Mr Ospanov co-founded RCG in 2012, following 10 months with Kazakhstan Industrial Corporation (a diversified private investment group) as Deputy CIO. At the time he focused on establishing RCG’s pipeline as well as building strong relationships with potential strategic buyers, in order to understand and address their requirements more closely.
Previously, from 2009, he spent 2 years as an Investment Manager at Kazyna Capital Management, the largest private equity house in Central Asia where worked closely with a number of large international institutional investors. He began his career in 2008 as CFO of World Stamp, the largest consular services operator in Kazakhstan.
He is an adjunct lecturer in Private Equity at Kazakh National University, based in Almaty.
Mr Ospanov is Bolashak program graduate with BSc in Management Science from Warwick University (UK), and an MSc in Finance from Imperial College, London.