Hello former KAO colleagues and friends,
It was good to once again receive the invitation to the KAO Reunion in Calgary. I have spent little time in Calgary since making the decision back in 1995 to remain in Russia following my departure from KAO. At that time I joined on with Ernst & Young in Moscow (travelling through much of Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Belarus), but then of course moved on to become CFO of Hurricane in Kzyl-Orda, Kazakhstan, then Vice-President of Project Financing for a lead and zince mining operation in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan prior to returning to Vancouver, Canada for a little more than a year so as to allow my wife and son (both from Kazakhstan) to obtain their landed immigrant status. I returned to Usinsk (SeverTEK) in April 2002 (with my family again living in Moscow), assuming the position of Finance Director in October 2002 after Gord Casperd moved on, but left this position in February of this year when offered the opportunity to spend more time in Moscow with my family as Upstream Controller for TNK-BP.