Tigran Saakyan is CEO of Taiga Group, leading Russian pulp and paper producer with strong presence in newsprint production across Syktyvkar and Kongopoga paper mills. He holds a degree in Finance from the State University – Higher School of Economics and has been awarded Certificate of Merit by the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation.

Before joining Taiga Group, Tigran had spent 10 years in McKinsey & Company, where he was leading complex transformation projects of major industrial groups across pulp & paper and metals & mining sectors in the CIS, Middle East and South-East Asia.