Following a career in the private, and non-profit sectors, Cynthia Hansen joined the Adecco Group in August 2017 to head the new Adecco Group Foundation. Cynthia’s areas of expertise include corporate governance, social responsibility, partnerships and impact. Prior to joining the Adecco Group, she spent nine years at the World Economic Forum, in leadership roles across Civil Society, Strategic Partnerships, Professional Services industry and Content Strategy. Previous roles include Director of Management Consultancy at boutique consulting firm Action Planning, Director of the US State Department’s International Visitor program for the State of Washington under the World Affairs Council, and Head of Admissions for Amity Institute, an international teacher exchange program. Cynthia has served on the boards of a number of non-profit organizations, including the Center for Women and Democracy, EU Consult, and The Internationalist magazine. In addition, she was an official delegate of a Washington State women’s mission to Cuba (2003) and an election monitor in Jordan (2003) under the auspices of the National Democratic Institute. Cynthia holds an MSc in Management of NGOs from the London School of Economics, and a double BA (Hons) in Asian Studies and English/Literature from the University of Puget Sound.

In December 2019, Olga Magaletska was appointed Head of the Office of the National Investment Council of Ukraine. The National Investment Council of Ukraine is an institution that promotes investment in Ukraine and provides advisory solutions for investors. The institution is focused on promoting Ukraine to attract foreign investments, enabling high-level dialogue with government stakeholders and launching legislative measures to significantly improve the investment environment. From 2018-2019, Ms. Magaletska worked for Ukrnafta as Head of Government Relations, to develop cooperation with high-level stakeholders and key politicians and improve regulations for the oil and gas sector. During 2015-2017, she worked as an advisor at the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade and the Project Office of the National Reform Council as Investment Promotion Project Manager, responsible for investment strategy creation for Ukraine and for establishing a new Investment Promotion institution, setting the foundation for the Office of the National Investment Council of Ukraine. M. Magaletska is also co-author of the Limited Liability Companies law. From 2009-2016, she worked as an Associate Vice President for Citibank and Raiffeisen Bank, supervising various functions. Olga is highly interested in technology and innovations, since 2013, investing in several early stage start-ups and co-founding two startups in the education and IT education sphere. She is an EMBA candidate April 2021 at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She has an MBA from Kyiv Mohyla Business School (kmbs) and is a graduate of the State Flight Academy of Ukraine, the National Aviation University, earning a masters degree and bachelors with a major in Aviation Engineering and a minor in Air Traffic Control – Management. Her personal interests are running marathons and painting.

Volodymyr Osadchuk is the CEO of COFCO Agri Resources Ukraine, part of Chinese global grain corporation COFCO INTL, one of the world’s largest producers, processors, and traders of agricultural products. With total investments in Ukraine of $145 million and 590 employees, COFCO Agri Ukraine has 8 business lines in the country, including operating an oil extraction plant in Mariupol and a grain terminal in the Mykolaiv seaport; grains, oilseeds, vegetable oil and meal exports, and inland storage facilities. In 2019 COFCO exported over 6 mln mt of product out of Ukraine.

Gideon Lichfield has been the editor in chief of MIT Technology Review since December 2017. He spent 16 years at the Economist, first as a science and technology writer and then in postings to Mexico City, Moscow, Jerusalem, and New York City. In 2012 he left to become one of the founding editors of Quartz, a news outlet dedicated to covering the future of the global economy that is now widely recognized as one of the most innovative companies in digital media. Gideon has taught journalism at New York University and been a fellow at Data & Society, a research institute devoted to studying the social impacts of new technology. He grew up in the UK and studied physics and the philosophy of science.

Called the “closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience” by The Atlantic magazine, Harris was the former Design Ethicist at Google. He is a world expert on how technology steers us all, leaving Google to engage the issue publicly. Harris spent over a decade understanding subtle psychological forces, from his childhood as a magician, to working with the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab, to his role as CEO of Apture, which was acquired by Google. He has been featured on 60 Minutes, TED, The Atlantic, the PBS News Hour, and more. He has worked with major technology CEOs and briefed Heads of State and other political leaders. He is the co-host of the podcast, “Your Undivided Attention.”

Mykhailo Shelemba is the CEO of Datagroup, the leading telecom player in Ukraine with over 22,000 km of fiber optics infrastructure providing telecom services to over 100 Ukrainian cities and towns. Datagroup is the operator of choice for Ukrainian banking sector (with 93% of banks being its clients), transport and logistics, as well as retail and government sector. Datagroup is also providing connectivity services to over 600 other telecom operators in Ukraine, indirectly servicing over 3 million retail clients.

In 2016 Mykhailo Shelemba joined Datagroup as its CEO to drive a full-scale transformation of the company. He was one of the many young Ukrainian professionals who returned from abroad to build up business in Ukraine. In 2019 Mikhaylo has been recognized as one of Ukraine’s TOP-5 CEOs according to TOP-100 magazine.

Prior to joining Datagroup, Mykhailo spent 6 years at McKinsey&Company leading transformation projects in banking, metals and mining, as well as telecom sectors in Ukraine and in the Middle East.

Yaroslav Prygara is Chief Executive Officer of Sherp, a Ukrainian manufacturer of unique amphibious vehicles. Sherp is a fast-growing company, selling its products globally. In 2019, Sherp became the first Ukrainian company, official supplier of World Food Program (the biggest humanitarian mission in the world and division of United Nation) and supplier of Fortune500 companies. Sherp was featured in leading global media, including CNBC, cited by Kanye West, Jay Leno and Kevin Hart.

Prior to joining Sherp, for a decade Mr. Prygara was CEO of Mercedes-Benz Ukraine, responsible for 7 markets and also, CEO of Maserati Ukraine, Ducati Ukraine and JEEP Ukraine.  Mr. Prygara holds a MA degree in International Economics from National Technical University and an MBA from Steinbeis University Berlin.  He is a member of the Young Presidents Organization and Board member of the Kyiv Chapter of YPO.

Dr Aura Sabadus is a senior journalist at ICIS, a leading provider of news, pricing information and analytics covering the petrochemicals and energy sectors. ICIS is part of RELX, a FTSE 100 global provider of information-based analytics.

Aura has over 10 years in covering emerging energy markets, focusing on Ukraine, Romania and Turkey.

She holds a PhD in International Relations from King’s College London and is a research associate of the European Centre for Energy and Resource Security, a London-based think tank.

Aura has written extensively on the liberalisation of energy markets, has contributed academic and professional articles for the Atlantic Council, the NATO Association of Canada and has been quoted in the international mainstream media in the US and Europe.

Jaroslawa Z. Johnson was appointed WNISEF President and CEO effective January 1, 2015. Ms. Johnson directs, oversees and provides overall management for the WNISEF program activities and remains a member of the Fund’s Board of Directors in addition to her role as President and CEO.
Ms. Johnson was born in Ukraine and emigrated to the U.S. as a child. She is a graduate of Goucher College and University of Wisconsin Law School, where she was editor of the law review and earned a J.D. in 1977. After law school, she served as law clerk to Chief Judge Thomas E. Fairchild, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and practiced corporate law with several Chicago law firms.

She is a founding member and former chairperson of America Ukraine Business Council, which sponsored the first American visit of a Ukrainian president in 1991, and she organized the first Ukraine-U.S. Trade Conference for American companies in 1992. She was appointed by former U.S. President Bill Clinton to the Board of Directors of the Western NIS Enterprise Fund in 1994, serving as an active member of the Board since its inception.

Prior to her appointment as President and CEO of WNISEF, Ms. Johnson was managing partner of an international law office in Kyiv, Ukraine, which she launched in the early 1990s. Ms. Johnson’s extensive international corporate practice included counseling corporations in many countries on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, financing transactions, project finance and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act compliance in the US and Central and Eastern Europe.
Over the course of more than two decades of international corporate legal work, Ms. Johnson advised many Fortune 500 companies and other Western multinationals on cross-border transactions with Ukraine. During her many years as an international corporate attorney in Ukraine, Ms. Johnson was consistently recognized by international legal directories as a leading lawyer in Ukraine’s corporate, banking and finance and energy sectors.

In August 2016 Jaroslawa Z. Johnson was awarded a Commemorative Medal on the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of Ukraine’s Independence by President Petro Poroshenko in recognition of her contribution to Ukraine over the past 23 years.

Nico Rosberg became Formula 1 World Champion in 2016 with Mercedes AMG Petronas and announced his retirement 5 days later. Since his retirement Nico continues his work as an ambassador for many international brands and has become a Greentech entrepreneur. He has investments in a variety of companies such as Formula E, Lilium, Chargepoint & Lyft and has also now co-founded the GREENTECH Festival which launched in May 2019. He remains linked to motor sport through his commentary for SKY & RTL, his Rosberg Racing young driver’s academy and his engineering company TRE. His recently launched podcast ‘Beyond Victory’ topped the charts for download and his Youtube and other social media channels are a big passion. When he is not working he spends as much time as possible with his wife Vivian and two young daughters.

Ruslana, is a World Music Award and Eurovision Song Contest winning recording artist, holding the title of People’s Artist of Ukraine. She is also a former MP serving as deputy in the Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada) for the Our Ukraine Party. Ruslana was the UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in Ukraine in 2004-2005. She is recognized as the most successful Ukrainian female solo artist internationally and was included in the top 10 most influential women of 2013 by Forbes magazine.

Shpyliasti Kobzari is a Ukrainian folk music band playing traditional Ukrainian string instruments and banduras. Shpylyasti Kobzari was founded in 2011 and quickly became famous thanks to the TV show “Ukraine’s Got Talent.” Apart from Ukraine, the band has toured over 20 countries. Combining folk songs with modern music, Shpylyasti Kobzari promotes Ukrainian culture — among local audience as well as abroad.

Yaroslav Dzhus is Ukrainian bandura player, composer, arranger, DJ, laureate of all-Ukrainian and international competitions, semi-finalist and winner of the audience’s prize of the TV show “Ukraine has Talent-2”, founder of the group “Shpyliasti kobzari”. Yaroslav Dzhus initiated the creation of “Ukraine” innovative art producing agency, with BanduraSTYLE being one of its new directions.

Svitlana Grytsenko is a Director of National Programs at the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, an international, private philanthropic foundation based in Ukraine that was established in 2006 with the aim to empower the young generation to change their country and the world.

Among others Svitlana is in charge of the scholarship programs Zavtra.UA and WorldWideStudies, and public lectures by world leaders for Ukrainian students. The two scholarship programs together have graduated nearly 3,000 young Ukrainian leaders over the last 13 years. Mrs. Grytsenko is also one of the core team members of the Yalta European Strategy (YES) Annual Conference that for over a decade remains the strongest platform for a dialogue between Ukrainian and global opinion and decision-makers.

Svitlana is a member of the Ukraine House Organizing Committee that launched the first ever Ukraine House in Davos alongside the World Economic Forum in 2018, 2019, and is proud to continue in this role in 2020.

Jean-Christophe Laloux is the Director General for the Head of Lending Operations at European Investment Bank (EIB). He holds a Commercial Engineering degree from the Catholic University of Leuven, a Post Graduate in Management (magna cum laude) from the University of Ghent, and a Master of Business Administration (Distinction) from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University – USA. He speaks English, French, German and Dutch.

Since the start of his EIB career in 1999, he has held different professional and managerial positions in the front office, both inside and outside the European Union, as well as in EIB’s subsidiary, the European Investment Fund. He was also Advisor to the President (2002-2005) and Head of Personnel (2011-2013). Prior to joining the Bank, he worked for 6 years as a management consultant for PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the Boston Consulting Group.

Shannon is Venture Partner at GOBI PARTNERS, a Southeast Asian/ Chinese Focused Fund managing over 1.1 Billion USD across 11 funds in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia and now Thailand. We focus on multi-stage investments – IT, Tech, digital media and consumer-facing startups and SMEs.

In 2013 – 2017 – Shannon Co-Founded Orami, and was the former Chief Marketing Officer of [formerly MOXY] – the largest e-commerce destination for women in Southeast Asia, with 3 M&As under its belt, and global investors such as Eduardo Saverin [Facebook], and Gobi Partners [Alibaba Fund Manager, HK, China], and was one of the first Thai companies to roll out a regional play.

An Entrepreneur and a passionate Equality Advocate. She is a mover and a shaker, dedicated to building businesses and deeply connected in sectors of Technology, Business, Entertainment & Media, and Social Development for Equal Rights and Education in Thailand and in Asia.

