Ivan Zimbitsky was born in the small town of Ovruch, Zhytomyr region. His father was a diesel locomotive engineer, a liquidator of the Chernobyl accident, and his mother was a medical worker.
Since childhood, he was fond of soccer and bodybuilding.
Despite suffering from attention deficit disorder since childhood, he showed entrepreneurial talent very early in life.
Since the second year of university, he worked as a Corel Draw designer at KNEU. At the same time he sold diplomas, essays, and term papers to correspondence students and took exams for them.
Feeling that he lacked solid systematic knowledge, he learned English in 9 months, and in April 2006, in his fourth year at KNEU, received an offer from Deloitte, the world's largest auditing and consulting company.