


SUMMER SCHOOL KIEF ACADEMY X Activitis Education X UGF "Business Reboot: Strategy, Finance, and Competitive Advantage"
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A development programme for entrepreneurs, top managers and investors. It will help you rethink your company’s finances and find new opportunities, improve your business model, sharpen your strategy, and gain sustainable competitive advantages.
Participants will attend 15 training sessions during May-August 2026.
The training format is offline/online.
The application deadline is 21 May 2026.
The training programme is a part of the KIEF Academy’s educational programmes on the Ukraine Global Faculty platform in partnership with fintech company Activitis*.
*Participation in the programme is free of charge thanks to the support of Activitis.
SECTION 1: "MACRO, TRENDS, STRATEGIES"
- Global trends. New niches and opportunities in the face of turbulence.
- Financial landscape: international market and opportunities in Ukraine.
- Business models. Business strategy. Competitive advantages.
SECTION 2. "FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE OF BUSINESS"
- Structure and logic of financial statements as a common business language. How to read financial statements. Key financial indicators and their practical application.
- Financial model of business. Manager’s tools in financial management.
- Organisation of management accounting and budgeting systems. Financial responsibility centres and unit economics.
- Business value. Key approaches to valuation.
SECTION 3. "TOOLS FOR RAISING CAPITAL"
- Business capital map: objectives, scale, cost, sources, and tools
- International financial institutions and project finance
- Private Equity.
- Bank financing and loans 5-7-9
- Embedded finance.
- Grants and donor programmes for business
- Corporate bonds.
- Venture capital investments for start-ups
37 лекцій та семінарів:
Global trends. New niches and opportunities in the face of turbulence.
Viktor Halasiuk
President of the Ukrainian Association of the Club of Rome, member of the KIEF Supervisory Board, Adjunct Professor at kmbs, PhD in Economics
- 27.05.2026 · 18:00
- Offline and online
Financial landscape: international market and opportunities in Ukraine.
Ivan Kompan
Founder of First Kyiv Investment Club, PhD
- 02.06.2026 · 18:00
- Offline and online
Business models. Business strategy. Competitive advantages
Oleksii Tymofieiev
Member of the Board of Directors at BGV Group Management, lecturer at Deloitte Academy
- 09.06.2026 · 18:00
- Online
The structure and logic of financial statements as a common business language. How to read financial statements. Key financial indicators and their practical application
Oleksiy Herashchenko
an economist, entrepreneur, business consultant, kmbs lecturer, author of 6 fiction, children's and economic books, including "Finance for Owners and Managers"
- 16.06.2026 · 18:00
- Online
Financial model of business. Tools of a manager in financial management
Oleksiy Herashchenko
an economist, entrepreneur, business consultant, kmbs lecturer, author of 6 fiction, children's and economic books, including "Finance for Owners and Managers"
- 23.06.2026 · 18:00
- Online
Organisation of management accounting and budgeting systems. Financial responsibility centres and unit economics
Oleksiy Herashchenko
an economist, entrepreneur, business consultant, kmbs lecturer, author of 6 fiction, children's and economic books, including "Finance for Owners and Managers"
- 30.06.2026 · 18:00
- Online
Business value. Key approaches to valuation
Oleksiy Herashchenko
an economist, entrepreneur, business consultant, kmbs lecturer, author of 6 fiction, children's and economic books, including "Finance for Owners and Managers"
- 07.07.2026 · 18:00
- Online
Business capital map: objectives, scale, cost, sources, and tools
Kyrylo Bondar
Partner and CFO of UNIT.City and UDP Renewables, Partner at Ukraine Phoenix Tech Fund, PhD
- 14.07.2026 · 18:00
- Online
International financial institutions and project finance
Kyrylo Bondar
Partner and CFO of UNIT.City and UDP Renewables, Partner at Ukraine Phoenix Tech Fund venture fund, PhD in Economics
- 16.07.2026 · 18:00
- Online
Private Equity
Roman Cherepakha
Investment Director at Horizon Capital
- 21.07.2026 · 18:00
- Online
Bank financing and loans 5-7-9
Andrii Hapon
Chairman of the Board of the National Development Institution
- 28.07.2026 · 18:00
- Online
Embedded finance
Illia Kosheliev
Head of Projects and Programmes at Activitis Development and Innovation Centre
Dmytro Silkin Head of Activitis Development and Innovation Centre
Head of Projects and Programmes at Activitis Development and Innovation Centre
Dmytro Silkin Head of Activitis Development and Innovation Centre
- 04.08.2026 · 18:00
- Online
Grants and donor programmes for business
Olga Slavina
Advisor to the Minister of Economy, Environment and Agriculture of Ukraine on International Cooperation and Donor Coordination
- 11.08.2026 · 18:00
- Online
Corporate bonds
Taras Kozak
Founder and President of UNIVER Investment Group, PhD in Public Administration
- 18.08.2026 · 18:00
- Online
Venture capital investments for start-ups
Rick Rasmussen
industry expert and lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, Director of Entrepreneurship Programmes at the Sutardja Centre for Entrepreneurship and Technology, visiting lecturer at Northeastern University
- 25.08.2026 · 18:00
- Online

CEO of KIEF Academy and Ukraine Global Faculty, Adjunct Professor at Kmbs

Deputy Minister of Economy of Ukraine

General Director of the Federation of Employers of Ukraine

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Founder and Chairman of Advanter Group, Center for Social Change and Behavioral Economics, International Business Community Board, Kyiv Foresight Foundation, Co-founder of Investudio, AiWiser

Associate Dean of the Kyiv-Mohyla Business-School

Member of the Board of Directors of BGV Group Management

Industry Expert and Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley (USA)

Member of Verhovna Rada of Ukraine, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Economic Development

Director General of the Government Office for Coordination of European and Euro-Atlantic Integration

Chairman of the Board of the Business Development Fund

Advisor on International Cooperation and Donor Coordination at the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine

Partner, CFO of UNIT.City and UDPRenewables

Founder of the Netpeak group

Managing Director of Blackstone LaunchPad at Cornell University (USA)

Business Case Innovator and co-founder of Noorderwind (Netherlands)

Venture Partner at Zag, investor & mentor director at eō Business Incubators (UK)

President of Lean Institute Ukraine

Expert in neuromanagement, lecturer at the Business School of the Ukrainian Catholic University, certified ICF coach (Erickson University International)

Founder and CEO of Learn To Earn Global

Associate Teaching Professor and Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, the Trulaske College of Business, University of Missouri (US)

Co-founder of KNESS

President of the Ukrainian Export Alliance

General Director of Agrol LLC

Head of the Analytics and Monitoring Department, Office of the President of Ukraine; member of the Board of the Centre for Social change and Behavioural economics

Adjunct Lecturer of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California (US)

Founder and Managing Partner of the strategic communications agency U Agency. Co-author of the podcast about PR, words and meanings "NE PID ZAPYS"

Serial entrepreneur, CEO of Win Win Club

Business Development Director at UFuture, CEO of the investment accelerator INDAX

Chief Growth Officer at Genesis

Director of Electricity Trading and Supply at KNESS

UGBC (Ukrainian Green Building Council) Leader

First Deputy director of the State Research Institute for Informatization and Modeling of the Economy, advisor to the Committee on Economic Development of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

CEO at IT Ukraine Association

Professor and Deputy Director at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP), University College London (UCL)

Deputy Commercial Director for Forecasting at the Aurora multimarket chain

Менеджер проєктів та бізнес-розробник в галузі інженерії агросистем Група рослинних наук, Вагенінгенський університет і дослідницький центр (WUR, Нідерланди)
