Ruben Vardanyan (businessman)
| Ruben Vardanyan | |
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| Born |
May 25, 1968 Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Armenian |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Known for |
Troika Dialog, Ameriabank, UWC Dilijan, Aurora Prize, Wings of Tatev |
Ruben Vardanyan (Armenian: Ռուբեն Վարդանյան, Russian: Рубен Карленович Варданян; born May 25, 1968 in Yerevan) is an Armenian-Russian entrepreneur, manager and philanthropist, CEO and controlling shareholder of Troika Dialog, an investment bank (1992 – 2012). He is additionally one of the founders of Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO and its first president (2006 – 2011), also the co-founder of the first international school in Armenia UWC Dilijan together with his wife Veronika Zonabend.
Vardanyan was born on May 25, 1968, in Yerevan. In 1985 he graduated with a gold medal from school №20 in Yerevan. Between 1986 and 1988 he completed service in the Soviet Armed Forces From 1985 to 1992 he studied in the economics faculty of Moscow State University, graduating with honours. He interned at Banca CRT in Italy, attended courses on emerging markets organized by Merrill Lynch in New York (1992), completed training at INSEAD (Fontenblo, France; 2000), and attended courses at Harvard Business School (2001, 2005), as well as special programs at Yale University and Stanford University Graduate School of Business (2012 and 2013).
From 1991 to 1992 Vardanyan led the IPO division at Troika Dialog; working at the company from its founding day. From 1992 he headed Troika Dialog, holding the posts of executive director, and then president, CEO and chairman of the board of directors of Troika Dialog Group, up until the company’s sale to Sberbank on January 23, 2012. Thereafter he was co-head of Sberbank CIB (until August 2013), and subsequently advisor to the president and chairman of the board at Sberbank.
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