As deputy director with accounting automation firm, El San, LLC in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Sultanov is responsible for the management of all business processes including, financial management, strategic planning and control of plan implementation as well as client relations.  While at Asher & Company, Ltd., he observed firm operations and attended business calls and meetings with directors Steve Carr, Madeline Janowski, Bernadette Chicco, Bill Burns, Carl Graf, Cathy Nemeth, Chief Administrator Susan Mock, Office Manager Elaine Allen, Marketing Director Jack Kolmansberger, and other Asher staff.  Sultanov said that the management procedures and technology he has been exposed to at Asher will greatly assist his company and was particularly impressed with the firm’s wireless capabilities.    

In all, Sultanov visited four accounting firms in the Greater Philadelphia Region during his month stay and even had some time for cultural and leisurely activities like visiting the Philadelphia Museum of Art, attending the July 4^th celebrations at the new National Constitution Center, seeing a Camden Riversharks baseball game, trying seafood for the very first time, and sampling everyone’s favorite Philadelphia institution—a Philly cheese steak. 

“This trip has changed my life.  Our cultures and nationalities are so far away, but so close at the same time,” says Sultanov, who has never been so far from Kyrgyzstan.  Mr. Sultanov looks forward to visiting Philadelphia again and plans to keep in touch with his U.S. counterparts.  Click here for pictures.

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