EACC Board of Directors

Marina Kats, Esq., President

Marina Kats was born and raised in Kiev, Ukraine and moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1979. Ms. Kats attended Temple University and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1985. Thereafter, she attended Temple University, Beasley School of Law, receiving her Jurist Doctorate degree in 1988. Continuing her pursuits in education, in 1995, Marina Kats also graduated from Temple University, Beasley School of Law with a Masters Degree, becoming one of a handful of women nationally to receive the L.L.M. in trial advocacy. Ms. Kats currently is a member of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, New York, Washington, D.C. and New Jersey Bar Associations and the Philadelphia Trial Lawyer’s Association. Ms. Kats is also on Temple University School of Law Alumni Board. In 1995, Ms. Kats founded the law firm of KATS, Jamison & Associates and today, the firm is a well-respected litigation firm with offices in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. The firm concentrates its practice in representing individuals and businesses in all areas of civil and criminal litigation. The firm was successful in representing clients before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, has secured several pardons for its criminal clients from the Governor of Pennsylvania and recently obtained a number of multi-million dollar verdicts in front of Federal and State juries.

Alex Garashchenko, Director

Alex Garashchenko was born in Kharkov, Ukraine and moved to Philadelphia in 1994. Alex founded his first company, Doodle, while he was a student at Temple. After graduating from Temple University with a degree in Marketing and Economics, Alex chose to continue building Doodle instead of a corporate career. Many of Doodle's first clients were local Russian-speaking business owners. Today Doodle empowers business leaders nationwide to implement new ideas that drive industry innovation, by providing them with a well-managed team of creatives and engineers to create business automation systems, mobile applications, and responsive websites.

Alex lives in Northern Liberties with his wife, where he also owns a local business incubator for health and wellness professionals. Trainer Hall provides fitness entrepreneurs with a functional training gym facility to train their clients and grow their business.

Alex is an active member of the Philadelphia tech community. He is the Chair of the Technology Round Table at the Pyramid Club and Organizer of the Philly Tech Professionals Meetup, with over 850 members.

Poulina Kalushner, Director

Poulina Kalushner came to the United States in September 1987. Being the first Russian-speaking Mortgage Broker in my Eurasian community sense 1994, I helped a lot of people to achieve their financial dreams.

Honors & Awards
Best business woman of the year, Wall Street Journal 2003 - 2005
Business woman of the year, 2004
Honorary state chairman, 2004
National leadership award, 2003, 2005
One of first business women in Eurasian community
Sales person of the year 1995 - 1997, 2003
Top mortgage broker
Who’s who woman of the year 2003, 2004, 2006
PK Capital Funding LLC

Poulina Kalushner is a member of the New Jersey Business Association as well as the Newtown Business Association. Poulina’s company, PK Capital Funding LLC, specializes in investment and commercial funding in the range of $5 million to multi-billion dollar deals throughout the United States. PK Capital Funding, LLC is built on the principles of honesty and integrity and does not charge any upfront fees.

Julia Karagodsky, Director

Julia is highly skilled in international taxation, with clients in more then 20 countries. As the the owner of Karagodsky & Associates, Julia built her company as a full-service accounting firm that caters to domestic and international businesses of all sizes.

Karagodsky & Associates provides clients with dedicated and responsive accounting professionals who help manage their clients' businesses and keep their finances on track with personalized services. Karasgodsky & Associates specializes in more than traditional accounting, auditing and tax services. Julia built the firm to thrive on solving problems, reducing tax liabilities, easing the financial audit process, managing and planning for growth, and preparing their client for the future.

Louisa Kipervas, Director

Louisa Kipervas is CEO of Tri-State Imaging Solutions LLC and the founder of Tri-State Health Foundation. She is highly skilled in business development, marketing, and relationship building.

Tri State Imaging Solutions, LLC provides on-site mobile ultrasound and diagnostic services in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. We are known for our dedication and passion in the medical community and take pride in our work and patient care.

Louisa's caring personality along with her drive and work ethic have enabled her to start a 501c3 certified non-profit organization that focuses on outreach and education. Our goal for the foundations is to educate the masses on the importance of prevention and to save lives, one preventative screening at a time.

Louisa is bilingual, fluent in Russian and English.

Michael Maizels, Director

Experienced C-Level Executive with the extensive knowledge in New Market Entry/Development Domestic and International markets, Fundraising, and Investments. Product and Offshore Team Management with the focus in organizational efficiency. Featured on Voice of America broadcast to share advanced knowledge of international markets, global economics, brand positions, and cross cultural education.

Anna Pronin, Director

Anna Pronin is Co-Founder of Bull’s Eye Business Consulting Inc., and the CEO of their United States division.

Currently, she is employed as the business development analyst for The Center for Advanced Vein Therapy in Huntingdon Valley, PA. Her focus is developing competitive market based strategies, assessing their risk and implementation for both long and short term strategic planning.

She has successfully introduced Cryotherapy to markets in the United States and Canada. In addition, she serves as a public relations counselor at "Philadelphia News”, the major publication for the Russian-speaking community of the greater Philadelphia area.

In 2000, she received the award for outstanding contributions developing relationships between the Russian Federation and the United States from the Northwest Academy of State Administration, St. Petersburg, Russia; where she received her MPA.

Vitaly Rakhman, Director

President of Vital Connections Inc. from 1998 yr. till present.

Vital Connections – publishing company for 3 Russian language news papers.
Journalist, Poet and Artist
President of Association of non-profit organizations for Russian language community of NE Philadelphia.
Member of the Board “Stand with us” Philadelphia Chapter.

Tanya Steinberg, Director

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Mark Rabkin, Director

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Daniel Innovaté, Director

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