Yurii Pyvovarov is an Executive Director of the Ukrainian Association for Innovation Development (UAID) since 2014. UAID unites leading international and national companies in the spheres of IT, hi-tech, machine building, microelectronics, energy efficiency, science, education, etc. UAID’s mission is to create conditions for high-tech business in Ukraine.

In 2014 he became Chair of the Organizing Committee of the Kyiv International Economic Forum.

2009-2013 Business Development Director at HT Ukraine. Concept development, real estate and land buying, commissioning and marketing of construction projects such as Opera Passage shopping gallery (Lviv), Leopolis Hotel (Lviv), etc.

2005–2009 Real Estate Director “Eurocon Ukraine”

1998–2005 different positions at Baltic Beverage Holding (Carlsberg Group): trade representative, regional sales manager, national development manager.

In 1995 Yurii graduated cum laude in Information Systems in Management from Lviv Commerce Academy, where he worked as an IT Software faculty in 1996-1997.

A graduate of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management program at UC Berkeley (2015).