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Hovhannes Avoyan
Armenian-American entrepreneur and investor
Hovha'nnes Avoyan (Hovhannes Avoyan, Armenian: Հովհաննես Ավոյան; born March 23, 1965), is an Armenian-American serial entrepreneur, investor and scholar. He is the co-founder and CEO of Picsart, a suite of online photo and video editing applications.2
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Born Mar 23, 1965.1
About
He also served as President of the Union of Information Technology Enterprises of Armenia (UITE) from its inception in 2000 until 2015. Hovhannes Avoyan is a member of the American University of Armenia Corporation Board of Trustees.
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Companies
Early life and education
- Date not recordedNational Polytechnic University of Armenia3
- Date not recordedAmerican University of Armenia3
- Date not recordedHarvard Business School3
Hovhannes Avoyan was born in 1965 in Yerevan, Soviet Armenia. He graduated from the State Engineering University of Armenia with a B.S. degree in Computer Science in 1987 and received a Masters in Political Science and International Affairs (M PSIA) from the American University of Armenia in 1995. He is also a 2005 graduate of Harvard Business School's Bertelsmann Senior Executive's program.
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Career
Occupation: businessperson, programmer, inventor.5
In 1996, Avoyan founded CEDIT, a software development services company, which was acquired by mobile communications software developer Brience in 2000.
In 2005, Avoyan founded and served as CEO of Sourcio, a software development and system integration service provider acquired by software developer HelpSystems in 2016.
In 2007, Avoyan founded and served as General Manager of Monitis Inc., which was acquired by TeamViewer/GFI Software) in 2011.
In 2011, with his friend Artavazd Mehrabyan, Avoayan founded Picsart, a social photo and video editing platform, and became the company's CEO. Picsart's software reportedly has more than 150 million monthly active users, and has been downloaded 1 billion times as of September 2020.
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Personal life
- BornMar 23, 1965, Yerevan6
Philanthropy
Avoyan supports AI development in Armenia by establishing schools and best practices in the country to help its data scientists compete globally.
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- 1WikidataHovhannes Avoyan on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaHovhannes Avoyan on Wikipedia
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- 8WikidataPicsart, Founder
- 9Wikimedia CommonsHovhannes Avoyan photo by TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0