Armen Mkrtchyan is a Senior Principal at Flagship Pioneering. He works on a wide range of projects, including health security, institutionalization of AI/ML across the Firm, and supports growth of various Flagship portfolio companies.

Armen joined Flagship from McKinsey & Company where he was a Junior Partner and Co-leader of the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility. He led large corporate transformations, client development efforts, and engagements on strategy and operations with a focus on the impact of artificial intelligence in the automotive, aerospace, and hi-tech/electronics sectors. Prior to this, he was an Assistant Professor at the American University of Armenia. While there, he taught graduate-level software engineering classes and established the Entrepreneurship and Product Innovation Center (EPIC), an incubation center to further the knowledge and practice of entrepreneurship in Armenia. As EPIC’s Founding Director, he crafted its vision and goals and developed partnerships.

Armen was awarded a Ph.D. in Aeronautics & Astronautics from MIT and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of North Dakota.