Nick Bilogorskiy

Nick O. Bilogorskiy (Ukrainian: Микола Олександрович Білогорський; Russian: Николай Александрович Бeлогорский; born on 27 June 1981 in Kharkiv) is a Ukrainian American cybersecurity expert, cofounder and co-chair of the Nova Ukraine nonprofit.

Education and career
Bilogorskiy holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC. He started working on computer security at Facebook in 2010. Later he cofounded Cyphort, which was acquired by Juniper Networks in 2017. In May 2019, he joined Google as a director of Trust and Safety and worked at Google until 2023. He presented his work on computer security at the RSA Conference in 2018 and 2019.

Advocacy and fundraising for Ukraine
In 2014 after Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation Bilogorskiy cofounded Maydan SF to organize the Ukrainian diaspora in the San Francisco Bay Area and raise awareness about the situation in Ukraine. Later in 2014 he cofounded Nova Ukraine, a 501(c)(3) organization (nonprofit) that raised funds for Ukraine and ran projects there to help vulnerable populations, internally displaced people and wounded soldiers who needed treatment. Bilogorskiy and Nova Ukraine also organized cultural events for the Ukrainian community in the SF Bay Area. Since February 2022 and after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Bilogorskiy and Nova Ukraine organized street rallies to support Ukraine then ramped up fundraising and humanitarian aid for Ukraine. During 2022, Nova Ukraine has provided humanitarian aid worth tens millions dollars to assist people of Ukraine with food, water, medicine, and other critical supplies. Same year, President Volodymyr Zelensky recognized Bilogorskiy's contributions as the cofounder and cochair of Nova Ukraine with the Order of Merit (Ukraine) 3rd degree.

Media coverage
Bilogorskiy provided expert opinion on computer security to national and local media in the US.

2020
Voice of America profiled Bilogorskiy in an article and a television story about the Ukrainian diaspora and Nova Ukraine helping Ukraine.

Forbes UA included Bilogorskiy's biography and photograph as #31 on the list or "40 Global Ukrainians". Forbes UA also introduced Bilogorskiy in an article on leadership and the impostor syndrome.

2022
During Russia's invasion of Ukraine, evening news in the San Francisco Bay Area covered street rallies organized by Bilogorskiy and his participation. In 2022, Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat profiled Bilogorskiy and included his photograph in an article on how Nova Ukraine used technology to scale operations.