
Before he became HELSI’s CEO, Yevhen Donets chaired a student parliament. His next education involved stubborn software, a payroll gap, and learning when an ordinary piece of paper could beat a digital campaign.

The HELSI co-founder learned that putting software in people’s hands takes more than a password. His path through training, entrepreneurship and digital government keeps returning to the same practical question: how do you make a new system work?