Ph.D., Director of Practical Psyhology Institute  in Higher School of Economics NRU. Professor in Organizational Behavior and Change Management.
Ph.D. Associate Professor of Management, Academic Director of MBA Program, CEU Business SchoolHe is Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Emerging Markets. His main teaching interests are in Strategic Management and International Business.
He has taught at Universities and Business schools all over the world including University of Michigan, Stockholm School of Economics, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Queen's University, Canada; Central European University, Budapest; Thunderbird Europe; European Business School London, ISM Paris, University of Warsaw and University of Montenegro.
His main research interests are in international trade and investment, management development in Central and East Europe and non-market strategies of emerging market multinationals.
He has recently published two books the first entitled EU Enlargement and Central Europe: Regulatory Convergence and the Multinational Enterprise and another volume, Global Antitrust: Trade and Competition Linkages. He has published in peer-reviewed journals including Journal of World Business, Business and Politics, Global Governance, Global Business and Organizational Excellence, Thunderbird International Business Review and World Competition. He is an Editorial Advisory Board member on the following journals: Thunderbird International Business Review, Journal of Asia-Pacific Business and the European Journal of International Management.
He has consulted with Toyota, Citibank and Deutsche Telekom and been an Advisory Board Member to NESsT (Non-Profit Enterprise and Self-Sustainability Team), an organization involved in social venture capital and philanthropy.

Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Finance (HKUST)

Director of RR Commodities (Shanghai). At LvBS lectures in International Business

Dr. Yuriy Logush is Vice-Rector for Strategy and Program Development, as well as Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Lviv School of Business of UCU. He is a Senator at UCU and has  also served on the Oversight Boards for the International Management Institut and the Kyiv School of Economics.
He holds a PhD and an MA in Economics from New York University, a BS in Engineering Science and Economics from the City University of New York, and a Corporate Executive Program at the Kellogg School of Northwestern University.
He has taught/lectured in the US and Europe, including Northwestern U, Harvard U, NYU, University of Warsaw, SGPiS/Warsaw School of Economics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of World Economy Bucharest, Ukrainian Academy of sciences, UCU, IMI Kyiv, Kyiv-Mohyla University Business School, as well as in IBM’s C-Suite Executive Program for many years.
His executive business experience includes: VP at Kraft Foods International as well as Managing
Director for Kraft Foods for Ukraine, Eastern Europe and Central Asia (1995-2011); VP at MHP (largest poultry producer in Europe); founder and Managing Director for RJ Reynolds and KPMG in Ukraine; cofounder and COO (1980-1992) of Garden State Health Plan HMO (Princeton, NJ).
His board experience includes: Kraft Foods CEEMA BoM, Garden State Health Plan HMO, Milkiland NV, MHP, Chumak Foods, American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine (Vice-Chairman, 2004 2011). 

Ph.D., Professor of Economics, CEU Business School, Budapest.
Visiting Professor of International Business, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Shanghai, Sept-Dec 2004 and Nov-Dec 2006. Visiting Professor, University of Trento, Trento, Italy, April - July 2005. Twenty-five years at the Indiana University's Kelley School of Business (1975-2000), promoted to full professor of international business. Appointed by President George Bush in 1990, re-appointed by President Clinton in 1996 and by George W. Bush in 2001, to the Board of Trustees of the Hungarian-American Enterprise Fund. The Fund invests and monitors - like a private venture capitalist - the $78 million the U.S. gave to Hungary to promote private enterprise; member, Audit Committee (1990-2006), when the Fund, mission accomplished, went out business.
Served as principal architect and co-director of the Hungarian-International Blue Ribbon Commission, a multi-year effort during 1989-90 to blueprint Hungary's transformation to a market economy. Recruited and managed 100 experts from 11 countries and raised $1 million, working with Hudson Institute, Indianapolis, as a Senior Adjunct Fellow. Repeated invited testimony before Congressional committees. During the 1970s and 1980s, briefed members of the U.S. House and Senate and newly- appointed US ambassadors to the countries of Central and East. Europe.
Consulting experience with the IMF, the World Bank, the UN, the OECD, USAID, Eli Lilly, Cummins Engine Co and other firms. Wrote or edited 20 books and 150 articles and chapters, mainly on the changing political, economic and business situation in Hungary, the other countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and China. 
Honorary doctorate, Budapest University of Economic Sciences (1999).

Sophia Oliphant is a citizen of the United States. In 1999 she received a diploma in International Business at the European Business School in Germany. Sophia has an MBA degree in International Business Management from the Pepperdine University, Malibu, USA. Her career at 3M began in 2000 in Germany. She was responsible for the business development direction “Materials and Tools to Ensure Work Safety” on the markets of Central and Eastern Europe, as well as Central Asia and Africa. From 2003 to 2009 Ms. Oliphant led the direction mentioned above in Europe. She was the transition manager for the Aearo Technologies acquisition. The last two years, Sophia was the head of business development in “Materials and Tools to Ensure Work Safety”for 3M in Central and Eastern Europe. 

President of Kyiv School of Economics Chairman and CEO of Eastern Europe and Central Asia Blue Ocean Strategy Regional  Institute. Professor in Innovations and Strategy. Chair of the LvBS  Advisory Board.
Pavlo was the founder and first Dean of Kyiv Mohyla Business School. Since 2004 he has been a member of the Board of Central and East European Management Development Association (CEEMAN) and since 2006 its Vice-President.
He obtained his MBA at Emory University in Atlanta, US, in 1995. He also holds a Graduate Management Program Certificate from the International Management Center in Budapest and Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, as well as a Diploma in Economics from the Lviv State University.

