ASHOT GABRIELYAN
Chief Executive Officer
Yerevan
Summary
Driven and ambitious senior executive with 17 years of experience in FinTech industry bringing expertise in business improvement, developing solutions and implementing positive changes. Excellent reputation for resolving problems, with proven track record of driving organizational turnaround and change management.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
10
10
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages
Work History
Chief Data Officer
Central Bank Of Armenia
Yerevan
02.2023 - Current
- Provides crucial insights on current issues to top-level executives, enabling effective and efficient decision-making.
- Reports periodically to top-level executives on status of Data Governance (DG) program.
- Develops organization's Data Strategy and oversees its execution.
- Acts as central hub, coordinating efforts of Data Stewards in executing Data Strategy.
- Manages and enforces data governance principles, procedures, practices, and requirements.
- Ensures data quality and effective management throughout its lifecycle.
- Promotes data democratization by eliminating data silos that impede organization-wide initiatives.
- Designs, develops, and maintains data warehouses and other data repositories.
- Facilitates resolution of data-related issues efficiently.
- Develops organization's information architecture, including designing data models and data dictionaries.
- Maintains Business Glossary, serving as Master Data Steward.
- Educates and promotes development of necessary capabilities to achieve Data Governance goals.
- Ensures that all CDO functions are efficiently carried out through CDO office.
Chief Executive Officer
"ACRA Credit Reporting" Credit Bureau
Yerevan
06.2018 - 02.2023
- Trusted with fundamental transformation of Credit Bureau operation, by providing expertise in both Business and IT aspects of company.
- Improved business profits by 45% through strategic updates to processes, procedures and team makeup.
- Identified main bottlenecks and stimulated redesign of scope, interface and pricing of company's services
- Reviewed individual department performance to improve processes, procedures and practices, which ensured higher level of data quality, software development and service.
- Managed reevaluation of ongoing projects and terminated ones that didn't pass cost-benefit check.
- Enhanced communication with clients (mainly financial organizations), Board and Regulator.
- Provided leadership and oversight over staff of 30 employees, out of which 10 are in house IT.
Short Term Consultant
The World Bank
Yerevan
06.2019 - 02.2022
- Assessed requirements for new Information system of Pension Agency of Georgia.
- Collaborated with local team to establish technical framework for information exchange between Pension Agency and other stakeholders.
- Assessed proposed institutional setup, including required high-level business process and infrastructure that would support operation of new pension system of Ukraine;.
- Created comprehensive process, risk and information flowcharts for Central Administrator of Ukrainian Pension System covering 5 main areas of operations;.
- Delivered practical recommendations on various technical aspects, including options for implementation of system software and hardware specification for Ukrainian Pension Reform.
Expert Business Analyst
Central Bank of Armenia
02.2007 - 06.2018
- Advised and managed FinTech infrastructural initiatives.
- Conducted interviews with main business departments to identify their needs for decision support systems and based on that reshaped supervisory data collection and dissemination framework.
- Introduced new mechanisms and data formats for collecting supervisory data from banks.
- Integrated legacy systems with newly introduced SAP Business Objects
- Spearheaded implementation of SAP Business Objects product as cost-effective data extraction and analysis tool.
- Researched data usage patterns within Central Bank and purposed setup of Data Warehouse.
- Produced list of 700 main financial indicators, which were made available to financial analysts.
- Achieved approximately 50% improvement of data retrieval time through creation of user-friendly interface for financial analysts.
Director
Vehicle Single Window CJSC
Yerevan
12.2013 - 06.2018
- Supervised total makeover of Compulsory Motor Vehicle Third Party Insurance IT system.
- Negotiated contracts with service providers to ensure successful business case of around 1 mln euros.
- Provided ongoing operational process analysis, communicated project status to Board.
- Identified and resolved operational issues and constraints.
- Managed project resources, progress and completion timeframes.
Project Manager
Central Bank of Armenia
03.2016 - 06.2018
- United team of 8 professionals from different departments to prepare migration of government bond custody function from Central Bank of Armenia to Central Depository of Armenia.
- Established project timeline and budget
- Guided team to provide detail breakdown of processes associated with custody, accounting and trade of government bonds by Central Bank and other players of securities market.
- Presented project management board with 20 page project summary covering main tasks and deliverables.
- Helped team to effectively discuss and listen different points of view.
Project manager/MIS specialist
Central Bank of Armenia - Nasdaq-OMX Armenia Joint Project
01.2009 - 05.2015
- Project manager for establishment of Armenian Mandatory Pension Information System (AMPIS) with budget over 1 mln euros, which serves around 400 thousand Armenian citizens.
- Collaborated with different stakeholders-Developer team, Central Bank, Tax Service and Nasdaq-OMX Armenia to quickly address problems and miscommunications.
- Successfully collaborated with foreign IT development and local regulatory policy maker teams to ensure production of functional specifications.
- Approved functional specifications developed by Development team.
- Initiated setup of testing framework of AMPIS, which included not only user acceptance testing, but also load testing, security testing and etc.
- Managed critical phase of go-live, which included close cooperation and problem solving with Tax Authority, Central Depository, Ministry of Finance, Central Bank and foreign IT team.
- Communicated top management of Central Bank and Government on issues concerning timeline, cost and effectiveness of project.
Education
Ph.D. - Business Administration
Yerevan State University Of Economics
Yerevan, Armenia 07.2006 - 07.2009
MBA - International Economic Relations
Yerevan State University Of Economics
Yerevan 09.2000 - 06.2006
Exchange Student - International Economics
University Of Missouri St. Louis
St.Louis,MO 08.2002 - 08.2003
Skills
Product development and expansion
Corporate Leadership
Business Analysis & Intelligence
Problem Resolution
Sharp Attention to Detail
Business Tranformation
Project Management
Product Development
System Migrations/Integrations
Financial Analysis
Costing and Budgeting
Requirement Gathering and Analysis
Data Collection and analysis
SAP Business Intelligence
National Pension systems
Securities registration systems
Timeline
Chief Data Officer
Central Bank Of Armenia
02.2023 - Current
Short Term Consultant
The World Bank
06.2019 - 02.2022
Chief Executive Officer
"ACRA Credit Reporting" Credit Bureau
06.2018 - 02.2023
Project Manager
Central Bank of Armenia
03.2016 - 06.2018
Director
Vehicle Single Window CJSC
12.2013 - 06.2018
Project manager/MIS specialist
Central Bank of Armenia - Nasdaq-OMX Armenia Joint Project
01.2009 - 05.2015
Expert Business Analyst
Central Bank of Armenia
02.2007 - 06.2018
Ph.D. - Business Administration
Yerevan State University Of Economics
07.2006 - 07.2009
Exchange Student - International Economics
University Of Missouri St. Louis
08.2002 - 08.2003
MBA - International Economic Relations
Yerevan State University Of Economics
09.2000 - 06.2006