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Empat Tech, an international services and product company, announces a leadership transition: founder Nazar Gulyk is handing over the CEO role to Igor Repeta. The decision comes at a time of steady growth and is designed to strengthen operational maturity, scale delivery, and accelerate AI initiatives.
The transition reinforces Empat Tech’s strategic direction: operational excellence, quality control, and scaled risk management—capabilities required to deliver more complex, global projects and deepen strategic partnerships.
Key facts about Empat Tech
Why Empat Tech is changing its leadership model now
Empat Tech is entering a new phase where predictable execution, consistent quality at scale, and readiness for more complex programs across countries and time zones become critical. This change enables a clear separation between operational and strategic focus.
The CEO concentrates on processes, delivery discipline, quality, and risk management. The founder focuses on new partnerships. This approach reduces operational risk during growth and strengthens the company’s ability to execute global projects.
New CEO: a focus on operational excellence and scale
Igor Repeta has been with Empat Tech for the past four years and played a key role in building the company’s operating model as COO. Before becoming CEO, he oversaw delivery, operational processes, financial discipline, and team scaling.
This decision is driven by ambition – and a sense that the timing is right. Empat is in an extremely strong position with a great team. We’re clear on what we’re building, how we’ll move forward, and how we’ll grow aggressively. I believe we’re ready for the next stage. Igor is an operations leader with exceptionally high standards. He builds the company’s operating system: a clear operating cadence, transparent ownership, quality control, and risk management. That gives clients predictable outcomes and stable quality – even across complex, long-term, multi-team initiatives.
commented Empat Tech founder Nazar Gulyk.
Empat already has a strong team, client trust, and an operating system that’s ready to scale. My focus is to make execution even more predictable: clear processes, transparent ownership, stable quality at scale, and strong risk management. In parallel, we’ll deepen strategic partnerships and accelerate AI initiatives that are becoming critical to our clients’ competitiveness.
commented Empat Tech CEO Igor Repeta.
What this means for clients and partners
For clients, this change means more predictable product delivery and lower operational risk. Empat Tech is strengthening delivery discipline, quality standards, and transparency in how complexity is managed – so clients can trust the company with more critical initiatives.
We’ve already proven we can maintain quality and pace in difficult times – now we’re strengthening the operating system to do it even better for bigger challenges.
Empat Tech as an employer: culture and empathy in focus
As Empat Tech enters its new growth stage, it is strengthening operational management while maintaining high engineering standards. Team members and candidates get the opportunity to work on technically complex products and AI projects in health tech, fintech, aviation, and automotive – within an international environment built around long-term partnerships.
At the same time, Empat emphasizes a culture of empathy: mutual respect, transparent communication, support in challenging moments, and shared accountability for outcomes are part of the company’s DNA – just like engineering quality.
About Empat
Empat is a Ukrainian services and product company with roots in Kyiv, operating since 2013. In its early years, the company worked under the name Schrödinger’s Cat Laboratory, and in 2018 – after the merger of several companies – the brand was renamed to Empat. Since then, Empat has grown as a company with a single founder and owner, Nazar Gulyk.
The company specializes in end-to-end digital product development—from needs discovery, systems architecture, and UI/UX design to engineering and go-to-market launch.
Empat combines product thinking, empathy for users, and technical excellence, and is actively expanding artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities across medical technologies, financial technologies, aviation, and the automotive industry.
From 2021 to 2025, part of Empat operated as a startup studio and invested in Ukrainian-rooted startups, including BigSister AI, Obimy App, Kuka App, ShredSpots, Clueby, and others.
Over 10+ years, Empat has delivered 300+ digital products across 17 countries. Clients and partners include Porsche, Panasonic, Transparency International, Heinemann, CBRE, as well as dozens of startups and scaling companies.
