 Krzysztof Zanussi
Film director, Producer (Poland)
One of the most successful Polish film directors, producers, professors.
In the years 1955-59 he studied physics at Warsaw University, in 1955-59 – philosophy at Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Taking an active part in the amateur film movement he made 11 motion pictures, 9 of which gained various awards.
From 1971 to 1983 he was vice-chairman of the Polish Filmmakers Association. Since 1980 he has been running the TOR Film Studio – initially as its artistic director, subsequently in charge of the entire unit. Mr. Zanussi is also a theater director staging productions in Milan, Palermo, Bonn, Cracow, Bremen, Basel, Syracuse, Kiev, Novosibirsk and Rome – to mention some major ones.
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 Olexandr Bohutskyy
Company: ICTV TV-channel
Position: Director-President, Head of StarLightMedia Group
He was born in Lviv on December 2, 1971.
Olexandr graduated from the geological faculty of Lviv University with A-grade and finished postgraduate studies at the same institution.
In 1991 Olexandr Bohutskyy worked as the editor of the first independent Ukrainian radio station “Radio “Independence”. He was the co-founder of the newspaper “Express”, co-operated with editions like “Ratusha” and “Post-Postup”.
In 1994 he was appointed as the head of press-centre of JSC “Tavria games”, was TV-presenter of this festival. He has been working on television projects at the Television and Broadcasting Company “Bridge” (Lviv), Television and Broadcasting Company “Golden gate” (Kyiv), First National Channel; he was a TV-presenter at the leading analytical program “The Actual chamber” (STB TV-channel).
From 2000 he is a Director general of ICTV TV-channel.
In 2010 he defended a thesis, and got the scientific degree of candidate of legal sciences.
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 Kateryna Kotenko
Company: Television Industry Committee
Position: Executive director
Kateryna Kotenko is a professional sociologist; she has graduated from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. She gas got more than 8 years experience in TV industry . Kateryna is Exectuive director of Television Industry Committee.
Television Industry Committee is a professional association of leading television channels, media agencies and advertisers which represents interests of Ukrainian television industry and protects the interests of its members.
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 Sophia Opatska
Company: Lviv Business School of UCU (LvBS)
Position: Director
Ph.D., graduate of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Department of International Economic Relations, participated in short-term programs and internship at Ross School of Management, University of Michigan, IEDC – Bled School of Management (Slovenia), Warsaw School of Economics (Poland), China Europe International Business School (China).
Managerial experience – 9 years. Sophia worked as MBA programs director at Kyiv Mohyla Business School (kmbs), Director of Corporate University of OJSC “Concern Galnaftogaz”. Her areas of expertise are human resource management, organizational development, and building learning organizations.
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 Maria Gudkova
Company: STB TV-channel
Position: HR-Director
Gudkova Maria was born in Kyiv in 1979. In 1997 she graduated from National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and was qualified as an ecologist. In 2005 she is a certified international expert in competency assessment in Hudson.
In 2009 Maria received MBA degree in IEDC business-school, Slovenia.
From 2002 Maria is HR business trainer. In 2007 she wrote a book “Measurement and Appraisals in documents”, it was published by HRDepartment. From 2008 Maria has been practicing career coaching.
Her experience in HR is more than 10 years. From June 2010 Maria is HR Director at STB TV-channel. Till that time she was Deputy General Manager for Organizational Development and HR at Henkel Bautechnik Ukraine.
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 Anna Barannik
Company: TV Broadcasting Company “1+1″
Position: HR Director
Anna graduated from Kyiv National Linguistic University and has got qualification in English and Practical Psychology.
She is a certified coach-consultant in organizations (Wiesbaden Academy of Positive Psychotherapy (WAPP, Germany).
She has got more than 8 years’ experience in HR field.
Previous company she worked at is Nokia Siemens Networks. Position – Head of the Group of “Trainings, Leadership and Organizational development” in projects’ developing and implementation in North Europe (18 countries).
From July 2010 Anna is HR Director in TV Broadcasting Company “1+1″.
She has got wide experience in training on the topics such as: leadership, management tools, personal efficiency, talents management, personnel engagement, assessment 360, and career development.