Shannon is deeply involved in the Start up, Technology and Business sectors and devotes time to Mentorship, Programs and Projects. She is currently a Mentor at the MOX China Accelerator, UNDP Regional Hub’s Youth Co:Lab, Mentor for DTAC Accelerate Batch 5, 6, 7 [2017 – 2019], frequently invited Speaker and Judge at various Conferences, Venture, Start Up, Case Competitions through out the region, such as Tech in Asia, Unbound Innovfest, e27’s Echelon, WPP Stream, Siam Commercial Bank’s Digital Venture, Thammasat University Case Competitions, to name a few. In 2016, Shannon was chosen to represent Asia at the FORTUNE’s Most Powerful Women Summit, nominated in the “40 under 40” to watch by Campaign Asia and honored to be Thailand’s Founder of the Year at the Start-Up Awards.

Shannon is a Women’s and Equality Advocate and remains active in the non-profit sector, a board member at Pratthanadee Foundation, a foundation that helps disadvantaged women and girls in Thailand, and frequently speaking at the UNDP and UNESCO and other United Nations events and forums. She has helped to raise awareness and funds via celebrities and socialites with good causes, such as mentorship and scholarship programs and aiding the fishing rehabilitation projects during the Andaman Tsunami Disaster in 2005. In 2017, Shannon joined the UN Women’s HeForShe campaign to be a voice for Gender Equality.

Background:
In her former life, prior to technology, Shannon started her career in Investment Banking, at Lehman Brothers’ Global Real Estate and Structured Finance Group – Asia, Ex-Japan. She then started a 1 year Tsunami Disaster Relief Program in Phangna, Phuket, and Ranong in 2005, raising funds and managing development for a tsunami stricken village. In late, 2005 – she joined Singha to become its youngest Director in International Corporate Planning & Strategy overseeing 44 countries worldwide, with focus on the restructuring of the USA market, establishment of the Australian market, and co-developing the UK market.

Her entrepreneurial journey started with 2 companies: Iconic Media focused on media, events, festivals, integrating TV formats and media applications such as Asia’s Next Top Model, and with Altus Transactional Services, a Financial Advisory Group, with focus on acquiring, building and restructuring conglomerates throughout South East Asia. Altus’ project included the Building of a HD Digital Terrestrial Television Station, from Strategy, Business Case, Winning a Government Concession, and the actual Development, HR, Operations, Content Planning, and Execution [project size: 5 Billion THB, or 157 MM USD] for Dr. Prasert Prasartthong-osoth, www.PPTVThailand.com, Channel 36.

The start up bug bit Shannon, when she joined Rocket Internet’s Lazada in 2011, with a leading role in creating “Thailand’s Amazon” ecommerce platform, www.Lazada.co.th. She shortly left to start MOXY/ ORAMI, in 2013 and the rest is history.

Oksana Lyniv is a principal conductor of the Graz Opera and the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra in Austria.

She is a founder and art director of LvivMozArt Festival, Lviv (Ukraine) and founder, conductor and art director of the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine/YsOU.
Oksana Lyniv is a Ukrainian conductor, and recognised as one of the most prominent women-conductors on the world stage. She is a winner of the prestigious TREBBIA International Awards in nomination “For Art Activity” and winner of “Ukrainian Woman of 2019 Award” in the nomination for “Culture”. She was awarded with “Star of the Year 2015” status for “Classics”, and she won prize of Munich Opera Festival in 2015.

The artist’s calendar of Oksana Lyniv is fully scheduled through to the 2023/24 seasons with productions and concerts in prominent performance halls all over the globe.

Member of the Corporate Governance, Remuneration and Nomination Committee (independent member)

International advisor to central banks and deposit insurance agencies in Europe and Central Asia, Ms. Easky has broad experience in the financial industry and specific expertise dealing with financial crises and problem banks. Working with the highest levels of government, she is a confidential liaison resolving highly sensitive regulatory issues and matters of public interest. Having served in a senior level position for the U.S. government through three financial crises (1982 to 2012) she is recognized as an expert in problem bank restructuring and resolution, focusing on financial and operational stability, protecting the interests of the government and private citizens, and moving economies forward. She has contributed to the development of international best practices in the areas of bank restructuring, bank resolution, and problem loan management. She has demonstrated success as an executive leader working within and across organizations to solve complex problems, overcome obstacles and achieve success even in the most difficult circumstances.

Ms. Easky began her career as a business and credit analyst, and in the early 1980s achieved significant success as a loan workout and restructuring expert, personally negotiating very large, complex, and politically sensitive borrowers. She rose through the ranks of the FDIC where she developed her expertise and retired as Executive Director. She has managed very large organizations and all functions involved with the resolution and liquidation of failing and failed banks. After the global financial crisis of 2008 – 2011, Ms. Easky retired from the FDIC and began work as a U.S. and international consultant assisting client banks and regulators with bank restructuring and bank resolution; she has been a featured speaker on these topics at many U.S. and international events.

Ms. Easky’s areas of technical expertise include:

• problem bank management, recovery, and resolution
• loan administration and non-performing loans restructure, recovery, and sales
• crisis management, problem solving and conflict resolution
• development of strategic and cooperative alliances with internal and external stakeholders
• strategic planning and organizational development.

Olga Afanasyeva serves as the Executive Director of UVCA. Financial Times and Google nominated as a Changemaker New Europe 100 in 2016. In 2017, Olga was appointed as Ukraine’s Ambassador of Women in Venture Capital. Olga holds a PhD in Finance at the Ukrainian banking academy of the National Bank of Ukraine. She has been studying at the University of Applied Sciences of the Deutsche Bundesbank, Academy of Capital Market Leaders at Lesław A. Paga Foundation (Poland). Olga has 8 years of experience lecturing at Ukrainian banking academy of the National Bank of Ukraine, University of Greenwich (London, UK), as well as at the Jean Monnet Program of Erasmus. She has experience in corporate governance and international cooperation. She also worked at the Warsaw Stock Exchange. Olga is the member of EU Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum Working Group “Economic Integration & Convergence with EU Policies”. She is an author of more than 50 scientific papers, researches, and 3 books in finance, investments and banking. Olga was co-organizer of Ukrainian Davos Nights (January 2017), and initiator of first-ever Ukrainian Startup Pavilion at Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas.

Born January 25, 1978 in the city of Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk region.

Citizen and resident of Ukraine. In particular, has been residing in Ukraine over the last ten years.

In 1995-2000 studied law at the Kyiv National Economic University, graduating with JD.

1997-2003 – actor, screenwriter, creative director of the stand-up comedy contest team Quarter-95.

2003-2011 – artistic director at the Studio Kvartal-95, LLC.

2011-2012 – general producer of the private JSC TV Channel Inter.

2013-2019 – artistic director at the Studio Kvartal-95, LLC.

Founder of NGO The League of Laughter Youth Center. Has held no elected posts.

Mr. Zelenskyy’s movie career includes 10 feature films, over 30 accolades of the Ukrainian National TV Awards Teletriumph and multiple prizes of the international movie-, and telefestivals and media forums.

Played the lead role in The Servant of the People TV series that won the WorldFest Remi Award (USA, 2016) and made the comedy film finalist short-list of the Seoul International Drama Awards (South Korea). The Servant of the People also won the Intermedia Globe SILVER award in the Entertainment TV Show category at the WorldMediaFestival in Hamburg (Germany).

From the very beginning of hostilities in Donbas, together with the Studio Kvartal-95 colleagues, assisted the army by sending money and equipment, and visited the frontline and military units with concerts.

An independent.

Married to Оlena Volodymyrivna Zelenska. The couple has daughter Olexandra and son Cyril.

Has no criminal convictions for disclosure.

On April 21, 2019, Mr. Zelenskyy won the regular election with 73.22% of the vote and on May 20, 2019, was sworn-in as the President of Ukraine.

Oksana Karavanska is one of the most creative fashion designers in Ukraine. Her signature style illustrates a combination of old traditional pieces with contemporary design elements. Oksana mainly creates exclusive couture garments with unique tailoring. Oksana Karavanska’s designer identity lies in Ukrainian roots echoed throughout her collections as an unpredictable amalgam of old precious embroidery with the latest fabrics and modern hand- made details.

Five years ago Oksana Karavanska launched ‘Vyshyvanka Couture III century’ as the totally exclusive one of the kind things as a way to bring vintage Ukrainian traditional costume back to life by rethinking and recreating them as contemporary fashionable timeless pieces juxtaposed with feminine details. This line grown to Ukrainian Haute Couture aimed to promote the image of Ukraine in the world. The collection presentations were held in New York, USA (National Arts Club, 2014) with UN Ambassador support, Paris and Senlis, France, 2016 for Ukrainian Catholic University fundraising events, at the Kyiv Security Forum 2017.

Jaroslawa Z. Johnson was appointed WNISEF President and CEO effective January 1, 2015. Ms. Johnson directs, oversees and provides overall management for the WNISEF program activities and remains a member of the Fund’s Board of Directors in addition to her role as President and CEO.
Ms. Johnson was born in Ukraine and emigrated to the U.S. as a child. She is a graduate of Goucher College and University of Wisconsin Law School, where she was editor of the law review and earned a J.D. in 1977. After law school, she served as law clerk to Chief Judge Thomas E. Fairchild, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and practiced corporate law with several Chicago law firms.

She is a founding member and former chairperson of America Ukraine Business Council, which sponsored the first American visit of a Ukrainian president in 1991, and she organized the first Ukraine-U.S. Trade Conference for American companies in 1992. She was appointed by former U.S. President Bill Clinton to the Board of Directors of the Western NIS Enterprise Fund in 1994, serving as an active member of the Board since its inception.

Prior to her appointment as President and CEO of WNISEF, Ms. Johnson was managing partner of an international law office in Kyiv, Ukraine, which she launched in the early 1990s. Ms. Johnson’s extensive international corporate practice included counseling corporations in many countries on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, financing transactions, project finance and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act compliance in the US and Central and Eastern Europe.
Over the course of more than two decades of international corporate legal work, Ms. Johnson advised many Fortune 500 companies and other Western multinationals on cross-border transactions with Ukraine. During her many years as an international corporate attorney in Ukraine, Ms. Johnson was consistently recognized by international legal directories as a leading lawyer in Ukraine’s corporate, banking and finance and energy sectors.

In August 2016 Jaroslawa Z. Johnson was awarded a Commemorative Medal on the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of Ukraine’s Independence by President Petro Poroshenko in recognition of her contribution to Ukraine over the past 23 years.

Lenna Koszarny is Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Horizon Capital, a leading private equity firm focused on Ukraine and the near region with over $850 million in AUM via four funds, and a member of its Investment Committee. She is also Executive Vice-President of Western NIS Enterprise Fund, a $150 million US-government backed fund. Ms. Koszarny is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Chamber of Commerce (ACC) in Ukraine, an organization with over 600 members. She is also a Member of the Private Equity Women Investor Network (PEWIN) that unites 600+ senior women leaders in private equity with over $3 trillion AUM and Empowerment Ambassador of the SheExports Platform launched by Ukraine’s Export Promotion Office.

Ms. Koszarny is a Board member and Vice President of the Ukrainian World Congress representing over 20 million Ukrainians worldwide, a member of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress Advisory Council in Ukraine, a member of the Supervisory Board of the German-Polish-Ukrainian Society in Ukraine and served as the first Vice-Chair of the Advisory Council of Kyiv-Mohyla Business School. She is a member of the Ukraine House Organizing Committee that launched the first ever Ukraine House in Davos, Switzerland on the occasion of the World Economic Forum and is proud to continue in this capacity for the 2020 Ukraine House. Ms. Koszarny is a recipient of a Commemorative Medal issued on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of Independence by the President of Ukraine, in recognition of her long-standing contribution to the country. Originally born in Canada, Ms. Koszarny has lived and worked in Ukraine for over 26 years, is a CPA and received her HBA at the Ivey School of Business in Canada.

Misha Rogalskiy is a Co-Founder of Monobank, Ukraine’s first mobile-only bank established in 2017. Due to virtual business model, a convenient mobile app, as well as a big amount of competitive, low-priced services, just in two years the bank attracted 1.5 million customers, with 80% of them joining by word of mouth.

Misha is also the co-founder of Koto, a unique fintech project based in the UK. Koto is a credit app making it possible for customers with a thin credit profile, or the ones new to a country, to get a “stress-free” credit. The mobile application also supports debit accounts with a virtual and physical card for various expenditures, layered in a great customer experience.

The UK is the first foreign market for the team behind monobank, being keen to export their expertise in mobile banking and lending to different markets all over the world.

Before Monobank, Misha Rogalskiy was the Head of Payments and Money Transfer business at Privatbank, one of the largest banks in Eastern Europe. He led the division’s revenue growth eightfold, making it the second most profitable retail division in the bank.

