Kakha Bendukidze

Georgian and Russian businessman (1956-2014)

Kakha Bendukidze is remembered in business for decisions whose consequences outlived the decade that made them.

The record lists Kakha Bendukidze as Georgian and Russian businessman (1956-2014).

Kakha Bendukidze was born at Tbilisi in 1956. His recorded nationality is Georgia. He was educated at Lomonosov Moscow State University and Tbilisi State University.

Post-war business was mass-market and increasingly multinational, managed by professionals rather than owners.

He worked as politician, entrepreneur and economist.

His recorded affiliations include National Research University – Higher School of Economics.

What a company leaves behind is usually infrastructure, habit and employment rather than a name.

Recognition followed: St. George's Order of Victory.

That the business was built from Georgia shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.

Kakha Bendukidze died in 2014, aged 58. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.

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