UVCA In Davos
Investment breakfast with the Ambassador of Switzerland to Ukraine
As you know UVCA has conductedUkrainian Davos Nightsin frames of WEF 2017, that was taking place in Switzerland on January of this year. Aside from this, Lenna Koszarny, UVCA Supervisory Board member and Andrey Kolodyuk, the Chairman ofUVCA, took part at the Switzerland-Ukraine Business Roundtable "Ukraine: Brain Bank and Bread Basket"organized by Joint Chamber of Commerce Switzerland-CIS/Georgia JCC in partnership with the Embassy of Switzerland in Ukraine.
In order to provide UVCA with the follow up on WEF and Ukrainian Davos Nights, as well as to discuss possibilitiesof Swiss-Ukrainian collaboration, Ambassador of Switzerland to Ukraine and Moldova Mr. Guillaume Scheurer met UVCAmembers at the Investment breakfast.
Ambassador has emphasized with the role of Ukrainian Davos Nights not only for Swiss-Ukrainian collaboration but forUkrainian business scene in general. As greatly noticed Lenna Koszarny – we all aimed to turning Ukraine's 3C’sassociated with Corruption-Crime-Conflict to 4B’s – Brain Bank & Bread Basket. At the same time, she pointed out,that Ukrainian Davos Nights 2017 was only a start of initiative, which is going to be continued and spread, so thenext year UVCA is going to held the whole Ukrainian House during the WEF 2018.
“It is not about talks, more about responsibility. If you have roads for investors – they will come here. That isexactly what we are working on here”
Lenna Koszarny
UVCA SB Member
Important to note, that the significant number of Swiss-TV representatives attended the first Ukrainian businessevent in Davos and reportages made by them have raised the awareness about Ukrainian investment market andbusisess-opportunities. Totally around 60 entrepreneurs, investors and companies’ representatives from Switzerlandvisited Ukrainian Davos Nights.
To say more about Swiss-Ukrainian collaboration we have to mention that Switzerland's objective on Ukraine istwo-fold: support for the country's reforms and engagement in peace policy.
According to the Swiss cooperation strategy for Ukraine for 2015-2018, the list of Ukraine’s 10 most prioritizedreforms includes anti-corruption reform and lustration, judicial reform, de-centralization and state governancereform, reform of national security and defense system, health care reform, tax reform, energy independence program,global promotion of Ukraine, reform of law enforcement system, deregulation and development of entrepreneurship.UVCA profile committees’ representatives have established good connection with the Embassy of Switzerland in Ukrainein terms of cooperation in fostering related reforms.
We want to take this opportunity to assure our highest respect to the Embassy of Switzerland to Ukraine and toexpress our big gratitude to Mr. Guillaume Scheurer, Mrs. Olena Gut, Mr. Christoph Späti for their kind hospitality.
Big thanks for joining UVCA Investment breakfast: Olga Afanasyeva (UVCA), Andrey Kolodyuk (AVentures), DenisDovgopoliy (GrowthUp), Bohdan Kupych (KMCore), Francis Malige (EBRD), Gregory Fishman (Deloitte), Anna Zorya(Arzinger), Oksana Volynets (WolfTheiss), Lenna Koszarny (Horizon Capital), Roman Zinchenko (Greencubator),Olexandra Alkhimovych (Luxoft).
More photos from the event you may find here.
