Marc Holtzman

Marc Holtzman is chairman of Kazkommertsbank in Kazakhstan. Previously, Holtzman was Chairman of Meridian Capital HK, a private equity firm with investments in natural resources, real estate, food, agriculture and transportation. He currently resides in Hong Kong.

Holtzman holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Lehigh University. Holtzman served as Executive Director of Citizens for America, former President Ronald Reagan’s national issues advocacy group. In the 1980 Presidential campaign, Reagan appointed Holtzman Executive Director of his Pennsylvania campaign, the youngest person to ever run a statewide campaign in a US presidential election.

In 1989, Holtzman was nominated by President Reagan to the Peace Corps National Advisory Council.

Holtzman served as Vice Chairman of Barclays Capital and as Vice Chairman ABN Amro Bank. Holtzman was co-founder and President of MeesPierson EurAmerica (a firm which was acquired by ABN Amro) and as Senior Adviser to Salomon Brothers, he lived and worked in Eastern Europe and Russia from September 1989 until October 1998.

From 2003 through 2005 Holtzman was President of the University of Denver, where he was responsible for the development of the Rocky Mountain Center for Homeland Security.

Holtzman served in the Cabinet of former Governor Bill Owens as Colorado’s first Secretary of Technology. Holtzman was Chairman of Colorado’s Information Management Commission and Co-Chairman of the Governor’s Commission on Science and Technology.

On August 29, 2005, in appreciation for his contribution to the development and improvement of relations between The Russian Federation and the Republic of Tatarstan, then Prime Minister (and now President) Rustam Minnikhanov of Tatarstan awarded Holtzman the Russian Medal, In Commemoration of Millenary of Kazan.

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