K.M. Greg Sarkissian was one of the founding members and major donors of the Zoryan Institute in 1982. He has been the chief strategist of the Institute since 1990 and has been President since 1995. Along with his colleagues and Board Members, he has established a series of the Institute’s initiatives, including the Genocide and Human Rights University Program in partnership with the University of Toronto.

As the Director of Economic Affairs of the Institute’s two journals, he also initiated the partnerships with the University of Toronto Press for Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies and Genocide Studies and Prevention, followed by Genocide Studies International.

Greg Sarkissian is a graduate from the University of California. He is founder and president of Byron Hill Group Companies since 1985 and Servocraft Limited Canada, since 1982 and Yorkbridge Plastics Packaging since 1996.

In 2019, he became a recipient of the Order of Canada, one of our country’s highest honors systems.