Former MP from Odesa Borniakov becomes acting Minister of Digital Transformation

Following personnel changes in the government, Oleksandr Borniakov, a former MP from Odesa, has been appointed as the Minister of Digital Transformation. He will head the Ministry of Digital Transformation temporarily while the search for a new head of the agency is underway.

The decision was made by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

The appointment follows the dismissal of Mykhailo Fedorov as Minister of Digital Transformation on January 13. The very next day, he became the head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, after which the Ministry of Digital Transformation needed an interim head.

Oleksandr Borniakov is an entrepreneur and one of the key managers of digital transformation in Ukraine. In 2007, he founded the IT company SoftTechnics, which was later acquired by the American company Intersog. He is also the founder of VertaMedia, a video advertising monetization platform (since 2018, it has been operating under the Adtelligent Inc brand), co-founder of Clickky and the WannaBiz business incubator.

In 2015-2019, he was a member of the Odesa City and Odesa Regional Councils. Since 2019, he has worked as Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, responsible, among other things, for European integration, the development of the special legal regime Diia City, and the uResidency program.

His recent public initiatives include the presentation of the Ukrainian digital platform CodeUA at London Tech Week 2025. In addition, in the summer of 2025, he presented Sandbox, a pilot regulatory regime for Ukrainian companies working with artificial intelligence and blockchain technologies.

Last year, during the Odesa Economic Revival 2024 forum, then Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation Oleksandr Borniakov said that digital solutions had significantly reduced the level of bureaucracy in Ukraine. He also emphasized that thanks to government support, the private sector has received an impetus for the development of defense technologies: while at the beginning of the full-scale war there were only three drone manufacturers in the country, today their number exceeds 700 and this area continues to grow.

Анна Бальчінос