Adrian Slywotzky is an American consultant of Ukrainian origin and the author of several books on economic theory and management. After obtaining his undergraduate degree at Harvard, Slywotzky also received a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He has worked as a consultant since 1979 and is currently a partner at Oliver Wyman. He is also former Vice President, Member of the Board of Directors at Mercer Management Consulting, which is in top 10 world's most prestigious consulting firms.
Slywotzky wrote several books on profitability and growth, namely the bestselling "The Profit Zone." He is one of the most renowned consultants of the United Statesand was elected as one of the 25 best consultants in 2000 and 2008. Adrian Slywotzky is a member of the LvBS Advisory Board.

Associate Professor, Dept. of Management (HKUST). Professor of International Business.
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Department of Management, Associate Professor, since July 2010; Assistant Professor, July 2003 - June 2010. University of Illinois at Chicago, Teaching Assistant, August 1991-May 1994.
Information Resources Inc. (IRI),Chicago, IL, Research and Development Department, Project Manager, 1996-1997.
NCI Research Evanston, IL (an affiliation of Kellogg Graduate School of Management of Northwestern University), Research Associate and Research Project Manager, 1994 - 1996.
University of Illinois at Chicago, Nursing School, Statistical Consultant, 1995.

Former CEO of the leading media company Ekonomika, which launched several popular websites including delo.ua, the most quoted business portal in Ukraine. Prior to Ekonomika, Eveline was CEO of the high-tech start-up APCT and winner of the second annual Silicon Valley Open Doors contest in 2006. Before moving to Ukraine, Eveline worked for 10 years as an engineering associate on several multi-million dollar projects for the top industrial gas company Praxair, Inc.

Eveline received her Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, her Master of Engineering degree from State University of New York, in Buffalo, and her executive MBA from INSEAD

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. 

Ph.D.,Professor of Innovations and Management of Malardalen University, Sweden. At LvBS conducts training courses on Value Creating Networks.
Sven is professor in innovation science and management at Malardalen University, Sweden. He is also director of various executive education programmes, such as Communication Executives Program. For the last 20 years Sven has been a frequent lecturer in Business Intelligence, Communication, Innovation and Corporate Entrepreneurship at various conferences and seminars. He has also been working with information services and business intelligence in various organisations during 30 years.

Lawyer, managing partner of law firm Hrynchuk, Mazur and Partners (legal practice since 2004). Lecturer of the course “Business Law”. 
A graduate of the Law Faculty of the Lviv National University of Ivan Franko.
In legal practice he specializes in the areas of tax disputes resolution, corporate law, legal support of investment and business protection in criminal proceeding. Andriy Hrynchuk is a member of the Association of Lawyers of Ukraine and the International Bar Association.  

Heard of Board of Director, Emotions Holding !Fest.

Bohdan Kupych has been working in Ukraine and Russia for 19 years and has more than 25 years of experience in IT business. Bohdan is an active member of the international business community, was a founding member, the first President and already 10 year Board Member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine. He also gave courses in marketing and entrepreneurship at Kyiv Mohyla business school, was a key speaker at International IT symposium in Stanford and Forum of world IBM chiefs in Russia. Bohdan studied Political Science at York University, Toronto, completed the leadership program at INSEAD and the VC Program at Haas School of Business, California. Bohdan holds a Graduate Diploma in Management and MBA from Athabasca University in Canada. In the past Bohdan was a Vice President of Business Development Department at Sitronics company. Few years before he occupied the post of CEO at Kvazar-Micro, was director of marketing at UMC (currently MTC) and CEO of Canadian corporation DEC in Ukraine.

João Perre Viana obtained is Master degree in Law by the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa (1997) and an MBA at Vlerick Leuven Ghent Management School (2003) in Belgium, in parallel to his professional activity he concluded a post-graduation in Marketing by IPAM in 1999 and a post-graduation in management by INDEG-ISCTE in 2000.
He develops is professional activity for more than 15 years as a manager, consultant and teacher, having held senior positions at J.Walter Thompson, Duval Guillaume, Leo Burnett, Brandia Central and Education Group Evolution, he worked in nine different countries, mainly in Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Currently he is one of the founding partners of LeonardShop, a small investment fund that holds participation in several companies such as Wine With Spirit, U-First and Lincubator, among others. Joao his also guest lecturer on Entrepreneurship at Kyiv Mohyla Business School in Kiev, at EADA in Barcelona, and at LvBS in Lviv.
Professor of course «Entrepreneurship and Innovation»  on the program MS in Innovations and Entrepreneurship and «Business Development» on the program MS in Technology Management.

CEO of Fast Food Systems.

Ph.D., founder and CEO of GTMP. President and CEO (honorary) Siemens Corporate Research, Inc. Professor of Innovation Management. Member of the LvBS Advisory Board.
His company introduced the methodology of new product development Time-to-Market. Besides, Dr. Zaininger is the Director of the Summer School programs and the Professor at Princeton University. He received his MSE, MA and Dr. Ing. from Princeton University and graduated from the Harvard Business School's Executive Management Program.
Prof. Dr. Karl Zaininger worked for Thomas Group, a management consulting firm, as the Vice President and Development Director, later he was the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, the President and CEO, Executive Vice President and Research Director at Siemens Corporate Research and Support, Inc. In addition, Dr. Karl Zaininger was also responsible for managing a number of United States government projects, including programs of the US Army Electronics Technology and Devices Laboratory and the Solar Energy Research Institute.

Business partner at Capital Strategy company. In 1999 together with Pavlo Sheremeta, later with the whole team, founded Kyiv Mohyla business school (kmbs). In 2004 Oleksandra was implementing the project for insurance company (from top 10 in Ukraine) aimed to bring changes into company internal management. In 2004-2005 she became Branding Director of kmbs.

