Yerkin Tatishev is the Founding Chairman of the Kusto Group, a Singapore-based industrial holding with an annual turnover of more than $1bn. Born in Kazakhstan in 1976, Yerkin Tatishev came of age in the aftermath of the collapse of the USSR. In 1998, at the age of just 22, while studying at Moscow State Management University, Yerkin and a group of entrepreneurial colleagues set their sights on transforming a local mining and manufacturing enterprise. The endeavour became a success story of transformation in difficult circumstances, and it was around this time that the idea of Kusto Group was born.
