{"id":272221,"date":"2026-04-16T16:53:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/?p=272221"},"modified":"2026-04-16T17:07:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:07:29","slug":"grant-akopian-appointed-ceo-and-chairman-of-the-management-board-of-converse-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2026\/04\/16\/272221\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant Akopian Appointed CEO and Chairman of the Management Board of Converse Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>YEREVAN, April 15, \/ARKA\/. Converse Bank CJSC announces the appointment of Grant Akopian as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of \u00a0the Management Board of the Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Akopian has served as Deputy Chief Executive Officer since August 2019 and as Chief Financial Officer since February 2017. He joined Converse Bank in 2011 as Adviser to the Chief Executive Officer and has since held a number of senior executive positions within the Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before joining Converse Bank, Mr. Akopian worked at Corporaci\u00f3n Am\u00e9rica in Buenos Aires. He holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in economics from the University of Buenos Aires and an MBA from Columbia University. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of BACEE (Banking Association for Central and Eastern Europe).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Converse Bank remains committed to the consistent implementation of its strategy, the strengthening of its position in the Armenian financial system, the further development of client relationships, and the continued advancement of its products, services, and technological capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About Converse Bank<br>Converse Bank CJSC is a universal bank operating in Armenia and providing a wide range of banking services to individuals, small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as corporate clients.-0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Converse Bank CJSC announces the appointment of Grant Akopian as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of \u00a0the Management Board of the Bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":272218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12315,9214,9216],"tags":[12491,17451],"class_list":{"0":"post-272221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-announces","8":"category-banks-en-en","9":"category-news","10":"tag-converse-bank","11":"tag-grant-akopian"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272223,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272221\/revisions\/272223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}