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For over 20 years, he headed the legal department of the transnational financial-industrial oil company “Ukrtatnafta” (turnover over €2,6 billion, staff of 4,500 employees).

Has practical experience in:

• legal audit and modernization of corporate processes;
• conducting negotiations and supporting strategic contracts;
• participation in court disputes that resulted in the return of 51% of the company’s shares and the cancellation of decisions by the AMCU and STS totaling over €290 million;
• cooperation with international law firms, Big Four auditors, and banking institutions;
• supporting businesses of various scales, including operational management and M&A projects.

Education and Training:

• Kremenchuk State Polytechnic University — Management in the Production Sphere (Manager-Economist);
• National University of Internal Affairs (Kharkiv) — Law (graduated with honors);
• PhD in Law (Criminal Law and Criminology; Criminal Executive Law);
• Baker Boots School of Law for the Oil and Gas Sector (UK);
• Grant Studies School;
• AI & Business School.

Has practical experience in:

• Setting up an investment analysis and development department from scratch; preparing and defending business plans that secured financing and implementation of 20+ investment projects ranging from €100 thousand to €30 million.
• Developing and defending new business models and long-term strategic plans before shareholders; comprehensive feasibility studies and economic calculations.
• Optimizing production and energy costs (reduction by ~20% in 2020-2021; total effect – EURO 100+ million) and increasing EBITDA by up to 15% (2021-2022).
• Preparing a business development plan for a Slovak energy company in accordance with Polish legislation requirements for entering the Polish market (additional ~€1 million per year).
• (With the integration of our practice) strategic analysis and optimization of business models, ensuring annual savings of over €40 million; launching 12 new products (including entry into Polish and Czech markets); comprehensive Due Diligence for a €220 million M&A transaction; preparing investment presentations that helped attract €150+ million; implementing Six Sigma / Lean (-17% OPEX over 2 years) and a commercial policy that increased domestic sales by 23%.

Education and Training:

• Higher economic education (“Enterprise Economics”), certified in 2024 in Poland
• In 2025 — Polish diploma in professional qualification in accounting and tax accounting
• Two-year course and MBA certificate (Management, Communication, Information Management)
• Participation in European business conferences on the implementation of new technologies and organizational models.

Has practical experience in:

• Leading the operational financial support direction and managing financial, control, and audit processes at the transnational company “Ukrtatnafta” (25+ years).
• Heading the Control and Audit Management department at “Ukrtatnafta” and ensuring compliance with ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO 45001 systems.
• Implementing an internal audit system that optimized business processes and significantly reduced the company’s tax risks.
• Participating in court cases that resulted in the cancellation of tax claims totaling over €140 million.
• Developing and implementing a budgeting system, Cash Flow forecasting, and cost control, which ensured a 15% reduction in operating expenses.
• Organizing external audits by Deloitte and PwC without significant findings.
• Restructuring the company’s business processes (cleaning, transport, workwear), resulting in annual savings of over €500 thousand.
• Optimizing headcount by 30% without loss of efficiency, with an economic effect of over €2,7 million per year.

Education and Training:

• Two higher education degrees: Economics (“Accounting and Audit”) and Law (“Jurisprudence”).
• Practical management experience in internal audit, financial control, personnel management, and security.

Specializes in developing custom technical solutions to optimize business operations.

Has practical experience in:

• developing custom parsers and data collection systems (Data Scraping): creating scripts to bypass platform restrictions, exporting data arrays for further analytics;
• implementing artificial intelligence in business processes: developing custom transcription and simultaneous translation scripts for communication with foreign clients, as well as AI scoring and evaluation of collected data;
• developing algorithms for automatic search and analytical evaluation of international grant programs;
• creating and providing technical support for websites, administering server infrastructure, and performing prompt troubleshooting;

Education and Qualifications:

• Czech Technical University (ČVUT, Prague) — studying at the Faculty of Nuclear Physics and Engineering (FJFI)
• Silver medalist of All-Ukrainian Olympiads in programming (C++) and mathematics; participant in the European Junior Olympiad in Informatics (EJOI 2020)
• Fluent in 5 languages (Ukrainian, Russian, German, English, Czech), experience working in international and German-speaking teams