Team

Ketevan Ebanoidze is a co-founder and Co-CEO of Impact Hub Tbilisi. She managed a start-up capital of $135k and launched operations in 7 months. Ketevan currently manages the IHT team of three and the constantly growing community, which grew from 0 to 80 members in the first year. Ketevan is a public relations and media communications specialist with extensive experience working for a wide range of TV programs in different Georgian television stations. Prior to working at Impact Hub, she led the Media and Communication Division at the Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia, where she managed the high standard media communication and public relations for the Ministry, Ministry officials and for 80 entities working under the Ministry. She graduated in Journalism from the Tbilisi State University and did her Master's degree at Georgian Institute of Public Affairs in Journalism and Media-Management. She is an alumnus of London School of Public Relations.

Developing meaningful relationships, bringing people together and helping them understand each other’s culture and objectives is Elene’s passion. She was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, but raised in Germany after her parents decided to flee the civil war in Georgia in the early nineties. After successful graduation from German high school she returned in Tbilisi in 2001 to study law and economics at the Technical University Tbilisi, with scholarships at the University in Eichstätt, Germany. During the past ten years while working in various international business organizations, she gained extensive experience of partnership building and start-up facilitation. In 2016 she co-founded Impact Hub Tbilisi to contribute to the development of entrepreneurship in Georgia and put the country on the global entrepreneurial map.

A co-founder of Coda, Natalia is an Emmy-nominee and award-winning journalist. Originally from Tbilisi, Georgia she started her career freelancing in West Africa. Since then, she had been BBC’s resident correspondent in the Caucasus, Central Asia, Middle East, Washington DC and India. She has covered the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008, the war in Eastern Ukraine and reported undercover from Burma, Yemen and Uzbekistan. Her investigations into human rights abuses in Central Asia, Iraq and the United States have won her a number of awards. In addition to a career in broadcast journalism, Natalia has also written for the Guardian, Forbes magazine and the New Yorker among others.

Sophiko Vasadze has been a video producer at Coda Story since 2015. She also has eight years of production experience at the Georgian Public Broadcaster and three years experience anchoring the news at Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. She’s the winner of EU Prize for Journalism and was shortlisted for several awards. Sophiko has masters degree in Media Management and is now a Senior Lecturer at the University of Georgia where she teaches multimedia journalism.

Nutsa is a co-founder and the CEO of the event company Boobooli LTD. In 2016-2017 she devised strategies and prepared documentation for contract procurement, budgeted and monitored event funds upwards of 150K GEL. She has extensive experience running international events in Georgia, including the 2016 edition of Tbilisoba, the 2017 New Year celebrations, and the annual Christmas Market on New Tiflis. She has worked in marketing at adjarabet.com and has a Master’s degree from the SKEMA Business School of Paris.

Hearing stories from loved ones or strangers about her hometown of Sokhumi - the territory currently occupied by Russia - Tina understood that stories could help ease your pain and build an emotional connection to something you've never seen. After graduating from the Caucasus School of Business with a major in marketing, she pursued a career in marketing. Tina won several creativity competitions and worked in marketing at Space Neobank - the first digital bank in Georgia.