Lado Gurgenidze
Wladimir ( Lado ) Gurgenidze (Georgian ვლადიმერ ( ლადო ) გურგენიძე; born December 17, 1970 in Tbilisi ) is a Georgian politician and banker. From October 2004 to November 2007 he was Chairman of the Board Sakartwelos Banki in Tbilisi. From November 2007 to October 2008, he was Prime Minister of Georgia.
Life
Training
He studied at the Tbilisi State University. In 1990 he continued his education at Middlebury College in the U.S. continues. At the Goizueta School of Business at Emory University, he obtained a Master of Business Administration.
Banker
Gurgenidze joined as an investment banker in the Dutch bank MeesPierson. In 1997 he went to ABN AMRO Corporate Finance to Russia, where in 1998 he was made head of the Department of mergers and acquisition in the developing European markets, based in London, then head of ABN AMRO Technology Finance. In 2003 he moved to the bank Putnam Lovell NBF, a global investment subsidiary of National Bank of Canada.
In 2004 he returned to Georgia, where he was chairman of the board of the corporation Sakartwelos Banki (English: Bank of Georgia ) was. Under his leadership, the Sakartwelos Banki rose to become one of the leading banks in the country. In 2006, she was declared by the Financial Times Group and the magazine The Banker Best Bank of Georgia. Gurgenidze is also a member of the supervisory boards of Galt & Taggart Securities, Galt & Taggart Capital and the Supervisory Board of the Georgian Stock Exchange.
Policy
After Prime Minister Zurab Noghaideli had submitted his resignation on 16 November 2007 for health reasons, suggested President Mikheil Saakashvili on the same evening Gurgenidze ago as his successor. Observers suspected a connection with the mass protests this year. President Saakashvili would have been promised by Gurgenidze as an economic expert to optimize the economic growth process and in particular to improve the labor market situation, because despite the good economic situation, high unemployment for popular discontent caused. On 27 October 2008 Gurgenidze resigned from the post of prime minister. According to President Saakashvili is a commission conduct which is intended to stabilize Georgia's financial system in the context of the financial crisis from 2007 Gurgenidze.
Others
Gurgenidze, in addition to the Georgian British citizenship. He is married and has three children. He became famous in 2006 when he presented a Georgian version of the TV show The Apprentice TV station in Rustavi 2.