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 Olena Odnoralova
Company: Inter Media Group
Position: Deputy Head of Administrative Department – Head of HR Department
She has been working in Inter Media Group since 2005.
Her career in Inter Media Group began from senior HR specialist; afterwards she headed the department of personnel adaption and evaluation. From 2010 she works as Deputy Head of Administrative Department – Head of HR Department.
Before her work in Inter Media Group she worked as HR manager in international companies and as psychologist in Kyiv city social service for youth.
In 2007 Olena graduated from National Pedagogical Dragomanov University and received the magister of practical psychology.
She received additional education in Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany and University of North Florida,USA.
She is regular participant and speaker of HR forums and conferences; runs training courses on “Project Management”, “Effective presentation” and “Public Speaking”.
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 Vlad Kryvenko
Company: Television and Radio Broadcasting Company “Ukraine”
Position: HR Director
Vlad has got more than 8 years’ experience in HR field.
He has got two higher educations: specialist’s diploma of Kyiv State Maritime Academy, Department of Navigation, and also Academy of Labor and Social Relations of Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine, Department of Sociology. He received certificate in HRM-HR programme of Kyiv Mohyla Business School.
Vlad hs worked as HR manager in System Capital Management, leading industrial and financial group of Ukraine. In 2007 he headed the department of Television and Radio Broadcasting Company “Ukraine”
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 Ross Biggam
Company: Association of Commercial Television in Europe (Belgium)
Position: Director General
After studying law at Exeter and Saarbrücken, Ross Biggam worked as Legal Adviser to the House of Lords EU Select Committee before joining ITV, the leading television channel in the UK, where he ended up as Head of European Affairs.
In April 2000, he moved to Brussels to become Director General of the Association of Commercial Television in Europe (ACT) which represents thirty media companies active in 34 European countries and encompasses several business models, from free-to-air television broadcasters to multimedia groups and digital TV platforms operators.
The ACT is consulted on a regular basis by the Community Institutions on all questions impacting on the future of the Audio-visual sector in Europe, in particular with regard to digital TV and the EU Directive ‘’Television without Frontiers’’.
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 Angelo Pettazzi
Company: Mediaset S.p.A., DGTVi (Italy)
Position: Head of DTT Content Factory
Angelo is working for the Mediaset Group since 1981. He is Head of DTT Content Factory since 2003. The Content Factory team is in charge of design and manages interactive application to be broadcast on the Mediaset free to air and pay TV digital networks.
He is member of DGTVi Technical Committee; DGTVi is the Italian Broadcaster Association aimed at promoting an open and interoperable digital terrestrial platform in Italy.
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 Viet Nguyen Cao
Company: Microsoft (France)
Position: Senior Business Development manager, TV, Microsoft EMEA
Viêt has been working in the media and telecommunications industry for the past 18 years. He is currently Senior Business Development Manager at Microsoft, in the media division.
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 Nick North
Company: GfK Media Sector (UK)
Position: Chief Marketing Officer
Nick North has nearly 20 years’ experience in the market research industry, with a track record in business development, specialising in quantitative and qualitative audience measurement of broadcast and digital media.
As the Chief Marketing Officer of GfK Media Sector, and member of the GfK Media Board, Nick is focused on the growth of GfK’s global media research business.
Nick is the author of a number of articles on media research method in theory and practice.
Nick graduated with an M.A. in philosophy from Cambridge University, and is an Associate Fellow at the Cultural Policy Studies Centre of Warwick University.
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 Paul van Niekerk
Company: Intomart GfK (Netherlands)
Position: Director of Media Research
Paul was involved in the work for a wide range of companies, all within the media branch: advertising agencies, media agencies and TV stations. In January 2011 Paul joined Intomart GfK (Netherlands) to become Director of Media Research.
Until 2010 he worked as general manager for the Dutch Association of TV Stations, a promotion and knowledge centre for the TV industry. Before that he was marketing director at SBS, one of the leading TV owners in the Netherlands.
Paul studied Dutch Language and Literature and Mass Communications in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
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 Andrey Taranov
Company: Kwendi
Position: Partner
Andrey started his career in advertising business in 1995 in Provid/BBDO agency, where he advanced from media-planner to media-director position. He was appointed to managing director of media agency Media Direction Ukraine, where he worked from 2001 to 2004.
