George Bachiashvili

George (or Giorgi) Bachiashvili, born in 1985, is a Georgian businessman and former head of the Georgian Co-Investment Fund (GCF). He was a close associate of billionaire and former Prime Minister of Georgia, Bidzina Ivanishvili, before a public falling out, and legal case. As of May 2025, he was jailed in Georgia. Some commentators consider his imprisonment to be personally and politically motivated.

Bachiashvili earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Caucasus University in 2005, and later an MBA (2009-2010) from INSEAD in Paris. He began his business career at the Bank of Georgia (2005-2007), and then working in various jobs, including the Dhabi Group in Tbilisi, and then Booz Company and Unicor in Moscow (2010-2012). In November 2012, after Ivanishvili became Prime Minister, Bachiashvili was appointed Deputy Executive Director of the Partnership Fund, a state-owned investment fund. In 2013, he was selected by Ivanishvili to head the newly established Georgian Co-Investment Fund, which was planned to be a $6 billion private equity fund. He served as the fund's Chief Executive Officer until 2019, after which he became the chairman of its advisory board. After 2019, he focused on Mission Gate, his own venture capital fund.