Maryna

MARYNA TSEGULSKA

ABOUT ME:

I am a former lawyer with 5 years experience in management positions.

I have managed global projects for several clients or business units to exploit new market opportunities in fields as diverse as hotel, property development and rental, IT and banking.
I am fluent in Ukrainian, Russian, English, with a rudimentary knowledge of Hebrew.

Education:
• Batchelor’s Degree in the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management (Institute of law).
Qualifications: commercial and labour law
• Master’s Diploma (degree) in the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management (Institute of law).
Qualifications: commercial and labour law
• Project management course in IT at Hillel IT school
• Life coach specialist and psychology therapist (courses)

Work experience:
COO (Chief Operating Officer)
Royal Hospitality Group, Kyiv
(September 2023 – June 2024)

Responsibilities and Achievements:
• Business process management (three hotels in the center of Kyiv, a children's health camp, rental warehouses, yachting, and a wellness and health resort);
• Organization of team work and improvement of its efficiency, leading a team of over 30 people;
• Implementation of team building activities, regular trainings, and clear communication protocol to improve team cohesion and productivity in task execution;
• Handling all legal, financial, and operational issues related to the company;
• Effective management and resolution of all internal and external conflict situations in the company (role as a mediator in conflict situations between different parties);
• Cost optimization and cash flow management, ensuring timely payment of bills and taxes;
• Initiative in opening, organizing, and managing a children's health camp and a restaurant;
• Creation of detailed project plans for new projects with clear deadlines and tasks, hiring experienced personnel for new projects, and efficient resource allocation;
• Increasing company profits through process optimization and strategic work planning;
• Interaction and negotiations with suppliers, clients, partners, and investors;

Advisor (Legal Consultant) to the Member of Parliament of Ukraine
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
(June 2020 – June 2024) – Part time (project based)
Responsibilities and Achievements:
• Developed proposals and amended Ukrainian legislation to expand psychological and physical support for military personnel, veterans, and their families.
• Initiated and led a project to develop and adopt a law on the health and recreation of orphans and children from disadvantaged families in Ukraine.
• Initiated and organized a working meeting between the Ukrainian parliament, the Ministry of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine, and the Embassy of Israel in Ukraine on the topic of adapting military personnel to society after the full-scale invasion by the aggressor state, as well as on issues of psychological, physical, and emotional rehabilitation of military personnel and their families.
• Participated in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. Contributed to the development of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly Resolution on the situation, protection, and support of Ukrainian war children (forcibly deported to Russia, children living in occupied territories etc).
• Conducted negotiations and interacted with government bodies and international organizations to ensure support and resources for military personnel and their families, as well as on issues of protection for children from disadvantaged families and war children.
• Participated in meetings of the Budget Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and working groups of the Ministry of Social Policy and the Ministry of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine on the protection of the rights of Ukrainian Defenders.
• Member of the Temporary Special Commission of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to address issues of social guarantees for Ukrainian Defenders.

Project Manager (Consultant)
Lolly Co (IT company)
(June 2022-December 2022) – Full time

• Conducting workshops (analysis of the client's internal business processes and development of a new service system/software product to improve the client's business processes);
• Development of a product prototype based on the customer's requests and the result of the work during the workshop with the client's team;
• Creating a team of developers and designers to create and implement a product (internal systems, websites, mobile applications);
• Conducting weekly meetings with the customers;
• Communicating with clients, clarifying the technical requirements of the product, approving the introduction of additional functions or changing existing ones;
• Compilation of technical specifications, accompanying documentation, and creation of presentations for the client;
• Development of agreements following the conditions agreed with the customer;
• Estimating projects with developers;
• Daily morning meetings with the consulting team with a work report for the previous day and a work plan for the next day;
• Creation of a road map for the team and the customer;
• Conducting daily meetings with team leaders and the team to plan working day;
• Control of terms and quality of work performance, control and responsibility for the allocated project budget;
• Provide feedback to Project Management and Engineering teams on customer needs and pain points;
• Resolve issues in collaboration with the client and project team;
• Doing QA (detection of bugs), documentation of found bugs, their description and transfer to developers for work, and quality control of work performance.

Senior Project Manager, Acting Chief Executive
Royal Hospitality Group LLC
(July 2019 - March 2022) – Full time

• Project creation from idea to implementation/management of the entire project cycle;
• Managing team up to 14 people;
• Organization/management and legal support of projects (opening hotels, medical centers, a health centers, children’s health improvement camps, legal projects, government support projects related to budget programs);
• Arrangement of business processes within a project;
• Formation of a project task force and distribution of tasks within the team;
• Risk management and conflict settlement;
• Maintenance of documentation throughout all the stages of a project (writing, reviewing and approving);
• Conduct of companies’ contract work and receipt of permits and licenses;
• Conducting negotiations with stakeholders and distributed teams on a daily-basis;
• People management: interviewing, personal development, rotations, conflict-resolution;
• Giving legal advice to the personnel (in the sphere of the corporate law, business law, labor law, and tax law).

Lead Legal Counsel
St Sophia Homes (an investment and development holding)
(October 2015 to January 2019) – Full time

• Planning of work stages and determination of critical tasks of a project of real estate, launching restaurants and a yacht club;
• Legal support of real estate transactions, registration of property rights, and other rights of real estate;
• Due diligence (preparations of legal reports);
• Giving legal advice in the sphere of construction, legislation analysis, and legal opinion preparation;
• Organization of legal entities incorporation/repeated incorporation, preparation of and making amendments to constituent documents, and development of incorporation documents;
• Contract work (analysis, development and changes, additions to existing treaties/contracts).

Chief legal Adviser (Logistics Center)
Ukrsotsbank PJSC (UniCreditgroup)
(July 2013 to October 2015) – Full time

• Organization of procurements and cooperation with suppliers;
• Work relating to the preparation, drawing up, and approval of business contracts;
• Giving legal advice and preparation of legal opinions;
• Conducting negotiations with suppliers;
• Organization of the work and maintenance of the documentation of the Tender Committee.