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David Tuganov builds the institutions and companies through which Central Asia enters the global creative and AI economy. Co-Founder of Creata Group; Founder of Creata Ventures; President & Co-Founder of CIAQ; Founder of Neurostorm and TransforNATION. 16+ years of work; 12,000+ leaders trained through Neurostorm.

David Tuganov builds the institutions and companies through which Central Asia enters the global creative and AI economy: policy, education, games, venture capital. Across 16+ years he has assembled a single continuous mandate spanning four layers — narrative, policy, capital, and execution. He is Co-Founder of Creata Group, the international group of companies that carries the operating side of that mandate; Founder of Creata Ventures (AIFC), the venture studio turning regional creative and deep-tech talent into investable companies; President & Co-Founder of CIAQ, the alliance now counting 38 members across 9 committees; and Founder of Neurostorm, the consulting engine behind 55+ transformation projects since 2019, through which 12,000+ leaders have been trained. His design-thinking lab TransforNATION is the methodological partner of Samsung Solve for Tomorrow, six seasons of which have drawn 11,450 participants. He also co-founded Sunny World Foundation, part of a track record of 36 social impact projects.

David Tuganov builds the institutions and companies through which Central Asia enters the global creative and AI economy.

Born in Atbasar, a small town in northern Kazakhstan, he moved to Kostanay for school and became one of the youngest camp directors in the country’s history while still a student. The Bolashak presidential scholarship took him to Rochester Institute of Technology in the United States, where he studied cybersecurity, networks, and systems administration alongside students from across Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America.

He spent the following years inside Samruk-Kazyna, Kazakhstan’s sovereign wealth fund, eventually serving as Deputy Group CIO across national sectors of the economy — authoring reference models for IT governance, cybersecurity, and data management, and founding the country’s first ISACA and DAMA chapters. In 2015, after his daughter was born with Down syndrome, he and his wife co-founded Sunny World, Kazakhstan’s first free rehabilitation centre for children with Down syndrome — the point where inclusion stopped being philanthropy and became architecture.

In 2019 he stepped outside the state apparatus to build Neurostorm, the consulting engine behind 55+ transformation projects, through which 12,000+ leaders have been trained. TransforNATION, his design-thinking lab, became the methodological partner of Samsung Solve for Tomorrow — six seasons, 11,450 participants. CIAQ, which he leads as President & Co-Founder, unites 38 members across 9 committees as the collective voice of Kazakhstan’s creative industries. Creata Ventures, which he founded under AIFC jurisdiction, turns regional creative and deep-tech talent into investable companies. Across it all runs a track record of 36 social impact projects.

Those institutions now have a vehicle: Creata Group, an international group of companies he co-founded with partners — a venture studio and fund, an education platform, a game publisher, AI products. The thesis has not changed: emerging economies do not stagnate from a lack of ambition — they stagnate from missing institutional infrastructure. That is what gets built.