Our Team
Mongolia Fixers is a group of professionals who have combined their expertise in the areas of fixing, line production, project management, expedition planning & logistics, remote catering, translation, and specialty tourism to offer a western style and level of service for your project in Mongolia. International expertise, combined with lifetimes of local knowledge from our dedicated in-country team, enable us to offer you service second to none.
Our Team
Our team have combined their expertise in the areas of fixing, line production, project management, expedition planning & logistics, remote catering, translation, and specialty tourism to offer a western style and level of service for your project in Mongolia. International expertise, combined with lifetimes of local knowledge from our dedicated in-country team, enable us to offer you service second to none.
Gregg has managed logistics for expeditions in the USA, Central, and South America, and Mongolia for a variety of purposes, ranging from exploration to search and recovery, travel tourism, and film crews. This has allowed him to work in such diverse areas of the globe as Panama, Nicaragua, Colombia, Ecuador and Russia. His background is actually in the sciences, having a Masters in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science from the University of Michigan. He has more than 25 years of diving and maritime experience, including expedition and logistics management and in 2007, participated in the first scientific diving expedition to Mongolia. From 2011-13, Gregg either managed or set up the operations room for the Mongol Derby, billed as the toughest horse race in the world. He is currently a Director and CFO of the Undersea Voyager Project, a 501(c)3 organization whose mission is undersea exploration and education. He established an office of UVP as an NGO in Mongolia in 2012, as a base of operations from which to conduct environmental research in Lake Hövsgöl.
Gregg enjoys dragging willing friends on frequent adventurous jaunts around Mongolia. After driving to Mongolia from London in the 2010 Mongol Rally, he stayed and over the years has explored a number of different provinces. Gregg is a professional skydiver, licensed private pilot, avid diver, occasional skier and holds a 100 GT USCG Captain's License. In his free time, you might find him captaining his packraft on one of Mongolia's gorgeous rivers.
gregg mikolasek
PROJECT MANAGER
Ganerdene has been guiding since 1993 and in that time has traveled and guided in nearly all of Mongolia's provinces. He lived in the UK for 8 years and then returned to Mongolia, giving him a unique understanding of how eastern and western cultures interact, not to mention the proper British accent. His fixing experience began with the 1997 Camel Trophy Event. Since that time he has worked on the 2005 Peking - Paris Rally for ABC, expeditions for Great Walks of the World and the Teenage Cancer Trust (establishing routes for their 2 trips and leading the treks), as well as working with House Hunting International and BBC Documentaries on Mongolian Nomads' Lives. Gana has led 2 dozen mountain biking trips and over a dozen trekking groups, including treks to remote areas using caravans of camels for support. He has been driving/guiding for numerous expeditions including U.S astronaut Kenneth "Ken" Ham & their Mongolia 'Transit of Venus' group.
Gana genuinely enjoys sharing unique experiences with visitors to Mongolia and has made friends from many countries around the world. He is a huge football fan (the soccer kind) and we rarely see him before mid-afternoon on days off, as games usually start at 4am. Gana recently traded in his camel caravan for a packraft to join Gregg on a few river recces, saying something like ‘packrafts don’t spit at you or smell as bad’.
GANERDENE YULJINSENGE
FIXER
Asher is a freelance photographer & videographer with a strong passion for combining documentary and artistic styles with storytelling. He has extensive experience as a DOP and as a producer on the film "The Eagle Huntress”, which has won the Cinema Eye Honors.
His body of work, which has been published in magazines and newspapers around the world, includes the BBC, National Geographic, The Guardian and GEO (Germany & France), to name a few.
Asher svidensky
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Munkhjargal is our key person who 'makes it happen' in Ulaanbaatar. She is a highly sought-after professional translator, tour industry professional, and a fixer in her own right. She has translated (including direct translation) for visiting dignitaries from the USA and worked with a number of internationally recognized agencies that have had projects in Mongolia. She makes sure things are done right with the highest degree of professionalism. In the past, she has worked as the general manager of the Duut Resort of the Usguun LLC Mongolia, arguably one of the more luxurious resorts in central Mongolia. She graduated from the Mongolian University of Humanities as a Russian and English teacher in 1996 and holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Management Academy of Mongolia. She has 4 years of experience working in the Mongolian Parliament and 10 years of INGO managerial experience with JCS International. Munkhjargal was also a team member on several international projects conducted by UNDP Mongolia and the US Embassy in Ulaanbaatar between 2005 and 2008.
We're pretty sure there are secrets that she can't discuss, which makes her a perfect member of the team. Your project confidentiality is safe with her!
MUNKHJARGAL DORJGOTOV
UB SUPPORT
BaatarkhuU Lkhagva
VIDEOGRAPHER / CAMERA ASSISTANT
Baatarkhuu (Sharaa) Lkhagva’s career in film production in Mongolia spans more than two decades and in that time he has worked on feature films, TV shows, documentaries, commercials, music videos and photoshoots.
The experience and all around knowledge Sharaa brings to set is invaluable, as is his sense of humor. By the way, he also answers to “Bob”.
