Jaroslaw Z. Johnson is President and CEO of Western NIS Enterprise Fund.  She directs, oversees, and provides overall management for the WNISEF program activities and remains a member of the Fund’s Board of Directors in addition to her role as President and CEO.  Ms. Johnson was managing partner of an international law office in Kyiv, Ukraine, which she launched in the early 1990s. Her extensive international corporate practice included mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, financing transactions, project finance, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act compliance in the US and Central and Eastern Europe. She advised many Fortune 500 companies and other Western multinationals on cross-border transactions with Ukraine. During her many years as an international corporate attorney in Ukraine, Ms. Johnson was consistently recognized by international legal directories as a leading lawyer in Ukraine’s corporate, banking and finance, and energy sectors.