Ph.D., Director of Practical Psyhology Institute  in Higher School of Economics NRU. Professor in Organizational Behavior and Change Management.
In LvBS she conducts training courses and lecturers on Team Building and Organisational Behaviour.

Partner and Industry Leader Medical Devices Industry EMEIA, Zurich.
With Ernst & Young since 1997, early focus on mergers & acquisitions. Partner in charge of Entrepreneur Of The Year (E&Y) Switzerland and Liechtenstein and member of global E&Y Steering Committee, Head of Center of Excellence Family-Owned Businesses Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
Heinrich is member of the board of directors of his own family business (3rd generation) and has a long standing personal experience in managing generation shifts in Family Businesses.
Heinrich advises and actively supports clients in Family Business in matters of strategy, succession planning, family constitutions and generation conflict management.

John Conbere is Professor in Organization Development at the University of St. Thomas, in the Organization Learning and Development Department. He is also a visiting professor at National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kiev, Ukraine, and Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Lyon, France. He has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar, and an International Scholar in the Academic Fellowship Program of the Open Society Institute & Soros Foundation. He is on the Editorial Board of the OD Practitioner and the Scientific Advisory Board for conferences at ISEOR (Socio-Economic Institute of Firms and Organizations) Lyon, France. 

Professor of Marketing, Founder and Chairman of The Garrison Group.
Paul has worked in marketing for over 25 years. He started out at Procter & Gamble and then went on to serve two stints at Coca-Cola - first in the US, and then later as marketing director for Central and Eastern Europe, and finally as managing director in Hungary.
In between the US and European Coke assignments, Paul ran his own advertising agency for 10 years in the US. In 2003 he founded the Garrison Group strategic consultancy based in Budapest and active throughout Europe including Russia and Turkey. The Garrison Group is highly involved in leading edge marketing with clients such as IKEA, Sony PlayStation, Telenor, Pfizer, AVON, UniCredit Bank, Efes, Intersport, Bayer, and, of course, Coca-Cola.
He is an adjunct Professor of Marketing and the former Dean at the Central European University Business School in Budapest. Paul is a frequent guest lecturer at several leading universities both in Europe and the US.
In addition to several marketing related articles published in leading business magazines in Europe and the United States, Paul has also written two historical books on East Central Europe (Concrete Statues and The Distance) and the second edition of his marketing book - Exponential Marketing -published in the fall of 2009.

Managing partner of pro.mova Consulting Company. At LvBS delivers a course on Business Communications.
A member of the Supervisory Board of the Gongadze Fund, a member of the Committee of Lviv Entrepreneurs, a member of UAPR Association of Public Relations. He has been employed by large Ukrainian media (1+1 TV Studio, 1st National TV Channel, Kiyevskiye Vedomosti). He started his journalistic career at Post-Postup newspaper and Promin Radio Station, worked with the leading mass media within the country and abroad (Dzerkalo Niadeli, Ekho Moskvy Radion, a local co-producer for CBS and PBS, BBC).
As a journalist, he has a firsthand experience while working in hotspots (Yugoslavia, 1999) and in other emergency conditions (Transcarpathian floods 1998-1999, events after the Terrorist Acts of September 11, 2001, the Near East, 2002, the Gongadze case and the political crisis 2001-2002).
In 2002-2003, in partnership with Roman Skrypin and Andriy Shevchenko he co-developed a concept of TV Channel 5. In 2002, he declined his work for news programs at 1+1 Channel because of the censor policy. He co-founded Kyiv Independent Media Trade Union, and later became its Chairman.
He graduated from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy with a degree in Political Studies, also studied at Bluffton University (Ohio, USA) and Lviv Ivan Franko National University.
He is the consultant on communications, a lecturer in Communications for the Media, Businesses and NGOs.

Head of the Development Department "Metal Union Ltd".
Expert in project management and the implementation of "Lean production" approaches. For many years V. Goncharov has been in charge of projects aimed at increasing operational efficiency and optimization, and the establishment of "Lean production" methods.
Work experience:
2010 - "Metal Union Ltd"- Head, Development Department.
2009 - TZPartners Executive Solutions - Operational Director.
2008 - CTR Group - Projects Director.
2004 - 2007 - Dniprospecstal - Head, Project Department; Head, Operational Efficiency Unit. 
At LvBS he conducts a course on "Lean production" and "Project management".

Partner, Tax and Legal. Olga specializes in providing a wide range of consulting services in the field of human resource management - from design and implementation of HR strategies to advice on calculation and payment of salaries and personal tax planning. Olga has being working in "Ernst & Young" since 2002. Before that she had worked for "Arthur Andersen" (1998-2002). For more than 10 years of work in the field of professional services Olga has advised a number of major foreign and domestic clients. Olga Gorbanovska is a successful business coach and has teaching experience in foreign universities and leading national business schools.

- marketing and business strategy expert, PhD,
- DYB Ukraine Managing Partner (a project by IFL Swedish Institute of Management),
- DYB Business Club founder 

Business experience
Since 2007, within the framework of the DYB project Igor has explored the Ukrainian business systemically.
During this period, he is a member of the boards of directors and strategic marketing consultant for a number of Ukrainian and international companies: YARMARKA, BROCARD, Mironovsky KhleboProdukt, ATB, ALMAZ jewelry, Grand Distribution, ASBIS, Zolotoy Vek, GRINVIS, Alfa Insurance, LTU, Fargo, Biosphere etc.

From 2003 to 2010, Director of Marketing and Strategic Development at BROCARD Group (Ukraine). 
From 1996 to 2003, made ​​a sales and marketing career in international companies TEMDE and NTC.

