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.

David Knull is career sales, marketing, and business development professional with 20 years’ cross-industry experience ranging from large corporates to SMEs and start-ups. He has successfully undertaken roles in the USA, UK and in Greater China. He has significant experience in entrepreneurial business development, operations and management. Furthermore, he is a lecturer at Kingston University within the department of Strategy, Marketing and Entrepreneurship and he is a visiting scholar at Beijing International Studies University. David holds a Bachelor of Science in marketing and communications from the University of Maryland and an MBA from Kingston University.

Works as a professor at the Department of Management and International Business at Lviv Polytechnic National University.

Enrolled in Virginia Tech (USA) under the Fulbright Faculty Development Program.

He was a participant and manager at the institutional level of several international educational projects under the Tempus and Erasmus KA2 programs.

A range of scientific interests includes issues of strategic management and taking into account the interests of stakeholders in decision-making.

Co-founder and CEO of «Yes&Design» and «Platformedia». Publisher of the Internet magazine, innovation advisor. He was an editor and a journalist up to 2014.

In July 2016, he graduated from the JSK Fellowship program at Stanford University, where he studied strategic management, entrepreneurship, basics of venture capital, media business, investment, design thinking, disruptive innovation, and the democracy development.

He headed the department of journalistic investigations of the Ukrainian version of Forbes magazine from early 2012 till August 2013. Majored in exposing corruption of the state senior officials: tender, financial fraud, offshore schemes, smuggling, and ownership transparency.

After the Dignity Revolution victory participated in the project YanukovychLeaks.org, which was aimed at preserving and providing free access to documents of the former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych that were thrown into the Dnipro river. As a result of the project, more than 20 thousand internal accounting documents of Yanukovych companies were dried up, digitized and posted for open access.

At various times in his career, he worked on materials for Thomson Reuters, Buzzfeed, Ukrainska Pravda, Dzerkalo Tyzhnia; Svidomo bureau, «Inter» TV channel.

In 2016, together with his wife Kateryna, created a concept and offered the Center for the Democracy and Rule of Law of Stanford University to establish Ukrainian Emerging Leadership Program, an annual educational program for the new leaders of Ukraine, which, starting from the fall of 2017 will accept three professionals in the field of reforms, law, economic development, and entrepreneurship per annum.

Education – MBA at DeGroote School of Business (McMaster University, Canada) and MA Economics (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv). He worked and trained at Bank of Nova Scotia (investment strategy and asset allocation of small portfolio) and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (Macroeconomic forecasting and modeling). He is a founder and a CFO of the operating business. He is engaged in financial management of several start-ups and consulting in the field of management and finance. He is a member of the Plast Scout Organization subdivision “Peredovi”(Leaders).

A graduate of the first master’s program in HR and OD at Lviv Business School, HR professional, business coach, consultant in organizational development and transformation.
Has 13 years experience in international companies (Astelit, PeopleNET, TurkCel Global Bilgi, Imperial Tobacco Ukraine, Metro Cash & Carry Ukraine), 8 of them in HR. The last 3 years has devoted to work on projects for the implementation of changes (structural, technological and process information in Imperial Tobacco Ukraine) and on the development of corporate culture and level of engagement (in Metro Cash & Carry Ukraine (2800 employees)).

Vice Rector for administration and financial affairs of UCU. Lecturer of Master’s programs and programs on management development of LvBS. Within the program, he teaches separate topics on the course “The Principles of Finance Reporting and Finance Accounting”. In 2007-2009, he worked at the Investment Department of IP “Universal Investment Group”. In 2009-2010, he worked at the Department of Corporate Finance and Investor Realations of PJSC “Galnaftogaz”. Since 2010, he has been the financial director of the Ukrainian Catholic University. In 2012, he acted as Director of the Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation in Chicago (USA).

Member of the Beneficial Organization “Lviv Education Foundation”. He is involved in the consultancy on issues of the managerial records and budgeting.

The lecturer at the UCU Lviv Business School (LvBS), academic leader of the program «HRM in Business», HR Business Partner of the DataArt company.

Natalka delivers lectures within the managerial and master’s programs, mainly holds the following courses: «HRM: Corporate Context», «Corporate Culture and Leadership», and «Team-Work Experts». She is a certified coach and a Gestalt consultant. With more than 18 years of professional business experience, mainly in the sphere of HR, she worked as an HR director at Eleks software engineering company (established a full-fledged department of human resources management, the program of employee maintenance, development and assessment), managed educational and consulting projects, elaborated and held author’s training programs in the IT companies, namely SoftServe, Intellias, and the Prosteer Group. She also elaborated the program «The Basics of Team Management within ІТ» for Lviv Project Management School. Natalka is currently reading the course of socio-economic approach to management at the ISEOR Institute (France).

Marketing Director of Kormoteh. Lecturer of the Marketing course of MSc in Innovations and Entrepreneurship program. Graduate KEMBA LvBS. He has experience in marketing for over 12 years. Areas of Expertise: strategic marketing; brand portfolio management; developing and launching brands; promotion of brands. Kormoteh – the market leader in animal food in Ukraine (2015).

Visiting Lecturer in Management. President of Euroindex. Ukrainian businessman, the president of “Euroindex”, which is the leading organizer of exhibitions “business to business” in Ukraine. Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the exhibition center “KyivExpoPlaza”. Member of the Board of Directors of the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry UFI, vice president of the Exhibition Federation of Ukraine. The author of a textbook for high school students “Fundamentals of Exhibitions.” He has experience in various fields of business and diverse experience working in public sector organizations.

Author of numerous articles and publications on organizational development. Valery has close contact with the markets because his company annually hosts more than 20 exhibitions, which involve almost 2,000 companies and visits about 100 000 specialists from all over Ukraine.

Denys Dovhopolyi is an expert in searching for venture capital investments for Ukrainian projects and an active member and co-organizer of many IT and start-up conferences in Ukraine and abroad. He is one of the constant administrators of the IDCEE conference. Denys is also the director of BayView Innovation, a venture partner of Viktoria Tihipko ТА Ventures fund.

The teacher of LvBS master’s programs and executive development programs.

The teacher of effective team management and personnel management courses at the LvBS. The founder of training and consulting company ROK. She has over 14 years of experience in the field of HR, in particular in executive positions, and more than 9 years of experience as a trainer and organizational development consultant. A certified coach.

Attorney in law, Managing Partner with law firm Grynchuk and Partners (law practice 2004). Practice in supporting investment projects, corporate law, tax disputes, protection of business relations with regulatory authorities. Andriy combines legal practice with social work. He is a member of Lviv Entrepreneurs Committee, Ukraine Bar Association. Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Lviv.