Noa Gafni is a Social Innovation Fellow at the University of Cambridge and the Founder and CEO of Trust Collab. Noa began her career as an entrepreneur, founding a social network for women in 2005. She then joined the founding digital team at Hearst Magazines as Head of Social Media. During her MBA at London Business School, Noa became deeply interested in the world of international organizations and social change. After completing her MBA, Noa joined the World Economic Forum as a Global Leadership Fellow and the Head of Communications for the Global Shapers Community. Shortly after leaving the World Economic Forum, Noa launched Impact Squared, a movement-building consultancy that worked with UNICEF, International Crisis Group and a number of leading foundations before being acquired by Dalberg in December 2017. In 2018, Noa launched Trust Collab, a platform focused on rebuilding trust in society. Noa is a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, Huffington Post and New York Times.

David Arakhamia is a Ukrainian politician, businessman and activist.  He is a member of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Servant of the People political party, elected to the Verkhovna Rada in the Parliamentary elections held on July 21, 2019.  He was elected as his party’s faction leader on August 29, 2019 and heads the largest party in the Parliament of Ukraine.  In June 2019, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky appointed Mr. Arakhamia Secretary of the National Investment Council.  “I do not want to declare much at the start, but all preliminary consultations with large investors show that Ukraine can at least triple the current volume of investments into the country. I received the task from the President to make this process as fast as possible,” David Arakhamia commented on his appointment.

Mr. Arakhamia is a co-founder of several IT companies during the course of his career. He served as an Adviser to the Governor of Mykolaiv Oblast. In October 2014, Arakhamia became Adviser to the Minister of Defense and Chairman of the Council of Volunteers at the Ministry of Defense.

He studied Economics at the European University in Ukraine and passed the Professional Management master course at Open University in London.

Rashad Kaldany is Partner, CIO and Founder of Blue like an Orange (BlaO) Sustainable Capital. (BlaO’s first fund is focused on investing in private debt products in the Latin America region. In December 2018, BlaO announced its first two investments.) Previously, Rashad was the Executive Vice President of Growth Markets for Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec (CDPQ), an institutional investor that manages public and para-public pension plans and insurance programs in Quebec Province.

As Executive VP, Rashad built and implemented the strategy to double CDPQ’s assets in growth markets to $35 billion, opened offices in Singapore, New Delhi, and Mexico City, and increased investments from $0.5 billion to $4 billion from 2013 to 2016. Rashad spent 25 years at the International Finance Corporation (IFC) where he held senior positions managing global teams, structuring cross border transactions, and leading investments across emerging markets in sectors such as infrastructure, energy, financial institutions, and healthcare.

His most recent position was Vice President and COO, where he led the IFC’s investment and advisory services and realized profits of over $1 billion in FY 13. He also served in numerous Vice Presidential capacities, which included: overseeing Global Industries, leading advisory and investments in Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Middle East/North Africa; and managing IFC’s global investments in infrastructure, telecoms, oil, gas, mining, power, transportation, agriculture, and financial services.

In his earlier career at the IFC, Rashad served as Director of the Infrastructure and the Oil, Gas, Mining, and Chemical departments. Currently, Rashad is Co-chair of the World Economic Form Global Future Council on Infrastructure. He also served as Director of the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA). Rashad is a graduate of State University of New York – College at Purchase and subsequently earned his PHD in Biochemistry from Columbia University, and MBA from Stanford University.

Vitaly Sedler is the co-founder and CEO of Intellias, a software engineering company ranked among Ukraine’s top 5 fastest growing large-scale IT firms. Intellias delivers services globally to a wide range of businesses: from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises.

Vitaly is one of the pioneers of the tech industry in Ukraine, being part of it since the mid-1990s. He is an active contributor to the local community: investing in infrastructure projects, co-organizing industry events, and supporting educational and cultural projects in his hometown of Lviv. While guided by Mr.Sedler, Intellias has become one of Ukraine’s largest IT companies, Ukraine’s top IT employer, featured in 2019 The Best of The Global Outsourcing 100 List by IAOP, and recognized by GSA UK Awards.

Alex Chubay is Chief Technology Officer at SoftServe. Alex leads technology strategy and execution, creating a sustainable competitive advantage through continuous technology-driven innovation. Alex joined SoftServe in 2001 and has over two decades of engineering and business leadership, with a solid track record of transformational experiences combining innovation, technology, and leadership into wining solutions. Alex held numerous leadership positions within SoftServe, including SVP Client Success, VP Consulting, VP Delivery, and Software Development Office Director. He has been at the forefront of business development and services delivery for strategic accounts in multiple global geographies, consistently driving business growth and delivering positive business impact to his clients. Alex holds a master’s degree with honors in applied math from Lviv Polytechnic National University.

One of the most far-seeing political economists of our time, Robert J. Shiller is known the world over for his brilliant forecasts of financial bubbles and his penetrating insights into market dynamics and how human psychology drives the economy. For his empirical analysis of asset prices, Robert was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics. He has offered audiences unerring predictions of the last two bubble collapses and road map for reversing the financial crisis.

A best selling author, Dr. Shiller has written many books on finance. His new book, Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events, offers a new way to think of the importance of popular stories that may have an economic life of their own. Using a rich array of historical examples and data, Shiller argues that studying popular stories that affect individual and collective economic behavior — what he calls “narrative economics” — has the potential to vastly improve our ability to predict, prepare for, and lessen the damage of financial crises, recessions, depressions, and other major economic events. The stories people tell — about economic confidence or panic, housing booms, the American dream, or Bitcoin — affect economic outcomes. Narrative Economics explains how we can begin to take these stories seriously. It may be Robert Shiller’s most important book to date.

Shiller is also the author or co-author of several other finance books, including Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception (coauthor George Akerloff), the New York Times bestseller Irrational Exuberance, published in March 2000 and a revised/expanded Third Edition, NYT bestseller, (with Akerloff) Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism, The Subprime Solution, and Finance and the Good Society. He is also the author of The New Financial Order.

Robert is a famously successful innovator in the emerging field of behavioral finance. He co-created the most widely quoted home price index in the country (the S&P/Case-Shiller Index). He also helped launch an active market in house-price futures and options on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He cofounded MacroMarkets LLC, which uses the Case-Shiller methodology to develop innovative financial instruments to facilitate investment and risk management. He contributes regularly to the Economic View column of The New York Times and to Project Syndicate.

Dr. Shiller is the Sterling Professor of Economics, Yale University, and Professor of Finance and fellow at the International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management. He has strong connections to the securities industry.

Robert Shiller is a strong presenter for audiences looking for inspiration and innovation in financial markets and financial services, and to understand the impact of financial crises on the social fabric.

Daniel Gilbert is the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He has won numerous awards for his research and teaching, and his students have voted him one of “Harvard’s Favorite Professors” every year for more than a decade.

Dan’s popular book, Stumbling on Happiness, spent 6 months on the New York Times best seller list, has sold more than a million copies worldwide, has been translated into more than 35 languages. He hosted and co-wrote the award-winning PBS television series This Emotional Life, which was seen by more than 10 million viewers in its first airing. He also stars in television commercials for Prudential that are meant to help Americans overcome the psychological obstacles to saving for retirement. This campaign has been one of the most successful in the history of the financial services industry.

Dan is a contributor to TIME, The New York Times, and NPR’s All Things Considered, and he has been a guest on The Today Show, The Colbert Report, The Late Show, 20/20, and many other television shows. In 2014, Science magazine named Dan one of the world’s 50 most-followed scientists on Twitter. Dan’s TED talks have been viewed more than 20 million times, and his first TED talk on “The Surprising Science of Happiness” remains one of the most popular of all time.

Roy Sosa is Founding Partner of MPOWER Ventures and Chairman and CEO of MPOWER Labs. He founded the socially committed venture fund and affiliated business accelerator with his brother Bertrand in order to identify, create and invest in early-stage financial services companies focused on underserved markets. The MPOWER Ventures portfolio companies span international payments, mobile payments, retail financial services and asset-building and investment products and operate in regions across the globe, including North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Sosa is an accomplished entrepreneur who pioneered the multi-billion-dollar prepaid debit market as the co-founder of NetSpend Corporation, a highly successful company that serves millions of unbanked Americans. As a leading voice for underserved consumers around the world, he pledged to the Clinton Global Initiative to bank five million consumers in five years through the work of the MPOWER group of companies, and he serves as Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Financial Empowerment.

Aleksandr is a serial entrepreneur. At the age of 21, he launched an online store of security equipment which eventually became one of the leading security equipment distributors in Ukraine. After this Aleksandr decided to make a bodacious move — to replace cumbersome security systems with the smart user-friendly gadgets. That is how Ajax was born in 2011. Today, Ajax Systems is one of the leading security system companies in Europe, manufacturing 250 000 units of next-gen security equipment in-house monthly and exporting it to over 93 countries worldwide.

Victoria Repa is CEO and Co-Founder of BetterMe — an ecosystem of Health&Fitness apps, #1 iOS publisher in the world (AppAnnie 2019).

Victoria was one of three Ukrainian students who won a grant for a free education at Kyiv School of Economics. Right upon graduation, she was hired by a large FMCG company where she was in charge of logistics and received a corporate award for her optimization project. 

In 2016 Victoria switched to tech to pursue the mission of making people happy and healthy. When she was only 24 Victoria co-founded BetterMe and after 3 months her company released the first app with a team of three. It reached the TOP 3 of the US AppStore within a year. For three years BetterMe has published 8 apps with over 50 million installs in more than 10 countries. 

Victoria graduated from Stanford Executive program. In 2019 she was accepted to Apple Entrepreneur Camp for women in app business where she received valuable feedback from the company’s executives and developers.

Oleksandr Bornyakov was born in Bolgrad, Odesa region, and was fond of computers since childhood. Later this passion transformed into his major line of work.

In the days of Mr Bornyakov’s fledgling career, he worked in a company developing software for a retail pharmacy chains automation, as well as in a U.S. software development company and other IT companies. He received his first degree in Marketing at Kyiv National Aviation University in 2004.

Oleksandr continued his studies at the University of New Brunswick Canada and received an MBA  in 2009. In 2019, he graduated from Columbia University of the New York City with a Master of Public Administration degree.
At the age of 26, he founded Adtelligent, video ads monetization platform, which was recognized by Deloitte Technology Fast 500 ™ rating and was among 5,000 fastest growing private companies in USA by Inc. 5000 in 2016-2017. Having 100+ active SaaS product customers, the company serves more than 20 million ads per day. Main markets are the United States, Israel and Ukraine.

Oleksandr is also a co-owner of Intersog, an international software outsourcing company. Awarded TOP-5 App Developers in Chicago by Clutch and TOP-10 by Odesa’s DOU Top Employers. 500+ successfully developed mobile apps, 12 million downloads in the App Store and Google Play. More than 170 IT specialists in the USA, Ukraine, Mexico and Bulgaria.
Apart from the aforementioned Oleksandr is a Co-founder and a Managing Partner of WannaBiz Investment Fund. 580+ applications since 2012 and 20 funded startups, 11 of which have raised additional investment. Investment geography covers Ukraine, Central and Eastern Europe, Western Europe, USA, with up to $ 50,000 investment. The investment portfolio (assets under control and owned/managed companies) includes: Kwambio, Reply IO, Rallyware, Influ2, Petcube, 3Dlook.

Mr Bornyakov was appointed as the Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation in October of 2019 and has been boosting the growth of Ukraine’s IT industry.

Alain Pilloux took up the position of Vice President, Banking on 15 November 2016. He has overall responsibility for the effective delivery of the Bank’s investment and advisory activities in the EBRD’s thirty six countries of operations, as well as contributing to the delivery of policy engagement activities. He is a member of the Executive Committee and other leadership fora.

Prior to his appointment, Alain served as Acting Vice President for Policy & Partnerships where he was responsible inter alia for coordinating the Bank’s strategies and policy engagement, as well as mobilizing and managing multilateral and bilateral donor funding and overseeing the EBRD’s engagement with key external partners.

After starting his career at the Inspection Générale des Finances in Paris, Alain joined the EBRD in June 1992 as a senior banker. He held various management responsibilities over the years, including Country Director for Poland (1995-1997), Business Group Director for Central Europe and the Baltic States (1998-2005), Managing Director for Russia, based in Moscow (2006-2009), and Managing Director for Industry, Commerce and Agribusiness (2010-2015). Since 2014 he also had responsibility for the Bank’s direct equity and equity funds investments across sectors and regions.

Education : Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Ecole de L’Arme Blindee-Cavalerie (Saumur), Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, Ecole Nationale d’Administration.

