Narek Sirakanyan

Armenian entrepreneur. Founder and President of Freedom International Group — an Austrian-headquartered group of companies operating in 19 countries, built on its own technology and its own distribution.

Narek Sirakanyan

The path

2005
2009

McGill University · Harvard program

Finance & Accounting, top 1% of class at McGill; capital-markets program at Harvard; gold-medal graduate in Vancouver.

Credit Suisse, London — summer internship

Interned in investment banking at 19 — and was hired back after graduation.

Montreal
2009
2011

Credit Suisse, Investment Banking

M&A and IPO mandates for financial institutions and natural-resources clients across EMEA — the full transaction cycle.

CEO within the Rosatom group

Led Effective Energy, the management company of Uranium One (TSX-listed, $3.1B market value).

London
2014
2018

Founded Freedom International Group

Left corporate life to build and own companies across borders — today 19 countries and over 2 million customers.

Merged with Vision International People Group

A landmark deal covered by Kommersant and Vedomosti: combined assets of ~$150M, a distribution network of 200,000+ partners — and $5M invested to rebuild the business on the group's own Sessia platform. Relaunched as Project V.

Vienna
Now

Raising the flagship

Leading FIRSTLINE — the group's hospitality-technology venture — from Dubai to the United States.

Dubai

How I build

Own the technology

Rented technology caps your growth. Every group company runs on our own core — so every improvement compounds across the whole portfolio.

Own the distribution

Brands die when someone else controls the customer. We build our own channels — networks, venues, platforms — in every market we enter.

Scale across borders

A business that works in one country is a job. A business that works in nineteen is a company. We build for the second from day one.

Now

FIRSTLINE — Royalties for hospitality.

Loyalty programs give guests points; FIRSTLINE gives them Royalties — a real share of the traffic they bring to a venue. Restaurants stop renting traffic from marketplaces and start rewarding the people who actually generate it.

Seriously — an annual open talent search.

A global search for exceptional talent. Real opportunities in real markets. Applications open to dreamers everywhere.

  • Tashkent2023
  • Ho Chi Minh City2024
  • Vienna2025
  • NEXT: Ho Chi Minh CityDecember 2026
  • MiamiNovember 2027

Three books I keep rereading

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie

Read it ten times since I was twelve. It taught me that energy is a decision: you can walk into any room and choose to connect with every person in it.

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

The habit of standing in the other side's position before I speak. It takes a minute of thought — and once it becomes as automatic as tying your shoes, negotiations start ending in yes.

The Godfather

Mario Puzo

The weight of a pause. Say less, mean it, and keep your word — people feel the difference before you finish the sentence.

"I started early, and I was lucky to see how big organizations work from the inside while I was still young enough to question everything. Freedom International Group is my answer: companies we own, technology we built, and brands we intend to make famous. FIRSTLINE is next."
— Narek S.
Beyond business
Father of two. National champion in Greco-Roman wrestling.