Vitaliy Podolskiy is a distinguished Board Chairman, Non-Executive Director (NED) and C-Suite Executive with over two decades of international leadership in finance and governance. His expertise spans finance, strategy, audit and corporate governance across key global markets including the US, UK, EU, Israel, LATAM and the CIS. Renowned for driving radical business transformations, orchestrating complex turnarounds and delivering exceptional shareholder value, Vitaliy is a proven leader at both board and executive level.
He currently holds the position of Vice Chairman of the Board and Chair of the Audit and Anti-Corruption & Ethics Committees for JSC «O’zsuvta’minot», Uzbekistan’s national water monopoly and a state joint venture with Franklin Templeton, which serves as the primary vehicle for the Government’s USD 4.5 billion water infrastructure modernisation programme through 2035. He also serves as a Board Director for Solfay Group in Belgium, an investment and management group dedicated to fostering collaborations with entrepreneurs and scientists.
Earlier, as Group Chief Financial Officer of X5 Retail Group N.V., Vitaliy architected the financial strategy that transformed a mid-sized chain into Eastern Europe’s largest food retailer through aggressive M&A, capital-market strategies and operational scaling. Across his career he has served as Chairman, NED and committee chair for numerous LSE- and MOEX-listed and private-equity-backed companies, and has acted as a trusted advisor to shareholders, founders and PE funds through high-stakes crises, complex restructurings and periods of hypergrowth.
An IoD Chartered Director (CDir) and Visiting Professor in Finance, Strategy and Corporate Governance, Vitaliy’s contributions have been recognised with the “Best Independent Director” National Award (2019) and consistent inclusion among the Top 50 Independent Directors (2012–2020). He holds an MBA in International Business and Finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and is fluent in English, Ukrainian and Russian.
