Manuk Hergnyan is the co-founder and managing partner at Granatus Ventures. Manuk founded and run EV Consulting, which in 2021 merged with Civitta International, a leading management and innovation consultancy in Eastern Europe and Nordics. He served on the boards of a number of companies including Liqvor Pharmaceuticals (generic drug producer) as well as non-commercial organizations including Union of Advanced Technologies Enterprises (UATE), Arar Foundation, Microsoft Innovation Center in Armenia, Industrial Development Board of Armenia. Manuk mentors startups and selectively invests personally as a member of Oxford Innovation Finance and Angel Investors Club of Armenia. His current interests are in companies that reduce human suffering via transformative technologies. He holds an Executive MBA from Oxford University, Ph.D. in Economics from Moscow State University and MA in Economics from Yerevan State University.