Professors
Giorgi Nugzar Sharia
Giorgi Nugzar Sharia is Professor of Business Administration at Bank of Georgia University. He has been director of the Bank of Georgia IT Department since 2013.
Mr. Sharia received his doctorate from Moscow Technical University in 1990 and in 1995 gained another from Canada's leading higher education institution, the University of Toronto. He has also undertaken certified courses at George Brown College and the Career Development Institute in Toronto, Canada, and in Series 7 & Series 63 Registration (NASD, New York), Java for Enterprise Systems Development (Learning Tree International, New York) and Natural Language Processing (Stanford University).
From 1999 to the present he has held senior positions in IT in global financial institutions: at Citigroup (New York, 1999-2005), Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, (New York, 2005), Royal Bank of Canada (New York, 2005-2007) and the Royal Bank of Scotland (Stamford, 2007-2013). Mr. Sharia has published works in the field of financial modelling of fixed-income and foreign exchange assets.
Avtandil Gagnidze
Avtandil Gagnidze is a professor at both the Bank of Georgia University and the East European University and also a visiting professor at Grenoble University, the International Black Sea University and Caucasus University and First Deputy Director at the European School. He is a doctor of Physics and Mathematics, and received his Masters and Doctoral degrees in Mathemetics from Lomonosov Moscow State University. He has been teaching since 1986.
Mr. Gagnidze has participated in and led various grant projects, collaborated with various foreign universities and scientific centres and has been a fellow of the Petrovsky Scholarship and the Scholarship of the President of Georgia and a Soros Associate Professor. He is the author of more than 70 scientific articles and textbooks. His sphere of interest is differential equations, optimisation theory, mathematical economics, statistical analysis and quantitative analysis of finances.
Associate Professors
Levan Gogoladze
Levan Gogoladze has been a partner and chief consultant at PMO Business Consulting since 2010. He is a PhD student at Caucasus University from 2009, and received an MBA in Finance from Caucasus Business School and Georgia State University, USA, in partnership, in 2001. Mr. Gogoladze previously received an undergraduate degree in civil and industrial construction from the Technical University of Georgia.
He is a certified risk officer (by the Global Association of Risk Professionals) and between 2009 and 2013 successfully completed the CO1, CO2, CO3, CO4, and CO5 levels of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. He began his professional career in 2000 and his academic career at Caucasus University in 2003. From 2011-2012 he was a lecturer on the joint graduate programme in International Financial Accounting and Managerial Accounting organised by the International Business School of Grenoble and Caucasus Business School.
Giorgi Natroshvili
Giorgi Natroshvili is deputy CEO of the Joint Stock Company Sarajishvili. In 2012 he received a duel PhD degree in Business Administration from Caucasus Business School, Tbilsi and Georgia State University, Atlanta Georgia. He had received his bachelors and masters from Tbilisi State University, 2000 and 2002.
Mr. Natroshvili has held a number of senior professional posts since 2000. He is the author of dozens of publications and has passed a number of international-level trainings and courses, on subjects such Financial Accounting (at the American University of Humanities), Media and New Technologies, Internal Trade Policy and the WTO, etc.
Maia Baramidze
Maia Baramidze graduated from Tbilisi State University in 1985 in Trade Economics. In 1997 she received a degree in International Business from the same university. Since 2013, Maia has been a PhD student in Economics at the GIPA School of Social Sciences. She has a number of publications to her name, including research on Capital and Conflict - Georgia (GFSIS, University of California, San Diego, 2011) and has attended various courses and vocational trainings.
For many years she served as a business consultant in USAID projects, and in 2006-2008 worked as a financial officer at the International Association of Business and Parliament (at its London Office and at the Georgian Representation). In 2008-2012 Maia was financial manager of the Centre of Business and Economics and since 2011 she has worked as a financial manager at the Georgian Alliance for Safe Roads. Ms. Baramidze lectured at Caucasus University from 2012-14 and is currently associate professor in Business Administration at Bank of Georgia University.
