Speaker Gevork Sarkisyan
Speaker Gevork Sarkisyan

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Gevork Sarkisyan

Founder & CEO

KidZania USA

As Founder and President of Innova Partners, Gevork has been running IT and entertainment companies for over 10 years.

Prior to founding Innova Partners he was a CEO of Innova, an online entertainment company. Innova was first established as a pioneer of digital entertainment in Russia and CIS starting as a publisher of massive multiplayer online games, then, adding on a video distribution service in partnerships with Hollywood majors and leading TV manufacturers.

In 2014 Innova entered a location based entertainment business starting the first edutainment family concept, KidZania, in
Moscow. In addition to Russia, in 2015-2016 Innova was granted an exclusive franchise for operating KidZanias in France, Canada and the US. At the same time the company has acquired an exclusive franchise for operating DreamPlay park in Russia from DreamWorks.

The first KidZania in the US opened in November 2019 in Frisco, Texas. Since that time the park has received over 82,000 visitors. Apart from KidZania business, Gevork was also a board member at Detsky Mir Group, the largest children’s goods retailer in Russia and Kazakhstan, which operates a chain of around 700 stores. Detsky Mir is a public company trading under the ticker DSKY.

Gevork is an advocate of information technologies and innovations. He keeps his bonds with the IT field he has come out.

Gevork is a passionate entrepreneur striving to make a difference in the world and to help the next generation succeed.

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