Meiramkhan Abenovich Shotay: Academician of MAIN, Doctor of Sciences, Professor,
A Man Who Chose to Build His Own System for the Future
There are people for whom 70 is an ending.
And there are people for whom 70 is the point from which the next stage begins.
Meiramkhan Abenovich Shotay belongs to the latter.
Behind him are decades of life, science and entrepreneurship, years of searching, mistakes and decisions, meetings and projects.
But if one attempts to define his story only through a list of positions and companies, the most important part remains beyond the text.
Because Meiramkhan's story is, above all, a story of searching for a system.
A system in which a person is not merely a cog in the economy.
Where business is not simply a way to make money.
Where capital is not an end in itself.
Where technology serves people, and international cooperation creates new opportunities rather than new barriers.
That is why, over time, his entrepreneurial journey began to transform into something greater.
An idea became a concept.
And the concept became an architecture.
Chapter 1. The First Capital — Experience
Every major project begins long before it receives a name.
For Meiramkhan, that beginning was years of practical entrepreneurship.
According to publicly available Kazakhstan business data, his name is associated with Baiterek-Samruk LLP, registered in 2014.
This date is important not because it defines the person by itself. It shows something else: Meiramkhan's entrepreneurial journey has a long-standing practical foundation.
Over the years, markets changed.
The economy changed.
Technologies changed.
The rules of the game changed.
But one fundamental question remained:
“How can an opportunity be turned into a result?”
Gradually, it became clear that capital alone was not enough.
Connections were needed.
Knowledge was needed.
Trust and reputation were needed.
People who knew how to work together were needed.
And, above all, a system capable of bringing all these elements together was needed.
Chapter 2. From Entrepreneur to Architect
The next stage was associated with a transition from individual commercial tasks to more complex models of cooperation.
In 2019, the holding company AsiaBusiessGroup — HoldingPerteres-El was registered, with Meiramkhan Abenovich Shotay as its head.
The company's principal area of activity was consulting support for concession projects and public-private partnership projects.
And this is where an important turning point emerges.
The entrepreneur begins to think not only in terms of:
“What can I sell?”
but also:
“What can I build?”
These are fundamentally different questions.
A product can be sold.
A system can be built.
A service can be sold.
An infrastructure for cooperation can be created.
An idea can be promoted.
But only a system can ensure that ideas continue to emerge and develop even after their creator is no longer directly involved.
It is here that Meiramkhan's image as an architect of opportunities gradually begins to take shape.
Chapter 3. Capital That Cannot Be Measured in Money
Over time, another realization emerged.
The most scarce capital of the 21st century is not money.
It is trust.
Money can be attracted.
Technology can be purchased.
Information can be found.
But trust cannot be acquired with a single payment.
It has to be earned.
From this understanding gradually emerged one of the central ideas behind Meiramkhan's future projects:
«“The economy of the future must be built not only around capital, but also around trust.”»
This led to an interest in investment mechanisms, entrepreneurial associations, digital platforms, international partnerships and new instruments of cooperation.
Chapter 4. The Birth of the Eurasian Business Development Corporation
Every major idea has a moment when scattered thoughts first come together into a single concept.
For Meiramkhan, one such concept became Alem Biz.
AlemBiz — the Eurasian Business Development Corporation — was conceived not simply as another company.
Not merely as a business club.
Not merely as a digital platform.
Behind the name lies a broader idea: to create an environment where entrepreneurs, investors, experts, technologies, markets and science can meet and interact.
This gives rise to a simple formula:
«“From ideas — to action.
From action — to results.
From results — to new opportunities.”»
The Eurasian Business Development Corporation represents an attempt to transform this philosophy from an idea into a functioning system.
Chapter 5. A World Without a Single Center
The world is changing.
Economic centers are becoming increasingly distributed.
The influence of countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and other regions of the Global South is growing.
The importance of international networks is increasing.
Digital technologies are erasing distances.
And in this new world, a question arises:
“What is Kazakhstan's place?”
For Meiramkhan, the answer is not to choose between existing centers of power.
The answer is to build our own bridges.
Kazakhstan can be more than just a market.
It can be more than simply a supplier of raw materials.
It can become a platform for connecting opportunities.
And it is precisely here that the idea of the Eurasian Business Development Corporation acquires an international dimension.
Chapter 6. The Eurasian Business Development Corporation
Gradually, an entire architecture begins to form around the central idea.
Entrepreneurship.
Investment.
Digitalization.
