Yaroslav Azhnyuk

Current

Managing Director at Social media web development
Director at Internet Initiatives

Past

Executive Team Member at Blogcamp CEE 2008
Scouting at Plast - National scout organisation of Ukraine

Education

National Technical University of Ukraine 'Kyiv Polytechnic Institute'

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Yaroslav Azhnyuk’s Experience

Managing Director

Social media web development

(Internet industry)

August 2008 — Present (1 year)

Semantica is a web development company, focused on social media development - designing and building communities, providing presence in social media, developing social networks, blogs, news resources, other sites with user-generated content, consulting in social media, etc.
Director

Internet Initiatives

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

Internet Initiatives is a non-government organization designed to encourage development of the Internet and new media in Ukraine and to help other NGOs to use these technologies efficiently.
Executive Team Member

Blogcamp CEE 2008

(Events Services industry)

May 2008 — October 2008 (6 months)

Blogcamp Central and Eastern Europe 2008 is a yearly international "barcamp style" conference on new media – blogs, social networks, web 2.0, podcasting, online video, citizen journalism, etc., as well as on start-ups and venture investments. Blogcamp took place on October 17-19th in Kyiv, Ukraine.

There were 821 participants from 16 countries (Ukraine, Russia, Belorus, Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Norway, Netherlands, USA, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Israel). 100 presentations were held during 2 days.

As part of the Blogcamp CEE 2008, an Investor Day was organized, were a contest of companies of two categories took place:
* Seed Stage (seeking support of Euro 50,000 -150,000)
* Early Growth Stage (seeking support of Euro 500,000 -1,000,000)

126 projects were submitted, 20 went to final, 5 started negotiations with investors and one company received investments before the contest ended. There were 32 investors on the event.
Scouting

Plast - National scout organisation of Ukraine

(Renewables & Environment industry)

October 2000 — October 2007 (7 years 1 month)

voluntary servant, PR & administrating in Plast organization. Web-design (www.borysfen.iatp.org.ua/plast/), flash banners. Tourism instructor.