kmbs Board of Directors

Temerty James

Appointment:  Chairman of the kmbs Board of Directors, Masterclass: Key Success Factors in Modern Business

James Temerty is the CEO and the owner of Northland Power, a leading Canadian independent power company. He is also a major ownership partner in a joint venture at the Darnytsia District Heat and Power Plant in Kyiv. In the early stages of his career, Mr. Temerty held numerous middle and senior management positions at IBM in Canada and the United States. Later, Mr. Temerty owned and operated ComputerLand, which became the world's largest privately held chain of computer stores. He is a member of the Ukrainian President’s Foreign Investment Advisory Council.

Zaininger Karl

Appointment:  Course: Global Technology Management [Princeton University]

Karl Zaininger is the Chairman and the CEO of Global Technology Management Consultants, which specializes in business process optimization and global technology management. He is also the Director of the Summer Work Program in German-Speaking Countries and a professor at Princeton University. He received his MSE, MA and doctorate from Princeton University and graduated from Harvard Business School’s Executive Management program.

He has worked for Thomas Group, a management consulting firm, as a Vice President and a Senior Partner responsible for new product development processes. At a different point in time, he also was a Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, the President and the CEO, an Executive Vice President, and a Research Director at Siemens Corporate Research and Support, Inc. Dr. Zaininger has also worked in a number of United States government projects, including programs of the US Army Electronics Technology and Devices Laboratory and Solar Energy Research Institute.

Brioukhovetsky Viatcheslav

Viatcheslav Brioukhovetsky is the President of Kyiv Mohyla Academy and member of the kmbs Board. He holds a Ph.D. in Philology. Dr. Brioukhovetsky is the author of books and original courses used by universities in Ukraine and abroad. Since 1991 he has led the revival of Kyiv Mohyla Academy. At kmbs, he teaches a master class called "How to Organize the Process of Fulfilling Your Dream."

Kalymon Basil

Appointment:  Course: Corporate Finance

Basil Kalymon is a Richard Ivey School of Business [University of Western Ontario] finance professor with extensive experience in corporate finance, cost of capital, financial planning and financial institutions. He obtained his PhD at Yale University. Previously, he has held positions at management schools of the University of California in Los Angeles, Harvard University and the University of Toronto. He also has served as a consulting associate with Coopers & Lybrand Consulting Group. Dr. Kalymon’s experience includes development of executive programs in finance both in Canada and internationally.

Koszarny Lenna

Lenna Koszarny, CA, is a Vice Chair of the kmbs Board of Directors. She is a partner and co-founder of Emergex Business Solutions [EBS], a full-service management consulting firm for investors in Ukraine. Ms. Koszarny obtained her Business Administration degree with honors from the Richard Ivey School of Business. She received her Chartered Accountant designation while with Coopers & Lybrand in Toronto [1992]. She has been in Ukraine since 1993, first as Vice President of finance, then as CFO of a technology company. She co-founded EBS in 1998. Ms. Koszarny manages EBS's Financial Services and Accounting Outsourcing Practice, where she provides finance, strategic project management, CFO, and accounting outsourcing services to companies operating primarily in the services, food processing, medical, intellectual property, FMCG, energy and telecommunications sectors. At kmbs she has taught Financial Accounting.

Pynzenyk Viktor

Appointment:  Member of the kmbs Board of Directors, teaches a course "Macroeconomics" at the MBA program

Viktor Pynzenyk, a leading Ukrainian reformer, Ukraine's Minister of Finance, is a member of the kmbs board of directors. Dr. Pynzenyk is an honorary professor of the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. He is a former Economy Minister and a Vice Prime Minister. He is an MP of 4 convocations and was an advisor to the President of Ukraine on economic policy [Sept 1994 - Jan 2000]. At different points in time, Dr. Pynzenyk headed the Council on Economic Reform, the National Council of Statistics; he was also a member of the Finance and Banking Committee and the State Committee on Administrative Reform. He founded and was the first director of the Lviv Institute of Management. He obtained his PhD at the Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Slywotzky Adrian

Appointment:  Member of the kmbs Board of Directors, Masterclass: New Business Patterns and Perspectives in the 21st Century

Adrian Slywotzky is a Vice President of Mercer Management Consulting, a global consulting firm specializing in developing strategies for growth in changing markets. Mr. Slywotzky is a co-author of The Profit Zone, named by BusinessWeek one of the Top 10 Business Books of 1998, and the author of Value Migration [Harvard Business School Press], which was translated into Ukrainian and published in 2001. Over the past two years, Mr. Slywotzky has been a keynote speaker at the Forbes CEO Forum, the Fortune CEO Conference and the Fortune CIO Conference. He holds degrees from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School. He started kmbs First International Executive MBA Program with a masterclass on New Business Patterns and Perspectives in the 21st Century.