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Andrii Okhotnikov

Andrii Okhotnikov

Managing Partner. Industrial project management, PMO design, оperational transformation of production systems.

Professional profile

A leader in managing large industrial systems and transformation projects, combining experience in hands-on operational management of Ukraine’s largest energy assets with the design of project management systems and the delivery of complex investment programs.

Experience managing the largest gas-production assets in Ukraine.
Managing teams of more than 5,000. Managing portfolios of industrial projects with a combined budget of UAH 40B.

CEO, GPD Shebelynkagazvydobuvannya, Naftogaz of Ukraine (2021–2024)
Led Ukraine’s largest gas-production enterprise: 3,000 employees, 60 fields, 1,500 wells, 90+ production facilities, 7.5B m³ of gas production a year.

Director of a production division, Gas TSO of Ukraine (2024–2025)
Operational management of critical divisions of the gas-transport system: 8 production units across 4 regions, 1,100 employees. Took part in preparing and delivering the strategic halt of russian gas transit.

First Deputy Director, GPD Poltavagazvydobuvannya, Ukrgazvydobuvannya (2020–2021), as well as leadership roles in regional development and land relations (2017–2020).
Setting up a PMO, re-engineering the capital-construction function, and building a stakeholder-engagement system across 11 regions of Ukraine.

Building a stakeholder-relations management system for the Naftogaz Group’s capital projects across 11 regions of Ukraine (2018–2020).

Consulting projects with PwC (process optimization, organizational restructuring, project management).

Took part in creating an industrial holding within the SCM structure.
Designed and implemented an integrated management system for a holding company comprising production, machine-building, trading, and service enterprises.

Experience and practice

Design and implementation of project management offices (PMOs) and portfolio management of capital investment
Strategic and operational management of large production systems in the oil and gas sector
Organizational transformation and crisis management of industrial enterprises
Management of complex industrial projects amid high uncertainty and limited resources
Stakeholder management; engagement with communities, regulators, and international financial institutions

Designed and implemented project management offices at three production enterprises.
+30% yearly well-drilling program; 25% optimization of the capital-repair project portfolio.

Ensured the resilience of the business model and high performance of the largest gas-production enterprise in wartime.
A 17% rise in average daily production in a year.

Delivered projects to build and reconstruct the largest gas-compressor stations of production enterprises (13 and 5M m³).

Delivered a project to transform the production organizational structure of a gas production company across 5 regions. Applied a portfolio approach to organizing the management of project and operational activity.

Delivered a project to integrate (organizationally and technologically) two critical production divisions of Ukraine’s gas-transport-system operator.

Delivered a record well-drilling program of a gas production company (56 wells/year).

Built one of the most effective stakeholder-relations and corporate-social-responsibility systems of an oil-and-gas enterprise in Ukraine (11 regions, more than 100 communities).

Implemented a portfolio methodology for investment management and increased the delivery of capital projects.

Developed and implemented a Stakeholder Engagement Strategy (2020) — a systematic model for cooperation with communities, regulators, and public institutions across 11 regions.

Took part in EBRD projects with a focus on ESIA and compliance with international financing standards.

Certifications and professional memberships

HEC Paris Executive Education — Sustainable Transition Management (2023)
Project Management Professional (PMP)
CORPORATE DIRECTOR
Social Risk Management
Award of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for services to the Ukrainian people (2023)

Education:

HEC Paris

Executive Education
Kyiv School of Economics

MBA
Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas

Oil-and-gas engineering and technologies
Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics

Enterprise economics; Financial law