PERSON: Kira Rudik

Ukrainian Parliament

Member of Congress

Kira Oleksandrivna Rudik (born 14 October 1985) is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as a People’s Deputy of Ukraine from the proportional list of the Holos party. She is additionally the party’s leader, and vice president of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE). Prior to politics she worked in the Ukrainian and American IT industries. She was a member of the board of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine and the IT Association of Ukraine.

In 2005, in the third year of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kira started working in the IT field at Software MacKiev. Since 2007, she has tested software at TAIN Ukraine. She worked as a manager of several IT projects, in particular American MiMedia (2010—2013) and TechTeamLabs (2013—2016).

Since 2016, she has been the chief operating officer of Ring Ukraine. In 3 years, under her leadership, the company increased its staff in Ukraine from 10 to a thousand employees with offices in three cities, and the company was considered the most innovative development office in Ukraine. In 2018, Ring was sold to Amazon for $1 billion, making it the second-largest asset purchase in Amazon’s history.

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