Arzinger managing partner Markiyan Malsky and JTI Ukraine CEO Svetlana Sharomok have become new members of the 15-person board of the European Business Association (EBA), replacing BASF Ukraine CEO Tiberiu Dima and Philips Ukraine CEO Serhiy Gontar.
The decision was made at the 26th annual general meeting of EBA companies, which took place this week in Kyiv.
As the association clarified to Interfax-Ukraine, rotational elections are held annually for either 7 or 8 members of the board. This year, seven board members were elected, five of whom were re-elected for a new two-year term: Bayer CEO and CFO Oliver Girlichs, Dragon Capital founder Tomas Fiala, Google Ukraine head Tatyana Lukinyuk, Raiffeisen Bank CEO Alexander Pisaruk, and Scania Ukraine CEO Hokan Juude.
In addition to them, the EBA board also includes ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih CEO Mauro Longobardo and International Finance Corporation representative office head Elena Voloshina, who are vice presidents of the association, SAP Ukraine managing director Anna Mikulitska, SoftServe co-founder Taras Kitsmey, METRO Cash & Carry Ukraine CEO Elena Vdovichenko, Kyivstar CEO Alexander Komarov, Nestlé Market Director for Southern and Eastern Europe and Nestlé Ukraine Alessandro Zanelli, and Siemens Ukraine CEO Sergey Dvornik.
The EBA also announced that at the next meeting of the board in its new composition, it plans to elect a new president of the association, while Tiberiu Dima, who had been president since 2021, began working in a new position at BASF a few weeks ago as managing director for agricultural solutions in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Before him, the president of the EBA in 2010-2021 was Tomas Fiala, founder and head of Ukraine’s largest investment company, Dragon Capital.
