FINCA Bank Georgia Supervisory Board
Our Board of Directors brings a breadth of expertise and dedication to providing access to responsible financial services
Florin Lila
Supervisory Board Chairman, Vice President for FIF
Florin Lila
Florin Lila joined FINCA in 2012 as Regional Deputy CEO for Kosovo region at first and CEO after that. Florin Lila also is vice-president for FINCA Impact Finance and member of management team.
Florin has vast banking experience and standing out academic education. He has worked 13 years in banking field, which includes membership of executive management and management boards in Ghana and Kosovo.
Florin Lila holds Masters degree in Business analysis of Economics from Stanford University (United Kingdom).
Chikako Kuno
Supervisory Board Member
Chikako Kuno
Chikako Kuno has 30 years of experience working in emerging markets in Eastern Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States, Africa and Latin America. Before joining FINCA, Ms. Kuno led the Small Business Finance team as a director in the Financial Institutions Group at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London. During her IFI and commercial banking career, Ms. Kuno led teams in investments, project finance, portfolio management, capital markets and syndications.
Ms. Kuno also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Chile and Honduras. She holds a Master’s Degree in international economics from The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Volker Renner
Supervisory Board Member
Volker Renner
Volker Renner has over 20 years of senior executive experience in responsible finance in the Eurasia, Africa, Latin America and Asia regions. From 2004 to 2016 he served FINCA International as Vice President for Credit and Savings, Global COO, and Regional Director for FINCA Eurasia. Prior to joining FINCA, Volker held positions as CEO of ProCredit Bank (Ukraine) and advisor to banks in Russia and Ukraine. Since 2016, Volker has focused his work on governance and consulting roles, serving as board director and member of Audit, Risk, ALCO, Digital Financial Services, and Credit committees in financial institutions on three continents.
Sridhar Srinivasan
Supervisory Board Independent Member
Sridhar Srinivasan
Sridhar is a financial services expert with nearly 30 years of experience at Citigroup across Asia, Africa and Europe. During this period he built, grew and transformed businesses, holding key country and regional executive positions including CEO for three countries, Corporate Bank Head for India, Transaction Services Head for Africa and Bank Services Group Head for Central, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa. After his time with Citi, Sridhar joined Oliver Wyman as Partner and India Head, and is currently a senior advisor at the leading global management consulting firm. With strong personal integrity, passion, and relationship skills, he has built several winning teams comprising people from diverse cultural and professional backgrounds.
He is now an established non-executive board director/advisor with companies ranging from startups to the largest corporations in India. His deep experience and track record helps him to work with CEOs and boards in areas such as management strategy, business transformation, governance, shareholder interests, risk, and regulatory compliance. He is also an active angel investor and mentor for early stage startups.
Sridhar lives in Mumbai, India. He is a graduate of Delhi University and is also a Chartered Accountant.
FINCA Bank Georgia Management Team
Our management team brings vast experience, professional skills and expertise from various industry backgrounds
Irakli Elashvili
Chief Executive Officer
Irakli Elashvili
Prior to joining FINCA Bank Georgia, Mr. Elashvili was World Bank’s consultant supporting the structural reform on pensions in Georgia. Immediately before this, Mr. Elashvili acted as a chief executive officer of TBC Capital LLC, investment banking arm of TBC Bank in Georgia. At the same time, Mr. Elashvili was the supervisory board member of the Georgian Stock Exchange. In his earlier career, Mr. Elashvili worked on various positions spanning across retail, commercial and investment banking functions at Barclays Bank and BNP Paribas in London, United Kingdom, as well as across management consulting, general management and turnaround management functions at PA Consulting Group in Tbilisi, Georgia. Mr. Elashvili’s experiences span multiple geographies, including Georgia, United Kingdom, Continental Europe, MENA, CEE and Caucasus.
Mr. Elashvili obtained an MBA degree from London Business School in 2008 and graduated from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University in 2002 with a Bachelor’s degree in banking and finance.
Irakli has a family – wife and daughter.
David Zarandia
General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
David Zarandia
David Zarandia General Counsel & Corporate Secretary of FINCA Bank Georgia, has over 8 years of experience in managerial positions in the field of legal affairs of the financial sector.
David Zarandia joined FINCA Georgia in 2006 and during 11 years he was in charge of ensuring compliance of FINCA Georgia activities with respective legal requirements. He actively participated in the key transformation processes of the company – FINCA transformation into microfinance organization in 2007 and transformation from microfinance organization into a commercial bank in 2013.
For several years David led legal support and problem loans management functions. As a bank corporate secretary, he worked on an implementation of the modern corporate management model. Prior to his career in FINCA Georgia David’s activity covered legal consulting and litigation in finance, energy, and medical law fields.
David Zarandia graduated from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia. He holds a Master’s Degree in Law (LL.M.) from Köln University (Germany). As of 2006 he is a member of the Georgian Bar Association.
Tinatin Gobejishvili
Chief Commercial Officer
Tinatin Gobejishvili
Tinatin brings over 20 years of experience as a corporate strategist and senior manager, with sound track record in consulting large companies in banking, HORECA, leasing and TV broadcasting industries. She served as CEO of GDS TV, Lopota Resort & SPA, and GLC; Also, acted as senior advisor to CEO of Liberty Bank and Deputy CEO of Imedi TV.
Her areas of professional expertise include: business transformation & strategy development, automatization and digitalization of business processes and innovative technologies / software development; optimization of large operations and financial management; also, government relations – legislation, policy development and accountability.
FINCA Impact Finance’s Global Leadership
The FINCA Impact Finance leadership team manages a global organization of more than 12,000 employees