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Oleksandr Kosovan
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Oleksandr Kosovan

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Oleksandr Kosovan is a Ukrainian tech entrepreneur and investor.

He started MacPaw in 2008 at the age of 21 from a dorm room. While being a student, he created the first version of CleanMyMac, a utility to declutter, optimize and protect Mac devices. 

Oleksandr has come on an exciting journey bringing his company from a team of 5 to a team of over 500 people, creating more than 10 products. Every fifth Mac on the planet has at least one MacPaw app.

  • Oleksandr managed to build a stable organization that maintained its position on the global market even during the full-scale war in Ukraine. Since the start of the russian invasion, he remains in Ukraine, supporting the team, Ukrainian defenders, and the country's economy. MacPaw even launched two new products within the first weeks of the invasion in 2022 (SpyBuster and Together App), a new cybersecurity division in 2023, and opened a new office in Boston.
  • Oleksandr Kosovan has been named the 2024 CEO of the Year in the "Technology Industry" category by the European CEO Award.
  • Oleksandr is also a co-founder of the SMRK Venture Capital Fund, which provides million-dollar venture investments for Ukrainian IT startups. Such companies as AJAX, Preply, Esper Bionics, and Deus Robotics are startups in which SMRK invested. As a Ukrainian, Oleksandr believes that in times of war the country needs a strong economy and stable entrepreneurship. So only in 2023 even during the full-scale russian invasion, SMRK Venture Fund invested in four new startups, including AI, cybersecurity and hardware once.
  • Oleksandr is actively involved in the improvement of the business environment, investment potential and effective entrepreneur-state relations in Ukraine. This is the reason for him being a co-owner of the business community CEO Club Ukraine, and a president of a union of Diia.City United.
  • Oleksandr is a massive fan of Apple technologies. In 2016, he bought a unique collection of nearly 40 vintage Apple devices New Yorks’ Tekserve to keep Apple history alive at MacPaw office. It has expanded to 323 Apple relics and will be transformed into a permanent public Apple exhibition at a creative space MacPaw Space in Kyiv. A part of the exhibition is now featured in MacPaw’s office in Boston.
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