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Armen A. A. Avanessians ’83
Elected A University Trustee

Avanessians, speaking at an alumni event that he hosted at Goldman Sachs

Armen A. A. Avanessians ’83, a managing director and partner at Goldman, Sachs & Co., has been elected a Trustee of Columbia University. He joins SEAS graduates Vikram Pandit ’76,’77, ’80BU, ’86BU and Savio Tung ’73 on the 24-person Board.

Avanessians is a key volunteer leader for SEAS, currently serving as chair of the SEAS Board of Visitors and of The Columbia Campaign for Engineering. He is also chair of the Financial Engineering Steering Committee, which provides oversight to the Financial Engineering Program in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. In addition, he is a board member of the University-wide Columbia Alumni Association and has served as a liaison from the SEAS Board of Visitors to the Columbia Engineering School Alumni Association.

Avanessians received an MS in electrical engineering from SEAS, following in the footsteps of his father, Alexander Avanessians ’62, whose MS also was in electrical engineering. After graduation from SEAS, Avanessians became a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ, where he worked in the common subsystems laboratory. He joined Goldman Sachs as a foreign exchange strategist in 1985, became a vice president in 1988, and a partner in 1994. He is currently director of FICC Strategies, Equity Strategies, Investment Banking and Financing Group Strategies and GSAM Strategies.

In 2000, Avanessians established the Alexander and Hermine Avanessians Professorship in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) at SEAS, named in memory of his parents. He has also endowed two other funds for faculty and student group awards.

Armen A. A. Avanessians ’83 Elected A University Trustee

Armen A. A. Avanessians ’83
Elected A University Trustee