A 28-year old market manager is the New Atlantis Deputy Minister of Economy

Levon Altunyan

PIA New Atlsntis

Today the New Atlantis team has a new fresh addition. Principal Vladimir Balanov has appointed with a decree 28-years old Levon Altunyan to be the New Atlantis Deputy Minister of Economy.

Mr. Altunyan is a technologist passionate about internet, mobile communications and market management. He is fascinated by the digital and electro-mechanical industries and particularly from their constantly evolving nature and immensity. Mr. Altunyan was a scholarship holder of the Evangelischen Studienwerks e.V. Villigst, and of the NRW Scholarship Program, supported by the Essener Unternehmensverbandes (EUV), based on academic achievements (top 5% of the graduates) and social competences. His hobbies are jogging, swimming and football.

Born on 26-th of November 1986 in Sofia, Bulgaria, Mr. Altunyan has graduated from Second English Language High School "Thomas Jefferson" with an excellent diploma.

Since 2005 he lives in Germany. There he studied at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Engineering. In parallel to his academic studies he worked in different points in time for the departments of General Theoretical Electrical Engineering (ATE), Communication Systems (NTS), Nano Structures and Technology (NST) and the Institute of Applied Materials (IAM). In 2009 he obtained his first academic degree - Bachelor of Science in Computer and Communications Engineering. During this time, Levon did his internship for Infineon and supported the company efforts in the programming space at several functional levels.

Thereafter, Mr. Altunyan continued with his engineering studies and successfully obtained a M.Sc. degree with distinction from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany with focus on Computer Science, Telecommunications Engineering, Nanotechnologies (Solar Cells, Transistors) and Microcontrollers.

Mr. Levon Altunyan started his career as a Market and Application Engineer in 2011 at renowned German family owned company. Here he could apply his knowledge from the fields of electrical, electronic and optical connections, transmission and networking, software creation and advance it with topics such as manufacturing and mechatronics.

Just in one year time he was promoted to a Market Manager. Since, 2012 Mr. Altunyan is responsible for the identification of new markets for the company. Indispensable part of his daily work includes implementation of market strategies, projects with key customers from the emerging markets and the initiation of innovative products. In addition, he is involved in the coordination of international activities, marketing tasks, derivation and implementation of the respective actions.

“New Atlantis is an innovative and interesting project.” Mr. Levon Altunyan said, adding, “I am glad to contribute to it by my expertise. Furthermore, I am highly motivated to be part of this new challenge. I am confident that we will show that with hard work and innovation anything is possible.”