Irina is the chairman of our board of trustees.

Irina has been serving on the Board of Trustees of the Insurance Foundation of Servicemen since 2017 and has been reappointed in 2021 for a second term.

Irina is a highly motivated senior leader with over 20 years of experience in banking sector in Armenia and Internationally. Areas of expertise include Strategic Planning and Execution, Business Development, Asset & Liabilities Management, Risk Management, Organisational Restructuring, Board and Regulatory Engagement. Passionate about developing, motivating and inspiring people.

Since March 2020 Irina serves as the CEO of HSBC Bank Armenia, where she is in charge of all aspects of the Bank’s operations and resources, accountable for the execution of the strategy set by the Board of Directors.

Irina has been with HSBC group since 1997 in Armenia and globally. Between 2016-2020 she held the position of Head of Global Markets at HSBC Bank Malta, where she was in charge of Bank’s Global Markets business, including: trading and sales in Foreign Exchange, Money Markets and Rates; management of Bank’s Balance Sheet structure, cash flows, assets and liabilities, foreign exchange, interest rate and associated risks within Bank’s strategy; management of Bank’s liquidity and funding positions.

Prior to that Irina was the Head of Regulatory Risk Programmes at HSBC Bank UK for 3 years, where she set up governance around regulatory change within Global CMB, led policy formulation and implementation of major (cross-territorial) regulatory change programmes across 60 countries with Commercial Banking presence.

Since January 2021 Irina has joined the Board of Orran Benevolent NGO in Armenia, an organisation with a mission to help vulnerable families, especially children and the elderly through academic, cultural and other extracurricular activities.

Irina is a Chartered Certified Accountant (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants UK) and an ACCA Fellow. She obtained her degree in Automated Systems of Information Processing and Management from Armenian State Engineering University of Armenia.