Karen vardanyan biography

With the passing of Karen Vardanyan, Armenia has lost a dedicated citizen, a creative engineer, an indefatigable organizer and passionate educator, a fine human being. He died on July 10 in Yerevan at age 57.

Karen Vardanyan was a pioneer in the high-tech industry.

He graduated from the Yerevan Polytechnical Institute in 1986 and qualified as a hydro engineer. He continued his studies at Harvard Business School in 2009. He was executive director of the Union of Advanced Technology Enterprises (UATE) from 2005, after having worked for three years at the Enterprise Incubator Foundation and at the Ministry of Trade and Industry, as head of the IT Development Department.

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He held seven patents.

We had the privilege of knowing Karen for many years, and met him whenever possible during our almost annual visits to Armenia. Over dinner in one of his favorites local restaurants where everyone knew him, he would always b Karen Vardanyan, Executive Director of the Union of Advanced ... QYGU