The Olaf Pine Foundation
In peaceful times our mission is to implement new capabilities – innovative ideas, technologies, applied knowledge, and policies – for a better quality of life, safety, and human security.
Fostering mental health is the core priority of the Olaf Pine Foundation. War kills not only physically. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian military and civilians urgently need assistance overcoming trauma. Millions will need it tomorrow.
OUR PRINCIPLES
There is no shame in breaking.
We can all break.
We can all heal.
No one can do your inner work for you.
But this does not mean that you should or need to do it alone.
The future of humanity is in people and machine intelligence working together for
the improvement of human beings, society, nature, and our shared universe.
Activities
Mental health
Security
Technological Innovation
Emotional Intelligence
The core activities of the Olaf Pine Foundation are fostering human safety, improving quality of life, addressing challenges related to diagnostics and therapy of PTSD through the development, implementation and promotion of new methods and technologies for psychological and physical rehabilitation and mental health improvement.
We also strive to reduce the risks from misconduct of individuals and algorithms in digital, physical, and hybrid environments in order to prevent human rights violations, physical threats. and harm to mental health.
Team
Oleh Derevianko
Business and Social Entrepreneur
Co-founder and Chairman of the Board of ISSP — Information Systems Security Partners, an international cybersecurity company. Expert in cybersecurity, leadership, and transformational management. Author and founder of several cultural and educational initiatives.
Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine (2015-2016).
Valerii Tsiupa
Transformation and security expert
Co-founder, CEO at the International Cyber Academy.
Co-founder at the NGO Crime Stoppers Ukraine.
Member of the Coordination Council for the Development of the Digital Economy of Ukraine.
He has many years of experience in the implementation of IT projects, international projects, reforming the law enforcement sector.
Anzhelika Skochylis
Projects Coordinator
Dmytro Shestakov
Innovation Management Expert
Tetiana Bannitsyna
Legal Counsel
Anzhelika is a coordination and communication professional with a focus on international missions and projects having worked for the past 10 years at the UNDP, EU, and the OSCE. During her work at the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Anzhelika spent 18 months assisting international monitoring officers in the Anti-Terrorist Operation Zone in the Donetsk region.
Founder, CEO at Thinkera innovation product development company. He is an expert on the innovation of UN Development Programs and Global Compact, a member of the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) and a member of PMI Kyiv Chapter, PhD, MBA, PMP. , visiting professor at Kmbs. Worked with DRDO (India) and DDAR USA). For 16 years, he has been developing innovative products in FinTech, Edtech, Healthtech and Cybertech.
Tetiana is a law professional with extensive expertise in commercial, international, corporate, tax, and civil law. She has over 16 years of experience having worked both in Ukraine and abroad with a focus on legal due diligence as well as partner, contractor, and subcontractor relations.
Taras Yaremenko
Project Management Expert
Partner at Thinkera innovation product development company. For 18 years, he has been creating new products and managing innovation projects in IT and IoT. Specializes in creating AI-based PaaS in the direction of Edtech, Fintech, military and dual-use technologies. He has collaborated with the DRDO (India) and the Chief Scientist's Office (Israel).
Dariia Kozachok
Accountant
Dariia is an experienced accountant with a focus on cost and tax accounting and reporting. She has over 6 years of experience in supporting businesses having served as an accountant and deputy chief accountant and has a profound knowledge of Ukrainian accounting, labor, and tax legislation.
Scientific Experts and Advisors
William D'Аlelio
Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist
Dr. D’Alelio specializes in psychotherapy, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Program Development for Psychological Treatment. He has over 35 years of experience in Clinical Psychology. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Miami Coral Gables in 1983, with specialized training in PTSD Crisis Intervention at The Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute of The University of California.
Oleg Druz
Psychiatrist
Ksenia Voznitsyna
Neurologist
Head of the Psychiatry Clinic of the National Military Medical Clinical Center “Main Military Clinical Hospital” – Chief Psychiatrist of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,
Colonel of Medical Service, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Certified Narcologist, Honored Medical Doctor of Ukraine, Laureate of the National Award of Ukraine in the field of science and technology.
Director of the Lisova Poliana State Veterans Hospital of the Ukrainian Ministry of Health Care, Neurologist and Master of Business Administration in Health Care. Founder and administrator of the Center for Mental Health and Rehabilitation of Veterans, an expert in organizing and managing medical-and-psychological rehabilitation as well as in researching and treating post-concussional syndrome (a ‘signature of war').
Supervisory Board
Paul Zalucky
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Celia Strauss
Member of the Supervisory Board
Nataliia Viatkina
Member of the Supervisory Board
Paul R. Zalucky is an independent consultant at international projects focusing on businesses intelligence, risk management, and international relations.
Mr. Zalucky entered public service and worked for the U.S. Government from 1982 until his retirement in 2007. Overseas, Mr. Zalucky served as the Senior Advisor in two geopolitically key locations: to Amb Pifer and Amb Pascual in Kyiv and Amb Ash in Warsaw. In 2002 he was promoted to the Senior Executive ranks of U.S. Government Service.
Mr. Zalucky spent most of his career overseas, devising solutions to political and cultural challenges, and engaging foreign government officials on regional stability issues. He is a Central and Eastern Europe expert and has experience in South Asia and the Middle East. In 1997-1999 and 2003-2005 in Washington, Mr. Zalucky served in Senior Executive positions, working with White House officials on issues which affected policy on specific projects.
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Celia Straus is an author, screenwriter, producer and instructional designer for multimedia with a primary focus and three decades of experience with United States military and Veterans issues.
Celia has teamed on large scale communications, technology and training projects for government agencies such as the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Justice, Center for Disease Control, Army Wounded Warrior, the Bureau of Primary Health Care. Her scripting and print work has won over 100 top national awards, many for training and public affairs projects having to do with the American Armed Services. Celia also served as the primary writer on numerous American Red Cross communications projects.
