businesses

  2. since 2024
    Independent Director, Astana International Financial Centre Administration JSC
  3. 2023 — 2024, since 2025
    Independent Director, Damu Entrepreneurship Development Fund JSC
  4. 2022 — 2024
    Independent Director, Bereke Bank
  5. 2017 — 2022
    Chairman of the Management Board, Bank CenterCredit

    new business model and IT transformation; annual profit grown from zero to KZT 140 billion, bank brought into the country's top three

  6. 2017
    Managing Director, Chief Financial Officer, Bank CenterCredit
  7. 2011 — 2017
    CEO, BRB Invest

    diversified holding — agriculture, oil production, gold mining, construction

  8. 2009 — 2011
    Deputy Director General for Economics and Finance, Zarechnoye JV (uranium mining)

Education

  • Harvard Business School — General Management Program, 2024
  • Columbia Business School — Business Analytics, 2023
  • Swiss Business School — MBA, 2015
  • ACCA — member since 2018
  • Omsk State University — Economics, Taxes and Taxation, degree with honours, 2005

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