Mr. Sennychenko has 20 years of managerial experience in the public sector, NGO and high-profile business. He started his career at the National Bank of Ukraine in 1997. Served as international secretary at the Office of the Prime Minister of Ukraine from 2000-2001. Adviser to the Financial Sector Committee Chair in the Parliament of Ukraine 2002-2004. Headed German Cooperation and Sustainable Development Bureau in Ukraine (GIZ). Worked as CEO and Country Director of multinational and public companies in Ukraine. Under Dmitry’s leadership of Dmitry, Parkridge Holdings, the British-owned industrial and retail development company was awarded “Best real estate development company in CEE” by Europa Property and Financial Times. During the period that Dmitry headed Ukrainian office of Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE JLL) – company was named “Best real estate investment & consulting company” in Ukraine.

Before his appointment as Head of the State Property Fund of Ukraine, Dmitry worked as Deputy CEO of the National postal operator JSC “Ukrposhta”, were he succeeded with corporatization and supporting reform of a state-owned enterprise with 75,000 employees.

Dmitry is an active civil society and professional communities member as well as independent member of the Supervisory Boards of enterprises with foreign Investments in Ukraine including EBRD equity investments; Dmitry served as an independent member of the Prozorro Supervisory Board; held the positions of Vice President of the Committee on Infrastructure and Real Estate of the American Chamber of Commerce (ACC); a member of the Board of the Ukrainian Real Estate Club; a member of the Entrepreneurs Council of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.

Mr. Sennychenko graduated from Kyiv National University, International Relations Institute and holds an MBA degree from the IMI Business School.

Dominique is a digital transformation expert and leader. Recognized expert in digital with a 20+ year proven track record in strategy and operational digital transformation for Fortune 500 companies, both as a consultant and as a corporate executive. Dominique is also a successful entrepreneur, with one exit, a Limited Partner in a VC Fund in Silicon Valley (The Refiners) with more than 50 investments in the portfolio, a startup mentor and advisor and is part of several nonprofits as advisor and ambassador. Dominique is also co-owner of Sierra Nevada Hospitality group, with 2 boutique hotels in the Foothill of Yosemite National Park.

Currently, Dominique is the CEO of UNIT City, Ukraine’s first Innovation Park and soon one of the largest in Europe.

Previously, Dominique was CEO of FABERNOVEL US, the US subsidiary of the global Innovation agency FABERNOVEL. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Group, in charge of the International Development. Dominique doubled the size and the revenue of the company during his first year and supported the acquisition of an agency in Shanghai, opening FABERNVOEL to Asia.

Previously, Dominique was the founder and owner of Rebellion Lab, a digital strategy consulting agency based in the Silicon Valley, working with global companies on their digital transformation. Dominique worked and advised directly CEO’s and Government officials in the US, Europe, China, Australia and Japan. tHe successfully sold to FABERNOVEL.

Prior Dominique was responsible for digital strategy and innovation for BNP Paribas globally, reporting to the COO of the bank. While at BNP, he ran research and development at “L’Atelier” in Paris, before opening a subsidiary office in San Francisco in 2005.

Dominique is a contributing columnist for various global publications. He is regularly an invited lecturer for IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Vogue….

Before joining BNP Paribas, Dominique led the team of an e-business strategy consulting firm, accompanying members of Fortune 500 companies in their Internet strategy. He was previously in charge of Internet strategy for Groupe La Poste.

He is co-author of the best-selling and award winning book “How the Web changes the world”, published by Pearson Publishing in April 2008, and republished in June 2011 in 4 languages (French, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish).

Dominique has several awards. He is Knight of the National Order of Merit, given by the French President to recognize his work to support the digital transformation of the French economy and for the bridge he created between Silicon Valley and France. He was recognized as Digital Personality of the year in 2013 and received the price of the best book on technology in 2008.

Dominique is French and American. He is married and has one child.

Zoya Lytvyn is a founder of Novopecherska School, NGO Osvitoria, Global Teacher Prize Ukraine Award, and a range of advanced educational initiatives. Together with her team, Ms. Lytvyn is working on boosting impact investment through education: promoting the development of education in Ukraine, establishing innovative schools, and providing access to quality education for deprived children. Working closely with the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and the educational community, Zoya Lytvyn’s organization is also in charge of profound teachers’ and school administrators’ training programs and development projects.

In 2019, Zoya Lytvyn was awarded in WE Empower UN SDG Challenge – a global business competition for women entrepreneurs who are advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Ms. Lytvyn was awarded as the woman-entrepreneur of the year in Eastern Europe for supporting quality education, reduced inequality, and partnership.

Serhii has 15 years of experience in management roles, including in Ukraine’s largest retail business, ATB Supermarkets. In 2018 he joined BGV Group where he is responsible for the company’s strategy.

Serhii holds a Masters in Finance and MBA from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

BGV Group controls several companies that have exploration and/or production licenses for deposits of metals and other minerals, in particular, uranium, graphite, titanium-apatite and zircon-rare-earth fluorite ores.
BGV’s deposits contain rare minerals vital to modern technologies (beryllium, zirconium, titanium, uranium, rare earth metals).
Near-term investment plans include additional exploration works for reserve assessment in accordance with international classifications; preparing technology necessary for ore mining, enrichment and processing to obtain high-grade concentrates and high quality final products.

The founder of BGV Group is Gennady Butkevitch, a well-known Ukrainian businessman and owner of ATB Corporation.

Serhiy Haydaychuk is a founder and the president of the largest Ukrainian business club – CEO Club Ukraine (a part of a global organization CEO Club International), which unites more than 200 CEOs and owners of medium-sized and big businesses for development, communication and cooperation.

CEO Club Ukraine actively implements social initiatives. One of them is Generation+ Social Platform. The project is initiated by the CEO Club Ukraine members aimed at support of vulnerable categories adolescents on the verge of adulthood. More than 50 teens from Kyiv and the region take part in this year’s program for 15-17-year-old teenagers.

Serhiy is an expert in business communities building, there had been more than a dozen of successfully launched community-based projects: Young Business Club, Ukrainian Real Estate Club, the launch of the YPO Ukrainian branch, etc.

Young Business Club is a powerful business interaction platform, the first business club in Ukraine for young entrepreneurs. Its participants are eco-business owners who have created their business themselves and who want to be surrounded by exceptionally strong and open-minded people to achieve great goals.

The President of the CEO Club Ukraine Serhiy Haydaychuk is convinced that the quality of life and activity prospects directly depend on people surrounding us. That is why he created an environment of strong, efficient and conscious high-value people, for mutual cooperation and creation of a better future for our country.

“We are not just uniting businessmen, we bring together 180 reputable people, and that is a rather difficult thing to do. We thus became a living organism, not just a formal or lobbying platform. We have a special spirit on this territory of trust. Because the territory of trust makes it possible to unite efforts around major tasks”, as Sergiy Haydaychuk outlines his mission.

Being a representative of industrial conglomerate, focusing on industry and energy sectors I see an urgent need to promote and implement digitalization not only in real sector but in every field of Ukrainian Economy. Every company in every industry is dramatically affected by the digitization megatrend, and it is the responsibility of the top teams to lead the change by building the right capabilities for the Ukrainian companies, government and society to remain relevant in the digitized environment, achieve growth, and fend off competitive threats.

To use the digitization megatrend to advantage of Ukraine, both companies and government have to act as a driving force, focusing on development of their digital strategy and digital capabilities along all value chain. In terms of industry, infrastructure and energy, today we are able to integrate the virtual and real worlds with software, automation and services, that allows us to reduce time to market, increase flexibility, quality and efficiency while ensuring data security and enabling new business models.

I enjoy exchanging ideas with professionals who are eager to make Ukraine future powerhouse. It is my strong belief that communication and teamwork foster an environment of trust, openness and innovation.

Review of biographical and professional data:

• Born in 1974 in Olkusz, Poland.
• Education: Mr. Zielinski received education at AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, graduated with honors from Oxford Brookes University and Warsaw School of Economics.

Professional career:

• 2016–…, CEO of “Siemens Ukraine”.
• 2014–2016, Head of the Automation, Process Industries and Drives Department at “Siemens Russia”.
• 2011–2014, Head of Sales Industrial Automation and Drive Technology at “Siemens Russia”.
• 2003 – 2011, leading various directions in the Industry field at “Siemens Poland”.
• 1998 – 2003, product manager at “Danfoss”, Denmark, Poland.
• Family status: Married, three children (18-year-old son, 10-year-old and 1-year-old daughters).

Dr Margareta Drzeniek is Managing Partner with Horizon Group and a globally recognized expert on global risks, economic development, notably in the Arab World, competitiveness, and innovation.

For many years she was lead author of The Global Competitiveness Report, The Global Risks Report in addition to other benchmarking reports of the World Economic Forum. She advised government agencies, ministers, national competitiveness councils and the private sector in the Arab World and worldwide on how to manage global risks, improve competitiveness, boost exports and investment, or measure impact. She is a regular speaker at high level conferences and events, including World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, IMF/WB Annual Meetings in Washington DC, sessions of the UN General Assembly in NY, etc. and serves as expert for media (BBC, CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg, etc)

Degree in Classics, Yale College. Formerly: began career at CBS News; held senior editorial positions on both the print and digital sides at a variety of magazines including strategy+business, Business 2.0, The Industry Standard, Brill’s Content, and U.S. News & World Report; has developed and edited stories across business, tech and management topics, contributing to several Loeb and National Magazine Award winners; Vice-President, Global Thought Leadership, ManpowerGroup, oversaw signature Employment Outlook Survey and led development of white papers on emerging trends in the world of work; also launched MyPath, the industry’s first career-management website for professionals, and led the redesign of the company’s network of websites. 2011, joined Harvard Business Review (HBR); currently, Editor; has led HBR’s circulation to grow to unprecedented heights and to win numerous editorial awards, including being cited as a finalist in 2015 for a National Magazine Award for General Excellence. Former: President, Journalism and Women Symposium; Chair, Editorial Advisory Board, San Francisco Bay Citizen. Named one of Folio’s Top Women in Media (2016).

Andriy Gorokhov has been managing UMG Investments since 2009. He has more than 20 years’ experience in M&A, investment management, corporate governance and finance. Before joining UMG, Mr Gorokhov worked at United Capital (asset management), SCM (asset management), PwC (finance consulting and auditing) and the ARBED Group (metal industry).

During his career, Andriy Gorokhov has gained significant practical experience in investment, mining, machinery, transport, energy, metal and other industries.
Under Mr Gorokhov’s management, the capitalized value of UMG Investments portfolio has seen an eight-fold increase, growing to USD 500+ million.
Andriy Gorokhov is an alumnus of two business schools: INSEAD (EMBA 2008) and Harvard Business School (PLD 2016).

Andriy Kobolyev has over ten years’ experience in the oil and gas sector in Ukraine.

Prior to his appointment as CEO of Naftogaz of Ukraine, Andriy was an adviser at the AYA Capital private investment and banking group. There he was involved with raising debt and equity capital, loan restructuring, and reorganization of corporate structures of large enterprises.

Andriy worked for Naftogaz of Ukraine between 2002 and 2010, where he started his career as a specialist in the Economy and Price Policy Department. In 2006-2007, he occupied the position of director of the Department for Corporate Finance and Price Policy and in 2008-2010 he was an adviser to the chairman.

In these roles he took part in numerous negotiations with Russia’s gas monopoly Gazprom.

In 2004-2010, he coordinated the process of raising borrowings from international banks of USD 2 billion and was responsible for restructuring external debt in 2009.

Andriy Kobolyev started his career in PricewaterhouseCoopers (1999-2002).
There he worked as a management consultant and was responsible for strategic management and corporate reorganization projects.

In 2000, he graduated from the International Relations Institute at Kyiv National Shevchenko University with a Masters in International Economic Relations.

Andrew McAfee is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Initiative on the Digital Economy and a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He studies how digital technologies are changing the world. His new book More From Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources – and What Happens Next was published by Scribner in fall of 2019. He and his coauthor Erik Brynjolfsson are the only people named to both the Thinkers50 list of the world’s top management thinkers and the Politico 50 group of people transforming American politics.

Professional experience:
James is a co-founder and partner of Hillmont Partners, a leading Ukrainian law firm with offices in London and Kyiv. He is a non-staff advisor to the Prime Minister of Ukraine having previously advised the First Vice Minister – Minister of Economy of Ukraine.

He began his career at Standard Bank Plc’s Family Office team in London after which he was a member of the management board of one of the largest alcohol producers in Russia/CIS. He is a member of the Supervisory Committee of the Alliance for Public Health in Ukraine, one of the country’s largest charities.

Education:

• Eton College
• Durham University
• He holds an Executive MBA from London Business School.

Matt Simpson is the CEO of Black Iron, a TSX-listed iron ore development company advancing its Shymanivske Project located in Ukraine to production. This project was recently ranked by CRU as the lowest operating cost and second lowest capital intensity pellet feed project globally.

