Prior to joining the Team of Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, Max Yakover was the Executive Director and Managing Partner of UNIT.City. From May 2015 to March 2017, Max held the position of Development Director at National Exposition Center of Ukraine, whose main task was to revitalize the old Soviet Exhibition Center with an area of about 270 hectares. Earlier, from 2007 to 2011, he headed the Kyiv Metro Information Department. Max is also the founder of the Kyiv magazine "Chasopys" and a partner of the project "Interesting Kyiv".