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Tech entrepreneur with over 10 years of experience. Key areas: HR Tech, social media, online marketplaces, product development. Starting his career as a designer in 2000, Yura has been building user interfaces for web and stand-alone digital products before the UX/UI acronym was invented. He collaborated with an advisory to Ukraine’s President Yushchenko between 2005 and 2010. On 24 February 2010, he has been awarded the Ukrainian national “Order of Merit Class III”. In 2009, he founded “Chumak Way” – a startup-focused business development consultancy that pivoted to a business event management service. Yura sold his stake in the company in 2013. In 2012, Yura co-founded Hubbub.fm - a “Twitter for Voice” which successfully raised an angel round, grew to 50K+ daily active users and was recognized by multiple media as one of the top European Startups in 2012. In March 2014 Yura started YouTeam, with a vision to enable startups to hire top software developers, even with a limited budget and time. Since then Yura was the Chief Product Officer of the company. In 2016 YouTeam pivoted to become the world's first b2b marketplace for engineering talent. In January 2018 YouTeam was backed by Y Combinator and then raised Series seed from Horizon Capital, Digital Futures and a group of prominent angel investors. Besides YouTeam work, Yura also mentors startups at YC Startup School, lectures at Lviv Startup School and teaches business development crash courses at Ukrainian Catholic University.