GTech’s Business Development Mission to Southern California launched in Glendale, Gyumri’s new Sister City

Elise Kalfayan
BY ELSE KALFAYAN
Amalya Yeghoyan was at a sidewalk café table in Glendale June 3, meeting with two IT business executives. Mihran Toumajan, a professional I interviewed more than a year ago, stood to greet me as I walked by and introduced me to her. Yeghoyan had traveled to Glendale from her home in Gyumri to find new business opportunities for GTech Solutions, a software development firm established by the Gyumri Information Technologies Center (GITC).
I knew the Glendale City Council had just voted to establish a sister city program with Gyumri, as I had just seen the meeting the previous day on GTV6. Yeghoyan said she had been there in the audience. I found out she wasn’t part of the official delegation: an acquaintance told her about it and invited her to come on the spur of the moment. It was a complete coincidence that her business development trip occurred at the same time, and fortunate as well that the Armenian-American community was ready to celebrate the new civic relationship at the same time GTech was seeking new business prospects.
We agreed to meet so I could learn more about her goals in Southern California. A few days later, I walked to the offices of Information Integration Group, Yeghoyan’s base of operations. It was a busy day for her: she was appearing on Horizon TV in the afternoon and was trying to book as many meetings as possible. She told me later that even in Armenia she logs long hours: “My work in Armenia finishes at 6pm, and then it starts again at 7pm when people in America wake up!”