Our Team

President, Lang Development and Consulting Inc. – A seasoned executive with over thirty-five years of building and managing multi-million-dollar construction and materials companies and projects in domestic and international markets. Acknowledged for an ability to interface with foreign governments, comply with international regulations, create positive relations with clients, and be well received by executive leadership to develop, manage, and complete projects that return profit margins that meet or exceed projections.

Extremely knowledgeable of customs and business practices in the USA, Middle East, and Central European countries. International Projects: developing and managing numerous surface mining operations, hot mix asphalt, ready mix and block facilities, along with construction and consulting services have been completed in the countries of: Ukraine, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Poland and Russia.

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Robert Keeley’s experience included positions in public accounting and corporate financial management in the 70’s and 80’s.   In those roles he consulted with senior management in a variety of construction-related industries, including steel (rebar) manufacturers and various building product suppliers, including one company focused on export of steam management products through ARAMCO. Moving to a new career in the 90’s, he held positions in sales management and consulting in the built environments industry. His experience includes consultative engagements with clients in corporate, healthcare, and higher education.   He also holds certification as an instructor of a leading program focused on major project management with a primary focus on understanding the focus of the varied influencers involved in major projects.  Now retired, he welcomes the opportunity to work with the RUAI board and management team to ensure that the organization achieves its stated near and long-term goals for Ukraine’s recovery.  He holds a BSBA degree from Babson College, acknowledged as the nation’s leading educational institution with a focus on Entrepreneurship.

President/Owner/Senior Project Manager, Creative Environmental Solutions, Inc. (CES),
Brooksville, Florida.

CES is responsible for management of interdisciplinary environmental, engineering, and
geological projects, including contamination assessments, feasibility studies, sinkhole
evaluations, rock and mineral prospecting, land development ventures, mining operations, and
permitting (e.g., water use, environmental resource, industrial waste, air, water use, NPDES).
Mr. Foster Specializes in Geology, Hydrogeology, Environmental Permitting, Contamination
Assessment, Storage Tank Management, Groundwater Studies, Environmental and Exploration
Drilling, Mineral Prospecting, Phase I/Phase II Environmental Site Assessment, Clay and
Industrial Mineralogy, Portland Cement Chemistry, Waste Solidification/Stabilization
Education: MS in Geology, 1985, University of Florida. Graduate GPA 4.0/4.0 – BA in Geology,
1981, University of South Florida.

REUNITE’s Ukraine Project Manager – Federation of Builders – Alexander’s professional experience and knowledge has been instrumental in assisting Rebuilding Ukraine Association Inc. (RUAI) in Ukraine during the startup of the REUNITE education program.  His passion to give back and help Ukraine has enabled RUAI to connect with many of its education stakeholders in Ukraine.  We at RUAI look forward to his guidance into the future.
Alexander O. Rotov is the Chairman of GERZ HOLDING, a privately held Group of Companies.   The company focus is construction and development within Eastern and Western Europe and specializes in energy-saving management, and alternative investments across Ukraine. In addition, Alexander was a member of European Economic Senate (EES), the Senator of EES from Ukraine from 2015 to 2020.
Alexander’s management experience totals almost 30 years across different industries, including coal mining, heavy industry, construction, and development. Prior to founding GERZ HOLDING in 2011, Alexander joined the Board of Directors of GERZ CONSTRUCTION LLC in 2006, as its main shareholder, and initiated the establishment of GERZ Construction Group of Companies, achieving a prominent position on the Ukrainian construction and development market.
Alexander graduated from Donbas National Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture in 1996 and holds a Presidential MBA from Kyiv Business School (2008).

