Yury is an executive with 20 years of project management experience ranging from software solutions to company establishment. The developer of the “measuring unmeasurable” approach to generate quantifiable performance metrics for business units.
Background
Yury Vaitukevich was born on November 10, 1960, in village Zhirmuny, Voronovo district of Grodno oblast, Belarus. His mother was Maria Wojtukewicz (09.10.1935-24.10.2013) and his father was Alfred Ragoisha. In 1966 Yury with his mother and grandmother Apolonia Wojtukewicz (05.02.1906-20.01.1983) moved to town Lida.
Education
In Lida, after completing 8 classes (1968-1976) at secondary school #2 Yury was enrolled in a program majoring in Physics and Radioelectronics at secondary school #1 (1976-1978).
In 1983 he graduated from Belarusian State University with a Specialist degree in Physics and a major in Nuclear Electronics. In 1986 Yury completed postgraduate studies at the Department of Nuclear Physics of the Belarusian State University.
In 1995 he was awarded a Ph.D. degree in Physics and Mathematics at the Belarusian State University for a thesis on "Study of Nonlinear Optical Crystals by Spontaneous Parametric Scattering". His supervisors at that work were Dr. Mark Livshits and Professor Grigory Slepian from the Institute of Nuclear Problems at the Belarusian State University. In 1999-2003 Yury had internships at the University of Minnesota, University at Buffalo (United States), Riga Business School (Latvia).
Career
Yury Vaitukevich was a researcher in a field of Nonlinear Optics, Laser Physics, and Parametric Light Scattering at the Belarusian State University in 1980-1995. Since 1986 Yury worked at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno. At the Kupala University, he worked for over 30 years in different academic and administrative positions varied from a researcher to a vice-rector. In 2015-2019 Yury Vaitukevich was involved in the creation and development of Grodno Branch of the Belarus High-Tech Park.