Our Board of Directors
Our esteemed Board of Directors currently consists of a distinguished leadership team, led by a Chairman and complemented by four dedicated members. Together, they bring a wealth of experience, expertise, and strategic vision to guide and steer the organization towards continued success.
Armen Gabrielyan
Board Chairman
Mr. Gabrielyan has extensive experience in the agricultural credit investment market. He is among the founding staff of ACBA Agricole Bank (formerly Agricultural Cooperative Bank of Armenia) that started in 1995. Serving the needs of farmers for financial resources, Armen Gabrielyan managed and coordinated different regional branches of ACBA Bank until 2004.
From 1992 to 1995 Mr. Gabrielyan was the head of Yeghegnadzor regional office of the Ministry of Social Security and Migration of the Republic of Armenia.
In 2005, Armen Gabrieyan joined the Center for Agribusiness and Rural Development (CARD) NGO as head of its loan department. Mr. Gabrielyan coordinated this project for CARD until September 18, 2007, when he was named chief executive officer/president of Farm Credit Armenia by its board of directors. In 2014 and 2015 Armen Gabrielyan was elected and reelected as the President of UCORA. In November of 2015 Mr. Gabrielyan was elected as a Board Director of Microfinance Centre.
Mr. Gabrielyan has an MA in Law, as well as a degree in French Language Philology and a college certificate in Political Science. He has completed extensive training programs in both banking and law in the United States, France and Japan.
Seryozha Hayrapetyan
Board Member
As the mayor of Khndzoresk village, Mr. Hayrapetyan is responsible for improving living conditions of village residents, securing financial resources to support low-income families and coordinating all major activities in the village. He has an MA in Law from the Syunik Institute in Goris. His farm operation of 54 hectares consists of wheat production, vineyards and orchards.
On September 3, 2011 Mr. Hayrapetyan was awarded Ananya Shirakatsi medal by the decree of the president of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan.
Rafik Ohanyan
Board Member
Mr. Ohanyan is the past director of Ptghavan secondary school and also was the mayor of the village for a long period. He served the community by organizing social activities in the village such as maintaining its cleanliness with the help of local schoolchildren, planting trees and flowers in public areas, organizing community events, finding resources to support families in need, and supporting families that are building homes.
Since 2002 he has been board chairman of Vardashen NGO aimed at improving the living standards of refugees living in his region. Ohanyan has an MA in Pedagogy from the Pedagogical Institute in Baku, department of Russian Language and Literature. Mr. Ohanyan has 6 hectares of crops and a peach orchard which he is expanding.
Edvard Petrosyan
Board Member
Mr. Petrosyan obtained his degree of higher education from Kostroma Agricultural Institute of Russia in 1992. He graduated from the faculty of Agronomy getting a respective specialization.
Mr. Petrosyan has an extensive work experience in the field of Agriculture and community work. He worked as the mayor of the rural municipality of Arpi village in Vayots dzor marz from 1999 to 2008. From 01.05.2012 to 30.09.2012, Mr. Petrosyan worked as an Agronomist in “Syunik” NGO, continuing his career in Vayots dzor marz municipality from 2013 as a leading specialist of the Department of Agriculture and Environmental Protection. Mr. Petrosyan is currently engaged in greenhouse business and owns 837m² vegetable greenhouse. In addition to the greenhouse, Mr. Petrosyan owns 1.4 ha orchard.
Artavazd Khachatryan
Board Member
Mr. Khachatryan graduated from the faculty of Mechanization of Armenian Agricultural Institute in 1974 as an engineer-mechanic of agricultural production. He continued his education in the Viticulture, Wine Making and Horticulture Armenian Research Institute obtaining a PhD, afterwards, obtained a scientific degree of candidate of technical sciences in 1980.
Artavazd Khachatryan owns a greenhouse farming of 5000 m² area in the Aratashen region: he is in greenhouse business for already 20 years. Previously, he worked in the Viticulture, Wine Making and Horticulture institute as the Deputy Director, subsequently, he worked as the Director of the ''Agroservice" - the subsidiary of Armenian Support Fund in the Aratashen region.
In 2002, Mr. Khachatryan established "Arto Khachatryan" LLC and he is the Director of LLC to this day.