Gregory Kowalenko:  

Life I am currently a managing director and partner of a real estate development company in Prague, Czech Republic that I established in 1993 with a private Asian/European investment group. It was an assistant and myself for the first three years and today we have nearly fifteen people. We developed and manage two new office buildings and a refurbished century old office building that are all fully leased to local and international companies. Since I spoke Ukrainian at home with my parents and it is a Slavic based language, it helped me become fluent in the Czech language rather quickly, which is helpful since most of my staff and business contacts don't all speak English. Living and working here has been challenging since this was a former Eastern-block country until 1989 and so there were many conveniences we learned to do without in the beginning, but now the quality of life...Expand for more