Public life
Columnist at Forbes Ukraine.
Member of the following expert boards:
Competition of innovative business solutions Upposition,
Ukrainian retail association,
Forum of marketing directors.
Member of the Supervisory Board at the Platform of NGOs Center UA.

Professor in Operations and Project Management (Kyiv School of Economics)

Distinguished Service Professor at the University of St. Thomas teaches and consults in the areas of Organization Development, Conflict Management, and Organizational Culture in USA, France, and Ukraine. Most of her consulting is in education, health care, and non-profit organization. Since 2005 she has organized a program that brings OD consultants to do free OD intervention in Ukrainian organizations. Up to 50 Ukrainian companies benefited from these consulting services. 

Dr. Paul King is an experienced corporate CEO, an award winning educator, an executive coach for corporate leaders, and a mentor for emerging leaders.

He is now in his 11th year teaching at the Wharton School and enjoys teaching in the MBA and Executive MBA programs, both in Philadelphia and San Francisco. He has conducted over 20 executive education programs in 7 countries in Europe for leading business schools in Central and Eastern Europe and their corporate clients. He enjoys doing executive education programs on management communications, negotiations skills, leadership development, and change management.

Previously, he served nearly 30 years in the health care sector including 19 years as a CEO of hospitals and of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware. Six individuals who have worked for him have become CEOs on his watch. He has served locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally on more than two dozen Boards of Directors.
 Professor of the program MS in Technology Management, course "Business Communications".

A public relations professional with 18 years of experience, until recently Yaryna led the communications function at Group DF, a diversified group of companies. Until 2013, she was in charge of public relations and social programming at Microsoft Ukraine. Earlier, she ran Nords PR Ukraine, a PR agency she co-founded with international partners, managed public relations departments for Ukraine’s largest mobile telecommunications operator UMC (now MTS) and international wholesaler Metro Cash & Carry Ukraine, and worked as account service director for Romyr & Associates PR agency in Ukraine. She spent a year with Benjamin Group / BSMG Worldwide, a leading technology PR agency in Silicon Valley (now part of Weber Shandwick).  Yaryna holds master’s degrees from University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine) and San José State University (Calif., USA). In 2011, “Marketing Media Review” magazine named her one of Ukraine’s best PR directors. She Yaryna has taught public relations and business communications at leading business schools in Ukraine, including KMBS, IIB, and LvBS. co-founded the Ukrainian Association of Public Relations and chaired its Board in 2007-2008. 

Elena Kropivianska joined Kyivstar team on February 23, 2004 and her first task was to form function of staff recruitment and development. Starting from March 2, 2007 Elena is a head of HR division. Elena got a master's degree in the field of international economics and international business management (Kyiv National Economic University) and advanced her training skills at Indiana Training Exports, Inc., USA (1996), «Management of organisations», USAID, Indiana, USA (1996); «Projects and programmes evaluation», Evaluation Trust, UK (1999) etc. She has a solid experience in training and consulting in the field of organisation management, in programmes of personal and professional development, project management. In particular, Elena worked with OSCE mission in Georgia (2002-2003); International Finance Corporation, Belarus; Programme of market reforms in Ukraine; Canadian Bureau for International Education; «Policy Advisors for Reforms in Ukraine» project (2001-2003).

Professor of Management (OB, HR), CEO of Lviv Business School at the Ukrainian Catholic University. Her areas of expertise are Human Resource Management, Organizational Behavior, and Learning Organizations.
Background: Sophia Opatska received her higher education from Ivan Franko University in Lviv, a degree in International Economic Relations, and defended her thesis work in Economics. She studied at the University of Michigan Business School (USA), IEDC (Slovenia) and had on-the-job training at InnoSpace Company (Denmark), the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Wharton Business School (USA), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), and at the Warsaw School of Economics (Poland).
Work Experience:
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 contributed to the development and launch of the Kyiv Mohyla Business School Presidents' MBA Program. In 2007 she worked on building the personnel development and training system for Concern Galnaftogaz OJSC. Since January 2008 she has held the position of the CEO of the Lviv Business School of UCU (LvBS), since the time of its creation.

President of Euroindex Company.

Ph.D., Professor of Warsaw School of Economics (SGH, Poland). He offers a course on Management in the New Economy.
He got his education in Poland and the US (Harvard Business School and Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technologies). He lectures in Management in the New Economy in the US, Japan, Ukraine and Western Europe. He is a President of The Polish-Japanese Center of Management and New Management Solutions, his privately owned consulting company.

Ph.D. in Psychological Sciences. Graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at Ivan Franko LNU, with a specialty in psychology. Participated in short-term programs and had training at international universities: University of Bologna (Italy), Blaise Pascal University (France), Central European University (Hungary), Warsaw School of Social Psychology (Poland), Stockholm School of Economics IFL (Sweden), Moscow Gestalt Institute.
Worked as head of HR department at TV radio company Liuks and company M-FON. Over 8 years of experience training and teaching adult audiences. Experience creating and organizing service of HR management. Implementation of corporate projects in diagnostics, development and implementation of programs for work with personnel.
Professional interests: psychology of management, organizational behavior and HR management, namely, successful communication, decision-making and innovation, technology of recruitment, organizational behavior, and corporate culture

HR Director of N-iX.
Her successful work includes the following:
- organization and development of HR management service, development and implementation of an adaptation and training program, and a motivation system for sales managers and active sales;
- organization of personnel administration procedures for companies employing above 800 people;
- introduction of a goal-based management system;
- introduction of an achievement assessment system, and development of a management body for a production company;
- successful experience in selecting and recruiting middle level and top managers, as well as skilled specialists in the areas of construction, marketing, sales and production, etc.
She has a more than five-year experience of HR management working for such companies as VAM, Lvivkholod JSC, Galychfarm CJSC (Arterium Corporation), Concern Galnaftogaz OJSC, as well as a Director of Oleska Mineral Water Trade House.

