March 19, 2021
Anush O'Connor interview's with Golden Grape ArmAs CEO, Victoria Armen Aslanian
Part 1
Golden Grape ArmAs CEO, Victoria Armen Aslanian was born in Yerevan in 1982, immigrating to the U.S. in 1990. She studied Art History in Florence, Italy, and continued her education at UC Berkeley where she received her BA degree. In 2009, she repatriated to Armenia with her two sons to partake in her father's vision and venture which involved developments in the agricultural, wine & brandy, and tourism sectors. Victoria received the Best Brand by a Woman Entrepreneur award from the Prime Minister of Armenia in 2014. She has parlayed the international success of their brand as a platform to promote the Renaissance of Armenian Wine, presenting Armenia's revived wine legacy at The Council of Europe in Strasbourgi in 2013, at The Davos du'Vin, Italy, in 2014 & 2015, among many other public appearances and speeches in Armenia and abroad. In 2016, Victoria was the first Armenian judge and presenter at the Asian Wine and Spirit’s competition in Beijing, and had the honor of representing her country the following year at Mundus Vini, in Germany. Victoria has also presented and promoted Armenian wines at wine and tourism promotional events in Los Angeles, New Jersey, Washington D.C., Berlin, Brussels, Montreal, Monte Carlo, Moscow, Bangkok, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Friuli. In 2015, Victoria was among the spokesmen for Teach for Armenia, and an ambassador for AYWA and among the first Female Armenian Role Models named by The Embassy of Sweden. In 2016 began to participate in the U.S. Embassy's Women's Mentoring Program and was one of the speakers at TEDX Yerevan, with her humorous speech “BYGN, Breasts Guiding Your Navigation.” In 2017, Victoria was awarded the medal of honor from the Prime Minister of Armenia, Karen Karapetyan, for contribution to the agricultural sector in Armenia, and received “Agro-Product Female Hero,” from the Ministry of Agriculture during the same year. 2017, Board of advisory for ICARE, International Center of Agribusiness Research and Education Victoria Aslanian received her Executive MBA program at Skolkovo Moscow School of Management in September 2018
