User:OlegDre/sandbox

Oleg Dryzhak (born November 13, 1986), known professionally as Oleg Dre, is a Ukrainian-Israeli tech entrepreneur and investor. Born in a provincial town Romny which is in Sumy region in North-Eastern Ukraine, Oleg was showing outstanding talents early in his childhood. He was practicing piano lessons for 6 years and was in top 5% among the scholars in terms of sport and academic performance which led to his nomination for admission to a leading National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy on privileged terms.

His professional career started in 2007 with a job of an investment analyst in an asset management firm Foyil Asset Management Ukraine, a part of Foyil Group - an internationally recognized financial services organization with the distinction of a 5-star rating by Morningstar. In 2009 he joined Dragon Capital, a leading Ukrainian investment bank minority-owned by Goldman Sachs where he was overseeing trading and portfolio management for HNWI being at the head of Wealth Management division of the company. From 2013 Oleg was involved in operations improvement programs and corporate M&A in two biggest industrial companies in CIS - Smart Holding Group of a Ukrainian billionaire [|Vadym Novynskyi] and Kazchermet, an industrial holding in Kazakhstan.

In the beginning of 2016, Oleg was appointed an advisor to a Task Force working on the reform of State-Owned Enterprises (SOE) and privatization at The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine. After the Ukraine's Minister of Economy and Trade Aivaras Abromavičius and his team resigned on 3 February 2016 stating that corrupt officials had blocked systematic reform and were attempting to gain influence over state enterprises such as natural gas company NAK Naftogaz, Oleg embarked on a political career. With a few teammates from previous reformist task force he championed a Ukrainian political party [|Movement of New Forces] registered in February 2017 that was led by the third President of Georgia [|Mikheil Saakashvili] previously appointed as Governor of Odessa Oblast (region) by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

After unsuccessful political alliance of the Movement of New Forces and Volia Party when former president of Georgia and Ukrainian opposition leader Mikheil Saakashvili was stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship and extradited from the country, Oleg turned back to investment banking and venture capital. In the end of 2018, Oleg co-founded Carpe Diem Solutions - a Tel Aviv based IoT company specializing in ML-based edge computing and real-time, ALFA-powered technologies for 5G connectivity, movement tracking, precise positioning and surveillance radar systems.