Member of the Board of Directors, Independent Director
Education
Mr Tischendorf holds a master„s degree in economics with a specialisation in operations research and information/data science from the University of Graz (1998). In 1997, he graduated from the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles, with a degree in economics, international finance, money markets and macroeconomics. In 2021, he completed the course «Fintech Revolution: Transformative Financial Services and Strategies» at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Current Roles
Mr Tischendorf was elected to the Board of Halyk Bank in May 2023. Since October 2016, he has been a senior partner and technical director (shareholder) at MARFOR International Advisory in New York and Jacksonville (US). Since November 2019, he has been the chief technology officer and a member of the executive board at MTN Group in Johannesburg (South Africa)
Previous Executive Positions
From May 2012 to October 2016, Mr Tischendorf served as chief information officer, managing director and a member of the board at Eurasian Bank in Almaty. From October 2017 to August 2019, he was chief technology officer and a member of the executive committee — technical director at SMARTNet LLC (SmartPay) in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam). From October 2018 to August 2019, he also served as chief information officer, head of the IT department and a member of the executive board (owner of SMARTNet/SmartPay) at FEC VPBank Finance Company in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam). From November 2019 to July 2021, he was chief technology officer and a member of the executive board at 4Finance Group in Riga (Latvia)
