Andriy Kolodyuk
Co-Founder, AVentures Group

Mr. Kolodyuk was born in 1971 in Kiev. He graduated from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, but also has a diploma of T. Shevchenko Kyiv National University, Law. In 2005, he defended Ph.D. thesis: “Information Society: Modern condition and perspectives of development in Ukraine”, Specialty “Political Culture and Ideology”.

Mr. Andriy Kolodyuk started his entrepreneurial career in New York City in 1992 while working at U.S. consulting and trade companies. Having sufficient work experience in west private sector, in 1994, together with his business partners, he founded a privately owned IT investment firm, which financed its first project - “Unitrade”.  During 1994-2000, Mr. Kolodyuk has successfully launched and developed the range of other projects in Telecommunication, Media and Technology fields. In 2001, Mr. Kolodyuk reorganized “Ukrinvestcom” into a new venture capital firm “AVentures”. During 2001 – 2004, he was the President of “AVentures”. During 2003-2005, Mr. Kolodyuk has been a Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of the Ukrainian Software Consortium, a software development group with a wide scale of competencies and strong experience in serving international businesses. During 2001-2005, Mr. A. Kolodyuk has been the Chair of the Telecom Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine.

In 2001, Mr. A. Kolodyuk became one of the founders and President of the “Information Society of Ukraine” Foundation.  In July 2003, Mr. Kolodyuk became the Head of the Public Working Group “E-Ukraine”, whose objective is to develop the “National Strategy for Information Society Development in Ukraine”.