Family and early influences
Bohdan was born on July 6, 2003, in Odesa and grew up in the Malynovskyi district. While his mother studied and worked, his aunt played an active part in raising him.
When he was two, Oleg joined the family and became his father. He spent time learning with Bohdan and encouraged his curiosity and interest in new ideas.
In June 2010, shortly before Bohdan’s seventh birthday, Oleg died suddenly. The loss changed the family’s everyday life. Bohdan had to become independent early and take on responsibilities around the home.
His grandparents, Natalia and Vyacheslav Marshak, became his main source of support. Their home offered care, attention and a sense of family. His grandfather later became his first business mentor as well.
Vyacheslav Marshak’s career took him from running an industrial enterprise to owning a construction and restoration business. Bohdan grew up close to someone who had experienced setbacks, rebuilt his livelihood and continued to provide for his family.
Learning business at the negotiating table
His grandfather took Bohdan to business meetings from an early age, jokingly introducing him as his deputy. At first, he listened to the adults talk. Over time, he began learning about documents, accounts and contract terms.
This was his first introduction to how a company works. Every agreement involved deadlines, money, people and obligations. Negotiations carried over into daily work: arranging delivery, resolving problems and maintaining relationships.
As a teenager, Bohdan became more directly involved. His grandfather explained how to draft contracts, keep accounts and discuss commercial terms.
That relationship remained important when Bohdan started his own projects. His wish to work independently developed alongside respect for the experience of the person who had taught him.
The first systems
An interest in technology developed alongside those early business lessons. At school, Bohdan built and configured servers for Minecraft and GTA: San Andreas Multiplayer, studied web development and explored how software works.
He spent particularly long periods at the computer when his grandmother became ill and travelled with his grandfather for extended treatment. Independent technical work became a substantial part of his daily life.
He learned through practice: researching problems, changing configurations, fixing errors and gradually making things work. He later continued his education at STEP Computer Academy.
This experience established a habit of understanding products in depth. As his own projects developed, that technical interest grew to include design, usability and commercial value.
First journeys and ventures of his own
At fifteen, Bohdan visited the UAE for the first time. His mother was living there by then. The new environment helped him become more open and confident in conversation, and he began posting more actively on his personal blog.
After returning to Ukraine, he enrolled at the International Humanitarian University in Odesa. On a subsequent trip to the Emirates, restrictions at the start of the pandemic left him abroad for eight months. The prolonged absence interrupted his university studies, but his work with technology continued.
Bohdan first met Liya Vitvitska when he was eleven. Years later, while he was unable to leave the UAE at the start of the pandemic, their connection developed into a long-distance relationship.
One of his early independent ventures was Star Consulting, a marketing and digital services practice. It gave him experience working with clients, preparing proposals and managing projects.
In August 2020, after returning to Ukraine, he travelled to see Liya and proposed. He was seventeen. Their plans together became one reason he wanted financial independence: Liya dreamed of living in America, and he set himself the goal of earning enough to buy them a home in the United States by the time they turned twenty-two.
At the same time, Bohdan trained in real estate and launched a company called Kingdom. Early contracts and rapid growth came with mistakes. In his own assessment, he became too focused on major opportunities and neglected the regular work that kept the business stable.
After that project closed, he managed a house used for private events. The work involved attracting clients, arranging services and coordinating contractors.
These different ventures exposed him to several sides of business. Finding a client, selling a service and delivering it well each required consistent attention.
War and a change of direction
The relationship ended on November 17, 2021. Bohdan found the breakup difficult, and it affected his work, including the timing of formalising business agreements. He had to reconsider the personal plans that had motivated his first steps in entrepreneurship.
In 2022, the war in Ukraine disrupted his plans and projects. Work connected with real estate and private events stopped.
Bohdan later returned to developing Star Consulting with partners in marketing and sales. His next venture was Star Engineering, repairing complex machinery and equipment.
These projects helped clarify his professional interests. He decided to focus on software products and digital systems that could be developed and improved over time.
Managing the family business
From 2023, Bohdan worked in the management and daily operations of his grandfather’s family business.
Processes he had observed since childhood now required his own involvement and decisions. He worked with documents, coordinated people, tracked agreements and dealt with day-to-day issues.
Fragmented information became a particularly visible problem. Working context was spread across messages, documents and individual employees’ memories. Understanding the status of a task often meant reconstructing the whole sequence of events.
The experience influenced his later work on RENZOIRE. He began looking at digital products as part of a company’s structure: the way information is stored and access is assigned affects collaboration and management decisions.
One outcome of these observations was the idea for Renzoire One.
Abu Dhabi and the development of RENZOIRE Group
His grandmother Natalia passed away in 2024. Her death marked an important personal turning point.
In 2026, Bohdan moved to Abu Dhabi. His grandfather supported the decision to focus on technology and develop his own business internationally.
Bohdan continued helping with family affairs remotely while giving up his share of the family business income. He decided to take responsibility for financing the next stage himself.
RENZOIRE Group brought together several strands of his previous experience: client work, digital development and involvement in running real business operations.
The group’s development centres on building its own products and ventures, applying technology to their operations and bringing that experience to client projects.
Products, clients and the team
Today, RENZOIRE Studio works with clients across strategy, design, development and digital systems.
The group’s portfolio includes projects for Azimuth Line, the Institute of Professional Technologies, international business consultant Yasser Zaky and Dina Rashid. They illustrate different aspects of client work, from building websites to developing and migrating an online presence.
Renzoire One is being developed in parallel: a platform with AI at its centre and connected spaces for personal life and work. The concept keeps shared context within each space, with clear boundaries between personal information, teams and client projects. The product is in development.
The group also includes Apps, Beauty, Real Estate and Academy. These directions have their own purposes and are at different stages of development, connected by shared approaches to design, technology and operations.
Bohdan carried out much of the initial work himself. RENZOIRE is now developing with a small team. He remains involved in development and key decisions while establishing how responsibility is shared.
This transition broadens the founder’s role. Alongside building products, he needs to organise collaboration, communicate direction and help others take responsibility for results.
Approach and the work ahead
Technical work and entrepreneurship have continually intersected throughout Bohdan’s career. Programming taught him to solve problems independently. Client projects gave him an understanding of customers’ expectations. The family business introduced him to the daily responsibilities of management.
That experience informs his approach to RENZOIRE: understand the problem, make the solution work, test it in use and develop it further from what is learned.
His personal blog remains a separate part of his work, covering technology, business, people and events shaping the future.
Today, Bohdan’s main focus is on products, client work and the RENZOIRE team: a company bringing together his development experience and his interest in how businesses work.