Link: Confederation of Builders of Ukraine

Director of Government Affairs, C.KREUZ Consulting

Carolyn Kreuzkamp is a seasoned market strategist and Federal funding consultant based out of San Francisco, CA and Melbourne, FL. In addition to helping non-profits, academic teams, and small/medium businesses establish their growth strategies at C.KREUZ Consulting, she serves as a federal funding consultant for the SBDC of Central California, an SBIR/STTR scientific reviewer for the NIH, and a GAFC Reviewer for the SBA. She currently sits on the board of the Small Business Association for International companies (SBAIC) where she advocates for both domestic and international small business engagement in Federal contracting. In her spare time, she helps educate women and minorities on competitively approaching Federal funding opportunities via her newsletter, FED CAPITAL.

Recent project highlight: in 2023, Carolyn had the opportunity to work with USAID in Guyana to train female “agropreneurs” on financial planning, marketing, and export planning.

Carolyn has a BS in Biochemistry and Pre-med from the University of Florida, where she was a Northrop Grumman Engineering Scholar, and an MBA in Operations and Marketing from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, where she was a Forte Fellow, Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital Fellow, and a Starling Life Sciences Fellow. She additionally served with the Peace Corps in China from 2016-2018, before the program formally closed in 2020.

CDM Engineering Ukraine – Daniel Aspleaf is the Owner and Managing Director, and has a master’s degree in chemistry from the University of Washington (USA) and has over 25 years of professional experience, 13 of them in Ukraine, Eastern Europe and the CIS countries.
Combining a background in the physical sciences with international business development, Mr. Aspleaf is experienced in developing and managing complex, large-scale infrastructure projects in various sectors, including civil and industrial construction, water, wastewater and solid waste management, transportation and energy-related infrastructure.
Mr. Aspleaf possesses a profound knowledge of the Ukrainian business environment, in particular related to infrastructure investments. This includes extensive experience with feasibility studies, procurement, tendering procedures, and project management particularly within the framework of FIDIC contract administration. Mr. Aspleaf has experience in the development and delivery of numerous seminars, trainings, workshops, and other capacity building and stakeholder engagement events over a range of topics, including to the state authorities.

Link: CDM Engineering Ukraine

Rebuilding Ukraine Agency – Alexander is the co-founder and Chairman of the Board of the Rebuilding Ukraine Agency and of Broad Street Capital Group, Alexander M. Gordin has served as an advisor to a number of public and privately held businesses, spearheading development, financing and management of communications, automotive services and alternative energy companies. With a significant number of cross-border financing assignments, as well as numerous mergers, acquisitions and divestitures to his credit, ranging in size from $0.3 to $444 million, Mr. Gordin possesses substantial negotiation skills and forensic due diligence tools.
Mr. Gordin is an international merchant banking professional with over 20 years of C-level experience providing cross-border strategic advisory services in the areas of export finance, international project finance, risk mitigation and business development. Clients include foreign governments, Fortune 500 corporations, municipalities and state enterprises. He has strong entrepreneurial instincts, combined with leadership and strategic skills as well as transactional and negotiations experience in over 30 countries.

Link: Rebuilding Ukraine Agency

Law Offices of Lynn Cole, LLC. – Chief Executive Officer. She is also the Academy, LCC. – Chief Executive Officer and Founder of BRDGES She is a Founding Member of the International Mediation Institute (The Hague) and a former President and Chair of the Board of Mediators Beyond Borders, International.
Ms. Cole is a fulltime ADR Specialist dedicated to avoiding cost, delays and the stress of prolonged litigation. She is a Harvard and Florida certified dispute resolution professional with experience in all aspects of ADR, including serving as an international mediator and Special Master, Special Magistrate, SEC Receiver and neutral evaluator. She has taught mediation for judges and attorneys in 23 countries. She is a former President of Mediators Beyond Borders, Intern’l and a founding member of the International Institute (The Hague).
Admitted to the Bar: Florida; Florida Supreme Court; U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida; ) the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals and U..S. Supreme Court. Past fulltime, “av”-rated trial attorney with successful record of representing business, commercial and governmental clients.. Extensive private arbitral experience in both federal and state litigation. She has extensive arbitrator experience in labor and employment cases, including representing both employers and employees in private and federal sectors. She has experience in multiple types of construction litigation experience including: representing owners, general contractors, and engineers in trials, arbitrations, and mediations in disputes ranging from $83,000 to over $120 million, including hospital (public), airport terminal, airport runway, water pipelines, bridges, and commercial residences involving issues of delay, interference, critical path, design standards of steel rebar, and glass specifications.
To meet the need to avoid cultural clashes in mediations and arbitrations in our shrinking world, BRDGES Academy (Building Resolutions for Disputes Globally with E-learning Strategies) was founded eight years ago as the only global and online organization to train mediators and arbitrators in intercultural skills. Recently, as its founder and CEO, Ms. Cole returned from training mediation and ancillary skills for graduate students at University in Perieaslav and Taras Shevchenko University in Kyiv Ukraine.

