Yevhen Zaihraiev is a banker with 23 years of experience in senior positions at Ukrainian and international banking groups such as ProCredit Holding, Eurobank Group, and PKO Bank Polski Group. He specializes in creating and developing efficient systems for servicing and lending to corporate clients, micro, small and medium-sized businesses.
Mr. Zaihraiev joined PrivatBank in 2020, in 2022, he was appointed as a Member of the Management Board for Small and Medium Business and from 2024, due to the decision to develop PrivatBank's work with corporate clients, he was appointed to the position of Member of the Board for Corporate Small and Medium business. In this role, he is responsible for working with corporate clients, the agricultural sector, leasing, and merchant acquiring.
He holds a Master's degree in Banking and a diploma in Leadership and Business Management from ALBA Graduate Business School (Athens), as well as an Executive MBA from the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School.
In the first half of 2026, Ukraine set an ambitious target: to increase manufacturing's share of GDP from 8.8% to 20%.
Since the summer, however, the conditions for doing so have become more challenging: strikes on production facilities and energy and logistics infrastructure are increasing risks. At the same time, protectionism and trade restrictions around the world are making access to foreign markets more difficult.
How can Ukraine preserve its industrial base and build new production capacity at home under these conditions? We will discuss this at KIEF 2026 during the panel discussion "Ukraine's Industrial Backbone".