Aleksandr Shaghikyan, PhD, MBA

BANA Angels is the first and most active Angel Network in Armenia. The members of BANA Angels represent a diverse and experienced network of leading Investors from a wide range of industries and geography. Besides actively working on the development of the local investment environment, we ran several programs for startups. We kicked off a program in partnership with SAP: SAP Startup Factory by BANA, an acceleration program for B2B startups. SAP is the world’s largest enterprise software provider with around half a million client-base and $150B capitalization. The aim of our program is to provide a platform where our startups can get integrated to SAP and get access to their client-base. We run BANA Startup incubator, tailor made incubator program for early stage startups to boost their growth and support generate customers.

BDO Caucasus & Central Asia (CCA) is a regional audit & business advisory firm, integrating five countries: Georgia, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. BDO CCA is a proud member of the BDO global network, one of the leading accounting and consulting organizations uniquely built to provide the absolute highest standards of service and a collaborative culture that values all of its relationships. BDO CCA provides comprehensive Audit, Tax, and Advisory services as one firm in five countries. Our strategic objective is to unify expertise, human capital, and operational standards to deliver an agile, sustainable, and competitive suite of services to regional and international clients. We are committed to driving economic development and setting a new standard for professional services in the Caucasus and Central Asia region.

BANA Angels is the first and most active Angel Network in Armenia. The members of BANA Angels represent a diverse and experienced network of leading Investors from a wide range of industries and geography. Besides actively working on the development of the local investment environment, we ran several programs for startups. We kicked off a program in partnership with SAP: SAP Startup Factory by BANA, an acceleration program for B2B startups. SAP is the world’s largest enterprise software provider with around half a million client-base and $150B capitalization. The aim of our program is to provide a platform where our startups can get integrated to SAP and get access to their client-base. We run BANA Startup incubator, tailor made incubator program for early stage startups to boost their growth and support generate customers.

BDO is the leading provider of professional services within the mid-tier of our profession. We are proud to deliver seamless client service, from 1800 offices in 166 countries, across the world. Our 119K+ professionals continuously transform our approach by embracing future-oriented technology and focusing on quality. Strategic decisions and investments made in recent years have further equipped the organisation with the global infrastructure and innovative solutions needed to deliver long-term value for our clients. As a purpose-driven organisation, we do better.

We are member firm of BDO International Limited, one of the largest organisations in the world rendering professional services. Being founded in 1963, BDO has established in Armenia in 2010 and has rapidly grown since then, BDO Armenia has successfully enlarged the scale of services it renders thus ensuring its place in the Armenian market. The scale of services that BDO in Armenia currently renders covers the following services: – audit services, – accounting services, – legal services, – tax consultancy – business-related advisory services. BDO in Armenia employs a highly professional staff, the members of which have multi-year experience of working in Armenia and abroad. Being experienced and having various backgrounds, BDO team members are joined over the same commitment of continuous improvement of their skills and therefore the quality of the rendered services. BDO is always focused on helping its clients to navigate ever-changing economic and market conditions by providing high-quality services that apply to the specifications of the sector that the client operates in. And this is why BDO proudly states that it is helping people achieve their dreams!

The project uniqueness is to unite world spread Armenian potential in innovative directions, develop Human potential and become regional outsourcing center.