Ruslan Vashchenko is the head of design at Phenomenon Studio, where he leads the design department’s growth strategy across product UX/UI, web design and branding. The products he has worked on have achieved up to 40 percent higher user engagement and up to 50 percent shorter time-to-market, and the startups behind them have collectively raised more than $500 million in funding across verticals like healthcare, fintech, edtech and more. Vashchenko has hands-on experience designing digital products, building design processes and growing design teams in tandem with founders and product leaders.