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Ostap Korkuna
Остап Коркуна
BornSeptember 26, 1987
Lviv, Ukraine
Nationality Ukraine
Occupation(s)software company executive, nonprofit co-chair
Known forNova Ukraine
Awards Order of Merit (Ukraine) 3rd degree[1]

Ostap Korkuna (Ukrainian:Остап Коркуна; born 26 September 1987 in Lviv) is a Ukrainian American software engineer and executive, co-founder and co-chair of the humanitarian nonprofit organization Nova Ukraine in the San Francisco Bay Area.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Life and career

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Korkuna holds a Master's degree in Informatics from Lviv National University in Ukraine, which he represented at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals in 2008, ranking fourth and winning Gold.[8]. He worked at Facebook[9] before joining People.ai in 2019[10] and becoming a director of engineering.[11]

Non-profit leadership and fundraising

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Korkuna co-founded Nova Ukraine in 2014 and remains its volunteer co-chair.[12] In February and March 2022, in the first weeks of Russian invasion of Ukraine, he led street rallies in San Francisco, CA to raise awareness about the situation in Ukraine.[2][3] Central News Agency (Taiwan) covered these street rallies and interviewed Korkuna.[5] Voice of America Ukraine produced and aired a TV program that covered the history of Nova Ukraine and prominently featured its co-chairs, Bilogorskiy and Korkuna.[13][6] Finland's newspaper of record Helsingin Sanomat Daily explained how Nova Ukraine used technology to scale operations and fundraising, and published profiles and photographs of each Nova Ukraine director, including Korkuna.[7] Under Korkuna's leadership, Nova Ukraine raised funds for humanitarian aid for Ukraine and delivered over $50M worth of aid in 2022.[14]

As part of Charity Navigator's review of Nova Ukraine, Korkuna answered a variety of questions about the operation and accomplishments of Nova Ukraine in two recorded interviews in 2022[15] and 2023[16]. As a result, Charity Navigator scored Nova Ukraine's leadership and flexibility at 100%.[17]

In 2023, President Volodymyr Zelensky recognized Korkuna's contributions as the cofounder and cochair of Nova Ukraine with the Order of Merit (Ukraine) 3rd degree.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Decree of the President of Ukraine №556/2023 on Recognition with State Awards of Ukraine". President of Ukraine, Official Internet Site (in Ukrainian). 2023-09-04. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
  2. ^ a b Katsuyama, Jana (February 17, 2022). "Bay Area nonprofit worry Russia might be targeting humanitarian aid workers". Fox KTVU.
  3. ^ a b Narayanan, Shwanika (March 9, 2022). "'Get out of Ukraine right now.' Bay Area Ukrainians angry, frightened for families as Russia invades". San Francisco Chronicle.
  4. ^ "Nova Ukraine ; This Week in California News". KQED. NPR. May 4, 2022.
  5. ^ a b Zhou, Shihui (February 27, 2022). "Ukrainians in America: Ukrainians can't lose in the fight for democracy" (in Chinese). Central News Agency (Taiwan).
  6. ^ a b Khrystyna Shevchenko. "Nova Ukraine Featured on Voice of America News". YouTube (in Ukrainian and English). Retrieved 2023-07-02.
  7. ^ a b Larsen, Senja (2022-11-28). "Teknologia | Maailmassa on käynnissä ensimmäinen avoimen lähdekoodin sota, sanoo ukrainalainen Piilaakso-johtaja". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). Retrieved 2023-07-02.
  8. ^ "AMC ICPC 2008 World Finals". Competitive Programming Hall of Fame. Retrieved May 27, 2023.
  9. ^ "Facebook Representatives Held the Meeting with KhPI Students". Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute. August 11, 2017.
  10. ^ "Starting the People.AI Engineering Blog". Medium. July 19, 2019.
  11. ^ "Ostap Korkuna at People.AI Engineering". Medium. Retrieved May 27, 2023.
  12. ^ "Nova Ukraine Board of Directors". Nova Ukraine. 18 April 2022. Retrieved May 27, 2023.
  13. ^ Khrystyna Shevchenko (September 10, 2022). ""Історія масштабного благодійного фонду NOVA Ukraine з Каліфорнії"". YouTube (in Ukrainian). Voice of America. Retrieved 2023-07-02.
  14. ^ "Nova Ukraine delivers more than $50M of aid to Ukraine in 2022". PR Newswire. December 19, 2022.
  15. ^ Scally, Kevin (September 2022). "Ukraine Relief Efforts : Nova Ukraine". YouTube. Charity Navigator.
  16. ^ Scally, Kevin (April 2023). "Ukraine One Year Later : Nova Ukraine". YouTube. Charity Navigator.
  17. ^ "Nova Ukraine | Charity Navigator Profile". www.charitynavigator.org. Retrieved 2023-07-02.
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