Alisher Burikhanov is the Executive Director of the Kentucky Workforce Innovation Board (KWIB), the state workforce board for the commonwealth. KWIB is a strategic body comprised of 51% business representatives with labor, government, education, and community-based organizations all working together to advance Kentucky’s workforce development. Having served for Team Kentucky for over 6 years, Alisher enjoys the collaboration between stakeholders given his prior experience working in a fast-paced recruitment firm, at a non-profit serving refugees and immigrants, and with a veteran-owned small business in Lancaster, Kentucky. Alisher is a proud graduate of the University of Kentucky with an MBA from Kentucky State University, where he teaches as an adjunct in the School of Business. Originally from a Central Asian country called Uzbekistan, Alisher has lived and worked in Kentucky’s rural and urban centers for the last two decades and currently calls Frankfort his home with his wife and three children.