Oleksandr Danchenko
Oleksandr Ivanovych Danchenko is a Ukrainian politician. He was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in the October 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, appearing 10th on the party list of Self Reliance. Formerly the CEO of a telecom provider Data Group, in 2014-2019 headed the Parliamentary Committee for Informatization and Communications. He failed to win reelection in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.
Early life
Born in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, he attended school No. 108 in Kyiv, where he graduated with a silver medal. In 1997, he graduated from National Technical University of Ukraine 'Kyiv Polytechnic University', the faculty of Construction and Technology of Radio-electronic Devices. Later he received MBA degree from International Institute of Management in Kyiv and attended the Institute of Administrative Management in Canada.Career in business
Danchenko started his career in 1995, obtaining the post of technical director in the company "UkrTraks". In 1998 became the CEO of the satellite communication company CTC.Starting 2001 he was the CEO of the telecommunication company Datastat.
In 2005 created the national communication operator Datagroup by pooling together companies CTC, Datastat, Datacom, Krokus Telecom. He retained the post of Datagroup CEO until his election to the Parliament of Ukraine.
Political career
Non-partisan and has not been elected to elected office. Ninth on the list of the Samopomich party in the 2014 parliamentary elections in Ukraine.In the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019 he headed Parliamentary Committee for Informatization and Communications.