Mychailo Wynnyckyj, teaches sales management and cross-cultural communications at Lviv Business School of Ukrainian Catholic University. He also holds a cross appointment to Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and serves as Advisor to Ukraine’s Minister of Education and Science. In his capacity as a business school professor and management consultant he has guided the international expansion strategies of numerous Ukrainian entrepreneurs – particularly in the IT sector.

Born in Canada, Mychailo has lived permanently in Ukraine since 2003 – moving to Kyiv immediately after completing his PhD at the University of Cambridge (U.K.). Prior to that he worked for 7 years (1992-1999) as Vice-President for Sales & Marketing at Lava Computer MFG Inc. in Toronto Canada, where he led the expansion of this PC peripheral manufacturer into new markets in Europe, South America and Asia.

Since moving to Ukraine, Mychailo has consulted multiple companies on sales management and international marketing issues, including helping executives to master intercultural differences. Mychailo’s combination of practical business experience in both North America and Ukraine, combined with his extensive academic credentials make him uniquely positioned as a “bridge” between companies trying to understand each others’ practices on different continents.

In 2008-2013 Mychailo served as Director of the Doctoral School at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy where he oversaw a project aimed at reforming the traditional Ukrainian “aspirantura” system into a European-styled Doctorate. These activities led to his becoming involved in educational reform, and to his recent appointment as Head of the Secretariate of Ukraine’s National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance.

Mychailo was born and educated in North America and England and has lived in Ukraine for 17 years. During the Revolution of Dignity he was a regular commentator for English-language media outlets, and provided analysis on current events in his “Thoughts from Kyiv” blog. His book Ukraine’s Maidan, Russia’s War. A Chronicle and Analysis of the Revolution of Dignity was published in 2019 by Ibidem Verlag and is distributed by Columbia University Press.

Professor in Leadership, HR&OD, CEO of UCU Center for Leadrship. Andriy Rozhdestvenskyy served as a profiler and analyst in Israel’s security service, where he specialized in counter-terrorism matters, including special communications and negotiations. Later he became HR Business Partner-Retail at Oschadbank with subsequent promotion to Head of Personnel and Training in the bank (35,000 employees). Rozhdestvenskyy adjusted classical sales techniques to the bank’s needs and then started tailoring training programs to suit the needs of other areas of business (telecommunications, IT industry, agriculture etc.). As a result, he started his own business – a consulting company with emphasis on developing and tailoring personnel training systems for specific businesses.

Andriy provides assistance to organizations specializing in childhood cancer and alcohol and drug rehabilitation. He is a member of the movement “Change Ukraine – Start with Yourself” and organizer of the Everest 2025 project. Mr. Rozhdestvenskyy received a higher education degree in Psychology from the National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, did his post graduate studies at the G.S. Kostiuk Institute of Psychology in Kyiv and successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. He also successfully completed Anna Vlasova’s HRM School.

Oleksiy Filanovskiy is a CEO and founder of Filberry.Consulting, a company which helps SME companies and large enterprises better grasp both the concepts of marketing and its common practices. Before starting his own business, for more than twenty years Oleksiy worked as CMO in many Ukrainian private companies in all kinds of fields, built nationwide and international brands, and received industry awards for his work.

He has deep expertise in FMCG, retail, e-commerce, C2C and B2G markets.

In his capacity as CMO, Oleksiy had assembled and developed 7 in-house marketing teams for both enterprises and SME-level companies, and built brands such as Prime, Istyna, Pryrodne Dzherelo, Snow Panda, Bigl, Shake, Prom, Foxtrot.

These brands and companies were, and most still are, ahead of the competition in their markets, and their products are known and loved both in home market and in countries outside Ukraine.

Oleksiy had developed and implemented dozens of successful marketing strategies, achieving unparalleled results.

Some of this experience Oleksiy shared in his first book, «The Book of Marketing», a business-reading bestseller in Ukraine.

Natalia has over 17 years of experience in the business. She has been standing at the head of a leading law firm Danevych.Law. Holding a position of HR Director of the investment company, she successfully implemented a strategy of a merger of two regional subdivisions with a single control center. Within the period from 2004 to 2008, she was holding a position of HR Director of the representative office of Belgian company Materialise in Ukraine. During 4 years of work of the representative office, directed by Natalia, the team of the Kyiv Office increased by 10 times to 270 employees and she was recognized as the best employer among the IT companies in Kyiv. Natalia is a certified coach (Erickson University International (ICF), a trainer and author of the educational programs in organizational development. She is the author of the articles and practical materials written for the following publishing houses: Novoye Vremya, EBA, WOMO, Liga as well as a number of core HR publications. Since 2010 she has been an organizational development, leadership, and personnel management consultant.

Mykhajlo Kolisnyk, Ph.D. (economics), associated professor, graduated at National University Lviv Polytechnic. He has the classes in finance at Lviv Business School of Ukrainian Catholic University and Business School of Privatization and Management Institute (Minsk). As well he is a renowned specialist in the field of finance and author of more than 100 articles on finance and strategic management. He is also FINART Smart Solutions managing partner and CFO Club Ukraine President

His past internship experience includes Wayne State University (Detroit, MI), Copenhagen Business school, Danish consulting firm Dansk Management Forum, IMTA, IEDC, Maastricht University (Maastricht, Holland). Dr. Kolisnyk is an instructor for courses “Financial Accounting”, “Management Accounting”, and “Financial Management”. Dr. Kolisnyk additionally holds corporate and open executive development programs in Finance and heads corporate consulting projects, in particular those dealing with enterprises’ financial restructuring. He was also International Finance Corporation (IFC) consultant, since 2013 to 2017 he was executive professor at Kyiv School of Economics. Since 2002 to 2005 Dr. Kolisnyk was a Board Member of the PEKAO Bank [Ukraine]. In his free time, Mykhajlo enjoys swimming, photography, traveling and working with the PC, namely programming and web-design. Since 2008 to 2010 he was Kyiv Mohyla Business School (kmbs) acting dean.

His main line of works is connected with the implementation of flow control methods based on Theory of constrains (ТОС) and economical production. From 2008 to 2010 he was at the head of the Goldratt First European Regional School in Kyiv. Among his customers were the following companies: Nestle, Raiffeisenbank Aval, Luxoft, DТЕК (Donbas energy holding company), Zaporizhzhia transformer plant, IDS (one of the biggest producers of mineral water in Ukraine), Fast Food Systems (the biggest chain of restaurants in Ukraine), «Veresen +» (regional distributor of food products), Avito (regional distributor of Procter and Gamble in Ukraine), Mens (regional distributor of telecommunication equipment) etc. He completed training at the following international programs: Japan International Cooperation Agency (Japan), Goldratt Schools (Israel), IESE (University of Navarra in Barcelona), OWZ Consulting -Center (Munich) and Business School of Wayne University (Detroit, the USA). He gives classes at the leading business schools of Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Russia and the USA.