Alex Yemenidjian is of Armenian ethnicity , and was born in Buenos Aires , Argentina . His maternal grandparents lived in Van , Ottoman Empire and during the Armenian Genocide , they fled to Argentina . His paternal grandparents were from Constantinople , and they escaped during the Armenian Genocide to Greece where they ultimately settled in Argentina . Yemenidjian 's father was a shoemaker in Buenos Aires . In 1968 , Alex Yemenidjian and his family moved to the United States when he was a teenager . After attending Ferrahian Armenian School , Yemenidjian attained a bachelor 's degree in business administration and accounting from California State University , Northridge , a master 's degree in Business Taxation from the University of Southern California , and was Adjunct Professor of Taxation at the USC Marshall School of Business
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Alex Yemenidjian