The first inaugural meeting of the advisory board of BK VM-HIM LLCB was held as part of the “Advisory Boards for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Pilot Project”, which is being implemented with the support of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development*, the EU and Switzerland.

During the meeting, participants got to know each other better, presented their areas of expertise, discussed the company’s key challenges and needs, and identified the advisory board’s priority areas of work for the coming months.

The advisory board comprises the company’s co-owners Viktoria Andriychuk, Maksym Pavliuk and Mykhailo Yavorovych, as well as independent board members — Serhii Bulavin, Hanna Levandovska and Tetiana Osipkina.

During the inaugural meeting, the advisory board members also visited the company’s premises, familiarised themselves with the specifics of its operations, and gained a better understanding of the business’s unique characteristics and the context of the board’s future work.

The project ‘Test-drive of advisory boards for small and medium-sized businesses’ enables business owners to test the advisory board format, gain external expertise and practical recommendations, whilst allowing candidates for board membership to apply their knowledge in practice and gain new experience.

The initiative is being implemented with the support of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development*, the EU and Switzerland, and aims to improve the quality of corporate governance, investment attractiveness and strategic capacity of Ukrainian small and medium-sized enterprises.

We congratulate the participants on the launch of the advisory board and wish them productive cooperation and strong results!

*The project is being implemented with the support of the EBRD within the framework of the “Board Implementation and Strategic Development for Ukrainian SMEs” Project, funded by Switzerland through the EBRD’s Small Business Impact Fund* and the European Union under the “Women in Business” Programme.

**Donors to the Fund: Ireland, Italy, Korea, Luxembourg, Norway, the United Kingdom, the United States, Switzerland, Sweden, Japan, and the TaiwanBusiness – EBRD Technical Cooperation Fund.