Since 2010, Matt has personally raised $125M, been a key member of teams that raised a further $450M and obtaining binding commitments for bids to acquire two assets totalling $4.1B. From 2002 to 2010, Matt worked for the Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOC), a subsidiary of Rio Tinto.

At IOC he held several progressive roles including Mine General Manager where he turned around this underperforming division to break every historic production record during his tenure. Prior to joining IOC, Matt worked as a process engineer for Hatch designing and debottlenecking metallurgical refineries around the world.

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Liberated political prisoner, Ukrainian filmmaker, writer and activist from Crimea.

Oleg Sentsov is a Ukrainian film director who was illegally sentenced by Russia under fake charges on 25 August 2015 to 20 years’ imprisonment for allegedly setting up a branch of a ‘terrorist group’ and organizing ‘terrorist acts’ in April 2014 in Crimea.

In practice, his arrest in May 2014 and further trial were a punishment for his activity during Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea in February-April 2014, particularly for helping delivering food and supplies to Ukrainian military servicemen trapped in their Crimean bases. Sentsov openly said that he did not recognize the Russian annexation of Crimea.

His conviction in a military court in Russia followed a grossly unfair trial, on politically motivated charges, and was based on “confessions” obtained through torture. During his arrest by the Russian State Security Service (FSB), Oleg was tortured by FSB by putting a plastic bag over his head until he passed out. They also threatened him with rape and murder, which forced Sentsov to “confess” to organizing explosions, acts of terrorism, and illegal possession of firearms. The conviction was described as fabricated by Amnesty International and others.

Sentsov’s rights were violated throughout his arrest, detainment, and trial. In violation of international humanitarian law, he was transferred to and faced trial in Russia, despite being arrested in Crimea and being a Ukrainian citizen. Sentsov was also denied access to his Russian lawyer for five days after being transferred to Russia. Additionally, he was not given access to the Ukrainian Consul in Russia in violation of the international law.

Sentsov served his term in the Labytnangi Penal Colony in Russia’s far North, above the Arctic circle, 5 000 km away from his home in the occupied Crimea. On 14 May 2018 he declared indefinite hunger strike until all Ukrainian political prisoners are released in Russia. Oleg Sentsov ended his hunger strike after 145 days, losing more than 30 kilos, citing the “critical state of his health” and the impending threat of hospitalization and force-feeding.

On 25 October 2018, Oleg Sentsov was awarded the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. On 16 November 2018, he was awarded the Sergei Magnitsky Human Rights Award.

On 7 September 2019, in a prisoner swap with Ukraine, Russia released Oleg Sentsov and the same day he returned to Kyiv where he reunited with his family.

Artistic activities: His first two short movies were ‘A Perfect Day for Bananafish’ (2008) and ‘The Horn of a Bull’ (2009). ‘Gamer’, his first feature, debuted at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2012 and received a number of international film awards.

Oleg Sentsov is an author of four short story collections and one playwright.
Married with two children.

Yaroslav is a Co-founder and CEO at Petcube, a technology company dedicated to connecting pets to the internet.

Prior to that, he has co-founded Internet Initiatives, an NGO dedicated to promoting digital literacy, and SM Digital, a digital advertising boutique which he later sold to Prodigi. Yaroslav got his masters in computer science from Applied Math faculty of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. He currently spends all of his time working on Petcube, in company’s San Francisco headquarters.
Petcube is reimagining pet care, and makes the best-selling pet cameras and software, connecting people to their pets. Their products enable people to see, talk, play, and treat pets remotely while keeping them safe and healthy. As of June 2017, Petcube products are available in 18 countries and sold in over 2,500 retail locations, including Best Buy, Petco, Bed Bath, and Beyond, in addition to Amazon.

Yaroslav is passionate about pets, people, models of thinking, and reinventing the way people learn.

Olena Vovk, a second-generation business owner, is a Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board of a family owned Enzym company.

In 1996, Olena Vovk graduated from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, department of foreign languages. In 1997, she completed her MBA at the Lviv Institute of Management. In 2000, she became a Fellow of the Edmund S. Maski Program and got her Master’s Degree in International Business and Finance at the Columbia University, New York. In 2019, Olena has completed a Responsible Leadership seminar at the Kyiv Aspen Institute.

Olena Vovk worked at the Economic and Cultural Department of the Embassy of Japan (1998-1999), in a Dutch-Ukrainian private equity investment fund (1999-2000).

In 2003, she joined a family business started by her father more than a decade before. She started working at the newly-founded Kormotech company as the Head of the business development department in Kyiv. Kormotech is now the biggest petfood producer in Ukraine holding more than 30% of Ukrainian market and exporting to Europe, USA and South America.

In 2012, she returned to Lviv to work for Enzym company (part of the family business, too), that was at the time run by her father, Orest Vovk. Two years later, after a sudden death of her father, Olena became the Head of Enzym. Ever since she has been in charge of Enzym which today has more than 400 employees.

Enzym is a market leader among yeast producers in Ukraine, manufacturing about 48,000 tonnes of both pressed and dried yeast and other supplements for the baking and confectionery industries. About 70% of domestic bakeries use Enzym yeast. More than 2.5 million tons of bakery products, produced industrially and at home, are baked with Enzym’s «Lviv Yeast». This means that two of three loaves of bread in Ukraine are baked with Enzym yeast. The other 40% of Enzym’s products is exported to 16 countries on three continents: Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, Hungary, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Nigeria, UAE.

“Lviv Yeast” brand, produced by Enzym, is also well known for the FMSG market. Households both in Ukraine and abroad are loyal to “Lvivski Drizhdzhi” (Ukrainian for Lviv Yeast) for its high quality and stable performance.

According to international standards the company is certified with ISO 22000, FSSC 22000, GMP+.
Today, Olena Vovk, together with the Enzym team, is transforming traditional business into an innovative company. The strategic goal of the team is to develop Enzym into an international biotech company. Building upon its existing expertise in yeast fermentation Enzym strives to develop and bring to the market innovative yeast-based applications for food and feed industries.

Since 2016, a group of researchers have been developing a range of new products in Enzym’s R&D laboratory. Among them, yeast extracts – natural substitutes for artificial flavor enhancers. They are aimed to replace chemically synthesized flavor enhancers in seasonings, dry instant soups, crisps, semi-processed food, confectionery and meat products. They are also used in vegetarian and vegan food not only by adding taste but also increasing its nutritional value. Enzym’s yeast extracts have been first presented at Food Ingredients 2019, one of the biggest global trade fairs. The first sales are to be started in 2020.

Furthermore, probiotic yeast for animal feed application has been developed, farm-tested and successfully launched to the poultry and meat market in 2019. This product allows to reduce and further eliminate the use of antibiotics in productive animal nutrition as well as increase meat or milk gain.

Finally, Enzym has been investing around €20 million into its strategic transformation such as new products development, scientific and market research, as well as capital investments into a new factory.

In addition to the family business development, Olena, as well as all members of Vovk family, is actively involved into charity work. She sits on several Boards: LvivMozArt festival, internationally-renowned festival of classical music, INSO-Lviv, academic symphony orchestra, Ukrainian Academy of Leadership, national educational program for young adults. In 2019, Olena has also become a member of Senate of the Ukrainian Catholic University, one of the best higher education institutions in Ukraine.

Ms Batruch, a citizen of Canada and Switzerland, is a historian and lawyer by training, graduate of the University of Toronto and McGill University respectively, admitted as barrister and solicitor at the Law Society of Upper Canada.

Based in Geneva, Ms Batruch has worked in the non-profit, academic and business sectors. She participated in the establishment in Ukraine of a number of non-profit institutions linked to the Soros network of foundations. Concurrently she was liaison officer and assistant professor at the International Academy of the Environment. As VP Corporate Responsibility at Lundin Petroleum, which she joined in 2001, Ms Batruch was responsible for the company’s sustainability strategy. As of 2020, Ms Batruch acts as Senior Strategic Advisor to Lundin Petroleum and to the Lundin family. She acts as speaker in a number of international environmental, social and governance (ESG) conferences and has lectured on ESG issues at international business schools (IMD, IMI-Kyiv, Business School of Lausanne) and universities (Dundee, Geneva, Stockholm).

Ms Batruch is President of the Bohdan Hawrylyshyn Family Foundation (Kyiv), member of the Board of Directors of Josemaria Resources Inc. (Vancouver) and of the Lundin Foundation (Vancouver) and member of the Advisory Board of the International Philanthropic Society (Stockholm). She is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of World Energy Law and Business (Oxford University Press) and of the Oil Gas and Energy Law Intelligence.

Coordinator of EO Business Incubator in Kyiv supported by the USAID Competitive Economy Program (CEP), Ukrainian Youth Delegate 2016-2017, Young Generation Will Change Ukraine 2015 Participant.

Uliana Avtonomova is a curator of EO Business Incubator in Kyiv supported by USAID Competitive Economy Program. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy from the Taras Shevchenko National University and Master’s Degree in Political Science. Previously she established an academy for virtual and augmented reality development at the innovation park UNIT.City. The latest course was funded by Ukrainian Culture Fund in partnership with three National Museums. Uliana also works as a consultant for Ferrexpo bringing innovations into the training process. Uliana is a member of the Global Shapers Community which is organized by the World Economic Forum. Ukrainian Youth Delegate to the United Nations, 2016/2017. A participant of the Young Generation Will Change Ukraine Program, 2015, organized by Bohdan Hawrylyshyn Family Charitable Foundation.

Member of Parliament of Ukraine, Secretary of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Interparliamentary Cooperation, Deputy Head of the Ukrainian NATO PA delegation.
In 2014, Solomiia served as an adviser to the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine, Olexander Sych. In 2016, at the age of 26, Solomiia headed the Odessa Regional State Administration, becoming the youngest head of the region in the history of Ukraine. In 2017, she was awarded with the Top-30 Under 30 Award according to Kyiv Post. She was awarded the medal of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Kyiv Patriarchy “For Sacrifice and Love for Ukraine” (2015).

Solomiia Bobrovska received her higher education at Ivan Franko Lviv National University (Master of Philosophy) where she is now writing a PhD. Trained in the Canadian Parliament and the Women’s Council of the Massachusetts State Administration (Boston, USA). Graduate of the Institute for Civil Leadership and the Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program. Solomiia Bobrovska is the co-founder of the public initiatives “Euromaidan SOS” and “Assistance to State Border Service of Ukraine”. Activist of the movement “Honestly. Filter the Rada (Parliament)!”. Currently, she is the head of the Ukrainian Base NGO, one of the areas of focus being the project of the Women’s Political Engagement Studies for women in southern and eastern Ukraine. Since 2002, she is a member of Plast (national scout organisation), within which she founded a girls’ association at the national level; and since 2009, she is a member of the All-Ukrainian Youth NGO “Foundation of Regional Initiatives”. From June 2012 to June 2015, she is the curator and coordinator of the projects of the NGO “Center for Civil Liberties” in Kyiv.

Ukrainian media manager and social activist. Co-Founder and CEO at The Ukrainians Media.
The Ukrainians Media is an independent media company comprising of three online resources: The Ukrainians magazine on social initiative and responsibility, Reporters. magazine specialising in journalistic literary essays, and Creatives magazine featuring stories about leaders of the Ukrainian creative industries. Mission — effecting positive social changes in Ukraine by means of journalistic instruments.

Taras Prokopyshyn was awarded New Europe 100 Innovator (2015), listed at Ukraine’s Top 30 Under 30 from KyivPost — young Ukrainians under 30 who have the biggest influence on the country (2018) and was the finalist of George Gongadze Prize from PEN Ukraine — award for devotion to principles and values of independent journalism, professionalism and innovations in Ukrainian media (2019).

Ukrainian Youth Delegate to the United Nations 2019-2020. Has a degree in digital political journalism at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Since 2008 a member of Ukrainian National Scout Organization Plast —the largest and oldest youth organization in Ukraine.

Roman was a scout leader and organized dozens of camps, pieces of training, and other activities. For the last three years, he is working as National Communications Manager at Plast Central Office. With his team, he engaged 1500 new volunteers in Scouting and realized the record-setting crowdfunding campaign. Organization’s audience had doubled on Facebook and quadrupled on Instagram due to Roman’s persistence as a digital marketing expert. Now he studies management of nonprofit organizations at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. He is a part of the TEDxKyiv communications team and often consults NGOs and small businesses on digital marketing and communications.

