Team

Leadership and advisory board

Uplands Restoration brings together forestry, carbon market, legal and investment experience across Kazakhstan and international markets.

Company Leadership

Yuriy Kim

Yuriy Kim

Director

Investment executive with a strong banking and financial background and extensive leadership experience. Initiator of Kazakhstan’s first forest carbon project.

Viktor Larionov

Viktor Larionov

Director

Corporate lawyer and senior executive with extensive leadership experience in Kazakhstan’s infrastructure and fuel and energy sectors, including management of large-scale businesses and assets.

Kseniia Geevskaya

Kseniia Geevskaya

Director

Reforestation and forest nursery specialist for carbon sequestration projects. 3,000 ha restored, 6M+ trees planted, 15M CRS seedlings grown, 86%+ three-year tree survival rate.

Advisory Board

Raimbek Batalov

Raimbek Batalov

Prominent Kazakh business leader and public figure, Chairman of Raimbek Group and External Advisor to the President of Kazakhstan on entrepreneurship development.

Nathan Dixon

Nathan Dixon

Carbon markets professional with extensive experience in environmental products origination, structured trading and investment in high-integrity carbon projects and credits.

Daria Goryachkina

Daria Goryachkina

Climate change and ESG expert with 18 years of experience, having managed more than 50 carbon and climate projects for governments and corporations.

Sergey Kiselev

Sergey Kiselev

Carbon markets and investment professional specializing in the origination and commercial structuring of carbon projects, with a focus on Central Asia and pioneering carbon finance transactions in Kazakhstan.