Initially, Mykolska advised the startup as a member of the Diia.City United union, after which she received an official offer of cooperation.
Initially, Mykolska advised the startup as a member of the Diia.City United union, after which she received an official offer of cooperation.
Former executive director of the Diia.City United union, Natalia Mykolska, will take up the position of Vice President of Growth and Affairs at the Ukrainian defense-tech startup Sine Engineering starting October 19. She announced this in an interview with Forbes Ukraine.
The company specializes in the development of sustainable communication, navigation, and onboard autonomy systems for civil and dual-use applications.
Sine Engineering is known as the first company to receive investment from the American-Ukrainian Reconstruction Fund . Mykolskaya’s appointment was the second reinforcement of the company’s top management in recent months — at the end of August, the former head of Bolt in Ukraine Taras Potichnyy joined the team , taking the position of Senior Vice President of Growth.
"I join Sine Engineering as VP of Growth and Affairs. The company develops resilient communication, navigation, and onboard autonomy systems for operation in environments where satellite navigation and traditional communication channels are unavailable or unstable. These are both civil technologies and dual-use products," said Natalia Mykolska.
According to her, the main goal of the startup is to create technologies that guarantee technological advantage for Ukraine and its allies.
"To realize this mission, Sine must be a global player: have access to technology and talent, international partnerships, capital and production capabilities. My scope of work includes the company's international growth strategy and support for scaling in priority markets," she emphasized.
Mykolska's other key areas of work include Government and Stakeholder relations in Ukraine and internationally, strategic communications, investor relations, and networking between the startup's international teams. She added that these tasks will be implemented gradually.
She also added that the transition schedule will be extremely intense: "Between the last working day at Diia.City United and starting my new position, I will only have two days off. I will go out and immerse myself completely in work. The company is developing rapidly, there is no way to postpone leaving."
To ensure a smooth transition for the new head of Diia.City United, Natalia Mykolska will remain as an advisor to the union for a while.
