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"Elita Ukrainy" The National Rating Platform "Elita Ukrainy" presented the rating "TOP-20 businessman-innovators of Ukraine – 2026". It includes entrepreneurs from various sectors of the economy whose projects are related to the technological transformation of business, the creation of new manufacturing, and the development of medicine, IT, the agro-industrial complex, and infrastructure.
According to ElitExpert, the study primarily analyzed the entrepreneurs' activities in 2025–2026 years, but their previous contributions to the development of the respective industries were also taken into account.
The top five included Viktor Pinchuk, Vasyl Khmelnytskyi, Serhiy Tihipko, Andriy Stavniytsier and Taras Kytsmey. They were followed by Andriy Vadaturskyi, Vyacheslav Kruk, Yurii Kosiuk, Andriy Verevskyi and Vladyslav Chechotkin.
One of the directions of the ranking was industrial modernization. Viktor Pinchuk is represented through the development of Interpipe and the technological renewal of industrial production. Ihor Liski is represented through EFI Group's investments and the NovaSklo project for creating a modern float-glass production in Ukraine.
In the IT and technology category, the ranking included SoftServe co-founder Taras Kytsmey, Genesis co-founder Volodymyr Mnoholetniy, Intellias co-founder and CEO Vitaliy Sedler, and Octava Defence founder Oleksandr Kardakov, who develops Ukrainian technological solutions for the defense and security sphere.
The medical direction is represented by Vyacheslav Kruk – founder of the medical holding INTO-SANA and co-founder of YEMETS ACADEMY and REALIVE-MED. YEMETS ACADEMY develops an expert network for prenatal diagnosis of the future child's heart and early detection of complex congenital pathologies. REALIVE-MED in Chornomorsk works in the field of comprehensive medical rehabilitation.
A separate block of the ranking is agribusiness. Andriy Vadaturskyi (NIBULON), Yurii Kosiuk (MHP) and Andriy Verevskyi (Kernel) represent different models of industry transformation – from agricultural logistics and export infrastructure to automation, processing and the development of the food direction.
In logistics and e-commerce are represented Andriy Stavniytsier (TIS), Vyacheslav Klimov and Volodymyr Popereshniuk (NOVA), as well as Vladyslav Chechotkin (ROZETKA).
When forming the ranking, the scale and innovativeness of projects, investments in Ukraine, the application of technologies, job creation, international competitiveness and the potential significance of the business for post-war recovery were taken into account.
The authors of the study emphasize that the ranking is not a list of the richest Ukrainians. Its task is to show different models of entrepreneurial innovation and projects capable of influencing the structure of the Ukrainian economy in the coming years.
The full ranking and information about all 20 participants are published on the National Rating Platform "Elita Ukrainy".
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