Based on her work with patients and their families at Walter Reed Hospital and Navy Medical Hospital in 2003 through 2007, Celia authored one of the first books on Post Traumatic Stress and Traumatic Brain Injury, Hidden Battles on Unseen Fronts: Stories of American Soldiers with Traumatic Brain Injury and PTSD, which was published by Casemate, the largest publisher of military books in both the United States and UK, in 2009.
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Nataliia Viatkina is a philosopher and scholar, who has been studying philosophical problems in the field of formal logic, analytical philosophy, cognitive science, and philosophy of mind and language for more than three decades.
Viatkina is a senior scientific researcher with the Hryhory Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (since 1975) where for many years she worked under the leadership and in co-operation with a well-known Ukrainian Philosopher and Academician Myroslav Popovych (1930-2018).
Nataliia is also a lecturer at the Ukrainian-American Liberal Arts Institute “Wisconsin International University Ukraine” (Concordia University) where she teaches an MBA course in Research Methods in Business and a course in Philosophy to international students from Africa, Asia, and the Caucasus.
Formerly, Viatkina served as a Coordinator of Research Programs at the NGO Center of Social Prognosing and as a Program Coordinator at the American Councils for Collaboration in Education & Language Studies (ACCELS). She also served as the Executive Director of the Transformation of Humanities in Ukraine Program at the International Renaissance Foundation.
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Adam Bergmann
Member of the Supervisory Board
Adam is an expert in international relations with the deep expertise and experience in project management, diplomacy, new market development, multicultural team building, government relations, corporate leadership, major contract delivery, crisis management, and cultural fluency.
Born in the USA, originally from New York City, he has been professionally engaged in Central and Eastern Europe for +25 years working for global corporations, government, think-tanks, and as independent consultant and entrepreneur.
Mr. Bergmann is also the Managing Director of Bergmann & Associates providing corporate intelligence and investigations, security assessments, risk mitigation and trade advisory services.
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Oleh Yaskiv
Member of the Supervisory Board
Oleh Yaskiv is a Vice Rector on Science and the Director of the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Information and Resource Center at the Ukrainian Catholic University. He is a scholar, a film expert, curator, and a civic and political activist. Yaskiv has devoted 20+ years of his life to scientific research with the Institute of Physics and Mechanics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine where he defended his doctorate thesis (2010) and served as a Deputy Director.
Oleh has been an active member of the civilsociety starting 1999 when he became a Leaders School trainer and was organizing international projects aimed at facilitating and enhancing cross-border dialogue. He has chaired the European Dialogue Analytical Center since 2016 and has been a devoted member (since 1989) of the Ukrainian scout organization Plast.
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Facing Life
The Facing Life project works towards reducing and preventing suicides caused by PTSD or by other kinds of acute stress disorders. The project is predominantly focused on helping war veterans, law enforcement and security services veterans, active military, and medics. We have also discerned that members of their families often need help, too.
Facing Life
The Facing Life project works towards reducing and preventing suicides caused by PTSD or by other kinds of acute stress disorders. The project is predominantly focused on helping war veterans, law enforcement and security services veterans, active military, and medics. We have also discerned that members of their families often need help too.
By promoting the use of best practices, knowledge, methodologies, and modern technology for early and effective diagnosis and treatment of PTSD and other mental disorders, we strive to not only reduce suicides but to also create a workable system that will be helping persons suffering a PTSD or ASD to heal and improve their lives.
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Проект "Діти бійців АТО"
Based on experiences in the USA, the peak in suicides and overt manifestations of mental health disorders among Veterans occurs in the 2nd and 8th year after participation in hostilities. In Ukraine, a sharp wave of suicides and antisocial behavior can be expected in 2022-2024, which is further complicated by the ongoing war which causes continually increasing number of people to be impacted by PTSD and othe stress disorders.
PLEASE JOIN!
The Olaf Pine Foundation collaborates with rehabilitation centers, hospitals, veteran organizations, practicing clinical psychologists and psychotherapists that have the expertise to diagnose and treat stress disorders.
We enjoy the support of socially responsible businesses, philanthropists, Ukrainian diaspora, international organizations, and are partnered with the Ukrainian Ministry for Veteran Affairs, Ministry of the Internal Affairs, Ministry of Defense, and Ministry of Health.
Please contact us if you would like to join and contribute to the following activities:
training for biometric diagnostics system operators
training for psychologists, psychotherapists, and psychiatrists in the application of biometric technologies to diagnose mental disorders
assistance in rehabilitation and adaptation
diagnostics and treatment of mental disorders
research, development, and implementation of new projects and initiatives aimed at addressing PTSD and ASD issues.
We invite experts, socially responsible businesses, national government agencies, local governments, and non-governmental organizations to join efforts in addressing one of the most critical challenges of our times!
Publications
Our Partners
To provide financial support for
Olaf Pine Foundation activities in USD:
company Name - OLAF PINE FOUNDATION
IBAN Code - UA273052990000026009026807593
Name of the bank
JSC CB "PRIVATBANK", 1D HRUSHEVSKOHO STR., KYIV, 01001, UKRAINE
Bank SWIFT code - PBANUA2X
Company address : 10/14 Volnovaska Str, Kyiv, 03124, Ukraine
Correspondent bank
Account in the correspondent bank : 001-1-000080
SWIFT Code of the correspondent bank : CHASUS33
Correspondent bank
JP Morgan Chase Bank, New York ,USA
Payment details: donation for statutory activities from ...
(name of a donor)
PayPal: donate@olafpine.org
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i n f o @ o l a f p i n e . o r g
10/14 Radishcheva Str., 03124 Kyiv, Ukraine