Gaioz Sanadze
Gaioz Sanadze is an associate professor at Bank of Georgia University, Caucasus University, his alma mater, and Ilia State University. He holds a number of diplomas, including those in Theoretical Physics (Tbilisi State University, 1974) and English Language and Literature (Institute of Foreign Languages, 1978). In 1984 he graduated from the Main Geo-Physics Observatory in Leningrad (graduate studies), and in 1985 he graduated from the Institute of Patents and Licenses.
Mr. Sanadze holds a degree in Atmospheric Physics. He has participated in various certificate programmes and workshops. In 2001 he was awarded a US SEC certificate from the International Institute for Securities Market Development (New York City).
Gaioz Sanadze has written a number of textbooks and more than 50 academic articles in the fields of physics, ecology and finance. Since 1999 he has been a director of the Georgian Stock Exchange in the sphere of trade and since 2000 the CEO of the Securities Market Central Depository of Georgia.
Assistant Professors
Irakli Khomasuridze
Irakli Khomasuridze is currently head of the Quantitative Risk Management and Analytics Department at Bank of Georgia University. In 1995 he graduated from the Technical University with a bachelors in Engineering and in1999 he received a doctorate in Mathematical Physics from Tbilisi State University. He completed his masters from Twente University, Netherlands, in Applied Mathematics and Finance. Mr. Komasuridze has conducted his professional career since 2003 and has published scores of articles in the academic journals of the Twente, Aletheia and Tbilisi State Universities.
Giorgi Tchiladze
Giorgi Tchiladze is currently a Deputy CEO and Chief Risk Officer at the Bank of Georgia. He received his bachelor's degree in 1993 from Tbilisi State University and his masters degree and PhD from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Maryland, 1996 and 2000. He also worked as an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University. Since 2000 he has worked in senior positions such as CEO of JSC BTA Bank (2005-2008), Deputy Chief Executive of the Partnership Fund (2012-2013) and others.
Natalia Koberidze
Natalia Koberidze is financial controller at the Petrocas Energy Group. She started her professional career in 1997. In 2003 she participated in the Teacher Education Programme of the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at the Georgia State University and since 2004 she has lectured at Caucasus University. She is an affiliate of ACCA.
Ms. Koberidze received a bachelors degree in 2001 and a masters in 2003 from Caucasus Business School. In 1993-1997 she received a bachelors degree from the Technical University of Georgia.
Nino Lomidze
In 1998-2002 Nino Lomidze studied at the Tbilisi State University of Economic Relations and received a bachelors degree in Business Administration. In 2004 she graduated from the Agricultural University of Georgia with a masters in Economics. She has been a PhD student in the field of Accounting and Financial Analysis at Tbilisi State University since 2010.
Ms. Lomidze has lectured in various private and state higher education institutions since 2003 and presents Introduction to Accounting, Financial Accounting and Managerial Accounting courses. Since 2011 she has been an invited lecturer at the University of Georgia and since 2012 an assistant professor at the Department of Accounting and Audit at the School of Business and Economics of Tbilisi State University. She is active in research activities and has authored dozens of academic publications, including one textbook.
Ms. Lomidze has participated in various international conferences and seminars, on subjects such as: Regional Economic Integration, Local Decentralisation and Conflict Prevention: Perspectives for Democratic Progress and Stability in the Caucasus Region (Tbilisi State University, 2010), the International Scientific Conference on Economics and Management (Kaunas, Lithuania, 2013) and the Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Program – G*STEP (University of North Texas, 2014).
Associate Professors
Akaki Kheladze
Akaki Kheladze has served as Rector of Bank of Georgia University since its foundation. He holds a masters degree in Engineering and Business Administration and successfully completed the joint PhD programme of Caucasus University and Georgia State University.
In 2002-2003 Mr. Kheladze undertook a professional development programme at Georgia State University in the US. Since then he has held leading positions in various organisations and built a parallel academic career. He has taught at Tbilisi State University, where he was Dean of the Business and Economics Department, and at Caucasus Business School, where he was Director of Undergraduate and Graduate Programmes, head of the Department of Management and the manager of various training programmes. He is currently Associate Professor in Management at Grenoble School of Management. Mr. Kheladze is also actively engaged in training and consulting activities, for both public and private sector individuals and organisations.
