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Oleg Pohotsky was appointed independent board director at Avangard, a fast-growing Ukrainian agribusiness that is traded on the London Stock Exchange.

Pohotsky is a corporate finance and investment management professional with over 40 years of experience in both industry and the financial markets.

Presently, he is the founding partner of Right Bank Partners, a member of the board of advisers of Kaufman & Co., a Boston-based investment banking firm, and serves as senior adviser to Governance Metrics International.

Prior to that, he worked as a senior executive at Bear Stearns, First Albany Corporation and Idanta Partners, a Texas-based venture capital affiliate of Bass Brothers.

Pohotsky holds a master of business administration from Harvard University. He also studied at University of Miami and Clarkson University.