Olga Rudnieva currently works as Executive Director of Olena Pinchuk Foundation, the biggest Ukrainian charity that improves lives of people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS and conducts prevention campaigns in media. The Foundation is known in Ukraine and worldwide for integrating the best international experience by working with Clinton Global Initiative, Elton John AIDS Foundation and Mercury Phoenix Trust. The Foundation runs the biggest social campaign in media and provides direct help to people living with HIV/AIDS. In 2017, the Foundation was the first private entity in Eastern Europe that covered ARV treatment costs for 1,300 patients. In 2019, the Foundation, together with Kyiv City State Administration, opened the first informational-educational hub for teenagers to prevent new cases of HIV/AIDS and STDIs. For the last three years, the Foundation has been also promoting gender equality, women empowerment and culture of women mentorship in Ukraine. Olga’s expertise lies in fundraising, social corporate responsibility, improving access to medical services in developing countries, organizing small and large scale events and campaigns in media.

Andrew Chakhoyan is the Founder & CEO of the Netherlands-based Strategic Narrative Consulting and is an academic director at the University of Amsterdam teaching a summer course on Multilateralism, Globalization & Corporate Diplomacy. He holds a Master of Public Administration degree from the Harvard Kennedy School and is an alumnus of the World Economic Forum’s Global Leadership Program. Andrew has previously served in the U.S. Government, managed corporate affairs for a global telco, and held a leadership position at the World Economic Forum. He is a member of the Netherlands Speakers Academy and a regular contributor to publications such as Futurism, NewCo Shift, and WEF’s Agenda.

Roman Waschuk, ethnic Ukrainian, Canadian diplomat, Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine.

He studied history with focus on Central and Eastern Europe, also German and Russian, receiving 1985 a MA at University of Toronto.

In 1987 he began his career in the diplomatic service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Canada. First posted as second secretary for politics in the Canadian Embassy in Moscow.

Then he subsequently served as Political Counsellor in Kyiv in 1994-1998 and Minister-Counsellor for politics and economy in Berlin. 1991-1994 he worked on East European affairs in the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development of Canada.

Since 2011 Waschuk has served as Ambassador to Serbia, with cross-accreditation to the Republic of Macedonia and Montenegro. He served there until September 2014.

Since October 2014 he has been the Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine.

He is fluent in English, French, German, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish and Serbian.

Business 100 is a collaboration between 100 of Ukraine’s most impactful investors to create an objective source of information for the business community of Ukraine.

Helen is the founding partner of EBS and has over 20 years of practical experience in international finance and accounting on the Ukrainian market. Helen’s personal mission is to influence the underlaying philosophy of Ukrainian management in order to help them unleash the full potential of their companies and to achieve outstanding results.

Gauthier Vasseur is a data analytics and digital transformation expert. His executive track record spans from large enterprises (Google, Oracle, Hyperion) to bootstrapped, series A and Pre-IPO companies. Gauthier has worked in finance, operations and marketing, building teams, analytics and scalable processes to fasten growth and improve transparency. He has brought his multifaceted experience and emphasis on data analytics into higher education.

Gauthier has over six years of experience teaching and training teams to drive efficient and data-driven processes, make the best of technology and become key actors of digital transformation in their own organizations. At the Fisher Center for Business Analytics, Gauthier is spearheading efforts to connect Haas faculty with business leaders to collaborate on the application of data science and analytics to business strategy.

Argentem Creek Partners is an emerging markets debt specialist investor with $1.5 billion of assets under management. Argentem has been actively involved in Ukraine as an investor, partner and leader in several well-known restructurings such as Mriya Agro Holding, Metinvest and Interpipe Ltd.

Mr. Patton’s 25-year career focus has been on illiquid credit and special situations in Russia, Ukraine and other former Soviet states. John holds an MBA from London Business School and a BA from Davidson, North Carolina.

The main focus of Mr. Ivanchyk’s business is the cultivation of sugar beet, grains and oilseeds, sugar and milk production. The company invests in production assets, information technologies for agribusiness, and the construction of infrastructure facilities for products storage.

“I believe that the time is always right for innovation. And crisis is the best period for innovation and new opportunities. Bioenergy production is now highly topical all over the world, it constantly gets large investments. And our company is no exception.”

The mission of BRDO is to develop and implement effective regulation system in Ukraine aimed at creating a better environment for business, favorable investment climate, and fostering Ukraine’s progress in the Doing Business rating.

Mr. Honcharuk is a Member of the National Council of Reforms of Ukraine (representative of the expert community) and an Advisor to the First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine – Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine.

Mr. Honcharuk‘s academic and professional background comprises a PhD in Law, MA in Public Administration and a many-year experience of attorney work. Oleksiy had become a co-founder and a managing partner of the Constructive Lawyers law firm, which ranked among top 75 law firms of Ukraine in the period of 2011 – 2015.

Mr. Honcharuk is also a graduate of the Aspen Institute Kyiv and Kyiv Mohyla Business School (School for Strategy Architects).

Galnaftogaz owns a network of 400 petrol stations in Ukraine. The group owns the largest network of highway catering in the country — 400 cafes at each petrol station and 38 restaurants.

The company is a part of the OKKO Group Holding, involved in production, trade, construction, insurance and consumer services. The investments of Mr. Antonov’s businesses in Ukraine exceed $1 billion.

Mr. Hart is a Founding Partner of Hillmont Partners, a Ukrainian law firm that specializes in corporate structuring, asset protection and corporate litigation.

He began his career on the Russia / CIS desk in Standard Bank Plc’s Family Office team in London. From 2011 to 2015 he was a member of the management board of one of the largest alcohol producers in Russia and Ukraine. He is a board member of a number of companies and charities, including the Alliance for Public Health in Ukraine, one of the country’s largest charities.

Mr. Hart is an Advisor to the First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine – Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine. He was educated at Eton College and then Durham University. He holds an MBA from London Business School.

Imtiaz Adam is the Founder and CEO of artificial intelligence startup Deep Learn Strategies Ltd (DLS) and is also known on Twitter as @DeepLearn007, an account that is rated as top 10 for digital influence on social media and artificial intelligence.

He is a machine learning engineer and the team at DLS work with advanced technologies, including AI on the edge that is set to take off with the world of 5G and industry 4.0, next generation drug discovery and personalised medicine as well as fintech.

In addition, Imtiaz is a Sloan Fellow in Strategy & leadership from London Business School and a former Executive Director of Morgan Stanley. He holds an MSc in Computer Science from the University of London (Distinction Grade) where he studied artificial intelligence and deep learning.

Joe Landon serves as Vice President of Advanced Programs Development for the Commercial Civil Space line of business for Lockheed Martin. In this role, he leads an organization accountable for new business growth, strategy development and enterprise collaboration for human and robotic deep space exploration, communication satellite solutions, weather and remote sensing markets.

In his previous role as CFO of Planetary Resources, Inc., Joe built the company’s finance team, and under his leadership, the company secured debt and equity financing from some of the world’s leading private and institutional investors before being acquired in 2018. Joe also co-founded and served as Chairman of the Board of Space Angels, the leading source of capital for space startups.

Joe served on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Future of Space Technologies and is an active member of the forum’s Expert Network. In 2016, Joe was honored as one of Seattle’s 40 Under 40 by the Puget Sound Business Journal.

Joe graduated from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics. He earned a Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southern California and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Alexandra is the Founder and Managing Director of Global Technology Capital and President of the Global Technology Symposium, a premier investor conference on global emerging markets held annually in Silicon Valley since 2003. She invests in a broad range of companies, targeting enterprise, material science, alternative energy, and industry innovation and has grown a variety of product and services start-ups and emerging technology companies in the U.S, Russia and the CIS. She also serves as a board member for several technology companies, including Grid Dynamics, VisionLabs, and Rolith.

Prior to that, Alexandra was a Managing Director of DFJ VTB Capital Aurora, a venture group specializing in investments in the developing world. She was also a private sector Co-Chair of the U.S. – Russia Innovation Working Group and has spent her career connecting Bay Area investors with companies in emerging markets, supporting international cooperation and global talent. Previously Alexandra was a founder and managing director of Landbridge Capital LLC, an investment firm targeting U.S.-based companies commercializing Russian technology. Prior to forming Landbridge Capital, Ms. Johnson was CEO of Libritas, Inc., a venture backed provider of Information Technology (IT) products and managed telecom services for small, medium and Fortune 500 Corporations. Libritas was acquired in 2001.

Alexandra was named among Top 20 most influential men and women in Bay Area finance in 2015 (Worth).

Alexandra received an M.A. with honors from the Far Eastern State University, Vladivostok and a Ph.D. from University of St. Petersburg. She also has an M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.

During his student years, Yuriy was active in the international student organization AIESEC, starting as a local committee member and finishing as President in Kyiv. In 2005, he co-founded Kredit-Ekspert (formerly Enmark LTD) and successfully developed it until 2009. After the financial crisis, his business team moved to Ivano-Frankivsk and started a new company in the restaurant business, 23 Restaurants LTD.

In 2013, Yuriy became interested in city development issues in Ivano-Frankivsk and, together with other initiators, became a cofounder of the civic platform Teple Misto. As a manager of the organization, Yuriy set a goal to motivate and mobilize the intellectual middle class in the city to reach better standards of living and realize their potential as citizens. The most noteworthy project of Teple Misto to date is the creation of Urban Space 100, a public restaurant which was launched using the donations of 100 donors. Eighty percent of the profits of this social venture are directed to city and social development projects.

Currently Teple Misto, together with other organisations Insha Osvita, PACT, MitOst and Lviv Business School (Ukrainian Catholic University) started a new major impact investment project. The partners aim to revitalize an old plant in the center of Ivano-Frankivsk into an innovative center Promprylad.Renovation, in order to unleash the city’s economic potential. Yuriy became CEO of Promprylad.Renovation LTD in 2016. The project has already accomplished its first pilot reconstruction of 1789 sq. m. and filled it with 16 educational, business, and artistic spaces.

At the age of nine in 1978, Wyclef Jean emigrated to the United States with his family. He first achieved fame as a member of the New Jersey hip hop group the Fugees. Jean has won three Grammy Awards for his musical work.

On August 5, 2010, Jean filed for candidacy in the 2010 Haitian presidential election. The Electoral Commission ruled him ineligible to stand for office, as he had not met the constitutional requirement to have been a resident in Haiti for five years prior to the election.

Jean’s efforts at earthquake relief, highly publicized in 2010 throughout Haiti and the United States, were channeled through his charitable organization, Yéle Haiti. The charity, which conducted education and welfare activities in Haiti between 2005 and 2010, effectively closed in 2012. It was investigated for failure to file tax returns and mismanagement of funds; a high proportion of its money went to travel and administrative expense. The New York Times reported that much of the money raised by the organization in the Hope for Haiti Now telethon was retained by Jean for his own benefit.

In 2012, Jean published his memoir Purpose: An Immigrant’s Story. Along with Carlos Santana, Avicii and Alexandre Pires, Jean was chosen to perform the closing ceremony at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Their single, “Dar um Jeito (We Will Find a Way)”, the official World Cup anthem, was released on April 29, 2014.

Sarah Kunst, managing director of Cleo Capital, is an investor and entrepreneur who has worked at Apple, Red Bull, Chanel & Mohr Davidow Ventures. She founded LA Dodgers backed Proday and is a senior advisor at Bumble. She is also a contributing editor at Marie Claire Magazine. She is on the board of the Michigan State University Foundation Endowment.

Kunst has been named a Future Innovator by Vanity Fair, Forbes Magazine 30 under 30 and a top 25 innovator in tech by Cool Hunting. She has been recognized for her work in Business Insider as a 30 under 30 Woman in Tech and Top African-American in Tech & Pitchbook Top Black VC To Watch and Marie Claire Magazine named her a Young Gun to watch. She has written for Techcrunch, Forbes, Wall St. Journal, Fortune and Entrepreneur.com. Marc Andreessen named her one of his 55 Unknown Rock Stars in Tech.

Andy Hunder is President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine, representing more than 600 US and international investors and corporate members.
A native Londoner, Andy was a TV presenter on a leading Ukrainian television channel. He headed the Public Relations department at Ukrainian Mobile Communications (now Vodafone Ukraine) and subsequently was External Affairs and Communications Director at GlaxoSmithKline with responsibility for Ukraine, Central Asia and the Caucasus.

Hunder was the director of the Ukrainian Institute in London regularly delivering analysis and comment on Ukrainian current affairs on BBC, CNN, SKY, Bloomberg TV, ITV, Al Jazeera and others. He has spoken on Ukrainian affairs at the UK Houses of Parliament, House of Lords, Oxford University, London School of Economics and University College London.

He currently serves as Treasurer of AmChams in Europe, the umbrella organization for American Chambers of Commerce in 43 countries throughout Europe accounting for more than $ 1.1 trillion in investment on both sides of the Atlantic. Andy is a member of Ukraine’s Business Ombudsman Council, National Reforms Council and National Investment Council.