Ph.D., Dean of Kyiv Mohyla Business School (kmbs), partner of «Strategic Consulting Group». Professor on Strategic Idea Development and System Thinking.
For the twelve years he leads Strategic Consulting Group (SCG), a Ukrainian privately owned management and consulting company. He is a member of the Ukrainian Association of Management Consultants, a member of the Board of Directors of the Swiss-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce. He co-operates with kmbs and Lviv Business School at the UCU in the area of strategic management.
He used to work as a member of advisory boards to the Chairman of Ukraine's National Property Fund and the Ukrainian Minister of Economics. He participated in consulting projects that dealt with complex transformation of dozens of enterprises operating in different industries for both Ukrainian and western clients. He organized and managed an Internet-project called Management: Methodology and Practice, which became the first Ukrainian web-portal for management professionals (www.management.co.ua).

Human Resources Department Head, "Kraft Foods Ukraine" CJSC, Ukraine and new markets of Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Oksana Semeniuk is responsible for development and implementation of major human resources strategies in Ukraine, Eastern Europe and Central Asia states. She is program director for financial reimbursement, enhancement of leadership, employee relations, a.o.
Oksana came to "Kraft Foods Ukrain" in 1995 to hold a position of administrative manager. Then, she continued as HR department coordinator and was responsible for development and implementation of the company organizational structure.
In 1998, Oksana became a manager of HR department; after two more years she moved to a HR department director at "Kraft Foods Ukraine”. Five more years later, she became a director of the department of human resources, Ukraine and new markets of Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Before she was employed at "Kraft Foods Ukraine”, Oksana worked as an administrative manager at KPMG/Barents group. Before that, she spent two years teaching foreign languages.
Oksana graduated from Zhytomyr pedagogical university majoring in foreign languages. She also received MBA at Kyiv International Institute of Management.
Major results and achievements:
• Over 15 years of human resources management in FMCG
• Development and implementation of HR strategies at the markets of Ukraine, in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
• Obtaining and holding the status of a top employer company
• Impressive business results as part of Kraft Foods corporation

Leading Russian marketing consultant, president of "Contact-Expert" consulting company ("Company of a Year" 2009 award winner). Winner of "Personality of a Year" 2009 international annual award. Author of "They will come themselves and buy themselves" bestseller, best business book in marketing of 2007. Best speaker of 2008 and best business trainer of 2007 according to "Marketing Management" magazine.
Consulting experience includes the following:
- Over 450 marketing projects during the last 15 years
- Consulting projects held in 12 countries
- Over 400 articles in business media
Teaching experience:
- MBA programs: MSU HSB, Higher School of Economics, IMISP (Saint Petersburg), Moscow University Touro, Kingston MBA (Moscow, London), Academy of Economy at RF Government, American Institute of Business and Economics (AIBEC), Lviv Business School.
- At present, G.L. Trusov courses were attended by over 15, 000 MBA students.
- In 2012, he became the founder and chair of the department of Psychology of Economic Behaviour of the Institute of Communication and Media Industry at Ivan Fedorov Moscow State University of Printing.
In Russia, G.L. Trusov started his work as a marketing director at Samsung Electronics company, and also as a director for marketing and development at Shivaki Industries company.
Scholarly degrees and educational background: MBA degree in International Management and Marketing (University of Colorado at Boulder), Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics (Moscow Technological University (МІСіС)), Bachelor’s degree in mathematics and social psychology (Colorado School of Mines). Certified leading auditor according to ISO 9000:2000 Bureau Veritas Quality International (IRCA-certified course, 2004, London).

Assistant Professor of Management, Library director of Ukrainian Catholic University, Lecturer and manager of certificate programs. As a manager of UCU’s certificate programs works on strategic planning and implementation of new certificate programs.
Achievements:
-       significant increase in the profitability of the existing programs
-       optimization of their activities and expenses
-       creating new successful educational products
As a lecture of UCU Taras is teaching several courses in various programs (theology, history, philosophy); conducting seminars; directing individual student research; private research (publishing articles, speaking at conferences); published a number of articles; designed and taught 5 different courses and seminars; spoke at numerous conferences (including international).
Taras is taking part in a project «Local Governance and Integrity», has consulting experience. Main field of interests: strategic planning, business models design and models of sustainability. The main project is developing a platform of on-line courses in Ukraine. 

Ph.D., School of HRM founder and director, Inspira Strategy Institute partner.

Ph.D., Professor of Sales Management, Director of the Doctoral School at Kyiv-Mohyla National Academy.
He has Ph.D. in Economic Sociology in 2003 from the University of Cambridge (Great Britain). His doctoral thesis was on Entrepreneurship in Post-Soviet Ukraine. Prior to this, in 1997, Mykhaylo received his Master's degrees in Sociology and Political Studies from Cambridge.
During seven years he worked as a Vice-President on Sales and Marketing for Lava Computer Mfg Inc. in Toronto. He led the company to a dramatic growth and expansion across Northern America, Western Europe, South-Eastern Asia and Australia.
Nowadays he holds a position of the Director of the Doctoral School at Kyiv-Mohyla National Academy, where in addition to his lecturing at the Department of Sociology and Business School, he leads a project aimed at transforming a traditional Ukrainian post-graduate school into a European-type doctoral school. For the past five years, Mykhaylo has been consulting, and his clients include such Ukrainian companies as Avtek, Asbis, KZESU, Euroindex, Rosava, Plazmatek, and others.
In LvBS he has lectures in Business Philosiphy and Sales Management.