In 2004-2005 – marketing and public relations consultant at STB channel.
In 2005 г. founded Kwendi expert group. Since 2009 года – partner of Kwendi+RMA company.
In 2001-02 lectured theory and practice of advertising in Kiev Institute of International Affairs. In 2008 – media jury member of the Kiev International Advertising Festival.
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 Orest Biloskurskiy
Company: StarlightMedia
Position: Marketing Director
Orest Biloskurskiy graduated from National University of “Kyiv Mohyla Academy” and received master’s degree in sociology.
He has taught methods of research and data analysis at the department of Sociology of the NaUKMA.
His career on television has started in 2001 at Inter TV-channel.
From the year 2003 he has been working at ICTV TV-channel. He is an auditor of AGB panel.
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 Maxim Lazebnik
Company: All-Ukrainian Advertising Coalition
Position: Executive director
Producer General of Kyiv International Advertising Festival, coordinator of EFFIE Awards Ukraine, organizer of Club of Creative Directors of Ukraine and national advertising award KAKADU Awards,organizer of ADC*UA Awards, co-founder of creative campus of advertisers AdDrive, editorial Director of leading website about advertising, marketing and PR in Ukraine – www.sostav.ua, national representative of international advertising festivals (EPICA< Golden Drum etc.).
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 Alexander Gorokhovsky
Company: AEGIS Media/GMG
Position: CEO
He was born on August 3, 1968 in Kyiv. In 1993 he has graduated from National Technical University “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”.
In 1992 Alexander started his career in the advertising agency AITI. In 1998 he was pointed a director of it.
From 2010 Alexander Gorokhovsky is also CEO of communication group Aegis Media/GMG which is a partner of one of the largest media and marketing communications holdings Aegis Media.
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 Victoria Semenenko
Company: Maxximum Media Communications Group
Position: Managing Partner
Victoria has experience in the advertising field for over ten years.
Among the achievements of Victoria is creation of advertising agency “Maxximum Consulting” in 2000; developing media buying department into the separate Sales House “Maxximum Advertising”. Successful launch of the first female oriented TVchannel “Maxxi TV” in 2007.
Education: Law Faculty of Kiev National Shevchenko’s University.
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 Alexander Baranovsky
Company: ADV Group Ukraine
Position: Executive Vice President for Media Services
Since July 2010 – executive Vice President for Media Services.
Since 2007-executive director of ADV Group Ukraine and Regional director of ADV Group Ukraine.
2005- 2007-Head of financial department on work with the regions of the Publishing house the «Komsomol true» and executive director of the Publishing house «Soviet sport».
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 Taras Lutskiv
Company: Media Systems
Position: Director
In 2003 he graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. He has got a qualification of magister of applied mathematics.
From 2005 he is director and co-owner of Media Systems. The company is partner of Dentsu in Ukraine.
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 Alexander Komarov
Company: GroupM
Position: CEO
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 Konstantin Nikov
Company: Media Direction Ukraine
Postion: Managing Director
Konstantin has more than 15 years’ experience in media services.
Since 2004 he is Managing Director of Media Direction Agency. He has worked in agencies of Bulgary and Ukraine.
Konstantin has received philological education in Sophia University. Also he graduated from Sophia Economics University and received the qualification of “financial management”.
Media Direction is a full cycle media agency. It was established in 1996 as a part of PROVID/BBDO group. Since 2002 the agency is an associative partner of international chain OMG (Omnicom Media Group Worldwide) in Ukraine. Media Direction has access to the newest software and implement new technologies in media.
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 Vitaliy Matveyev
Company: Optimum Media Ukraine
Position: Director general
He was born on August 12, 1975.
Education: Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, foreign languages faculty.
From 1998 to 2001 he worked as a marketing manager in “Henkel Bautechnik Ukraine”.
From December 2001 he is Director General of media agency Optimum Media Ukraine.
At the present Optimum Media is one of the largest Ukrainian media agencies.
More than 60 people work at the company. Among the clients of the agency there are a lot of well-known brands from different categories.
The main factors of success of the agency are client’s business orientation, understanding of the market and its tendencies, providing the best possible results as in preparing media strategies such in media buying.
