Darya Zhuk

Co-Founder, Head of Legal & Partnership Communications at DÓBRA
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Belarus, BY
Languages
  • Russian Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Belarusian Native or bilingual proficiency
  • English Professional working proficiency

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Experience

    • Israel
    • Information Technology & Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Co-Founder, Head of Legal & Partnership Communications
      • Jul 2022 - Present

      https://dobra.world/ DÓBRA is an Impact Venture Studio. The very first Impact Venture Builder in Lithuania. We start from the ideation stage, create a brand-new startup teams around the concepts generated at DOBRA Grand Prix, grow them and hand over to the market (early VCs, corps). Our key features: focus on impact, ideation stage (involving human and AI), community reward program, pre-seed/seed investments into the bunch of startups clustered around the same social issue, mutually benefit partnerships (business, government, non-coms, academia). For ideation, we created DÓBRA Grand Prix a cycle of events and activities designed to bring together experts, founders, VC, IT, non-comms, creators, devs, marketers, etc. to collaborate and develop innovative impactful solutions. Our 2023 track is in mental health. Show less

    • Belarus
    • Legal Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Managing Partner
      • Apr 2022 - Present

      Beagle Legal is a brand-new name on the Belarusian legal market, represented by a team of experienced and business-oriented lawyers: until April 2022, we were practicing as the Belarusian office of the top tier Baltic law firm COBALT. Beagle Legal is a brand-new name on the Belarusian legal market, represented by a team of experienced and business-oriented lawyers: until April 2022, we were practicing as the Belarusian office of the top tier Baltic law firm COBALT.

    • Board of Directors' Corporate Secretary
      • Dec 2021 - Jun 2022
    • Poland
    • Civic and Social Organizations
    • Board Member
      • Jun 2020 - Mar 2022

      The DOBRA Foundation was established in Belarus in 2017 as a non-governmental organization the main purpose of which was to attract and unite financial, intellectual and organizing resources to appearing realize social impact programs and startups to develop social investment, innovations and entrepreneurship. Nevertheless, its activities started earlier - in 2013 with the largest contest of social startups in Belarus with educational and accelerations tracks – Social Weekend. Sixteen contests were held, more than 4500 initiatives of non-governmental organizations and citizens participated in them and almost 1.000.000 USD were invested directly by individual sponsors and companies. DOBRA was among the organizers of the Annual Social Business Forum, Social Impact Forum, other educational seminars and trainings about this topic. Also DOBRA Foundation played a leading role in Belarus in the developing the right frameworks for a market for corporate sustainability and corporate social responsibility, by unleashing the benefits for key economic sectors (including exchange of experience, analytics, analytics) and engaging in practical activities. Since March 2018, DOBRA Foundation has been hosting The UN Global Compact initiative in Belarus. The DOBRA Foundation was directly involved in the implementation and was itself the lead partner in 440 projects in past 8 years. Show less

    • Law Practice
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • Managing Partner
      • Apr 2015 - Mar 2022

      COBALT is top tier Baltic law firm COBALT is top tier Baltic law firm

    • Estonia
    • Legal Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Partner
      • Dec 2008 - Apr 2015

      I was one of the founding partners of the Belarusian office of GLIMSTEDT law firm. As a partner, I was engaged in development of the firm’s business in Belarus. My specialisation covered corporate & commercial law, M&A, corporate finance. Besides, I managed high-profile projects in such exclusive (for Belarus) areas of legal practice as public private partnership, investment activity and privatization. I was one of the founding partners of the Belarusian office of GLIMSTEDT law firm. As a partner, I was engaged in development of the firm’s business in Belarus. My specialisation covered corporate & commercial law, M&A, corporate finance. Besides, I managed high-profile projects in such exclusive (for Belarus) areas of legal practice as public private partnership, investment activity and privatization.

    • Senior Associate
      • Mar 2008 - Dec 2008
    • Brazil
    • Law Practice
    • Associate Lawyer
      • Oct 2004 - Mar 2008

Education

  • Belarusian State University
    B.A. in Jurisprudence, Jurisprudence
    2000 - 2005
  • School of Business & Management of Technology of Belarusian State University
    Master of Business Administration
    2005 - 2008
  • Baltic Institute of Corporate Governance
    corporate governance
    2019 - 2019

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