YEREVAN, August 6. /ARKA/. Ex-head of the Union of Banks of Armenia Ararat Ghukasyan became a member of Unibank Board, the bank’s website reported.

Ararat Ghukasyan is admitted to the Board as of August 3, to replace Suren Hayriyan who resigned earlier.

Currently the Unibank Board comprises of Gagik Zakaryan (chairman), Georgy Piskov, Eduard Zamanyan, Hrant Arzumanyan and Ararat Ghukasyan.

Ghukasyan has long-year work experience in the Armenian banking sector and held management positions in Conversebank, HSBC Bank Armenia and Byblos Bank Armenia.

Ghukasyan head the Union of Banks of Armenia in 2009-2011.

Unibank CJSC was established in October 2001 with the authorized capital amounting to $5 million. In 2002, the bank introduced Unistream system. Unibank is a member of NASDAQ OMX stock exchange. Ripatonso Holdings Limited LLC is its sole shareholder. –0—