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 Victoria Yarmoshchuk
Company: Media Resources Management
Position: Director
In 2002 Victoria graduated the faculty of linguistics of the National Technical University of Ukraine.
In 2005 she got her diploma of a specialist of the International Business Institute as an economist and market researcher.
From 2001 to 2006 she was working in the International Media Projects company that was an informational and analytical centre of one of the major media holdings of Ukraine where she was involved in market research and analysis of the media business. In 2005 she became the chief editor of the professional informational and analytical publication Media Business Reports.
During her work at MRM Victoria delivered speeches at several professional events, including the conference «Media-2009: Strategies of Management of the Crisis» within the Second Congress of the Independent Association of the TV- and Radio Broadcasters, conference «Television as Business», the First International Forum «Digital Broadcasting in Ukraine» etc. Victoria is an author of numerous articles on Ukrainian and international media markets.
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 Andrey Kolodyuk
Company: Divan.TV
Position: Co-founder and author of the idea
Andrey Kolodyuk started his professional career in New York in 1992. He has been working in American consulting and trade companies. In 1994 he launched his first project – an electronics retailer Unitrade (it was sold in 2008).
Andrey founded Aventures Capital, which has invested more than 30 projects in different fields such as IT, Telecom, Internet, media, alternatives energy and commercial estate.
During the years 2003-2005 he was a founder and investor of Ukrainian Software Consortium (it was sold in 2006).
In 2008 he is Young Global Leader (YGL) of World Economic Forum.
From 2009 he is an investor, founder and author of Divan.TV.
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 Tatyana Kharchenko
Company: MediaBusiness
Position: Editor-in-Chief
In 2006 she graduated from Philological Institute of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. She is a master of philology and folklorist. The first working place was radio “Continent”. She worked in the newspaper “Ukraina moloda”, magazine ‘Novynar”, STB TV-channel, Citi TV-channel, “Newspaper in Ukrainiain”.
From 2008 till the present she has been working in Internet edition MediaBusiness.
From July 2010 she is an editor-in-chief of MediaBusiness. Tatyana finished a distance course on media law in the Institute of Media Law, the program “Journalism of the future”, courses of script-writers in production companies FILM.UA and PRIMA.FILM.
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 Pavlo Tayanovskyy
Company: Agency AITI/Carat
Position: Strategic Planning and Innovations Director
Pavel graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, the Department of Radio Engineering and Cybernetics.
He specialized in strategic planning, communications and media planning.
From 1996 Pavel has been working as Strategic Planning Director in international advertising agencies (Universal McCann Kiev, McCann-Erickson Kiev, ADV Украина, TMA/Draft, AITI/Carat (till present))
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 Dmitry Sholomko
Company: Google Ukraine
Position: Director
Dmitry is working as Business Development Manager at Google Ukraine from December 2009. He is responsible for products’ development, marketing initiatives, sales and company’s business planning. He started at Google as consultant in July 2006, after that as a representative of the company in Ukraine.
Until his work in Google, Dmitry headed his own consulting company UBL specialized in providing technical and consulting services for the largest Ukrainian IT and telecommunications companies. Before then, he was a director of online department in Euromoney, Ukraine and also took part in development of local online projects.
Dmitry graduated from NTUU “Kiev Polytechnic Institute” and got a qualification of programme engineer.
Among his hobbies are photography, football, modern history and play bass-guitar.
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 Andriy Gaidut
Company: Digital-agency OK Internet
Position: Marketing Director
He graduated from Kyiv national economic university, and he has got a qualification of master of international business.
He was Editor-in-Chief of magazine “InternetUA”. Andriy has got more than 10 years’ experience in advertising markets of Ukraine and Russia; five years’ experience in digital marketing. He is an author of some popular Ukrainian Internet projects. Specialist in building of proper brand communication in the web, complex Internet strategies.
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 Valeriy Varenitsa
Company: Mindshare
Position: Country Manager
Valeriy graduated from Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, faculty of journalism.
He has been working in business press. Since1994 he works in advertising field. From 2001 he is a head and partner of Mindshare Ukraine, one of the largest media agencies of the country.