Simon Anholt is the founder of the Good Country, a virtual nation designed to encourage traditional territory-based countries to work together to tackle global challenges like climate change, migration and terrorism.

He also publishes the Good Country Index, a survey that ranks countries on their contribution to humanity and the planet, and in 2016 launched the Global Vote, which enables anybody in the world to vote in the elections of other countries.

Professor Anholt has worked as an advisor to the presidents, prime ministers and governments of 55 countries during the last twenty years, helping them to engage more imaginatively and effectively with the international community.

Simon’s TED talk launching the Good Country Index has received 5.5 million views, and his more recent one launching the Global Vote, over a million.

Simon Anholt is the author of five books about countries, cultures and globalisation. He is the founder and Editor Emeritus of a leading academic journal focused on public diplomacy and perceptions of places, and publishes a major global study measuring the international standing of fifty countries and fifty cities, the Anholt-GfK Roper Nation Brands Index and City Brands Index.

Kathryn Minshew is the CEO & Founder of The Muse, a career platform used by over 75 million people to research companies and careers. The Muse was recently named one of Fast Company’s 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World.  Kathryn is also the author of “The New Rules of Work”, a Wall Street Journal national bestseller. She has spoken at MIT and Harvard, contributed to the WSJ and HBR, and appeared on TODAY and CNN. She has also been named to SmartCEO’s Future50 Visionary CEOs and Inc.’s 35 Under 35. Kathryn worked on HPV vaccine introduction in Rwanda with the Clinton Health Access Initiative before founding The Muse, and was previously at McKinsey & Company.

In 2009, President Obama nominated Melanne Verveer to be the first ever US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues. In that capacity, she worked with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to coordinate foreign policy issues and activities relating to the political, economic and social advancement of women, traveling to some sixty countries. She led efforts to fully integrate women’s participation and rights into US foreign policy and to mobilize concrete support for women’s political and economic empowerment through public-private partnerships. President Obama also appointed Verveer to be US Representative to the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

Today, she is the Director of Georgetown University’s Institute for Women, Peace and Security. The Institute seeks to enhance national and global security by documenting the crucial role women play in peace-building and security through research and scholarship and by engaging global leaders in conversations on the urgent issues of our time. She also serves as Special Representative on Gender Issues for the OSCE Chairmanship.

Ambassador Verveer is a founding partner of Seneca Point Global, the global women strategy firm. SPG partners with leading companies and institutions to design strategies that focus on women and girls to drive sustainable results – whether social, economic or both. She is the co-author of the bestseller, FAST FORWARD: How Women Can Achieve Power and Purpose.

Prior to her role at the State Department, Verveer was Chair and Co-CEO of Vital Voices Global Partnership, an international NGO she co-founded to invest in emerging women leaders. Prior to Vital Voices, she was Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the First Lady in the Clinton Administration. She served as the chief assistant to Hillary Clinton in her wide-ranging international activities to advance women’s rights and further social development, democracy and peace-building initiatives. She also led the effort to establish the President’s Interagency Council on Women and was instrumental in the adoption of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. Prior to her time in the White House, she held a number of leadership roles in public policy organizations and as congressional staff.

Ambassador Verveer is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. She is on the boards of the Atlantic Council, National Endowment for Democracy and Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, as well as the World Bank Advisory Council on Gender and Development. She was the 2013 Humanitas visiting professor at Cambridge University, and she was selected to deliver the 2017 Tanner Lecture on Human Values at Clare Hall College, Cambridge. In 2008, the President of Ukraine awarded her the Order of Princess Olga. She has a BS and MS from Georgetown and holds several honorary degrees. She has received numerous awards including the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Award. She was named to the NEWSWEEK “150 Women Who Shake the World” list; Fast Company’s “60 Influencers Who are Changing the World;” and Enterprising Magazine’s Hall of Fame.

Michael Collins is Chief Executive Officer of Invest Europe, the association representing Europe’s private equity, venture capital and infrastructure sectors and their investors.

He represents Invest Europe’s 650 members to political and regulatory stakeholders at the highest levels and guides the agenda-setting work of the world’s largest private capital association.

Michael holds a First Class degree in Modern History from Wadham College, Oxford, and also holds a postgraduate diploma in management.

Nicholas Tymoshchuk is one of the most prominent young Ukrainian business leaders. He worked in Ukraine, the EU and the US, and managed international projects at some the world’s leading multinational corporations.

On top of business development, Nicholas is a corporate, government and public affairs professional with significant experience in Ukraine, North America and across the EU. During his dynamic career, he has obtained extensive expertise in policy and regulatory framework, trade, and economic affairs, investment and financing. Nicholas also specializes in the energy industry, both fossil fuels and renewables, and possesses growing competence in tech sector.

In 2017, Nicholas assumed a position of Chief Executive Officer at UFuture, a holding company with $500m portfolio of assets founded by the Ukrainian entrepreneur Vasyl Khmelnytsky. Leading UFuture, Nicholas is in charge of coordinating the group’s international activities, business development and investor relations. In 2015 – 2017 Nicholas served as Director of the Representative Office in the EU for the Ukrainian League of Industrialist and Entrepreneurs (ULIE), the biggest association of the Ukrainian business, based in Brussels.

Before ULIE, Nicholas managed Government Affairs activity for the global American energy company Chevron (chevron.com) in Ukraine. Prior to Chevron, he spent five years in Russian-British oil and gas giant TNK-BP (at the time – the 10th biggest private oil producer in the world – on a position of International Affairs Director, and before that five years in American-based political and philanthropic NGOs. Nicholas was one of the founding members of the Fuel and Energy Committee in American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine (2007) and was also an active member of the peer committee at the European Business Association. During his oil and gas career, he served as Energy Industry Representative to the Board of Directors of the US-Ukraine Business Council and was a Member of EITI. Multi-Stakeholder Group for Ukraine. In 2014 Nicholas was chosen to be the Leader of the Ukrainian Delegation to Young Generation Task Force on Euro-Atlantic Security, an initiative managed jointly by the European Leadership Network and Nuclear Threat Initiative (US). In 2015 Nicholas became a member of the Organizational Committee of annual Kyiv International Economic Forum.

Michael is a Canadian business leader, entrepreneur and investment banker. He currently leads Refraction Asset Management, a Canadian family office, and is CEO of TIU Canada, a Ukrainian energy company. Previously, Michael was an investment banker at Genuity Capital Markets and Canaccord Genuity. Prior to Canaccord he was a research analyst at Desjardins Securities. He has an MBA from the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary and a B.A (Honors) in Economics from Queen’s University.

Janez Kopač has been leading the Energy Community Secretariat since 2012. The Energy Community is an international organisation which brings together the European Union and its neighbours to create an integrated pan-European energy market. The organisation was founded by the Treaty establishing the Energy Community signed in October 2005 in Athens, Greece, in force since July 2006. The key objective of the Energy Community is to extend the EU internal energy market rules and principles to countries in South East Europe, the Black Sea region and beyond on the basis of a legally binding framework. Prior to this position, he worked as General Director for Energy at the Ministry of Economy of Slovenia for nearly 4 years. He acted as a Head of Budget Committee in a Parliament of Republic of Slovenia (1990-2000), as Slovenian Minister of Finance (1992) and Minister of Environment and Energy (2000-2004). Mr. Kopač holds a Master’s degree from Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana.

Yulia Tychkivska is an executive director of the Aspen Institute Kyiv, a non-partisan and non-ideological body that promotes dialogue and understanding between Ukrainian leaders on key issues and that can contribute substantively to promotion of value-based leadership, establishment of dialogue culture and formulation of public policies. Yulia is a co-founder of Bendukidze Free Market Centre, a Ukrainian think tank created to promote liberty, limited open government and free market through analysis and development of new and modern policy options, introduction of educational programs and direct engagement with decision makers in the government, business and civil society. Four years Yuliya served as a Vice President at Kyiv School of Economics, a world-class academic institution, consultancy and think tank. She is a civic activist in Ukraine and founder of the Open University of Maidan. Mrs. Tychkivska also worked as a Head of the advisory group for Ukrainian Minister of Economic Development and Trade.

In 2017 Yuliya was elected as a Curator of World Economic Forum’s The Global Shapers Kyiv Hub.

In the 2018 Yuliya Tychkivska was selected by Forbes as a top 30 under 30 in Europe in Law and Policy field for her role in the building of civil society in Ukraine.

Giles Farley is a director at ICU, a leading asset management, private equity and investment advisory firm specializing in Ukraine. He co-leads the firm’s technology and venture capital investment activities. He has a long and successful track record in financial services with extensive experience in asset management, investment banking and financial restructuring.

He holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University and a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Timothy Snyder, a historian of Europe, is one of the leading American historians and public intellectuals. He is the Richard Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1997, where he was a British Marshall Scholar. Before joining the faculty at Yale in 2001, he held fellowships in Paris, Vienna, and Warsaw, and an Academy Scholarship at Harvard.  He speaks five and reads 10 European languages. Among his publications are seven single-authored award-winning books, all of which have been translated: Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe: A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz (1998, second edition 2016); The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999 (2003); Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist’s Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine (2005); The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke (2008); Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010); and Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning; and The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (2018). Bloodlands won 12 awards including the Emerson Prize in the Humanities, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Leipzig Award for European Understanding, and the Hannah Arendt Prize in Political Thought. It has been translated into 33 languages, was named to 12 book-of-the-year lists, and was a bestseller in six countries. Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (2015) appeared 30 foreign editions. It has been a bestseller in four countries and has received multiple distinctions including the award of the Dutch Auschwitz Committee. Snyder is also the co-editor of two books: Wall Around the West: State Borders and Immigration Controls in Europe and North America (2001) and Stalin and Europe: Terror, War, Domination (2013). His most recent book is On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, which appeared in the United States in February 2017 and will be available in numerous foreign editions. In a very special project, Snyder helped his friend, the distinguished historian and intellectual Tony Judt, to compose a thematic history of political ideas and intellectuals in politics, Thinking the Twentieth Century (2012). Snyder’s essays on the Ukrainian revolution were published in in Russian and Ukrainian as Ukrainian History, Russian Politics, European Futures (2014).  A broader range of essays was published in Czech as The Politics of Life and Death (2015).  Snyder is perhaps best known around the world for his political pamphlet On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (2017), which was translated into forty languages.  Snyder sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Modern European History and East European Politics and Societies. His scholarly articles have appeared in Past and Present, the Journal of Cold War Studies, and other journals; he has also written for The New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, The Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, and The New Republic as well as for The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, and other newspapers. Snyder was the recipient of an inaugural Andrew Carnegie Fellowship in 2015 and received the Havel Foundation prize the same year. He has received state orders from Estonia, Lithuania, and Poland. He is a member of the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, is the faculty advisor for the Fortunoff Collection of Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, and sits on the advisory councils of the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research and other organizations.

Andrew Neil is a publisher, writer, businessman and broadcaster. He is Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Press Holdings, owner of The Spectator and various titles around the world. On-screen he presents the BBC’s This Week and Daily Politics; off-screen he is Chairman of ITP, the large, Dubai-based magazine publisher, and Chairman and co-owner of World Media Rights, an international factual television producer.

After beginning his career in local journalism Andrew then became an advisor to the Secretary of State for the Environment in Edward Heath’s Government. He then joined The Economist, initially reporting from the US covering Washington and New York, where he also started reporting for broadcast media.

Andrew returned to the UK as British Editor of The Economist before becoming Editor of The Sunday Times. At the same time, he was appointed Executive Chairman of Sky Television, overseeing the satellite broadcaster’s launch which would revolutionise the UK media landscape. He also served as Executive Editor at Fox Television News in the US, and later published Full Disclosure, an autobiography of his time in the Murdoch organisation.

A respected, versatile broadcaster and opinion leader, Andrew is at the forefront of international media, business and political commentary. He’s fronted coverage of politics at home and abroad on Sunday Politics and BBC Parliament’s Politics Europe. He continues to covers events in Westminster on Daily Politics, and brings a dry wit and incisive take on politics and politicians on This Week.

Andrew has reported for programmes as diverse as Tomorrow’s World and Radio 4’s Today programme. He was a member of the International Advisory Board of Al Jazeera and Publisher of The Scotsman Group of newspapers for 10 years.

First Deputy of Head of Digital Transformation Committee

Former CEO of Ring Ukraine, acquired by Amazon

Member of Parliament of the IX Convocation

Congresswoman Kira Rudik was elected as a People’s Deputy in the early parliamentary elections of 2019 and is the first Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on Digital Transformation.

Kira is engaged in numerous civic and business organizations. She served on the board of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine and IT Ukraine Association. Kira also belongs to the 2018 Stanford Executive Program for Women Leaders.

