Career
He has been working within the Georgian media for 20 years. He has been involved in the commercial production of a number of projects of a social nature. He is a citizen of Germany and has worked in the music industry in that country since 1994 while studying at the University of Munster.
He lives in, and divides his time between, both Georgia and Germany.
In Georgia, he has been involved with the following programs: Extremely Popular (Channel 1, 1990-1991) A social documentary on Georgian Civil War (1991) with American cameraman Charly Steiner Showbiz Digest (Channel 2, 1991 – 1993) Komunikatori (Channel 1, 1999. television Rustavi2, 2000); His latest film Dancing with Georgia (Tańcząca z Gruzją) was broadcast on TVP2 (the second channel of Polish television).
In September 2005, Open Society–Georgia invited him to be a consultant to the Foundation’s project “Assistance to the Unemployed Citizens of Georgia”. Since January 2007, he has been consulting with the Georgian Department of Tourism and Resorts.
He managed the project ‘Georgian Society for Performing and Reproduction Rights’ (1997) and was chairman of the Georgian Copyright Association (GECA).
In 2002, he was one of the founders of “European House”, an independent non-governmental organization/think tank raising public awareness and working toward the goal of Georgia’s integration into the European Union.