Giorgi Doborjginidze
Giorgi Doborjginidze is currently a full professor at the Technical University of Georgia, Chairman of the Association of Logistics of Georgia and the Managing Partner of TransCare AG in the Caucasus and Central Asia. He received his bachelors degree from the Technical University of Georgia and his PhD from Berlin Technical University. Mr. Doborjginidze has also undertaken a course on Transport Management and Logistics at Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany.
Since 1998 he has worked for various international companies. In 2000-2007 he worked in Germany, at Dornier Consulting and SCI Verkehr, and subsequently he relocated to the Caucasus and Central Asia as the regional representative of TransCare. He is also actively engaged in academic activities at the Technical University of Georgia and Caucasus University
Assistant Professors
Suzanna Doborjginidze
In 2009-2011 Suzanna Doborjginidze was an invited professor at Tbilisi State University. In 1992 she received her bachelors degree from Tbilisi State University followed by her PhD in 2009. At the Tbilisi State University Department of Management and Administration she taught the following courses: Management, HR Management, International Management, Public Sector Economics, Market Sector Economics and Economics/Management.
Sophio Balavadze
Sophio Balavadze is currently Head of PR at Bank of Georgia. Since 2002 she has held managerial positions in various organisations, such as the British Embassy in Georgia and the Georgian Office of ABA/CEELI. In 2000 she received a bachelors degree from Tbilisi State University and in 2004 a Masters in Business Administration from Caucasus Business School. In 1994-2008 she attended a number of professional training courses.
Guram Tsanava
Guram Tsanava is the CEO of Rakia Georgia & Rakeen Georgia and also a member of the supervisory boards of a number of big companies. He received a bachelors degree from the Technical University of Georgia and masters degrees from Stanford Business School and Grenoble Business School. He also has learning experience from other leading international universities, having taken the Executive Education Courses in Leadership at Harvard Business School and the Executive Education Courses in Strategy at Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, amongst others.
Mr. Tsanava is a Stanford Certified Project Manager and has been lecturing in Business Strategy at leading Georgian Universities and Business Schools for many years.
Zaza Koiava
Zaza Koiava received a masters degree in Public Administration and a PhD in Business Administration from the Technical University of Georgia in 2007 and 2014 respectively. He is a certified trainer in the field of leadership, NLP coaching and management and a member of, and expert in HR management at, the NLP International Organisation.
Mr. Koiava has 5 years’ experience of working as a trainer at the PR Academy and School of Leaders. He is also an invited lecturer at the Technical University of Georgia and the International Black Sea University. He is the main specialist at the Department of Business Engineering at the Technical University.
Associate Professors
Marina Lezhava
Marina Lezhava received bachelors and masters degrees in Economics from Tbilisi State University in 2001 and 2003 respectively. In 2007 she received a masters degree in Business Administration within the framework of the Joint European Project (JEP) CD JEP grant programme entitled Masters Programme on Sustainable Agriculture Development, part of the TEMPUS/TACIS Grant. In 2010 she was awarded a PhD in Business Administration.
Ms. Lezhava has participated in several international scientific conferences and is the author of 15 papers and one monograph. She has also worked at the Tbilisi Tourism Academy as an assistant professor and teaches marketing at the Agrarian University of Georgia.
Tornike Guruli
Tornike Guruli is a specialist in media and communication technologies. He received his education in Germany, at the Frankfurt Goethe Institute and the Chemnitz University of Technology. At the same time he completed a one-year Project Management Programme and three-year international trainer’s programme as part of the Robert Bosch Stiftung network of programmes. He is currently a PhD student at GIPA.
Mr. Guruli has lectured in Georgia and abroad since 2001 and is the author of the following books: Crisis and PR (2003) and Contemporary Forms of Interaction and Communication in Training (2012).
