Who We Are

Before starting PricePulse, Mikheil Kukava built a career spanning over 15 years in economic reform across Eastern Europe and Central Asia. He has worked with businesses and international organizations, including the EU, UNDP, and USAID, providing technical assistance and training in financial modeling and digital transformation. He also spent six years as a Senior Consultant at Policy and Management Consulting Group (PMCG), advising governments and public institutions on economic policy and financial management. Mikheil’s extensive experience includes helping businesses optimize their operations, streamline processes, and achieve tangible improvements in operational efficiency and business outcomes through growth-oriented strategic financial management.

As CEO of PricePulse, Mikheil brings this experience to competitive price intelligence: helping retail teams understand their markets and make pricing decisions with clearer evidence. He guides the company’s strategy around the practical needs of clients, connecting financial analysis and digital tools with the decisions businesses make about products, prices, and growth.

Mikheil holds an MSc from the London School of Economics.

Tite Jintcharadze holds a Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics and brings extensive experience in financial accounting and analysis. His roles have included Director at Management Advisory Group and full-time professor of finance and accounting at Free University ESM Business School. He has consulted organizations including the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and led financial restructuring projects for enterprises. His certifications and experience cover financial accounting under IFRS and GAAP, managerial accounting, financial analysis, budget preparation, business valuation, and taxation.

At PricePulse, Tite applies this combination of mathematical training and financial judgment to the company’s financial and operating decisions. He oversees commercialization and helps connect competitive price intelligence with its business value, keeping the focus on useful analysis, sound financial decisions, and tools that retail teams can put into practice.

With almost 20 years at the forefront of banking IT, Givi Dochviri has been a catalyst for technological innovation and transformation. At TBC Bank, one of the largest and most innovative financial institutions in Georgia, he didn’t just manage IT operations—he redefined them. Givi spearheaded the adoption of DevOps methodologies and led a pioneering shift to cloud-based solutions, elevating the bank’s performance, agility, and security to unprecedented levels.

His passion for modern workplace technologies has revolutionized team collaboration and productivity. Givi’s deep expertise in IT service management, infrastructure architecture, and risk management has been instrumental in optimizing operations and igniting innovation in cloud integration and digital transformation.

Before starting PricePulse, Givi further developed his leadership and technical acumen in key roles at Bank Republic – Société Générale. This rich background laid a robust foundation in IT leadership and strategic innovation. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Physics and Computer Science from Ivane Javakhishvili State University and an MBA in IT Management from ESM Tbilisi.

As Chief Technology Officer at PricePulse, Givi brings this background to the infrastructure and technical decisions behind competitive price intelligence. His focus is on reliable services that help retail teams work with changing product and price data confidently.

Nino Mchedlishvili brings experience in digital strategy, market analysis, and customer experience across industries. She helped start Portali, a company providing SEO audits and analytics, and has developed expertise in SEO and social media advertising, helping businesses improve website traffic and conversion rates.

At PricePulse, Nino connects that understanding of digital markets with competitive price intelligence. Her work brings market analysis, campaign measurement, and analytics into the same conversation, helping clients relate competitor products and prices to their business goals. She focuses on turning digital insights into practical decisions that retail teams can understand and use.

Giorgi Kurtskhalia is a core developer and QA lead at PricePulse. He works through software failures and performance problems by understanding the systems behind them and tracing issues to their source.

Trained in Computer and Electrical Engineering, with a strong grounding in advanced mathematics, he brings a methodical approach to debugging. Before joining PricePulse, Giorgi worked in biomedical engineering and STEM education, gaining experience with complex systems where reliability matters.

At PricePulse, Giorgi focuses on the data flows, services, and quality checks behind competitive price intelligence. His combination of mathematical thinking and careful troubleshooting helps keep the platform dependable as product information and competitor prices change.

Gigi Chalagashvili combines mathematical discipline with a talent for turning ideas into working software. A national mathematics Olympiad finalist, he earned local wins in the NASA Space Apps hackathon in both 2021 and 2022. His achievements reflect an inventive approach to problems and the determination to carry an idea through to a practical result.

His development experience spans web interfaces, database troubleshooting and games. He has built a React front end for a restaurant network application, resolved SQL update issues and created independent games using Unity and C#. Alongside his studies in computer science and mathematics at Free University, he taught computer science at the Georgian-American School, guiding pupils from programming fundamentals to building their own games.

At PricePulse, Gigi brings this blend of analytical strength, creativity and practical development experience to building software that makes competitor price tracking more useful and accessible to retail teams.

Giorgi Bendianishvili brings a strong foundation in distributed systems, artificial intelligence and web development to PricePulse. His projects tackle challenges beneath the surface of everyday software: keeping data consistent across servers, maintaining service when a server fails, and teaching applications to interpret images and language. He has built a fault-tolerant data store, developed operating-system components and created an AI lecture assistant combining computer vision with natural language processing.

Graduate of computer science and mathematics at Free University, Giorgi’s interests encompass advanced algorithms, machine learning and systems engineering. As a programming teaching assistant, he mentored students, reviewed their code and helped them work through difficult problems—experience that strengthened both his technical judgment and his ability to explain complex ideas clearly.

At PricePulse, Giorgi brings this combination of math acumen, technical depth, and careful problem-solving to the development of reliable pricing intelligence tools, helping build software retailers can depend on as products, prices and promotions change.

Vano Prangulaishvili holds a Ph.D. in Economics and brings Swiss financial management experience to his role as Non-Executive Director at PricePulse. Throughout his career, he has managed financial operations for enterprises with turnovers ranging from 100 million to 1.5 billion Swiss francs.

Before joining PricePulse, he served as CFO at University Hospital Zurich. Earlier, as CFO at Balgrist University Hospital, he oversaw financial reporting and the improvement of financial processes.

His experience on supervisory boards gives him a broader view of the financial and strategic decisions facing large enterprises. At PricePulse, Vano brings that perspective to strategic planning and the development of competitive price intelligence that supports considered business decisions.