SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY

30+ years of experience in agribusiness, agricultural policy, and investment consulting across Ukraine and the CIS

  • Investment advisory: facilitated placement of over $400 million into Ukrainian agricultural assets; clients include ADM Capital, Dragon Capital, VTB Private Equity, Government of Ukraine, State General Reserve Fund of Oman, China National Agriculture Development Corporation.

  • Developed Ukraine's first aggregated stock and commodity index; clients include Itochu, Syngenta, Nestlé, CME, Marubeni, and Monsanto.

  • Managed an agricultural assistance portfolio of $170 million; Ukraine advanced from 19th place to top-5 global agricultural commodity exporters.

  • Operational management of a grain and oilseed farm spanning 20,000 hectares.

  • Investment advisory: facilitated placement of over $400 million into Ukrainian agricultural assets; clients include ADM Capital, Dragon Capital, VTB Private Equity, Government of Ukraine, State General Reserve Fund of Oman, China National Agriculture Development Corporation.

  • Developed Ukraine's first aggregated stock and commodity index; clients include Itochu, Syngenta, Nestlé, CME, Marubeni, and Monsanto.

  • Managed an agricultural assistance portfolio of $170 million; Ukraine advanced from 19th place to top-5 global agricultural commodity exporters.

  • Operational management of a grain and oilseed farm spanning 20,000 hectares.

Project Advisor

William Chomiak

Doctor of Agricultural Sciences (Plant Protection), 25+ years of experience in plant protection, pest management, and agricultural systems research, combining scientific leadership with government-level regulatory expertise

  • Senior Research Scientist at the Research Institute of Plant Quarantine and Protection and Associate Professor at Tashkent State Agrarian University; former Head of Departments within the State Chemical Commission and Republican Center for Plant Protection.

  • Led national programs on control of cotton and grain crop pests and diseases; supervised testing of insectoacaricides, biopreparations, and rodenticides within state regulatory framework.

  • FAO expert on regional locust control programs (Caucasus & Central Asia).

  • Author of 70+ peer-reviewed publications.

Project Advisor

Bakhtiyar Akromov

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