EDUCATION
2010 Brussels Business School, Brussels, Belgium- Masters of Business Administration (online studies)
2010 summer Sorbonne, Paris, France -Communication courses
2010 spring Paris Business School, Paris, France -Business administration courses
2004-2005 University of Hamburg, Hamburg -Majored in Marketing Management
2006 Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia -Majored in International Business Law
2002 University of Economics Schmalkalden , Germany-one term courses
2000 Stagg High School, Stockton, California
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND CONFERENCES
2005 Vodafone workshop held in Hamburg, Germany
2005 Ernst & Young workshop held at University of Hamburg, Germany
2005 AOL (American Online) seminar in strategic Management- held at University of Hamburg, Germany
2005 Tchibo seminar in Marketing: “How to plan and implement new projects”- held at University of Hamburg, Germany
2005 Hamburg University Marketing Society- member of the society and organizing different events (jobs forum, seminars,workshops,university promotional activities)
2005 Training in Brand Management at British American Tobacco in Hamburg, Germany
2002 Training in Marketing, Operations Management, Finances, Human Resource Management, –held at Caucasus School of Business (CSB), Tbilisi
2002 Seminar on Leasing and Corporate Management (IFC project) – held at World Bank
2002 Seminars in Marketing, Human Resource Management and Finances- held in Schmalkalden, Germany
WORKING EXPERIENCE
2001 Tbilisi Business Service Center- New Product Manager
Duties:
-market research
-work on marketing plan
-new product development
2002 “GAC Trading”- Distribution company- Brand Manager
Duties:
- conducting market research (analyzes and forecasting)
- working on brand’s promotional plan
- running company’s advertising campaign and cooperating with advertising agencies
2004 “Frosta”- German Distribution Company in Hamburg- Product Manager assistant
Duties:
- conducting market research
- work on product design and packaging
- work on product development
- plan and run promotional campaign
- sales control and analyses
2005 “T-Mobile”(in Hamburg)- Department of marketing communications
Duties:
- plan and run promotional campaign
- events management
2005 “Vodafone”(in Hamburg)- Department of marketing communications
Duties:
- plan and run promotional campaign
- events management
2005 supermarkets chain “Spar” in Hamburg- internship in marketing and business development
2006 People’s Bank, Georgia- Marketing consultant
2006-2007 Bank of Georgia- Product Manager (cooperating with marketing department)
-product development
-new product implementation
-plan and run product promotional campaigns
2007 ARTI Group- Head of Event Department
2007 Beeline- developing PR strategies and organizing events (cooperate on outsource; part time)
2007 Events Management Group- Business developer (the company was organizing events for different companies; plan and run promotional campaigns):
• Sairme Mineral Waters- events management and run promotional campaign in Batumi; work on promotional strategy plan
• M&M event management at Night Office, plan and run promotional campaign
• Night Office events management
• Magticom events and promotional activities in Batumi
• Prozak events and promotional activities in Batumi
• Lipton advertising campaign in Gudauri
• Khazbegi advertising campaign
• Kolkhi Group (alcohol drinks) promotional campaign
• TBC bank advertising and promotional campaign in Gudauri
• Gudauri events management
2008-2009 First British Bank- Head of Marketing Department
2010 Foundation “2020”- Projects Manager
2008 Paris Events, an internship at French company in Paris- PR Department
LANGUAGES
Georgian (native); English (fluent);
German (fluent); Russian (fluent);
Spanish (first level); French (basic)
COMPUTER SKILLS
Windows XP/2000 _Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet ,Corel (basic)