Goga Ashkenazi
Goga Ashkenazi was born in Taraz, Jambyl Region, Kazakhstan on February 1st, 1980 and is the Business Executive. At the age of 44, Goga Ashkenazi biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Goga Ashkenazi (born Gaukhar Yerkhar Berkalieva, Kazakh) is a Kazakh businesswoman and socialite who lives in Goga Ashkenazi (born Gaukhar Yerkinovna Berkazi; Kazakh is a nationalist party. ркстн еререва (Guar Erkhar Berqalieva, Gaukhar Berqalieva; 1 February 1980) is a MunaiGaz Engineering Group, a Kazakh oil and gas company, is owned and CEO by Shervin. She has been with Vionnet, a Milan-based fashion brand, since 2012.
Early life and education
Ashkenazi was born in the Zhambyl Oblast of Kazakh's Soviet Socialist Republic. She was born in Moscow, where her father, engineer Yerkin Berkaliev, was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party under Mikhail Gorbachev. Saule's mother, who has degrees in both engineering and medicine, has a degree in both engineering and medicine. Meruert, a ten-year old sister, has a sister.
Her family returned to Kazakhstan after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Her parents sent the 12-year-old Goga to boarding school in England, eager for their daughter to receive a competitive education. She started attending Buckswood Grange School in East Sussex and Stowe School, but was disciplined after being caught kissing a child. She then went to Rugby School, gaining five A levels. She earned a degree in modern history and economics from Somerville College, Oxford, in 2001.
Personal life
She met and married American Stefan Ashkenazy, whose father, Severyn Ashkenazy, founded the L'Ermitage Hotel Group at age 23. Both the couple separated in 2004 and divorced in 2007, but she kept his name, though with a different spelling due to a typo in her Russian passport. Both her parents are ostensibly atheists in the Communist Party, but her father is of Muslim origins and Goga is Jewish through her maternal grandmother. Goga, who is halachically Jewish, says she did not have to convert to marry Ashkenazy in a Jewish ceremony. She also claims she carries a page from a 1,200-year-old Torah in her purse.
With billionaire Timur Kulibayev, the son-in-law of Kazakhstan's president, Ashkenazi had an extramarital affair. Adam and Alan, both born in 2007, and Kulibayev have two sons: Adam, born in 2007, and Alan, born in 2012. She divides her time between Milan, where she works on Vionnet, and London, where her children live.
She is close friends with Prince Andrew, Duke of York, as well as banker Nat Rothschild, real estate developer Nick Candy, Duran Duran band member Nick Rhodes, and Lord Edward Spencer-Churchill.
In Kazakh, Gaukhar means diamond, while Meruert's name means pearl.
Career
Ashkenazi worked at investment banking companies, including Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley in London, and ABN AMRO in Hong Kong after leaving Oxford.
Ashkenazi formed the MunaiGaz Engineering Company in 2003, alongside her sister, Meruert. The firm designs compressor stations for gas pipelines and tunnelling for utility networks, gas turbine, and diesel plants.
In 2012, Ashkenazi took over Vionnet. She says she spent a year in Italy researching art, architecture, fashion, and the Italian language.
Ashkenazi is also on the board of Ivanhoe Mining Company.