Kumar Bekbolotov has served as SFK's executive director since September 2008. Prior to SFK, he worked at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), as its Central Asia program director, Kyrgyzstan country director and executive editor of a Central Asia news agency project. Kumar received a BA degree in comparative politics from the American University-Central Asia in Bishkek, and in 2004 obtained a master's degree in political science from the Central European University in Budapest.

Ulan Ryskeldiev has been SFK's board chair since the summer of 2008, and has consulted for SFK since 2004. Ryskeldiev is one of the founders of the Kyrgyz Stock Exchange and was elected President of the Kyrgyz Stock Exchange in 1996. From 2007 to present he has worked as Coordinator of USAID Business Environment Improvement Project in Bishkek. He possesses a degree in mathematics, Candidate of Technical Sciences, and graduated from the graduate program of the Moscow State University and Mathematics Department of Leningrad University.

Michael Hall is the regional director for the Caucasus and Central Asia at the Open Society Institute.

Hall holds an MA in Regional Studies: Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia from Harvard University. He has studied in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and previously worked for International Crisis Group in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, and the Aga Khan Humanities Project in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.