Supervisory Board Member of the Bank Lviv.
Taras Khoma was a Vice-Chairman of Executive Board head, the main accountant, director of Correspondent Relations Department, manager of Currency Transactions Department at Kredobank, in 2011-2012  - member of  IdeaBank Executive Board. 
In 2003 he took an internship program at BSB Bankcorp.Inc USA, in 2004 – studied strategic management at Joint Vienna Institute (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development), Vienna, Austria.

Professor in Finance. Joint appointment faculty (Kyiv School of Economics).
Dr. Kolisnyk is a renowned specialist in the field of finance and author of more than 100 articles on finance and strategic management.
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. Since 2002 to 2005 Dr. Kolisnyk was a Board Member of the PEKAO Bank [Ukraine]. In his free time, Mykhajlo enjoys swimming, traveling and working with the PC, namely programming and web-design.

Born in 1957 in Kyiv. Mr. Lavrenchuk is a graduate of Kyiv Economic Institute, Finance and Economy Department.
In banking - since 1982. In different time occupied managerial positions in the Savings Bank of Ukraine, Ukrinbank and Raiffeisenbank Ukraine.
Since October 2005, Mr. Lavrenchuk has been appointed Chairman of the Board of Raiffeisen Bank Aval.
Volodymyr Lavrenchuk is the Chairman of the Forum of Leading International Financial Institutions. He is also a member of the Board of the European Business Association, the Supervisory Board of the International Management Institute (Kyiv) and the Trust Council of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

Professor of Economics and Statistics, Joint appointment faculty (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv)

Viktor Pynzenyk - Ukrainian politician and economist (PhD in economics since 1989, professor since 1991), Head of Reform and Order party (October 1997 – February 2012). He is the 10^th Finance Minister of Ukraine and Vice Prime Minister of few Ukrainian governments (the last time he took the post of Finance Minister was at 2007). Viktor Pynzenyk is a national deputy of 1^st, 2^d, 3^d, 4^th, 6^th convocations. He graduated from Lviv State Ivan Franko’s University (economic faculty; economist(1975),post-graduate course (1979), doctorate of Moscow State Mykhailo Lomonosov’s University(1989)).

Education: Ukrainian Catholic University; Economic faculty of the Institute of post-diploma education of Ivan Franko National Univeristy in Lviv. Internship at Department of Finance at Seton Hall University, USA. Director of Financial department of the UCU for 5 years. Deputy of First vice president on financial and economic operations. Experience of administartive work in non-profit organizations: head of ‘Lviv Educational Foundation’ NGO, member of administrative board of ‘Larche Ukraine’ NGO, member of investment board of the UCU

Ph.D., Partner, Chief Economist, and President of the Investment Committee of SigmaBleyzer. Professor in Economics and Finance.
Dr. Segura is an Honorary Member of the Supervisory Board of the EU Ukraine Business Council, and Economic Adviser to the US Ukraine Business Council.
Before joining SigmaBleyzer in 1998, for 27 years Dr. Segura was a Senior Manager at the World Bank in Washington DC.
For several years, Dr. Segura was a Fellow and Visiting Professor at the Said Business School of the University of Oxford in the UK. He was also a Visiting Professor at the MBA Program of George Washington University in Washington DC, where he taught Financial Decision Making.
Dr. Segura holds PhD (Finance and Economics) and MA (Economics) degrees from Columbia University in New York, an MBA degree from Stanford University in California.

   Manmeet has been an entrepreneur throughout his career. He established M&M Corporation in 2005 to provide China focused Strategy and Private Placement services to firms in Asia. In 2008 he co-founded an IT education firm in partnership with IBM, Nanjing Government, Nandasoft and Nanjing University. Since 2012 the Nanjing City Government has appointed him as consultant to help grow the Technology and Entrepreneurial ecosystem in the city.
Since 2008 he has shared his passion for education as Affiliate Lecturer at EMLYON Business School’s Shanghai campus where he teaches core courses and electives on Finance, Strategy and Entrepreneurship. 
Manmeet has lived in 9 countries across 4 continents and has been based out of Shanghai since 2003. He is fluent in English, Hindi, Punjabi and French with working knowledge of Portuguese. He’s currently improving his Mandarin and learning Japanese.
Manmeet holds Bachelor's degrees in Economics, Physics-Engineering and French from Washington and Lee University (USA) and an MBA from SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (India).
An amateur tech geek, he’s deeply interested in consumer technologies and businesses that leverage these. Manmeet also takes his passion for education and entrepreneurship to mentor young entrepreneurs and startups in China and enjoys sharing his professional and personal experiences.
On the program MS in Technology Management he is professor of the course «Finance management in service companies».

Liubomyr Tarnovskyi graduated from economic faculty of Lviv National Ivan Franko’s University. In 2007-2009 he was working at the Investment Department at Universal Investment Group, in 2009-2010 – at the Department of Corporate Finance and Relations with investors of Galnaftogaz company. Since 2010 he is a Finance Director of UCU. In 2012 Liubomyr took on the responsibilities of Chief Operating Officer of Ukrainian Catholic Educational Foundation in USA (Chicago). He is a member of Lviv Educational Foundation, provides consulting in the sphere of accounting and budgeting. Liubomyr is a member of scout organization “Plast”.  

