Lenna Koszarny
Ms. Koszarny serves as Executive Vice President of UMAEF and Founding Partner and CEO of Horizon Capital, the UMAEF-sponsored investment firm. She is Chair, Board of Directors, American Chamber of Commerce of Ukraine and has 30+ years of investment experience in Ukraine, including raising $900m since the 2014 invasion, and catalyzing the largest investment in Ukraine in decades, a $1.5bn telecom acquisition by an EU strategic in September 2024.
Ms. Koszarny is responsible for managing the Horizon Capital team, which is contracted to provide shared services to UMAEF, comprised of program management and administrative services, to support Ms. Johnson as President and CEO of UMAEF.
Ms. Koszarny’s leadership has been recognized nationally and internationally, including Ukrainska Pravda’s «Top 100 Leaders of Ukraine: Beyond What is Possible» rating in November 2024, its «Top 100 Power Women Leaders» in March 2024 and its «Top 100 Leaders of Ukraine During Wartime» in November 2023, and her inclusion in Forbes Ukraine’s « Top 50 Women Leaders Leading Ukraine to Victory» in May 2023. In November 2024, she was included in the inaugural National Security News «Top 50 Women in Security List», the Financiers category. Ms. Koszarny leads Horizon Capital in an $12T industry with circa 15% senior women, inspiring greater engagement of women in private equity and investing. Under her leadership, HCGF IV is the first 2X Flagship Fund in Central and Eastern Europe, 1 of circa 10 in total, and 1 of only 2 globally that are led by a woman Founding Partner & CEO. She is an elected Member of the Mid-Market Platform Council of Invest Europe, the voice of the European private equity industry; a Member of the Private Equity Women Investor Network (PEWIN), bringing together 600+ senior women leaders in private equity with over $3T AUM; a Founding Member of the Ukraine House Davos Organizing Committee, and in July 2022, was recognized in Private Equity International’s 2022 Women of Influence in Private Markets list.
She is also a Member of the Board of the Ukrainian Startup Fund launched by the Government of Ukraine; a Member of the Supervisory Board of Ukrainian Leadership Academy; a Member of the Advisory Board of the Ukrainian World Congress, and, served as the first Vice-Chair of the Advisory Council of Kyiv-Mohyla Business School.
On August 24, 2020, the 29th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky awarded Ms. Koszarny with an Order of Merit for Service to Ukraine, third level, for her contribution to the country’s economy and investment climate. She is also a recipient of a Commemorative Medal issued on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of Independence by the President of Ukraine. In May 2024, she was awarded the 2024 Tryzub Leadership Award by The Myhal Family Foundation, in partnership with The Shevchenko Foundation. Ms. Koszarny is a CPA and a 1991 HBA graduate of Ivey Business School. She has been residing and working in Kyiv, Ukraine for over 30 years.
