Prominent business woman Zareckaja joins opposition’s transition cabinet

September 9, BPN. Tacciana Zareckaja, a Belarusian business woman, has joined opposition leader Śviatlana Cichanoŭskaja’s transition cabinet, as finance and economy chief.

Zareckaja, 28, is responsible for “strategy and plans for the transition period by incorporating the knowledge and expertise of economic groups.”

“This involves raising capital from the EU and the US to Belarus, as well as communication of knowledge, human capital, and advanced financial and economic legislation to the new government.”

She will represent Belarus in international financial talks and draw up the cabinet’s budget, said Cichanoŭskaja’s web site.

Zareckaja, born in Minsk, is the CEO of Laava Tech, a company that uses smart lamps, sensors, and IoT controllers to manage the indoor farming growing process. Laava Tech reduces energy consumption up to 88%. Their AI solution is trained to automatically monitor the types and states of crops and adjust physical surrounding parameters, such as light wavelength, pulsation, temperature, humidity, and CO₂ levels.

She lives in Estonia.