Ukrainian faculty

List is given in alphabetical order:

Gvozdiov Serhiy

Appointment:  Courses: Operations Management, Business Processes Reengineering Phone:  [380 44] 490 6635 E-mail:  s_gvozdiov@kmbs.com.ua

Previously Serhiy has worked as deputy rector and Business School Director at the L’viv Management Institute. He led several successful Ukrainian companies’ research projects.

Serhiy has graduated from the L’viv State University named after Ivan Franko [applied math], defended his Ph.D. thesis at the L’viv Politechnika and received his MBA diploma from the L’viv Management Institute. Moreover, Serhiy participated in the international programs of IESE, underwent an internship at the Navarra University [Barcelona, Spain], as well as at the Consulting Center OWZ [Munich, Germany]. He also participated in an internship at the Wayne State University [Detroit, USA].

Hlibovytsky Yevhen

Appointment:  Course: Media Relations

Yevhen Hlibovytsky is the Head of Kyiv Independent Media Trade Union and the Vice President of the Media Initiatives Fund, an innovative ideas incubator in the media business.

Yevhen has held positions of Promotion and PR Director [state television], staff writer, correspondent, senior correspondent [1st National channel, Studio 1+1 TV channel ], news anchor at the Studio 1+1 TV Channel, Kievskie Vedomosti and Postup newspapers, program and news director [Radio Lux, Radio Kievskie Vedomosti, Radio Leader] and freelancer and stringer for the Echo Moskvy radio [Moscow], Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, PiK, Lvivska Gazeta, and Postup papers.

Klyuchkovska Yaryna

Appointment:  Course: Strategic Reputation Management

Yaryna Klyuchkovska is the chair of the board of the Ukrainian Association of Public Relations [UAPR] and an independent consultant in public relations and strategic communication. Earlier she headed public relations departments for Ukraine’s largest mobile telecommunications operator UMC and international wholesaler Metro Cash & Carry Ukraine. She worked as account service director for Romyr & Associates PR agency in Kyiv and spent a year with Benjamin Group / BSMG Worldwide, a leading PR agency in Silicon Valley. Yaryna has master’s degrees from University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy [Kyiv, Ukraine] and San Jose State University [Calif., USA]. Since 2001, Yaryna has taught public relations at Kyiv-Mohyla Business School [kmbs] and contributed to several Ukrainian periodicals on marketing and public relations.

Kolisnyk Mykhajlo W.

Appointment:  School of Finance Leader, teaches courses "Financial Accounting", "Managerial Accounting", as well as "Financial Management" at the MBA program Phone:  [380 44] 490 6635, 238 2444, [067] 230 0105 E-mail:  kolisnyk@kmbs.com.ua

Mykhajlo graduated from the Lviv Politechnical Institute's Engeneering and Economics Department. He earned his PhD [thesis "Evaluation and Regulation of the Stock Exchange Activities and Brokerage Services"] in 1993. He also underwent internships at the Wayne State University [1995, Detroit, USA] and the Copenhagen Business School [1998]. Mykhajlo also worked at a consulting company “Dansk Management Forum” [Copenhagen, Denmark].

Throughout 1998-2001 he was an instructor and trainer of “Financial Management”, “Financial Accounting”, “Managerial Accounting”, “Project Analysis” and “Corporate Management” courses at the American-Ukrainian-Polish Consorcium for the Enhancement of Ukrainian Management Education. He was the first to host a distance-learning e-based course on “Financial Management” in Ukraine.

Currently, Mykhajlo works as a financial consultant in international and corporate projects. He was the head of the Financial Management and Accounting department at the Lviv Institute of Management. Since 2000, Mykhajlo works at kmbs. He teaches at the kmbs MBA program, holds corporate and open executive development programs in finance and heads corporate consulting projects, in particular those dealing with enterprises’ financial restructuring.

Since 2002 Mykhajlo is a Board Member of the PEKAO [Ukraine] bank. In his free time, he enjoys swimming, traveling, working with the PC, namely programming and web-design.

Maksym Kateryna

Appointment:  Courses: Logistics E-mail:  maksym@ukma.kiev.ua

Kateryna Maksym is the Vice-President for Foreign Cooperation in National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

She obtained her BA degree in Kyiv Mohyla Academy and then continued studies in business school SCA Bocconi [Milan, Italy], from which Kateryna received an MBA degree.

Kateryna started her career as the assistant brand manager in P&G [Kyiv, Ukraine], but in 2 years she worked for Geneva and Frankfurt branches of the company, developing and implementing product upgrades. Also Kateryna had an internship in Fiat Auto [Turin, Italy], where she participated in development of the model for measuring cost of innovations. Her job of Product Manager for Saint-Gobain [Milan] included various responsibilities: brand strategy and product range, pricing, sourcing and logistics development and supervision for UK and Eastern Europe as well as product launches.

Besides Kateryna Maksym is keen on travelling and learning languages [she has a good command of English, Italian, French and German]. Moreover this delicate lady has so contradictory interests as opera and canyoning, wind-surfing and skiing.

