Paul has a strong connection to his ancestoral homeland and has travelled there on numerous occassions. First as a student organizer, working with the Students Union of Ukraine to encourage young Ukrainians to vote and become involved in the political process. Later Paul coordinated a group of international experts working for the Council of Advisors to the Parliament of Ukraine. Most recently he organized and lead 500-person and later 150-person missions to observer the 2004 Presidential (Orange Revolution) and later the 2006 Parliamentary elections in Ukraine. Paul has been involved in a number of community organizations including the Ukrainian Youth Association, Ukrainian Canadian Students’ Union (past President), Canada Ukraine Chamber of Commerce, Ukrainian Canadian Professional and Business Association and the League of Ukrainian Canadians.

Paul is President & CEO of Rodan Energy, a leading provider of energy management and smart grid solutions. Prior to founding Rodan, Paul was a corporate and investment banker with CIBC World Markets and most recently practiced corporate finance and M&A law with Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP, one of Canada’s largest national law firms.

He is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada and holds a Bachelor of Political Science degree, a Bachelor of Laws degree and a Master of Business Administration degree. Paul is married and has four young children.

Daria has always been active in the Ukrainian community with numerous organizations and in several leadership roles. With the UCC Alberta Provincial Council, Daria was Vice-President prior to taking on the role of President; she lead a team in developing and implementing – in 2 weeks – a successful series of events with major media coverage in Edmonton to raise funds to support election observers going to Ukraine in December 2004. Other community involvement has been with CYMK, Ukrainian Parents for Bilingual Education, Plast, several cultural and educational organizations including President of the Dnipro Choir and a member of the production team of several major stage productions. Daria is a graduate of the University of Alberta in Political Science and has 4 children, all of whom are active within several community organizations.

As a community activist Serhiy worked in the areas of community development and Canadian-Ukrainian relations. He was highly involved in all election observers’ projects since 2004. During the last years he was a part of organizing teams of few large international forums for Ukrainians. He represented the Canadian-Ukrainian community and took an active part in the first historic diaspora-Ukraine parliamentary hearing in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in October, 2009.

Professionally Serhiy worked as a Financial Analyst at CIBC and currently works at Buduchnist Credit Union.

Serhiy was born and raised in Lviv where he finished his studies in Economic Cybernetics at the Lviv State University. As well he achieved Master of Political Science at the Ukrainian Free University, Munich, Germany.

Serhiy is married and has two children.

Oleh Romanyshyn completed his higher education in humanities at the University of Waterloo and the University of Toronto with a Ph.D. degree in Hispanic and Slavic Studies. He held teaching positions at the University of Waterloo, Wilfred Laurier University and Erindale College, University of Toronto.

Currently, he is Editor-in-Chief of the major Ukrainian Canadian newspaper Homin Ukrainy (Ukrainian Echo).

He is married to Anna Bolubash, a senior service specialist in the Toronto Public Library system.