Volodymyr is CEO and founder of Alight, the largest lighting rental company in Ukraine, which he started in 2006. Since then, he’s been a central figure for the Ukrainian entertainment and technical production community.

Known for his charisma, wit, and positive energy, Volodymyr, who also has a natural enterprising spirit, has needed all that and much more to ensure that Alight has been able to adjust to a wartime economy and survive since the full-scale invasion started in February 2022.

While he was thinking of ideas related to expanding the business into other parts of Europe, he had no idea that this repositioning would be forced to happen so rapidly and under such circumstances. He also didn’t imagine that it would be so tough! Opening the Alight Production Group in Warsaw, Poland, has essentially been like a startup!

Volodymyr has even been going out himself as a tech for rave parties and weddings! Volodymyr is a member of Kyiv City Council’s Culture Commission, and apart from his passion for music, performance, and the arts, he has a vested interest in elevating the importance and recognition of culture and entertainment in Ukraine’s future.

Despite – like all businesses in our industry – seeing many staff and crew joining the ZSU (Ukrainian Armed Forces) to defend the country, Alight has finally started to win some notable new business in the last year.

In the summer, the company was the lighting supplier for the main stages of the 3-day Atlas Weekend music festival staged in downtown Kyiv, and other recent projects have included lighting the 2025 Luxembourg Eurovision Selection event, delivering JLo’s “Up All Night” show in Yerevan, Armenia, and lighting the Beonix Festival in Cyprus, plus concerts there for Ukrainian DJ duo ARTBAT and UK musical duo Hurts.