Raffi Festekjian
Mr. Festekjian is responsible for the overall strategic direction of the PCi. Under his leadership, PCi has become one of the largest providers of compliance solution to the financial services industry with over 2500 clients, including 95 of top 100 institutions in US. He dedicates a significant amount of time to overseeing PCi’s product lines, including sales, product enhancements and delivery. rnPrior to co-founding PCi, Mr. Festekjian was a consultant and investment banker at Kellett Ventures Management and Private Capital Investments where he aided capital-deficient community banks through operations consulting and the recapitalization or sale of the institution. Earlier in his career, he worked in product management at Proctor & Gamble and as a civil engineer in the construction industry. Mr. Festekjian received a BS in Engineering from American University of Beirut and an MBA, with distinction, from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management.rnIn addition to his professional activities, Raffi is also engaged with several non-profit organizations that are focused on the future of Armenia. In 2004 he co-founded Yerazart which focuses on assisting talented young Armenian artist in Armenia. He is also the Chairman of Armenian St Stephens School Board of Trustees in Boston, Board Member of Armenia Fund USA, Board Member of Armenia 2020, Board Member of Vem Radio in Armenia and a trustee of the Armenian Assembly of America.

André Andonian
André Andonian is a Director in McKinsey's Munich office. He leads McKinsey's High Tech Practice in Europe, Middle East and Africa, and also has extensive experience in working globally, including Silicon Valley and China. His experience has primarily been in technology-based industries such as telecommunications, industrial electronics, consumer electronics, IT services, and aerospace on all aspects of strategy, operations, organization and technology.
In addition, André is a member of McKinsey's Shareholders' Council, which functions effectively as McKinsey's worldwide Board of Directors, setting the strategic direction and policies of the Firm. Moreover, André chairs McKinsey's global client feedback processes as well as the German Office Client Impact Committee with the objective of further increasing McKinsey's impact at clients.
He is actively involved in a major country transformation project for the Republic of Armenia through the think tank "Armenia 2020", which he co-founded.
Prior to joining McKinsey, André worked in sales, marketing, and engineering for Masco Corporation in the US and at IBM Europe and Asia.
André's educational background includes an MBA with distinction from the Wharton School of Business, where he was a Fulbright Scholar, an MA with distinction in economics, and a BSc, with distinction in telecommunications engineering from universities in his home town of Vienna, Austria.

Andrew Mkrtchyan
Andrew Mkrtchyan is the Founding Partner and Managing Director of Ameria Investment Consulting Company; serving the interests of the company and its Clients from the first day of its foundation and activities in Armenia. He has been successfully managing Ameria since the first day, being responsible for setting the company's strategic direction and leading its growth.
Mr. Mkrtchyan stood at the roots of establishment and development of investment banking in Armenia and has extensive and diversified experience of general management with integrated and efficient functional responsibilities and relationships.

Prior to his involvement at Ameria, Mr. Mkrtchyan has been employed by GTZ (a leading German consulting company providing technical assistance) as the Director of Armenian Business Support Center, in the framework of a EU TACIS project in Armenia, from 1995 to 1997 he was the Director of BCC Armenia - another EU TACIS project in Armenia implemented by GTZ. While at the helm of these organizations, he was responsible for developing and promoting private businesses of Armenia by creating synergy partnerships with foreign investors and structuring investment projects. Prior to that he was employed by Deutsche Bank AG in Germany dealing with corporate finance, asset management and commercial banking activities.

Mr. Mkrtchyan a Member of the Coordination Board of the Armenia 2020 project, he is the first businessman from Armenia - member of the Young Presidents’ Organization.

Andrew Mkrtchyan’s academic background includes a degree from Department of International Economic Relations at the YSU; scholarship from American Economic Association and USIS for post graduate scholar courses in Economics Institute, Colorado State University, post graduate non-degree executive program in Business Administration at Kingston Business School, Kingston University, London, several post-graduate executive programs and courses in CBI Netherlands, EPF Sweden, etc.

Noubar Afeyan
Noubar is CEO and Managing Partner of Flagship Ventures, a venture capital firm he founded in 1999. A recognized technologist and entrepreneur, he has been a co-founder of 15 life science and high technology startups. His first new venture was started in October 1987, right after he completed his Ph.D. in biochemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Noubar maintains his academic ties as a Senior Lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management where he has been teaching the “New Enterprises” entrepreneurship course to MBAs for the past six years. He is also Senior Lecturer at MIT’s Biological Engineering Division. A frequent guest speaker at technology forums throughout the U.S., he is the author of numerous scientific publications and holds several patents.

Noubar has been a founding team member, investor and active board member/advisor of Adnexus Therapeutics, Antigenics, Color Kinetics and EXACT Sciences and he currently serves as a Director of Helicos BioSciences (HLCS), a public company. He is on the board of several private companies including, Affinnova, BG Medicine, Codon Devices, Ensemble Discovery, Genstruct, Joule Biotechnologies, LS9 and T2 Biosystems. He was previously CEO of PerSeptive Biosystems (PBIO, ABI), chairman of ChemGenics Pharmaceuticals (MLNM), and Chief Business officer of Applera Corp. where he initiated and oversaw the creation of the Celera Genomics venture (CRA). Noubar is currently a member of the Board of Overseers of Boston University. He is a member of several advisory boards including the Board of Governors of Boston University Medical School, the Whitehead Institute at MIT and the Faculty of Engineering at McGill University.