Alisa Rotova is from Ukraine and attends Parsons School of Design, The New School, studying Strategic Design and Management Program. She is a member of the Tau Sigma National Honors Society and a Global Democracy Ambassador Scholar.
While studying in the United States Alisa is volunteering at RUAI and helping the team get the REUNITE program started.
When at home in Ukraine Alisa works at Gertz Construction Corporation in Kyiv. Where she is working towards becoming an expert in operational design and strategy development, with a particular focus on green development and sustainability practices.

Dibrova farms ltd – Official advisor to the Makariv district on a voluntary basis.

Roman Fedorowycz has 31 years’ experience in the Ukrainian market having consulted Coca-Cola, Shell, Seagram’s, Renaissance Capital, and numerous large agro holdings.
He currently has a 5000-acre organic farm in Rivne Oblast.

From the start of the Russian invasion, he has personally raised donations and is also aiding Ukrainian Congress Committee of America and Ukraine Friends in ongoing aid to the Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Security Services of Ukraine (SBU), National Guard, Border Guards and others.

Mr Fedorowycz has helped the Makariv region attract a 16,000,000 euro grant from the European Union for the rebuilding of two kindergartens and remodeling a school and hospital. Also actively in talks with investors on building factories for building materials.
–  Languages: Fluent in English, Ukrainian, Russian, Spanish (moderate)

Mr. Bishop was a career foreign service officer with the US Department of State for twenty-two years.  He was a political specialist focused on East-West issues from the height of the Cold War through its waning years and up to America’s ultimate victory.  He held senior positions in US Embassies in East Berlin and Warsaw, and in Washington, DC.
From 1985 to 1990 he headed an interagency committee under National Security Council auspices, charged with developing policy options to encourage reform in the Soviet Union and the then Soviet Bloc.  After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Mr. Bishop retired from government.
Over the years his clients and teaming partners have come from the public and private sectors.  They include IBM, Price-Waterhouse, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Scientech, Inc., Garbersbau GmbH, Superfoss Construction A/S, and local and national government agencies and private firms in the Baltics, Russia, Ukraine and Central Asia.
Mr. Bishop holds a BA degree in International Affairs from Hunter College, City University of New York.

The University of Florida, M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management – As director, Robert leads the day-to-day operations of the Rinker School.  He spends much of his time engaged with industry partners while supporting faculty, staff, and students in keeping the School as one of the most reputable construction management programs in the country while maintaining its global recognition.
Prior to his return to UF in July 2020, he served as a Senior Associate Dean for Globalization and Global Fellow at Purdue University.  As senior associate dean, he was responsible for the overall strategic planning and execution of all international activities on behalf of the Purdue Polytechnic.  He provided leadership for more than a dozen global collaborative partnerships across four continents. Robert was recognized with the Purdue’s 2019 Global Vision Award for his accomplishments in globalization.

