Twenty years after working together in telecom, Olha Berezhna joins Oksana Ferchuk’s team at the Ministry of Digital Transformation
November 10, 2026, 14:45 — Anastasia Kerpan
Olha Berezhna has become a new deputy minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, reporting to Minister Oksana Ferchuk, the ministry’s press service reports.
At the time of the appointment, Oksana Ferchuk already had First Deputy Minister Valeriia Koval and five deputies: Oleksandr Zakusylo, Natalia Denikieieva, Stanislav Prybytko, Olha Krevska, and Vitalii Balashov.
Olha will coordinate the Ministry of Digital Transformation’s work on developing digital competencies at the national level. Her tasks include programs that will help people master digital skills, move into digital professions, and create their own products. A separate area is making digital education accessible to people with different needs.
Olha has more than 20 years of experience in human capital management, including more than 15 years in IT and telecom. Here is what is known about the new deputy minister.
What is known about the new deputy minister of the Ministry of Digital Transformation?
The new deputy minister at the Ministry of Digital Transformation has over 20 years of experience in human resources management, organizational development, and HR consulting.
Berezhna began her career at SUN InBev Ukraine, where from 2004 to 2006 she worked as HR Director for the eastern region.
Over the next two years, Olha Berezhna served as HR Director at PEOPLEnet, a Ukrainian telecommunications operator specializing in mobile communications and wireless internet.
At the same time, from 2005 to 2007, the current Minister of Digital Transformation, Oksana Ferchuk, also worked at this company. She was then Marketing and Sales Director. In fact, both devoted a significant part of their careers to the telecommunications industry. Olha Berezhna worked at Vodafone Ukraine and VEON, while Oksana Ferchuk worked at UMC (later MTS, now Vodafone Ukraine) and Viasat. Their professional experience covers various areas of this business—from mobile communications to satellite television.
Olha Berezhna also worked at SystemGroup, an IT company and systems integrator, and at Terra Food, a Ukrainian group of companies in food production and the dairy industry.
In 2018, she moved to Metinvest Digital, an IT company that provides digital transformation and technological development for enterprises of the Metinvest Group, owned by Rinat Akhmetov. There, until 2021, she was responsible for HR and organizational development.
After that, Olha Berezhna moved into her own professional practice as an independent HR consultant.
Berezhna came to public administration not from politics but from the corporate sector. Her transition is not unique for the Ukrainian civil service.
For example, the current AI CTO of the Ministry of Digital Transformation, Dmytro Ovcharenko, came to public service from SoftServe; the ministry’s Chief AI Officer, Danylo Tsvok, came from Metinvest Digital; and Oleksandr Tsybort from iLounge was appointed Deputy Minister of Economy for Digitalization.
The state is evidently continuing to attract people specifically from business, counting on their experience in managing teams, launching products, scaling processes, and implementing technologies.