In addition to his professional activities, Noubar is also engaged with several non-profit organizations that are focused on helping the development of the newly independent country of Armenia. Since 2000, he has helped found three new organizations: Armenia 2020, Armenian High Technology Council of America, and YerazArt. He is also a trustee of the Armenian Assembly of America as well as Vem Radio in Armenia.

Pierre Gurdjian
Pierre is the Managing Director from the Belgian practice of McKinsey & Company.
He joined McKinsey in 1987 with a MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in Commercial Engineering from the Free University of Brussels (V.U.B.). Before McKinsey, he served as an officer in the Belgian armed forces in Germany, commanding a platoon of armored cavalry.
He is one of the leaders of the European retail practice, and has extensively served a large number of European retailers in grocery, apparel, do-it-yourself, specialty and food service on matters of strategy, format renewal, operational improvements and organization.
Pierre also leads the Leadership Practice in Europe, focusing on building personal and institutional client leadership capabilities.
Additionally, he also has extensive experience in serving payment players, luxury goods companies, packaged goods clients and financial institutions.
He is also actively involved in a major country transformation project for the Republic of Armenia through the think tank “Armenia 2020”, which he co-founded.

Robert von Rekowsky
Robert von Rekowsky is a vice president and portfolio manager for Fidelity Investments, the largest mutual fund company in the United States, the No. 1 provider of workplace retirement savings plans and a leading online brokerage firm. He manages all of Fidelity’s $10.7 billion in institutional and retail Emerging Markets Funds. Fidelity’s total assets under management are in excess of $1.0 trillion.

Mr. von Rekowsky joined Fidelity’s Fixed-Income Division in 1989, and served as a global research associate and municipal bond trading administrator until 1995. At that time, he joined Fidelity’s High-Income Division, and served as a sovereign debt analyst until 1998. In 1998, Mr. von Rekowsky moved to London to work as an equity analyst for Fidelity International, Ltd. (FIL). Since 2002, Mr. von Rekowsky has served as an associate portfolio manager overseeing European, Middle Eastern and African equities on Fidelity Emerging Markets Fund, and several emerging markets funds available exclusively to Canadian and overseas investors. He also has served as an equity research analyst covering emerging markets stocks from 1998 to 2003. Now in Boston, he assumed management of Fidelity Emerging Markets Fund in January 2004 and Fidelity Advisor Emerging Markets Fund in April 2004.

Born in 1966, Mr. von Rekowsky received a bachelor of arts degree in political science from the University of New York at Albany in 1988 and a master of arts degree in international relations and comparative politics from Northeastern University in 1992. He earned his master of science degree in finance from Brandeis University in 2005.

Mr. von Rekowsky authored "What Investors Should Know About Emerging Markets" in BANCO magazine's May 2006 edition and “Investor’s Outlook” in Russian Investment Review’s June to October 2003 edition. He was voted “Best of the Buyside” in Institutional Investor magazine in 2001, 2002 and 2003. Mr. von Rekowsky is a coordination board member for the Armenia 2020 Project, and holds memberships in the Boston Committee on Foreign Relations, World Boston and Boston Economic Club.

Ruben Vardanian
Mr Vardanian is one of the leading figures on Russia’s capital markets, having played a key role in developing almost all segments of the country’s stock market. He became Chief Operating Officer of Troika Dialog in 1992, President in 1996, and President and CEO in 1997. He is also a Member of the Board of Directors of the Troika Dialog Group and a Member of the Supervisory Board of Troika Dialog Asset Management. Mr Vardanian was appointed CEO of Rosgosstrakh in 2002 and Chairman of the Board of Directors in 2004. He is a Member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Stock Market Participants (NAUFOR).
Mr Vardanian is an active member of many respected business organizations, notably the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, where he sits on the Management Committee. He is also Chairman of the organization’s Corporate Governance Committee and its Working Group on Energy Reform, Arbitrator of its Corporate Ethics Committee, and a Member of its National Council for Corporate Governance.
Mr Vardanian is a Member of the Corporate Competitiveness Supervisory Center, an EastWest Institute initiative, a Member of the Board of Trustees of the “Russia in Global Politics” magazine, and a Director of a fund established by the International Baccalaureate Organization to promote education worldwide. Fortune magazine, in an article on the next generation of global leaders, named Mr Vardanian one of its "25 Rising Stars". He is also a Member of the 2015 Club, Chairman of the Russian branch of the Young Presidents’ Organization, a Member of the Coordination Board of the Armenia 2020 project, and a Member of the Supervisory Board of the Higher School of Corporate Governance at the Russian government’s Academy of National Economics.
Mr Vardanian was named “Businessperson of the Year” by the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia for his “significant contribution to business in Russia and commitment to the highest standards of business ethics”. He was also named “Investment Banker of the Year” in RosBusinessConsulting’s annual “Person of the Year” award for 2003, and ranked one of Russia’s 50 most professional managers in a survey of 1,000 executives, conducted by the National Association of Managers.
In 1992, Mr Vardanian graduated with a Distinction from the Economics Faculty of Moscow State University. He then went on to complete post-graduate training at BANCA CRT in Turin, Italy, and Merrill Lynch’s Emerging Markets Training Program in New York City in 1992. In 2000, Mr Vardanian completed two courses in Value Based Management and Negotiation Dynamics at INSEAD, France, followed by the General Manager Program at Harvard Business School in 2001.