
Magzhan Madiyev
CEO International Technopark Astana Hub Kazakhstan
Magzhan Madiyev is a specialist in technology business and innovation ecosystem development. He is the Founding CEO and the author of the development strategy of the Astana Hub International Technopark of IT Startups, took part in the launch of the Technopark in 2016-2018 years.
Magzhan is also a co-founder of the Naimi.kz startup, a marketplace for finding specialists in various fields. In several rounds of investments, the startup attracted a total of 2 million dollars, GMV $100K per day, more than 100 thousand users use the platform monthly. The contribution of the startup to the social effect for the employment of self-employed specialists was noted by the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev.
In 2019, Magzhan headed the Umit Fund, a private educational foundation, which is the founder of the Alem innovative programming school. Magzhan took the lead in launching and negotiating the opening in Kazakhstan. Education at Alem is free and built on the idea of peer-to-peer learning.
Magzhan also worked as an advisor to the Chairman of the Board of Atameken NCE on digitalization and as an expert in the Digital Office of the Presidential Administration under the Adviser to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan on digitalization and innovative technologies.