Arai Bekembayev appointed head of inDrive's business in Kazakhstan

inDrive, a global platform for transportation and urban services, has announced the appointment of Aray Bekembayev as the head of the company’s business in Kazakhstan.

inDrive has been operating in Kazakhstan since 2014, offering urban and intercity transportation, courier and B2B delivery, freight transportation, and handyman services. The company has the largest regional hub in the country, with over 1,000 employees. In 2023, the company’s founder, Arsen Tomsky, obtained Kazakh citizenship.

Country managers are a new role within the company, aimed at improving and adapting the services offered to meet the needs of local residents. Aray will be responsible for the strategy, investment plan for development, and business partnerships of inDrive in Kazakhstan across urban and intercity travel, freight transportation, courier and B2B delivery, as well as handyman services. An important task will also be representing the social projects of the inVision division, which inDrive is developing in Kazakhstan and neighboring countries, to a broad external audience in the country.

Aray Bekembayev joined the company in 2020 as a business development specialist and advanced to the role of Senior Business Development Manager for the CIS region. Prior to joining inDrive, Aray worked at Ernst & Young and has experience managing large-scale projects in IT, business transformation, and process automation. He is a graduate of the American University in Dubai with a degree in Corporate Finance, as well as the MBA program at the Duke Fuqua School of Business through the Nazarbayev University School of Business.