Professor of  Christian Social  Sciences and  Contemporary Ethics, Professor of  Moral Theology  at St. Lambert  Interdiocesan Major Seminary in Lantershofen (Germany)

Ph.D., member of the National Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy and Economics, Professor.
In 1952 he obtained a degree in engineering, in 1954 - Masters degree. Having worked for multinational company he was sent for one year course to the International Management Institute in Switzerland.
In 1960 Mr. Hawrylyshyn started his career in educational sphere. For eight years he had been supervising training programs at IMI Geneva, teaching economics, global business environment, international operations management and public administration. In 1968 Bohdan Hawrylyshyn became the Director of the institute and remained its head for eighteen years. During his tenure at the Institute Bohdan Hawrylyshyn brought up a great number of top professionals for hundreds of companies all over the world.
At the same time Bohdan Hawrylyshyn carried out research work and fruitful public activities. In 1972 he was elected to the Roman club, in 1973 - to the International Management Academy, in 1975 - the World Academy of Art and Science. In 1976 Mr. Hawrylyshyn was awarded Doctorate of Economics of Geneva University, Honorary Doctorate of Law of York University (Canada) in 1984 and Alberta University (Canada) in 1986. Later Doctor Hawrylyshyn received an award of the Engineering Hall of Distinction of Toronto University (Canada).Bohdan Hawrylyshyn is a high profile expert on issues of public administration and international business, he has been a contributor, moderator and chairperson at international conferences and seminars in over 70 countries.
Published papers of the scientist include more than 100 articles in management, managerial education, economic and political environment. He is the author of two books, one of these "The road map to the future - to the most efficient society" has won international recognition and has been published in eight languages.

Vice President of Pavlenko, Stacenko & Osinchuk Law Firm. Lecturer in Legal Aspects of the Business Environment at LvBS. Member of the LvBS Supervisory Board.
Graduated from the Law Department of Lviv Ivan Franko University (1994), in 1997 - Master of Philosophy of International Academy of Philosophy in Lichtenstein. He lectures in Legal Aspects of the Business Environment at LvBS and Church Social Studies at the Ukrainian Catholic University.

Vice Rector for Purpose and Mission of the Ukrainian Catholic University

Executive Director of International Programs & Initiatives at Regent University. At LvBS he delivers a course on Leadership. 

Vice rector in academic work at Ukrainian Catholic University.
Education
- 1981 - 1986 – student at History Faculty of Ivan Franko National University in Lviv. Diploma with honours.
- 1990 - 1992 – post-graduate student at the Department of History and Ethnography of Ukraine at Ivan Franko National University in Lviv.
- December 1994 – defended a candidate thesis ‘Greek Catholic Church in Social and Political Life of Galychyna in 1848-1867.”
Administartive experience
- 1992 - 1998 – senior research fellow at the Institute of historical research at Ivan Franko National University in Lviv.
- 1994 - 2002 – deputy director of the Institute of the History of Church at Lviv Theological Academy.
- 2002 - 2008 – director of the Institute of the History of Church at Ukrainian Catholic University.
- 2004 – present – Chair of the Department of Church History at Ukrainian Catholic University.
- 2009 – present – vice rector in academic work of at Ukrainian Catholic University.

World-known Film Director, president of the "TOR" Film Studio, Warsaw

Rector of the UCU

Prof. Katzy holds a Doctorate in Engineering Management from RWTH Aachen, Germany, and a Ph.D. (Habilitation) in General Management from the University St. Gallen, Switzerland. From 1990 to 1994 he was researcher at the laboratory for Production Engineering and Machine Tools (WZL) of RWTH Aachen, Germany, then joined the Institute of Technology and Management of University of St. Gallen, Switzerland as lecturer. After visiting for two years Rotterdam School of Management of Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands he is nominated full professor of Technology and Innovation Management at the University Bw Munich in 1999. He is the founder and director of CeTIM, Center for Technology and Innovation Management, the universities’ entrepreneurship centre. Since 2003 Dr. Katzy is elected professor at Leiden University, the Netherlands.
 His research interest is about entrepreneurial management of fast growing high-tech firms and the management of strategic change in the transition to the information age.

Head of IT, Ukraine at Group DF International. Nestor is graduate of Lviv National University of Ivan Franko with specialty in International Relations. He worked as Chief Financial Officer at «Imperial Tobacco Volga» (2010-2012), Director of Information Technology in the "Top Book" (2009-2010), Head of Information Technology at "DSS" (2007-2008), Head of IT "Metinvest Holding" (2006-2007), Deputy CFO "MC Steel Works» (2004-2006), Factory Controller «Reemtsma» (Imperial Tobacco) (2002-2004), Team Leader Production Controlling «REEMTSMA» (2000-2002). His prime interests and responsibilities are business development, IT strategy, ERP implementation management, infrastructure projects, business process automation, constant cost reduction, budgeting, systems and methods improvement, lean production, business process integration, IT systems post-merger integration. Prime goal:  to become a leader and a change driver of my company in the field of information technology and beyond.

Dr. Serhiy Kovela is a scholar with extensive experience in Business IT and practitioner with expertise in delivering database-driven business software projects, locally and internationally. Through academic or commercial work he helps the audience to understand how IT enables and facilitates modern organisations and the efficient ways of deriving business value from technology solutions.
Serhiy Kovela earned his Master's and PhD degrees from the Lviv Polytechnic National University (Ukraine, Lviv) in 1996 and 2000, respectively. From October 1999 till August 2003 he held Senior Lecturer position at Lviv Polytechnic teaching databases, security in computing and software engineering, as well as engaging in a number of IT consultancy projects as a database software developer and project manager.
Since September 2003 Serhiy Kovela has been assigned to the Senior Lecturer position at Kingston University teaching Internet systems technologies, global information technology, database systems, project management for technology, strategic project management, and consultancy practice.
Serhiy has also earned an MBA from Kingston in 2010.
On the program MS in Technology Management Serhiy is professor of the course "Strategic planning and project management".

