Expert of the Year

Olena Zubchenko is the Deputy Chairman of the Sense Bank Management Board. Olena Zubchenko has 19 years of experience in the public, legal and banking sectors. She started her legal career in 2005, joining Louis Dreyfus Ukraine. From 2007 to 2010, she worked at Sayenko Kharenko and HBW. From 2010 to 2017, she worked at Lavrynovych & Partners Law Firm (since 2014 — Senior Partner). In 2017, Olena Zubchenko joined the management team of PrivatBank after its nationalization. In her position, she coordinated several strategic areas, including the development and implementation of the bank's international legal strategy. In 2020, she was the Head of Corporate, Regulatory and Legal Affairs at Darnitsa. In June 2020, she started working at the Ministry of Finance, where she became the Head of the Financial Policy Department in less than a year. She also served as a member of the Supervisory Board at the State Mortgage Institution and the Office for the Administration of International Financial Cooperation Projects. From 2021 to 2022, she worked as a legal and transformation advisor at PrivatBank. In 2022/2023, Olena headed the Financial Policy Department of the Ministry of Finance. In addition, in 2023 she was a member of the Board of the Entrepreneurship Development Fund and the Deposit Guarantee Fund. In August 2023, Olena Zubchenko became acting Chairman of the Sense Bank Board. Since February 2024, she has been Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of the bank.