In 2016, Rudik built Ring Ukraine and shortly after became the CEO. She oversaw the entire development, as she made her first hire 2016 and continued to create over 1,000 jobs while making Ring Ukraine. In 2018, she oversaw the transitional process in the Amazon acquisition.

Through her leadership, Kira has become an inspiration to her team members and business community. She is known as one of the 100 most successful women in Ukraine and within the top 33 managers in Ukraine. She is proud to lead the rise of a new generation of influential female leaders in Ukraine.

Kira earned a Master’s Degree in computer science at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

James Peyer is the Founder and Managing Partner of Apollo Ventures, an early stage life science investment fund investing in Europe and the US focused exclusively on breakthrough therapeutics arising from the study of the biology of aging. Apollo founds companies with scientists, invests in early stage therapeutics projects, and contributes time and expertise to all aspects of early stage biotech companies. James has also spoken all over the world on the topic of aging, discussing how our knowledge of what makes us age will enable the greatest medical breakthroughs of the 21st century. He is also the founder and executive director of Cleara Biotech and on the Board of Directors at Aeonian Pharmaceuticals.

Before Apollo, James worked with McKinsey & Company in New York, where he focused on building new biotech companies and developing strategies for commercializing cell therapies. He specialized on assisting clients with challenges facing clinical technologies with novel modes of action and substantial development hurdles.

James earned his doctorate in stem cell biology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, where he was a National Science Foundation GRFP Fellow; he earned his bachelor’s in Immunology with highest honors from the University of Chicago.

Ieva began her diplomatic career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia in 1997 and continued her work in the field of foreign and security policy in different institutions focusing on the issues of security, democracy, and human rights.

In the late nineties Ieva was part of the Latvian MFA team that worked on Latvia’s goal to join the EU. After successful accession she continued her work in the field of security policy and democracy sharing Latvia’s experience and lessons learned with its Eastern neighbors – Ukraine, Belarus, and Georgia. In 2005-2006 Ieva joined the Riga NATO Summit Task Force and led the local and NATO Public Diplomacy efforts for the NATO Summit 2006 in Riga.

From 2007 to 2010 Ieva was posted to the Latvian Delegation to NATO and from 2010 to 2011 she was seconded to the European Union as a Political Advisor to the EU Special Representative in the South Caucasus in Baku, Azerbaijan focusing on human rights among other topics.

In 2012 Ieva graduated the mid-career program at Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC and returned to Latvia as Advisor to the State Secretary of the Ministry of Defense having responsibility to establish the NATO STRATCOM COE in Riga and coordinate national cyber security policy, including during the Latvia’s Presidency in EU. Additionally in 2016 she undertook the responsibilities of the First Lady of Estonia.

Ieva has received a State Award for her contribution to the NATO Summit in Riga, a Recognition of Foreign minister for developing the cooperation with NGOs and the promotion of democracy issues and Memorial Medal of the Minister of Defense for Advancing Latvia’s Membership to NATO.

Johan Eliasch is an Anglo Swedish businessman. He is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Head, the global sporting goods group, and the former Special Representative of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

He is on the board of directors of Equity Partners, Aman Resorts,London Films, the Foundation for Renewable Energy and Environment, Longleat. He is an advisory board member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Polar Regions, Brasilinvest, Societe du Louvre, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Capstar, Centre for Social Justice and the British Olympic Association. He is a member of the Mayors of Jerusalem and Rome’s International Business Advisory Councils. He is the first president of the Global Strategy Forum, a trustee of Cool Earth and a patron of Stockholm University and chairman of the Saatchi Gallery.

Daria Shapovalova is known in the global fashion industry as a person who put her native country Ukraine on the world’s fashion map. Having a vast experience in fashion, marketing and branding, Daria Shapovalova launched careers of many well-known Ukrainian and Eastern-European designers. An acclaimed journalist, she contributed to many International media outlets. 30 Forbes under 30 in Art and Culture (2017), one of the 500 most influential people by Business of Fashion (2014, 2015), Daria runs a couple of successful businesses. Kyiv Fashion Institute, Daria’s private school became the most influential creative and fashion education center in Ukraine. The aim of Daris’s company More Dash is to promote contemporary designers worldwide and develop their distribution in best International stores across all the continents. Fashion Tech Forum that Daria established in Kyiv aims to bridge fashion and tech industries in Ukraine and to give an opportunity to young entrepreneurs to develop their ideas with International mentors.

Igor Liski is a famous Ukrainian businessman, investor and philanthropist. He attracts domestic and foreign investments in various sectors of the Ukrainian economy. The Group of Companies Effective Investments was founded by Igor Liski to carry out activities in different spheres of the economy and generate practical models of the country’s development. The main areas of company activities are connected with gas, energy, paper, agriculture, IT and creative industry.
Mr. Liski is also a co-founder of the Ukrainian Institute for the Future ‒ analytical center, which is engaged in the strategy formation for the economic development of Ukraine. He is a Member of the Board of the Canada-Ukraine Chamber of Commerce, member of the Coordinating Council of the Association Aspen-Ukraine.
Mr. Liski has obtained Master’s degrees in International Economics and Jurisprudence. Currently he is completing Executive MBA at Said Business School, University of Oxford.
Honored with Commendation of Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for the personal contribution to the development of business and significant achievements in professional activity and for outstanding achievements of young people in the reconstruction of Ukraine.
Igor Liski’s main motto is to create high-responsible profitable business in Ukraine.

Viktoriya is the Managing Partner of the fund TA Ventures, which she founded in late 2010. TA Ventures is an international early-stage VC fund primarily focused on Mobility and Digital Health. TA Ventures co-invests with leading investors and has had the privilege to back such companies as Wunder Mobility, Caroobi, Klara, Sensely and 100+ others including Azimo, SumUp, Dreamlines. TA Ventures offers proactive support and a broad international network to its portfolio companies. By supporting them with establishing R&D centers in Ukraine and Europe, the fund helps its portfolio companies grow and stay competitive. Viktoriya leads iClub – a private investment club for angel investors which has been founded by TA Ventures. Viktoriya is also the cо-founder of WTECH – the first Ukrainian club for female tech CEOs; the Founder of CodeClub Ua – the Ukrainian network of volunteer-led coding clubs for children, with 600 clubs operating as of December 2018; the President of the Odesa International Film Festival – the largest film festival in CEE by audience size; and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Ukrainian Film Academy.

Composite Apps is a digital consulting company that specializes in applying a combination of mobile technology, user experience, and advanced analytics to solve real-world business problems. A leader in large-scale enterprise solution development, Composite Apps works with businesses to maximize the value of existing IT investments by creating unprecedented visibility and empowering users with tools to impact data-driven change within their organization. Among other areas, Composite Apps focuses on the intersection of healthcare and artificial intelligence.

Prior to this role, Charles was a co-founder at LearnerX and Halio Health,  innovation companies that create science-based, technology-enabled products and services to help people develop practical habits to improve their lives. In 2013 Charles received a master’s degree in education from the University of Pennsylvania, while concurrently earning three certificates from the Wharton School of Business.  Prior to that, he earned a master’s from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.  Previously, Charles worked as a marketing manager at sothebys.amazon.com and then in the Global Private Client Group at Sotheby’s, Inc., where he created a loyalty program for Chinese clients.  A graduate of Stanford University, Charles is a Trustee of Historic Hudson Valley and Asia Society as well as a member of the President’s Council of the University of Tokyo.

Fred Kempe is the president and chief executive officer of the Atlantic Council. Under his leadership since 2007, the Council has achieved historic, industry-leading growth in size and influence, expanding its work through regional centers spanning the globe and through centers focused on topics ranging from international security and energy to global trade and next generation leadership.
Before joining the Council, Kempe was a prize-winning editor and reporter at the Wall Street Journal for more than twenty-five years. In New York, he served as assistant managing editor, International, and columnist. Prior to that, he was the longest-serving editor and associate publisher ever of the Wall Street Journal Europe, running the global Wall Street Journal’s editorial operations in Europe and the Middle East.
He is the author of four books. The most recent, Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth, was a New York Times Best Seller and a National Best Seller.
Kempe is a graduate of the University of Utah and has a masters degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where he was a member of the International Fellows program in the School of International Affairs.

Vitaliy Klitschko is a Ukrainian politician, Mayor of Kyiv and former professional boxer. Mr. Klitschko holds a PhD in sports sciences. He began his political career in 2005, when he was appointed as an advisor to the then President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko. He became a Member of the Kyiv City Council in 2006 and a Member of the Ukrainian Parliament in 2012. In May 2014, Mr. Klitschko was elected as Mayor of Kyiv. During his tenure he has repeatedly emphasized Kyiv’s readiness to implement innovations by cooperating with young leaders, foreign investors and the start-up community.

Together with his brother Volodymyr, Mr. Klitschko co-founded Klitschko Foundation. The foundation works with Ukrainian children to support their dreams and goals to excel in sports and sciences.

John Herbst is the director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center. Ambassador Herbst served for thirty-one years as a foreign service officer in the US Department of State, retiring at the rank of career minister. He was the US ambassador to Ukraine from 2003 to 2006. Prior to his ambassadorship in Ukraine, he was the ambassador to Uzbekistan from 2000 to 2003. Ambassador Herbst previously served as US consul general in Jerusalem; principal deputy to the ambassador-at-large for the Newly Independent States; director of the Office of Independent States and Commonwealth Affairs; director of regional affairs in the Near East Bureau; and at the embassies in Tel Aviv, Moscow, and Saudi Arabia. He most recently served as director of the Center for Complex Operations at the National Defense University. He has received two Presidential Distinguished Service Awards, the Secretary of State’s Career Achievement Award, the State Department’s Distinguished Honor Award, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Distinguished Civilian Service Award. Ambassador Herbst’s writings on stability operations, Central Asia, Ukraine, and Russia are widely published.

Gerard Seijts received his PhD from the University of Toronto in 1998. Prior to joining Ivey Business School in 2000, he was on the faculty at the I.H. Asper School of Business at the University of Manitoba. Gerard is teaching on several leadership programs. For example, he has worked with organizations including Aecon, Intact Financial Corporation, OMERS, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Maple Leaf Foods, J.D. Irving Limited, Hutchison Ports, Cigna, A.S. Watson, Bank of China Hong Kong and many others.

He has also worked with local government in Canada and Hong Kong on issues such as leadership and change. Gerard has taught EMBA, MBA and undergraduate courses in leadership, leading change, organizational behavior, performance management and staffing.

His research activities, spanning journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers, cover a wide range of topics including leadership, change, goal setting, training and development, teams, organizational justice, and performance management. He also enjoys writing practitioner-oriented articles.

Sophia Opatska is Founding Dean and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Lviv Business School at the UCU, Vice-Rector Academic Affairs at the Ukrainian Catholic University.

She received her education from Ivan Franko University in Lviv, a degree in International Economic Relations, and defended her thesis work in Management and Human Capital Development. She studied at Executive Education programs the University of Michigan Business School (USA), IEDC- Bled School of Management (Slovenia), China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), and had on-the-job training at InnoSpace Company (Denmark) and the Warsaw School of Economics (Poland). In 2017, she was on a semester fellowship at Nanovic Institute of European Studies, University of Notre Dame (USA). Sophia is a founder and supervisor of the Global Shapers project in Lviv and an Advisory Board member at the Emaus Center.

From 2001 to 2004, she held the position of the MBA Program Director at the Lviv Institute of Management. From 2004 to 2007, Ms. Opatska worked as MBA Director at Kyiv Mohyla Business School (kmbs). In 2007 she worked on building the personnel development and training system for Concern Galnaftogaz OJSC. She is Founding Dean of Lviv Business School at the Ukrainian Catholic University, which she had been leading for ten years. From 2016 Sophia is Vice-Rector Academic Affairs at the Ukrainian Catholic University and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of LvBS. Since 2019 Sophia is member of the Board of European Federation of Catholic Universities (FUCE).

Her areas of expertise are Organizational Behavior and Learning Organizations, Organization Development, Entrepreneurial Mindset. Sophia is a contributor to a number of cases on the above topics in the context of Central and Eastern Europe and specifically Ukraine, which is still overcoming its post-communist past. Her focus at work is – the creation of Entrepreneurial University at UCU, and the ecosystem around it.

Elliot Gerson is an executive vice president at the Aspen Institute, responsible for its policy programs, public programs, and relations with ten international partners. The Institute’s more than 30 policy programs provide neutral venues to undertake nonpartisan analysis, foster candid dialogue among leaders, advocate new policy, and promote best practices for maximum impact domestically and internationally. Public programs, including the Aspen Ideas Festival, Aspen Words, the Aspen Program in the Arts, and the Socrates Seminars open the Aspen Institute’s doors to broader audiences.  Mr. Gerson also administers the US Rhod