Dr. Hans Le Fever obtained a PhD in experimental physics at Leiden and this early experience with the application of computers for scientific purposes landed him a job at Shell, where he spent 22 years in a variety of planning and IT Management functions. He has worked in areas with diverse cultures and levels of IT maturity. He concluded his corporate career in London exploring the digitization of finance processes as well as other innovations at the intersection of business and IT. Since 2003 he is an independent consultant serving Dutch (multinational) companies in the area of innovation and managing IT. His recent focus is on the change management aspect of benefits realization, in particular for industrial, manufacturing type organizations. He has shared his knowledge at various academic institutions, business seminars and in-company programmes. On the program MS in Technology Management he will lead the course "IT concepts and strategies".

Daniel Lewis has over 30 years of management experience in Blue Chip companies such as Nestlé, General Motors, SABMiller and Heineken.
He assisted Companies in the development of management and leadership skills. He was involved in a successful corporate culture change after an acquisition in South Africa and trained over 250 people in this process.
Since 2002 Daniel assists companies in accelerating development of leadership capability of high potentials and senior management. He is a qualified coach (Henley Management College), and fully qualified to administer the Myers Briggs (MBTI) and FIRO-B psychometric tools.
He has lived and worked in six different countries and participated in many cross-cultural projects with remarkable success.
Since 1988 Daniel is a Member of Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (F.C.M.A.) He is also a Member of the Institute of Management Consultants. Daniel is also an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (C.I.P.D.).
Daniel is the author of the ©Challenger Leadership development and Executive Development programmes and is himself a highly experienced facilitator.

Marketing and Management Vice President at Raritan Computer.
Vsevolod Onyshkevych worked at consulting firm that served IBM and many other well-known IT-company. Previously, he was involved in Internet-projects, in particular, somehow participated as a founder in the launch of four firms.
Besides Vsevolod Onyszkiewicz is co-founder 3Dsize.com Inc, which is part of My Virtual Model and a developer of innovative technologies scan and calibration of scanners. He created several companies that specialize in designing and embedded software.

General Director, Microsoft Ukraine.
An entrepreneurial and respected professional and the technology industry veteran, Shymkivhas more than 17 years of leadership experience in the IT industry across Ukraine, the CIS and Western Europe. He joined Microsoft in 2007 as Enterprise and Partner Group Director and has been responsible for building long-term customer and partner relations and strategically developing the enterprise business. Shymkiv grew the enterprise business to a new level, gaining 60 percent year over year through increased customer and partner satisfaction, focusing on long term sustainable business, organization and people development, driving sales excellence, and enforcing cross-group and cross country collaboration. 
Prior to Microsoft, Shymkiv held the position of General Director at RedPrairie Eastern Europe, a global productivity solutions provider, delivering offerings focused on inventory, transportation and workforce, which he joined following its acquisition of ALTA Eastern Europe where he also held the position of General Director. At RedPrairie, he led general management, operational and strategic activities and business development reporting directly to the CEO and Board of Directors. Previously, Shymkiv founded a company called Alfa Team Ltd in Kiev which was subsequently acquired by ALTA Eastern Europe, establishing a corporate, senior career path for him in the IT industry.
Passionate about technology and innovation, Dmitry graduated with honor from the Lviv State University "LvivskaPolitechnica" as System Engineer in Radio-Engineering, Electronics, Information technology and Telecommunications. In his spare time, he enjoys sport, history and art.

Thomas Bäck is head of the Natural Computing Research Group at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS). He received his PhD in Computer Science from Dortmund University, Germany, in 1994. He has been Associate Professor of Computer Science at Leiden University since 1996 and full Professor for Natural Computing since 2002.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Bäck is an expert on theory and application of special prediction and optimization algorithms based on concepts from natural evolution, so-called evolutionary algorithms. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Dortmund University (Germany). He worked as a department leader for the Informatik Centrum Dortmund (ICD) and as President and Chief Executive Officer for divis digital solutions GmbH. Since early 2000, professor Bäck is Managing Director of NuTech Solutions GmbH and CTO of NuTech Solutions, Inc. His role at NuTech Solutions includes the scientific supervision of projects with Fortune 1000 customers. 

Travis D. Breaux is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science, appointed in the Institute for Software Research of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Breaux's research program searches for new methods and tools for developing correct software specifications and ensuring that software systems conform to those specifications in a transparent, reliable and trustworthy manner. This includes demonstrating compliance with U.S. and international accessibility, privacy and security laws, policies and standards. Dr. Breaux is the Director of the Requirements Engineering Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Breaux has several publications in ACM and IEEE-sponsored journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Breaux is a member of the ACM SIGSOFT, IEEE Computer Society and USACM Public Policy Committee.

Prior to coming to the Carnegie Mellon University, Dr. Breaux received the Doctorate of Philosophy in Computer Science from North Carolina State University (NCSU) in 2009. Dr. Breaux also holds Baccalaureate degrees in Computer and Information Science from the University of Oregon and in Anthropology from the University of Houston. He has conducted research at the Institute for Defense Analyses, the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Laboratory, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue University. In 2000, Dr. Breaux served as a volunteer in the United States Peace Corps in Mongolia, before transitioning from anthropology to computer science.

Dr. Breaux traces his passion for exploring socio-technical systems back to teachings he received in culture cosmology and philosophy by Dr. Susan Rasmussen and Dr. Quetzil Casteñeda at the University of Houston. Dr. Breaux was first introduced to the field of Requirements Engineering by his undergraduate adviser, Dr. Stephen Fickas, at the University of Oregon whose influence includes requirements monitoring, requirements negotiation and ephemeral requirements. Under the guidance of Dr. Annie Antón, Dr. Breaux has extended his interests to include the societal impact of system requirements on privacy and security in their "ground-breaking" work to acquire software requirements from policies and U.S. federal and state regulations.