Maltseva Olena

Appointment:  Courses: Marketing and Brand Management Phone:  [380 44] 494 2501 E-mail:  maltseva@companion.ua

Olena Maltseva is the Marketing Director of the Maximum publishing house [Comp&nion and &.Strategies business magazines]. She obtained her PhD and Master's degree in Management at the Kyiv State Trade and Economics University. Olena has worked in several wholesale and leasing companies, where she was a Marketing Consultant and the Marketing Director. She was the first instructor in Ukraine to launch a Distribution Policy Course. Olena wrote almost 20 articles in various academic and business journals. Her case study on "Smak" juices won the 1999 "Best Ukrainian Case in Marketing" Award.

Markarova Oksana

Appointment:  Course: Statistics and Modeling for Managers

Oksana Markarova is the President of CJSC "ITT-Invest", one of the leading Ukrainian investment and asset management companies. ITT-Invest funds' diversified portfolio consists of more than 100 companies. Previously, Oksana was an external and corporate relations manager at the Western NIS Enterprise Fund. A graduate of the Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Ms. Markarova obtained her MPA degree in International Public Finance and Trade Policy at Indiana University [USA]. She has worked in the field of external corporate relations and participated in drafting several laws and regulations, has been a legislative affairs manager at Chemonics International, a consultant to the Parliamentary Committee of Law Policy, Judicial and Legal Reform, and a research associate at the International Foundation for Election Systems. She interned with Development Gateway, a World Bank-supported Internet start-up in Washington, D.C.

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.

Ryabota Vladyslava

Appointment:  Course: Business Environment in Ukraine and in the world

Vladyslava Ryabota is a legal adviser in the International Finance Corporation’s [IFC] “Corporate Governance Development in Ukraine” project. After graduating from the Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, she worked as a lawyer in the President's National AIDS Prevention Committee and participated in drafting the national AIDS prevention program. In 1994, she obtained a scholarship from the British Council and studied at the Human Rights Center at Essex University [UK] for one year. While at IFC, she helped create a manual on corporate governance for Ukrainian joint stock companies and developed a corporate governance case studies book for educational institutions. Her areas of expertise include shareholder rights, general shareholder meetings, conflicts of interests and protection of confidential information.

Savruk Olexandr

Appointment:  Courses: Change Management, Enterprise Restructuring

Olexandr Savruk is the Director and the CEO of the Strategic Consulting Group [SCG], a private Ukrainian management consulting firm. He has more than ten years’ experience in international industrial and governmental relations, design of corporate re-engineering programs and business consulting services. He has been a special advisor to the Minister of Economy on microeconomic issues and is a member of the Expert Committee appointed by the Head of Ukraine's State Property Fund.

Mr. Savruk is a frequent speaker on problems of microeconomic reform and has spoken at Harvard University and numerous international congresses. As an advisor to the Ukrainian Center for Enterprise Restructuring and Private Sector Development, Mr. Savruk has designed and implemented training programs for Ukrainian business consultants. His educational background includes courses in the US, UK, Canada and Austria.

Semenyuk Oksana

Appointment:  Course: How to Win the War for Talent

Oksana Semenyuk is the Kraft Foods Ukraina HR Director. She has more than seven years' experience of working in Ukraine and internationally for Kraft Foods. Previously, she worked at KPMG and Barents Group.

Ms. Semenyuk is a graduate of the Linguistic University and the International Management Institute.

Sheremeta Pavlo

Appointment:  kmbs Dean, "Personal Strategy", "Strategy and Leadership" and "International Business" courses Phone:  [380 44] 490 6635, 238 2444 E-mail:  pavlo@kmbs.com.ua

Pavlo laid the foundation of the team, which conceived, developed and is putting in action the concept of kmbs. Since 2004 he is a member of the Board of Central and East European Management Development Association [CEEMAN].

He obtained his MBA at Emory University in Atlanta, USA. 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.

In the past, he was an MBA Program Director at the International Management Institute [IMI-Kyiv], a Project Manager at the Open Society Institute in Budapest and an Assistant to a Ukrainian MP Viktor Pynzenyk.

Vlasova Anna

Appointment:  School of HRM Founder and Director, teaches "Human Resources Management" and "Organizational Development" courses at the kmbs MBA program Phone:  [380 44] 490 6635, 238 2444 E-mail:  vlasova@kmbs.com.ua

Anna holds a PhD in Economics from the Kyiv State Economics University, as well as a Master's degree in Management Education from the University of Economics and Law [d’Aix-Marseille, France] and an efmd diploma in Management. She is an associate professor at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. She worked at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, the International Institute of Business and the Kyiv National Economics University. In August 2003, Mrs. Vlasova founded and now directs the School of HRM at kmbs.

Anna was a core team member in joint Human Resources Management researches run by the London Business School and the World Bank. She also underwent several internships at Canadian companies. She is a trainer and a consultant to a large number of Ukrainian companies. Her professional interests and areas of specialization include Principles of Management, Strategy, Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Management.

Wynnyckyj Mychailo

Appointment:  Courses: International Marketing, Sales and Philosophy of Business Phone:  [380 44] 463 5865, 490 6635, [050] 658 0580 E-mail:  mychailo@kmbs.com.ua

Mychailo Wynnyckyj holds a PhD in economic sociology with a focus on entrepreneurship in post-Soviet Ukraine from the University of Cambridge.

He worked for 7 years as the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Lava Computer Mfg Inc., a Toronto-based PC hardware and interface card manufacturer. Under his management, the company expanded from 3 to over 60 employees and its markets grew to include North America, Western Europe, Southeast Asia, and Australia.

In 1997, he obtained a Master’s degree in Sociology and Politics of Modern Society at the University of Cambridge.