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<\/figure>\n\n\nSeth Fearey \u2014 Chair<\/h3>\n\n\n
Assistant Professor at the American University of Central Asia (AUCA); former Country Director of the Peace Corps for the Kyrgyz Republic; Vice President of Joint Venture Silicon Valley Network. Chaired the Board of Trustees through the founding governance period.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\nAziz Soltobaev \u2014 Founder & Trustee<\/h3>\n\n\n
Co-founder of KG Labs Public Foundation; co-founder of the Internet Society Kyrgyz Chapter; Fellow of the Stimson Center, Microsoft Responsible AI Program, and Atlantic Council AI Connect. Served as the Foundation’s principal officer during and after the Board period.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\nBermet Tursunkulova \u2014 Trustee<\/h3>\n\n\n
World Bank consultant and Associate Professor at the American University of Central Asia (AUCA); former Deputy Minister of Education of the Kyrgyz Republic; former Vice President of the American University in Central Asia. Brought education-policy and institutional-reform expertise to the Foundation’s governance.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\nEdil Ajibaev \u2014 Trustee<\/h3>\n\n\n
Founder of PicvPic; co-founder of NeoTransfer; Chairman of the Business Advisory Board and Visiting Professor at the American University of Central Asia (AUCA). Brought entrepreneurship and venture-building experience to the Foundation’s governance.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\nChubak Boikonov \u2014 Trustee<\/h3>\n\n\n
Leader of the Ideagrad Business Incubator; founder of Zoffice in Kyrgyzstan. Brought startup-incubation and ecosystem-building experience to the Foundation’s governance.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\nRinat Abdrasilov \u2014 Non-Executive Director<\/h3>\n\n\n
Cambridge MBA with over twenty years of international experience in innovation management and strategy for banks and FinTechs. Co-founded the Association of Business Angels of Central Asia (ABACA)<\/strong> with Aziz Soltobaev in June 2022. Brought finance, venture investment, and FinTech expertise to the Foundation’s governance.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Fundraising Coordinator and Course Instructor at the American University of Central Asia (AUCA). Brought higher-education and resource-mobilisation experience to the Foundation’s governance.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Emily Youatt<\/strong> co-founded KG Labs Public Foundation alongside Aziz Soltobaev at the Foundation’s registration on June 5, 2015. She served as co-founder through the Foundation’s re-registration on October 10, 2016. Her contribution to the founding period is recorded here as part of the institutional history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Following the conclusion of the 2015\u20132021 Board’s term, a new Board of Trustees has not yet been appointed. The Foundation continues to operate under the principal officer with project-specific oversight from partners and external advisors as required by funded work. Information about the current operational structure is available on the Our Team<\/a> page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Portrait for Chubak Boikonov is in preparation. Roles and affiliations reflect each trustee’s position at the time of service. Source: KG Labs Public Foundation registration documents and the Foundation’s prior public listing of the Board of Trustees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the Foundation’s registration in 2015 through June 2021, KG Labs Public Foundation was governed by a Board of Trustees composed of practitioners, academics, and ecosystem leaders from Kyrgyzstan and the wider region. The Board provided strategic oversight, institutional accountability, and external perspective during the Foundation’s first six years of operation. The Board’s term concluded […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-864","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"ru","enabled_languages":["en","ru"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"ru":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kglabs.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kglabs.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kglabs.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kglabs.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kglabs.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/kglabs.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8228,"href":"https:\/\/kglabs.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/864\/revisions\/8228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kglabs.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Diana](\"https:\/\/kglabs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Diana-Durusbek-kyzy.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\nDiana Durusbek kyzy \u2014 Trustee<\/h3>\n\n\n
Founding-Period Co-Founder<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nCurrent Governance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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