Founders & Trustees – English – Support to Javakheti Foundation

Board of Trustees

Vagharshak Pilosyan

Chairman of the Board of Trustees

In 1966, he graduated with honors from the secondary school of Nardevan village in Javakhk.

1966-1972 studied and graduated from Yerevan State Medical University.

1972-1973 Doctor on duty of the surgical department.

Emergency physician in the rapid response team (Armenia). …

Karine Khodikyan

Dramatist, prose writer, public speaker, editor-in-chief of Literary Gazette, co-founder of Support to Javakheti Foundation

Karine Khodikyan was born on June 24, 1957, in Akhalkalak. She graduated from the Philology Department of Yerevan State University and worked as a teacher of Armenian language and literature. From 1988-1989 he worked at the newspaper “Kerpasagorts”. From 1989-1997 he was editor of the publicity department of “Garun” magazine, and from 1997-2001 he was editor of the publicity department of “Garun” magazine. – From 1997-2001 was the editor of the department of prose and poetry. …

Sos Sahakyan

Businessman, Philanthropist, Ph.D. in Economics

Sos Sahakyan was born on August 5, 1949, in the village of Damala in Javakhk. An economist, who graduated from Yerevan State University. Worked in various spheres of agro-industrial management in Armenia for about 20 years. He taught at the State Economic University of Armenia and the National Agrarian University of Armenia. After the collapse of the Soviet system, he worked for 5 years in Moscow and St. Petersburg, setting up his own business. In 1997, he returned to Armenia and founded his own business, which now …

Armen Mkoyan

Businessman, philanthropist, founding chairman of the "Elite Group" group of companies, Ph. Candidate of Sciences

Armen Mkoyan was born on May 15, 1961, in the village of Diliska in Javakhk. In 1975, he switched from a village school to study at Yerevan School of Physics and Mathematics #3, from which he graduated in 1978. In 1983, he graduated with a red diploma from the Faculty of Physics of Yerevan State University. He was a nominal pensioner. 1983-1985 worked at the “Laser Technique” of GAM. 1983-1985 studied at the Moscow State University, B. In the postgraduate course of the Department of Quantum Radiophysics of the …

Seyran Vantsyan

Aviator, president of Hayk Air, co-founder of Support to Javakheti Foundation

Seyran Vantsyan was born on May 2, 1951, in Bezhano village of Akhalkalaki district. One of the organizers of aviation in the Republic of Armenia. From 1957-1967 he studied at Bezhano High School. In 1974, he graduated from the Institute of Civil Aviation Engineers in Riga, and in 1990 he graduated from the higher command courses of the Civil Aviation Academy in St. Petersburg. Seyran Vantsyan 1988-1999. From Erebuni and local (Vardenis, Gavar, Martuni, Sisian, Goris, Kapan, Meghri, Jermuk) airports in Artsakh …

Hovhannes Mutafyan

Chief Architect of "ASHN PROJECT" company, honored architect of Armenia

Hovhannes Mutafyan was born on June 12, 1952, in a family of workers in Yerevan’s Nor Aresh district. His father was a carpenter and his mother a seamstress. His ancestors were from Partizak province in Anatolia. During the Great Genocide, they migrated to Greece, to the coastal city of Kavala, from where they returned home in 1946. He received his secondary education at elementary school No. 123 named after Paruyr Sevak. He attended the Palace of Pioneers art group in parallel with the school. Then, at the insistence of his…

Ashot Melkonyan

Academician, Director of the Institute of History of NAS RA, co-founder of Support to Javakheti Foundation

Ashot Melkonyan was born on February 16, 1961, in Akhalkalak. In 1977, he graduated from Akhalkalak D. Demirchyan. Armenian high school # 4. From 1977 to 1982 he studied at the Faculty of History at Yerevan State University. In 1986-1991 he worked at the Institute of History of NAS RA as a researcher, and in 1991-95 as a scientific secretary. From 1991-95 he was the scientific secretary and from 1995-2002 he was the deputy director of the Institute of History of NAS RA. In 1991-1995 he…

Hovhannes Hovhannisyan

Chief Advisor to the Chairman of the Board of Yerevan Chocolate Factory

Hovhannes Hovhannisyan was born on November 11, 1970, in the village of Gandza in the Javakhk region. From 1988-1993 he studied at the Faculty of Economics of the Armenian Agricultural Institute with the specialty of Economist-Accountant and Finance. At the same time, he studied at the military faculty of the Armenian Agricultural Institute.

11.11.2016 – 18.10.2018 worked in the Ministry of Nature Protection of the Republic of Armenia as …

Arman Sahakyan

Businessman

Arman Sahakyan was born on March 5, 1978, in Yerevan. In 1999, he graduated from the Faculty of International Relations of Yerevan State University with a history and international studies degree. From 1999-2001, he served in the Armenian Armed Forces. 02.12.2012-18.05.2017 was a deputy of the National Assembly (electoral district #35), a member of the Standing Committee on Economic Affairs of the National Assembly, and in 2017-2018 was a member of the National Assembly. He was elected as a …

Paruyr Palyan

Founder of Sosi 97

Paruyr Palyan was born on October 24, 1974, in the village of Bugashen, Javakhk region in the family of a teacher. From 1981-1991 he studied at a secondary school in his native village. From 1991-1996, he studied and graduated from the State University of Economy of Armenia. From 1996-2000 he studied and finished his postgraduate studies at the same University. 2000-2004 worked as Executive Director of Gig Tour LLC. 2004-2011 worked at Tonus LLC as the ad of the Procurement Department. Since 2004…

Kajavan Nurijanyan

Advisor to the Minister of Education of Armenia

Kajavan Nurijanyan was born in the village of Khando in 1957 into the exemplary family of Hovhannes Nurijanyan and Rima Papoyan. Due to circumstances, the family moved to Yerevan in 1961, where Kajavan Nurijanyan studied at Yerevan Secondary School #82, which he graduated from in 1974 with honors. Since Kajaran Nurijanyan showed special success in mathematics, he was admitted to the Department of Applied Mathematics of Yerevan State University that same year and graduated from …

Gagik Varderesyan

Lecturer at the NPUA

Gagik Varderesyan was born in 1940 in the village of Karzakh in Javakhk. In 1958, he graduated from the secondary school of Karzakh village in Akhalkalaki district. From 1962-1967 he studied at the Faculty of Chemistry and Technology of the Maxov Polytechnic Institute. From 1973-1976 he did his post-graduate studies at the Institute of Bio-Organic Chemistry named after Academician Shemyakin of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Candidate of Chemical Sciences, Associate Professor….

Father George Sargsyan

Mkhitaryan community member

Father George Sargsyan was born on March 30, 1987, in the village of Sukhlis in the Akhaltskha region of Georgia. His father, George Augustini Sargsyan, is a farmer, and his mother, Mariam Kazari Sargsyan, is a housewife. He received his primary education in the secondary school of the village up to VIII class, then continued with VIII, IX, and X classes in the secondary school № 15 of Vahan Teryan in Gyumri. In the last three grades of school since 2001 he studied at the “Nersisyan Seminary” in Gyumri….