Jaba Lomtadze

During the 5 month MBA Company Consultancy Project: • Analyzed venture capital, startup, and accelerator markets • Screened 150+ potential fast-growing StartUps and analyzed the top 20 businesses in depth by doing personal meetings and video calls • Formulated a competitive analysis, which benchmarked iStarter against its top 5 competitors and defined market positioning • Provided recommendations to improve the company's market positioning and business model

Led an intrapreneurial tech startup to become a digital media leader in Georgia. • Increased the website traffic from 70K to 350K users/day • Led the development and launch of 5 new digital media products, including conceptually new sports media platform • Created a new organizational structure and expanded employee number from 60 to 150 • Directly managed 10 departments, including teams of designers, project managers, software developers, product and marketing managers

Led complex projects in government-owned R&D and production center • Managed large-scale Anti-Hail System (AHS) project with $10M+ budget from initiation to execution; simultaneously with five minor R&D projects • Did the feasibility studies, prepared detailed project plans, supervised the progress • Led cross-functional teams of scientists, engineers, and developers in an organization with a decentralized structure • Led dozens of negotiations with the international companies

Managed a team of set decorators at a top media broadcaster in Georgia, with over 7 studios, and 20+ TV shows and newsrooms • Managed daily operational activities; planned the jobs and projects with tv-show producers and department heads; delivered a 100% success rate - 0 downtimes or delays during 4 years • Represented our division to the C-Suite executives; increased staff number from 10 to 15; managed the finances of the division, and increased the average salary by up to 50%

Studied one year (out of four) - to acquire general insights and some technical skills.