Victoria Unikel is an American artist, media mogul, and President and co-founder of VUGA Group, a portfolio of 17 companies across 4 continents.

Her training was classical. As a child she was found to have perfect pitch and graduated as a professional cellist from the Gnessin School of Music, the top USSR school for gifted children. Later she graduated with honors from GITIS, the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts, founded in 1878 and once chaired by Stanislavsky.