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Davit Sahakyan
Associate Professor
Dr. Davit Sahakyan is an esteemed leader, management consultant, innovator, entrepreneur, and professor. He has 25+ years of experience in Business Strategy and Business Development, Financial Management (Budget planning, Cost accounting and Cash Forecasting), Business Modeling and Innovation Development, Data Science & Math Modeling, Product & Project Management, and Business Process Management (BPM). He is specialized in Banking, Payment Systems and Emerging Technologies and held executive positions at Converse Bank, Inecobank, VTB-Armenia, Haypost, and TeamViewer. He also ran his consulting services company specialized in BPM, Business Strategy and Financial Modeling, as well as startups’ business development for more than 10 years.
He earned his PhD (Doctor of Mathematics) degree from National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia. Dr. Sahakyan also studied at Katz Business School of University of Pittsburgh and Executive education program at Kennedy School of Governance of Harvard University.
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Davit Sahakyan
Associate Professor
Dr. Davit Sahakyan is an esteemed leader, management consultant, innovator, entrepreneur, and professor. He has 25+ years of experience in Business Strategy and Business Development, Financial Management (Budget planning, Cost accounting and Cash Forecasting), Business Modeling and Innovation Development, Data Science & Math Modeling, Product & Project Management, and Business Process Management (BPM). He is specialized in Banking, Payment Systems and Emerging Technologies and held executive positions at Converse Bank, Inecobank, VTB-Armenia, Haypost, and TeamViewer. He also ran his consulting services company specialized in BPM, Business Strategy and Financial Modeling, as well as startups’ business development for more than 10 years.
He earned his PhD (Doctor of Mathematics) degree from National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia. Dr. Sahakyan also studied at Katz Business School of University of Pittsburgh and Executive education program at Kennedy School of Governance of Harvard University.
Working Experience:
- Associate Professor
- Department (07/2020 – up till now), Associate Professor of the Chair of Economics and Finance (02/2003–07/2020), Head of Master Programs (09/2008-present), Executive Director of Business Incubator of University (07/2011-present), Institute of Economics and Business, Russian-Armenian University, Yerevan, Armenia
- Head of Emerging Product Group Analytics Department (TeamViewer, 02/2017–08/2019), Chief Data Scientist, Head of Analytics Department (02/2016–08/2019), Monitis CJSC (a TeamViewer company), Yerevan, Armenia
- Head of Product Development Department (03/2014–02/2016), Head of Postbank Services Department (part time 10/2012–08/2014), Converse Bank CJSC, Yerevan, Armenia
- Director and Founder (05/2015–12/2016), Dav Solutions LLC (Consulting Company), Yerevan, Armenia
- Director of Business Development (04/2009– 12/2013), Key Solutions LLC (Consulting Company), Yerevan, Armenia
- Director of the Postal Financial Services Business Unit (07/2008–06/2011), Haypost CJSC (Armenian National Postal Operator), Yerevan, Armenia
- Adviser to the Trust Manager (01/2007–06/2008), Haypost Trust Management B.V. (Armenian Branch), Yerevan, Armenia
- Visiting Professor (Fellowship, 01/2008–05/2008), University of Pittsburgh, Katz Business School, Pittsburgh, USA
- Head of Planning and Analysis Department (04/2005–12/2006), Inecobank CJSC, Yerevan, Armenia
- Director of Business Development, Director of Business Consulting Unit (10/2004–06/2006), Antares Holding, Yerevan, Armenia
- Researcher of Research Department and IMF Institute (Fellowship, 02/2004–03/2004), International Monetary Fund, Washington DC, USA
- Head of Budget Planning Department (04/2000–04/2005), VTB-Armenia Bank CJSC (Former ArmSavingsBank CJSC), Yerevan, Armenia
- Lecturer of the Chair of Mathematical Modeling and Methods (09/1994–07/2005), Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia
- Specialist of the Banking Supervision Department (11/1998–02/2000), Central Bank of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
Education:
- Applied Mathematics (Diploma with excellence), Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia, 1994
- Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Mathematics, PhD, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia, 1998
- Business-Process Management (Certificate), Business Engineering Group – Petersburg (School of Business-Engineering), St. Petersburg, Russia, 2005
- Business Administration (Certificate), University of Pittsburgh, Katz Business School, Pittsburgh, USA, 2008
- Leadership for the 21st Century: Chaos, Conflict and Courage (Certificate), Harvard University, Kennedy School of Governance (Executive Education Program), Cambridge, USA, 2010
Scientific interests
- Business development: business models development and implementation, strategic management
- Business process management: business process description and improvement, reengineering and modeling, process mining
- Data science in business: machine learning and artificial intelligence, data analysis
- Financial management: financial modeling, budgeting and analysis
- Operational excellence: operational management, behavioral economics, lean production, 6 sigma
- Problem analysis and decision making