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 Alexander Olshansky
Company: Imena.UA
Position: President
Alexander has finished physico-mathematical school and graduated from National Technical University of Ukraine, Department of Automated Control of Electrical Complexes.
He is one of the founders of Ukrainian Internet Exchange Point UA-IX and constant Board member of Internet Association of Ukraine, co-founder and ideologist of the largest Ukrainian IT-conference – iForum, president of “Ashmano and partners – Ukraine”.
Alexander is Head of investment holding Internet Invest Group (register of domain names Imena.UA, web-hosting MiroHost, Ukrainian banner exchange network “UBC”, project of national mailing system Mail.UA, provider GigaHost.ua). One of the founders of service Zakaz.ua.
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 Anton Zadorozhny
Company: Star Media Group (Russia-Ukraine)
Position: Deputy Head of the Board of Directors for strategic development
Anton Zadorozhny joined Star Media Group in the beginning of2011 as Deputy Head of the Board of Directors for strategic development.
Prior to joining Star Media, in 2007—2010 Mr. Zadorozhny gained extensive experience in M&A advisory in the role of Senior Associate at Kiev-based investment boutique Golden Gate Business. He led and successfully closed a number of trans-border deals in media, food & drinks and real estate sectors.
Mr. Zadorozhny started his professional career in 2005 with Deloitte as a leading consultant in M&A practice and corporate finance advisory. In his consultant capacity, Mr. Zadorozhny was involved in a number of M&A deals in media, oil & gas, retail, telecom, banking, financial services and food sectors across Austria, Russia, Ukraine and the US. Thereafter, Mr. Zadorozhny served as Senior Associate at the private equity arm of leading Ukrainian investment bank Dragon Capital.
Mr. Zadorozhny obtained Executive MBA degree at kmbs, a leading Ukrainian business school in cooperation with Kellogg School of Management (IL, USA). He speaks Russian, Ukrainian, English and Spanish fluently and has good knowledge of French, German and Arabic.
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 Yaroslav Gorodetsky
Company: CDNvideo (Russia)
Position: Director General
Yaroslav is a founder of CDNvideo, a content delivery network (CDN) which is providing services to major Russian and CIS TV channels, Internet TV sites, and game developers.
Yaroslav has more than 8 years of experience in Orange Business Services, an international telecom operator (including 3 years as the Head of Service Creation Department). He also worked in NGENIX, CPM and Alcatel.
Yaroslav graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1998. He was born in Moscow in 1976.
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 Eduard Akhramovych
Company: Agency of Internet Rights Ltd
Position: Managing Partner
Education:
– Higher school of economics and business administration. Specialty: Finance and credit (1997)
– Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Department of economics. Management of organizations (2002)
– Institute of Intellectual Property under State of Intellectual Property (2004)
– Kyiv Mohyla Business School – KMBS-MBA (2011)
Business experience:
– Founder of National Multimedia Company (1999) – leading distributor of video, audio and multimedia products to Ukraine;
– Head of CDcom Ukraine from the date of its foundation (2001)
– Co-founder of Agency of Internet Rights ltd, international company-provider of legal content in CIS countries and Baltic States;
He is a participant of regional and international conferences on questions of distribution of audio and video products.
Eduard has more than 17 years’ experience as a speaker on media content market.
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 Igor Faletski
Company: Mobify (Canada)
Position: CEO
Igor Faletski was born in Vladivostok in 1985. He is a founder of Mobify (Vancouver, Canada), a leading mobile web platform for publishers and online stores.
Platform Mobify annually creates hundreds of millions of mobile web pages for GQ, Vogue, The New Yorker, Starbucks, Bosch / Siemens, Shell and many other international companies.
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 Vladimir Nabatov
Company: X-Media (Russia)
Position: Projects executive
In 2003 Vladimir Nabatov graduated from Moscow Power Engineering Institute, the department of “Automation and Computer Engineering” .
Since 2006 he works at “X-Media Digital”, LLC.
Starting from 2008 he is responsible for the project GetMovies.Ru, the first online video shop in runet.
Since 2010 he is a project manager of “WebSheriff” in “X-Media Digital”, LLC.
“X-Media Digital”, LLC is one of leaders in online distribution of media content in Russia.
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