Speakers

Olena Taranenko has worked in the public relations for more than 14 years. Since January 2015 she has run the HOSHVA PR Agency. Olena Taranenko specializes in Consumer PR projects and supervises the PR meetup and PR-Directors Club projects (from UAPR).

Vira Tarasenko has more than 15 years of experience in setting up external and internal communications for a company. She was the head of the internal communications department in the Alfa-Bank, she also supervised PR & corporate affairs directions for the Sberbank of Russia (Ukraine) and for the «Bayadère». Currently is the head of PR Service for the Forward Bank.

Anton Usov has more than 17 years of experience in cooperating with international financial institutions on public relations. Currently he holds the post of senior adviser on Eastern Europe and Caucuses at EBRD.

Honored Journalist of Ukraine. Editor in Chief of «People in the Public Eye» socio-political magazine. She also worked as the deputy editor of the Ukrainian newspaper «Today». In 1999 Ms. Vlaschenko founded the «Forzats» («Flyleaf») Publishing House which publishes such popular Ukrainian magazines as «People in the Public Eye».