Olena Pinchuk

Overview

Olena Kuchma Pinchuk is the daughter of Ukrainian second president Leonid Kuchma, founder of ANTIAIDS Foundation, and Head of the Supervisory Board of the biggest Ukrainian media group, StarLightMedia.

Biography

Olena Pinchuk was born on December 3, 1970 in Dnipropetrovsk (now known as Dnipro). She attended physicotechnical and economics faculties at Dnipropetrovsk National University, and graduated in "Economics and Sociology".

Within 1995-1996, she worked in Department for economics at PrivatBank.

From 1997 - 2002, she was the marketing director of Kyivstar. In 2003, she founded ANTIAIDS Foundation, aimed at fighting AIDS epidemic in Ukraine. It is the first and only Ukrainian charity fund that exists thanks to the private funds and donations.

The Foundation is widely known for the national media promotional campaigns and attracting Ukrainian and international celebrities to the problem.

In 2010, she joined the UNAIDS High Level Commission on HIV Prevention.

Personal life

Pinchuk's father is the second President of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma. Her mother, Lyudmyla Kuchma, is the Honorary President of the National Fund of Social Protection of Mothers and Children "Ukraine to Children".

Elena Pinchuk was married to Igor Franchuk, an MP in the Ukraine up to mid-1997 and has a son with him (Roman, born on April 3, 1991).

In 2002, she married Viktor Pinchuk, Ukrainian businessman and philanthropist. They have two daughters, Katerina (born in 2003) and Veronika (2011).