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Andrii Karpenko - President of ED Group

Mr. Karpenko is an in-depth expert in oil, gas, and utility industries in Ukraine. For a long time he worked as an adviser of a Chairman of 'Gas of Ukraine', state-owned company. Mr. Karpenko played a significant role in the reforms of the gas industry of Ukraine. His professional life includes numerous successful projects in energy, utility, and financial sectors.

Alexandra Kharitonova - Head of Investment Department

Alexandra Kharitonova holds BA in International Economics and MS Degree in International Business Administration from Kyiv State National Economic University. Prior joining ED Group, she gained experience working for MTC Mineral Trading Company, dealing in Ferro-alloys and metal trading, where she was responsible for market and product analysis. After that Alexandra worked for the Embassy of Malaysia in Ukraine, where she dealt with Macroeconomic and Political forecasts as well as relations with different governmental organizations.

Artur Somov - Director of ED Group

Artur has wide work experience in Ukrainian and British investment companies. For a while, he worked in Vermala Investments, a British Investment Holding company, where he was responsible for property sector in Ukraine and UK. Prior to joining ED Group, Artur already had 6 years of experience working with investment projects - the value of which came up to US$ 40-100 million, such as automobile tyre production, as well as projects in logistic, utility, oil and gas sectors.

Lyubov Taranenko - Director Science and Technology

Lyubov Taranenko joint ED Group after working as a program manager in the Science and Technology Center in Ukraine, an intergovernmental US, EU and Canada sponsored organization with primary mission of non-proliferation that finances a number of R&D projects in Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova and Uzbekistan. Lyubov has wide work experience of cooperation with the US and EU funding programs and agencies as well as with CIS research institutes. She holds Ph.D degree in Material Science from the Institute of Metal Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Dmytriy Priyma - Director of UkraineRus Accelerator

Dmitriy Priyma joint ED Group after working in Telecommunication and IT spheres. He holds Master degree in Telecommunication from State Technical University of Ukraine (KPI). He worked as Product Line Manager in Huawei, a fast developing Chinese telecommunication company, as well as Solution Architect in Ericsson, the global leader of mobile telecommunications. Dmitriy has 4 years of experience working with complex Telecommunication and IT projects, which were delivered to leading telecommunication operators in Ukraine (Kyivstar) and Russia (Beeline).

Marcus Tang - - Director of UkraineRus Accelerator

Marcus Tang holds a degree from Curtin University of Australia and has a vast work experience in various industries in Singapore and Australia. Prior joining ED Group, he worked in Singapore's apex business chamber where he was responsible for promotion of Singapore companies to developing new markets and consultancy for foreign companies that paved the way to entry Singapore.

Konstantyn Balitskiy - Head of Analytical Department

Konstantyn Balitskiy holds BA in International Economics and MS Degree in International Business Administration from Kyiv State National Economic University. Prior to join ED Group, he worked as the senior analyst of the investment company Atlanta Capital where he was responsible for business analysis in different sectors of Ukrainian economy.

Maria Kravets - Portfolio Manager

Maria Kravets holds BA degree in International Economics and MS degree in International Stock Exchange Technologies from Kiev State National Economic University. Maria obtained her working experience in banking sector of Ukraine, than she tried herself in construction financing. Just before joining ED Group she worked as a Project Manager for representative office of Malaysian company, which aimed to enhance economic relationship between Ukraine and Malaysia.

Anna Zherdytska - Portfolio Manager

Anna Zherdytska holds BA degree in Business Management and MSc degree in International Management from Oxford Brookes University, UK. Before she joined ED Group, Anna was engaged with various market research activities within energy sector, which included product analysis and market placement in Ukraine and Europe.

Sergiy Sushko - Investment Analyst

Sergiy Sushko holds a MS degree in Analysis and Audit Methods for Investment Programmes from Kyiv State National Economic University. Before joining ED Group, Sergiy worked in Analytical Department in Ministry of Statistics of Ukraine. He is specialising in logistics management, investment analysis, and business project coordination.



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