Link: Univ. of Florida ME Rinker Sr. School of Construction

Often referred to as the most visible face of the Ukrainian American community. With a history of appearances on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, PBS, NPR, and other outlets, he assists Ukraine and its worldwide diaspora in getting its message out. At the United Nations, he is the Chair of the UN Affairs Committee for the Ukrainian World Congress, where he attends weekly briefings and committee meetings on behalf of the international assembly of all Ukrainian public organizations in the worldwide Ukrainian diaspora of over 20 million people. Outside of politics, Andrij is a consultant on issues surrounding Ukraine, Russia, Eastern European culture and identity, Catholic and Orthodox religious practices, and leadership and activism in a global world. In New York City, he cantors’ liturgical services at St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church, while maintaining an active schedule as a moderator and emcee at public events. Lastly, Mr. Dobriansky has been recognized in the United States as a “Master Artist of Ukrainian Arts,” and has performed at venues such as Citi Field, the Prudential Center, Lincoln Center, and Carnegie Hall.

A dynamic, versatile strategic executive advisor with extensive experience across industries such as financial services, healthcare, non-profits, and retail. Known for spearheading strategic initiatives, optimizing risk management practices, and driving sustainable growth across organizations. Exceptional ability to deliver innovative solutions to complex challenges through collaborative leadership and a clear vision for enterprise-wide objectives.

Christine’s journey began in technology and operations management, revolutionizing IT systems, safeguarding information security, and leading seamless integrations at Self Reliance NY FCU. Building on this foundation, Christine ascended to CEO and Board Chair at Ukrainian National FCU, guiding the institution to a remarkable $35M growth in assets while spearheading initiatives that enhanced compliance, technology, and membership engagement.

Her transition into business development saw her architecting operational and governance strategies at DMG/HMG, where her efforts earned NCQA Case Management Accreditation and established regulatory alignment across eight NYC locations. Christine’s vision for organizational excellence continued at ODFFU Inc., where she streamlined processes and coordinated governance models as Treasurer, Board Liaison, and Operations Manager.

As Chief Executive Advisor and U.S. Liaison for CU-SUR, Christine has embraced her international role, forging strategic partnerships between Washington, D.C., and Kyiv. Engaging in high-level dialogues and fostering cross-cultural collaboration, her leadership has been a cornerstone for organizational success in challenging geopolitical contexts.

Throughout her career, Christine has blended strategic planning, financial expertise, and diplomatic finesse to meet and exceed ambitious objectives. With multilingual proficiency in English and Ukrainian and an unwavering commitment to excellence, she stands out as a transformative leader prepared to navigate and shape the future.

Robert Schmitz is a Representative to the United Nations Department of Global Communications with Pathways to Peace and has consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council government body (ECOSOC). He is also the Founder and President of Think Greener, LLC, a global provider of educational content that fosters a sustainable and circular economy.
For 25+ years Mr. Schmitz has worked in the A&E industry practicing architecture and construction management with a specialty in sustainable design.
His passion is to help society and the built environment achieve a sustainable future. He has served as an advisor and board member to public and private organizations in New Jersey. He played an integral part in standing up two disaster- recovery programs located in New York and New Jersey.
Mr. Schmitz holds a Master of Architecture and a two-year Certificate in Sustainable Design from New Jersey Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Architecture from New York Institute of Technology.
Robert continues to be a leader in sustainability and the new economy. He believes that through education, new technologies, green jobs, local laws, increased public awareness, strengthened resiliency in communities, support from global governments and a level playing field we can achieve sustainability in the built environment.

Sergiy I. Borysov, Ph.D. – has a broad scope of professional experiences: he is an educator, a researcher, and an entrepreneur. Sergiy was born and raised in Ukraine, where he attained his first doctoral degree from the National University of Kyiv, 2000. In 2006 he was awarded his second doctoral degree from the University of South Florida. Currently he is an Associate Professor at Saint Leo University in Florida. Aside from his academic duties, Sergiy functioned as a CEO of LeoTeq LLC and as a Chief Scientific Officer of Seventis Pharmaceuticals Inc., both small start-up biotech companies.

Development of academic and cultural ties between the USA and Ukraine is a passion and a focal point of Sergiy’s professional activities. Since 2006, Sergiy facilitated and organized a number of US-Ukrainian academic outreach programs, ranging from pre-school education to mediation of intercultural conflicts.