OREANDA-NEWS. April 08, 2013. KPMG in Kazakhstan and Central Asia is pleased to announce the appointment of a new Managing Partner. Gregor Mowat replaced Alun Bowen as Managing Partner.

Gregor has worked with KPMG in different countries over the last 14 years, including the last four and a half in the CIS. On joining KPMG in the CIS in 2008, he spent two years as a partner in Kazakhstan, providing audit and advisory services to banks during the early part of the global financial crisis. Since then he has been the CFO of KPMG’s CIS business which has continued to keep him close to developments in the Kazakhstan economy.

Alun Bowen will retire after almost 37 years with KPMG, 25 of them as a partner and five as the Managing Partner of KPMG in Kazakhstan and Central Asia. During his tenure in Kazakhstan, Alun increased the size of KPMG and the number of services that the firm offers, including significantly developing KPMG’s Advisory franchise. Gregor will be based in Astana and plans to continue to execute KPMG’s strategy to provide top quality audit, tax and advisory services to the best companies in Kazakhstan and throughout Central Asia.

About KPMG in Kazakhstan and Central Asia
KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services, operating in 156 countries with over 152,000 people working in member firms around the world.
KPMG has been working in Kazakhstan and Central Asia for more than fifteen years, and was rated as one of the leading audit and advisory firms in 2010 and 2011 by Expert Kazakhstan RA. Our essential principle has always been to use the firm’s global intellectual capital, combined with the practical experience of our local professionals.

In Kazakhstan and Central Asia, KPMG now has offices in Almaty, Astana, Atyrau, and Bishkek employing together approximately 450 people.

In the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), KPMG's member firms have offices in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Rostov-on-Don, Almaty, Astana, Atyrau, Bishkek, Kiev, Donetsk, Krasnoyarsk, Lviv, Baku, Yerevan, Tbilisi and Perm, employing together over 3,800 people.