Selection Committee

Arsen Mnatsakanyan is the co-founder and director of the crafting platform Varpet.com, which has united qualified professionals providing various household services in Armenia for more than 2 years. At the same time, since 2019, he has been heading the sales department of Addevice Mobile Product Development Company. He is an Honorary Member of the Board of the Armenian Representative Office of the Association for Sustainable Human Development of Armenia. Since 2016, he has been actively working to attract IT projects and investments from abroad to Armenia. 

Boris have been working in the Trade Unions of Armenia since 1984. He has been elected as Vice President of the Confederation of Trade Unions of Armenia (NCUA) since 1997.

In 2003-2008, David was the director of the comedy project “Kargin Serial”. He is the director and producer of many movies, sitcoms, TV shows, commercials: “Ancient Kings”, “North-South”, “A Millionaire Wanted”, “The Fiancé from Circus”, “Poker.am”, “Tnpesa”, “Full House”, “Domino”, etc. Since 2012 he has been the General Director of “Armenia” TV and lecturer of Directing course at the Armenian-Russian Slavonic University.

In 2007, together with his partners, Sedrak founded the “Development and Preservation of Armenian Culinary Traditions” public organization, and he is the president of this organisation up to now. From 2011 to 2019, he worked at the Department of Tourism of the Yerevan State University of Languages and Social Sciences of Valeriy Brusov as a teacher of the department of national and world cuisine. In 2012, he founded “Ararat Cuisine » CJSC and the « Sedrak Mamulyan » Culinary Studio, which allows to pass on culinary experience and the historical and practical skills of world cuisine to the next generation, as well as participate in a number of international culinary competitions. Since 2010, he has been leading a number of culinary programs. 

Education: Yelena is philologist, teacher. She graduated Yerevan State Linguistic University after V.Brusov. Yelena has been working at CEPFA since 2015, teaching the Russian Language as well. The responsibilities involve academic planning of educational process, methodological guidance, organization of short-term courses in cooperation with partner establishments.