Artificial intelligence.
Web3.
Education.
Culture.
International cooperation.
New financial instruments.
But one thing connects them all:
the human being.
This leads to another important idea expressed by Meiramkhan:
«“The main challenge of the 21st century is to create not only intelligent machines, but wise people.”»
Artificial intelligence can accelerate the process of solving a problem.
But only a human being can determine why that problem needs to be solved in the first place.
Chapter 7. Parasaty Aru
From this philosophy emerges a new idea — Parasaty Aru.
This is not a conversation about technology.
It is a conversation about the human being.
About culture.
About inner responsibility.
About the ability to possess not only knowledge, but also wisdom.
Within this concept emerges the image of a new social class:
the Elite of Trust.
Not an elite of wealth.
Not an elite of positions.
Not an elite based on origin.
But people who can be entrusted with capital, knowledge, technology, responsibility and the future.
Chapter 8. The Infrastructure of Trust
The next step is an attempt to transform philosophy into an institutional mechanism.
Thus emerges the idea of QORJYN-X — an infrastructure of trust within the international business ecosystem.
The name QORJYN itself is symbolic.
The Kazakh word qorzhyn is not merely the name of an object.
It is an image of a container — something a person carries with them.
Knowledge.
Resources.
Experience.
Values.
In its new interpretation, QORJYN-X becomes a metaphor for an infrastructure in which relationships of trust can be stored, verified and strengthened.
Chapter 9. The Bank That Does Not Give Money
From the same philosophy emerges the concept of Alem Biz Safety Net, developed within the framework of the Eurasian Business Development Corporation.
Its central formula is remarkably simple:
«“A bank does not give money — a bank gives confidence.”»
Partners may provide the financing.
But trust in a project must have its own infrastructure.
Thus emerges the idea of a guarantee mechanism that connects entrepreneurs, experts, partners and sources of financing.
This represents a different approach to the financial system: not simply “providing money,” but “creating conditions under which money can come more safely.”
Chapter 10. A Person and Their Time
The age of 70 and beyond is a special stage of life.
A person has lived long enough to understand the cost of mistakes.
But still has enough energy not to accept the idea that “it is already too late.”
Youth asks: “What can I get?”
Maturity asks: “What can I create?”
And true experience asks a third question:
“What will remain after me?”
This is precisely the question that becomes increasingly important for Meiramkhan.
Not only business.
Not only companies.
Not only projects.
But the legacy of ideas.
Chapter 11. The System of the Future
In this sense, the Eurasian Business Development Corporation becomes something greater than an individual project.
It is an attempt to bring together, within a single architecture, things that usually exist separately:
business + investment + technology + equipment + culture + trust + international cooperation.
Individual decisions may be debated.
Individual ideas may be criticized.
And that is perfectly normal.
Any genuine system must stand the test of reality.
But the most important thing has already happened:
the idea has ceased to be merely a thought.
It has received a name.
It has acquired a structure.
And it has found people ready to develop it.
Chapter 12. Meiramkhan. Who Is He?
An entrepreneur? Yes.
An academician? Yes.
A founder of projects? Yes.
An ideologist? Yes.
But even that is not enough.
Because an entrepreneur creates a company.
But Meiramkhan Shotay seeks to create an environment in which companies can emerge.
An entrepreneur looks for a market.
An architect looks for connections between markets.
An investor looks for returns.
A system builder looks for mechanisms that allow capital to work more effectively.
That is why his journey can be described in one word:
Creation.
Epilogue. 70 Is Not the Finish Line
There is a beautiful human illusion that the most important things in life should already have been accomplished by a certain age.
Yet the history of many great ideas proves otherwise.
Sometimes it takes a person several decades to finally understand what they truly want to build.
For Meiramkhan, 70 and beyond is not a full stop.
It is a milestone.
Beyond it begins a new question:
«“If I already have the experience, why should I simply retire when I can build something that does not yet exist?”»
And perhaps this is where the most interesting part of the story begins.
Not a story about the past.
But a story about the future.
A future in which entrepreneurs unite not only for profit.
A future in which Kazakhstan can be not merely a periphery of the global economy, but one of the bridges connecting its different centers.
And a story about a man who, at the age of 70, decided not to put a full stop, but a colon.
Because what comes next is what matters most:
The Eurasian Business Development Corporation.
«From ideas — to action.
From action — to results.
From results — to the future.»
Meiramkhan Abenovich Shotay
Academician of IIA, Doctor of Sciences, Professor