The Strategic Board of Diia.City United welcomes two new members: Nazariy Kurochko, co-founder of GIGAGROUP, and co-founder of Jooble Roman Prokofyev.
Nazariy Kurochko is the founder of the GIGAGROUP of companies and recently became the CEO of cloud operator GigaCloud, whose services are used by over 20 million people in Ukraine and abroad daily. With 20 years of experience in IT, Nazariy is confident that the Ukrainian tech business has the potential to secure the country’s future:
“We continue to build a secure IT infrastructure, grow and create jobs, paying taxes to the state, despite the full-scale war. Diia.City United is a step towards a future where Ukrainian IT and the state will be partners in building a successful, European future for the country.”
Nazariy Kurochko began this journey in 2006 when he founded GIGAGROUP. Now GIGAGROUP serves the largest state enterprises in Ukraine, including Diia and Prozorro, and over 2,000 leading businesses from the Ukrainian Forbes rankings. GIGAGROUP today includes national telecom operator GigaTrans, data center GigaCenter, cloud operator GigaCloud, and cybersecurity agency GigaSafe. Nazarii is also the founder of the National Cybersecurity Association. He is working to completely eliminate Russian software from the Ukrainian market through the Svoe.IT project.
The second new member of the Strategic Board is IT entrepreneur Roman Prokofyev. In 2006, Roman, along with his friend and classmate Yevhen Sobakaryov, founded Jooble. Today, this student startup has become a global product-based IT company. Its main product is an international job search website that millions of people in 67 countries use daily. The website aggregates thousands of job openings from various sources on a single page. It is one of the top 10 most popular employment resources in terms of traffic in the Jobs And Employment segment, according to SimilarWeb.
Roman is also known as an active seed and Series A investor. He has directly invested in 20 IT businesses and is a Limited Partner in three venture funds in Ukraine and the USA.
Roman Prokofyev emphasized the importance of participation in Diia.City United:
“The Ministry of Digital Transformation has done the almost impossible – it has created a special regime for IT companies called Diia City. This is one of the best events in history that has happened for the development of IT in Ukraine. Further, the responsibility for developing this regime lies with the residents of Diia City. We should not wait for what the state will offer us. We have to unite to tell the state what we need, what we need to grow and fill the budget with foreign currency revenues.”
Last month, Dmytro Dubrovsky, co-founder of Uklon, also joined the Strategic Board of Diia.City United.
