Olya Kollen, PhD 🇺🇦

Olya Kollen, a tech-savvy entrepreneur, is making waves in the business world by incorporating education and technology to achieve productivity and innovation while inspiring professionals to improve themselves every day. She studied at Kharkiv National University of Radioelectronics and later received a PhD in economics, economic cybernetics, and applied economics at V.N. Karazin Kharkov National University. Her impressive career includes a variety of roles, such as Commercial Director at Avarla LLC, Pulse Group, Business Analyst at Tiwell Assistant, LLC, and Country Manager at GoIT - простой путь в IT. She has also worked as a Senior Researcher at Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics and an Associate Professor at the same university.

Olya is a multi-talented personality and is known for her exceptional leadership and business development skills. She founded Balboa Innovation, LLC, and has also directed business solutions at CoSo Cloud (formerly eSync). As an MBA guest speaker at Kyiv-Mohyla Business School, she shared her insights on entrepreneurship and business strategies. Olya's expertise in Agile methodology led her to work as a Team Leader for the Being Agile International Team at Stanford Online, while her previous role as Chief Sales Officer at Turumburum helped her hone her sales and marketing skills.