Mzia Tediashvili
Mzia Tediashvili is a doctor of psychology who obtained her degree from Tbilisi State University. She has 23 years experience in the education sector. From 1990-2005 Ms. Tediashvili worked at the Tbilisi State Institute of Economic Affairs as a senior instructor and from 1999 to the present she has been a professor at Caucasus University. Mzia has published about 10 scientific papers, including The Role of Commercials in the Formation of Political Attitudes, Social Attitudes towards Local and Foreign TV Commercials, Gender Aspects of Advertising, and others. She has been awarded the Medal of Honour.
Assistant Professor
Alexander Katsman
Since 2010 Alexander Katsman has been head of the Brand Management Department of Bank of Georgia. He graduated from Tbilisi State University in 1999 with a degree in Law. In 2004 he received a Candidate of Legal Sciences degree, which later became equal to the Doctor of Legal Sciences degree. In 2009 he graduated from the Berlin School of Creative Leadership at Steinbeis University with an EMBA degree.
Mr. Katsman has been working since 1996 and has occupied leading management positions in various companies. He began lecturing in 2002.
David Tsiklauri
David Tsiklauri is currently a PhD student at Caucasus University. He has a masters degree in Public Administration from GIPA and has attended graduate courses at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business. He has passed courses in Agricultural Banking, Credits and Finance at Iowa State University and on the Political System of the United States at Charles University and Georgetown University. He also has a bachelors degree in Business Administration from Tbilisi State University.
Mr. Tsiklauri’s professional career started in 1995. In 1999 he began to teach in higher education institutions such as Caucasus Business School, ESM, Tbilisi Business School and Tbilisi State University. He currently works for USAID as a project manager.
Professors
Merab Tavartkiladze
Merab Tavartkiladze graduated from the Technical University of Georgia in 1990 with a masters degree in Automatics and Computer Sciences. In 2009 he received a PhD in Computer Sciences from the same university. Merab's professional career began in 1991 at Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems AG, Munich, Germany, where he was a systems developer. In 1996-2003 he worked for the Open Society Foundation as a system administrator and in 2001-2007 he filled a similar role for Grena - the Association of Scientific-Educational Computer Networks of Georgia.
In 2005-2013 Mr. Tavartkiladze worked at the Abt Associates Inc. Georgia Representation as an IT manager and a consultant for the CoReform and HSSP projects. He was also chief network and system administrator for the i-MAX Serviceline LLC. In 2004-2011 he worked as the manager of the IT Office at Caucasus University and from 2011-2013 he was the head of this office. Since 2013 he has been an IT consultant at Caucasus University.
Mr. Tavartkiladze began his academic career in 1995 and has lectured at the Technical University of Georgia and Caucasus University. He is the author of a number of publications and has participated in various international and local conferences.
Associate Professors
Maxim Iavich
Maxim Iavich graduated from the Tbilisi State University Department of Computer Sciences in 2005. In 2009 he received a masters degree from the same university and in 2014 a PhD from the Technical University of Georgia, his thesis being on the Mathematical Models of Educational Social Networks and Their Use in the Teaching Process.
Mr. Iavich has attended various certification programmes, such as those on The Holocaust at the Open University of Israel (2002-2003) and on diplomacy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem (2009), and the training in cryptography provided by Stanford University (2014). In 2009-2014 he worked at the Maalot Zeidner Institute as a lecturer in Computer Sciences and from 2011-2013 he was a senior lecturer at the Technical University of Georgia, being promoted to associate professor in 2014.
In 2012-2014 he worked as a programming teacher at the Oravneri school. Since 2014 he has taught the International Baccalaureate Programme at the European School. Since 2014 Mr. Iavich has been an associate professor at both Caucasus University and Bank of Georgia University and he is the author of more than 20 scientific papers.
Didim Butskhrikidze
Didim Butskhrikidze graduated from the Technical University of Georgia Department of Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering in 1997, his specialisation being the Complex Automation of Mechanical Engineering. He has attended a number of professional trainings and courses and has worked as an IT manager at the Institute of Eastern and Western Management and as head of the IT Department of Caucasus University.
Mr. Butskhrikidze was a project manager for the Association of Libraries of Georgia and developed the databases of the Regional Office of the World Food Programme. He currently works for Deloitte as an IT manager and simultaneously teaches Information Technologies at Caucasus University.
