Maryna Kuzmenko

Maryna Kuzmenko has a diverse work experience spanning various industries and roles. Maryna is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Petiole since 2015. In 2020, they founded Agfluencers, a project aimed at promoting and upscaling females' profiles in agriculture technologies. Maryna was a Co-Founder of Moo More from June 2022 to December 2022. From August 2021 to December 2022, Maryna worked as a Marketing and Public Relations Manager at NAFTA. Maryna was the Head of TLA Ukraine at Tech London Advocates & Global Tech Advocates from January 2019 to May 2021, where they initiated the launching of the Ukraine Working Group and organized various events. Prior to that, they were a Marketing Manager at Alfatrener from September 2018 to September 2020. Maryna also has experience working in the governmental sector as a Parliamentary Assistant at the Verkhovna Rada Ukraini from December 2013 to November 2014, where they focused on digitalization and environment-related issues. Maryna worked as an Executive Assistant of Head of HR AXA in Ukraine, Central & Eastern Europe - CRO specialist at AXA in 2013, responsible for internal projects focused on corporate responsibility and environmental sustainability. In 2012, they worked as an Event Manager at Centralex Events, organizing the Ukrainian Business Week at the London Stock Exchange. During their time at the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine from 2010 to 2011, Maryna worked as a Principal Expert in the Legal Department, specializing in antitrust public policy, merger clearance, and cartels. Maryna also served as an Executive Management Assistant to the First Deputy Chairman, where they managed events and provided support to ongoing projects.

Maryna Kuzmenko's education history is as follows:

From 2002 to 2007, Maryna attended the National Technical University of Ukraine 'Kyiv Polytechnic Institute' and obtained a Specialist (Diploma of High Education) degree in Law.

In 2011, they enrolled at London Metropolitan University and completed an LL.M. degree in International Commercial Law in 2012.

Between 2007 and 2016, Maryna pursued their doctoral studies at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and earned a Ph.D. in Business Law.

Additionally, Maryna earned a Bachelor's degree in Finance, with a specialization in Finance, General, from the International University of Finance, where they studied from 2002 to 2006.

In terms of certifications, Maryna obtained several, including Global Environmental Management from DTU - Technical University of Denmark in June 2023, Foundations of Project Management from Google in May 2023, and Knowledge management for emergency and resilience programming from FAO, also in May 2023. Maryna acquired the Venture Deals Spring 2021 certification from Techstars in May 2021 and the Step-up Acceleration Program certification from Virgin StartUp in October 2020.

Furthermore, Maryna obtained various certifications related to data science and tech, such as Super Sweet Android Time Course from Code School in November 2017, Machine Learning from Coursera Course Certificates in November 2016, Big Data Foundations - Level 1 from IBM in October 2016, Data Science Foundations - Level 1 from IBM in September 2016, A Crash Course in Data Science from Coursera Course Certificates in August 2016, and Intro to Python for Data Science from DataCamp (exact month and year of completion are not provided).