Board leadership · Retail · Transformation · Academia

Tiko
Magradze

Board Member · Retail CEO · Transformation Executive · Associate Professor

Twenty-five years leading growth, turnaround and market-entry work across retail, commercial real estate, supply chain, technology and cross-border ventures.

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Tbilisi · New YorkStrategy into execution

Twenty-five years

executive leadership

Chief Executive Officer

MiHouse DIY Hypermarket

Supervisory Board

Hualing Group

Executive MBA

NYU Stern School of Business

Associate Professor

GIPA — Georgian Institute of Public Affairs

PhD Candidate

Business Administration · Entrepreneurship & Startup Psychology

Selected Organizations & Academic Affiliations

Ventures & projects

Dawn light across the aisles of an empty hypermarket interior

Retail floors · Malls · Distribution centers

Strategy is only real once it stands on an operating floor.

01 / Executive Profile

The operator behind the strategy

Building what matters—and making it work.

Tiko Magradze seated in a cream suit

Tiko Magradze is a retail, commercial and business-transformation executive with 25+ years in strategy, operations, retail, transformation and market entry—paired with academic leadership and research.

  • CEO of MiHouse
  • Supervisory Board Member at Hualing Group
  • NYU Stern Executive MBA
  • Associate Professor at GIPA
  • PhD Candidate
GIPA profile NYU Stern EMBA LinkedIn Hualing MiHouse

02 / Concept & idea author · Forbes Woman Georgia

NO.

The Power of No

Concept creator & idea author · Tiko Magradze

No to inherited limits. No to activity without purpose. No to strategies that never reach execution. The disciplined “no” protects the mission, clarifies the decision and creates room for the work that matters.

Read the article · Forbes Woman Leadership interview
“The ‘American Dream’ does not exist. There is a goal, work and motivation.”
Tiko Magradze · Entrepreneur Georgia
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  • “The answer to every question lies in the necessity of continuous development.”
  • “Professional development is unimaginable without personal development.”
  • “What matters is the team, the project and the goal I will serve.”

03 / Journey

Career architecture

Clinical rigor. Commercial range. Board-level perspective.

A career built by moving toward harder questions—from medicine to multinational operations, from turnarounds to venture building, and from executive management to governance.

  1. Foundation

    Medicine & analytical discipline

    Licensed cardiologist whose diagnostic training continues to shape her approach to business complexity.

  2. Regional scale

    Carrefour Caucasus

    Supply chain, private label, sourcing, import and regional logistics leadership.

  3. Transformation

    Gldani Mall & Hualing Plaza

    Commercial repositioning, redevelopment, tenant strategy and crisis-era operations.

  4. Launch & governance

    MiHouse & Hualing Group

    Built MiHouse from concept to operation; now leads the business and contributes at supervisory-board level.

  5. Global chapter

    NYU Stern & international ventures

    Executive MBA in Strategy, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, paired with U.S. market and startup advisory work.

04 / Featured Executive Projects

Transformation in evidence

Projects with decisions, systems and outcomes behind them.

The portfolio distinguishes verified outcomes from confidential work. Public sources and signed documentation are identified throughout.

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Retail · Real estate · Logistics · TechnologySystems that move

01

MIHOUSE

Retail launch · Transformation · Current leadership

MiHouse — CEO

Retail concept, launch, sourcing, commercial strategy and transformation. Founding commercial leader who developed MiHouse from concept to operation—building its commercial strategy, sourcing model, supplier ecosystem, category structure and merchandising foundations—and returned as Chief Executive Officer in 2025 to lead its next growth chapter.

MiHouse About MiHouse
Concept → operation
CEO · 2025–present
Largest DIY retail platform in the Caucasus

02

HUALING PLAZA

Turnaround · Crisis leadership · Public impact

Hualing Plaza — CEO, 2021–2025

110,000 m² retail transformation built on the “Everything for Home” concept, with tenant development, Carrefour and Public Service Hall openings. During COVID-19 the team repurposed space for warehousing and distribution and supported a high-capacity public vaccination center with medical and public stakeholders.

Development & Carrefour opening Carrefour opening — commentary Public Service Hall opening
110,000 m²
retail transformation
4,000
daily vaccination capacity
10
vaccination rooms

03

META AGENCY

Strategy · International expansion · AI-enabled services

META Agency — Managing Partner & CEO

Strategic development, international expansion, portfolio diversification and AI-enabled services for one of Georgia's leading marketing and media groups.

Appointment interview META
Managing Partner & CEO
Portfolio diversification
AI-enabled services

04

GLDANI MALL

Turnaround · Commercial repositioning

Gldani Mall — CEO / Turnaround Leader

Built the redevelopment plan, reset the operational budget and organization, diversified the tenant mix and introduced new commercial services. The signed board recommendation records the result after one year of leadership.

Evidence: signed recommendation from the mall’s board leadership.

30%
revenue increase
40%
customer-traffic increase
05Cargon

Startup Strategy

Startup operations, structure and product-development strategy for a digital logistics platform later selected by 500 Georgia and documented as raising $770K for development.

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06CoNet

Founder · U.S. Market Strategy

Founded the first Georgian-American business club in the United States, connecting Georgian companies and founders with expertise, networks and market-entry resources.

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07MARBI Logic

Project Owner

Logistics-technology venture work across business-model development, product positioning and the operating foundations required to move from concept to execution.

Confidential engagement documentation

08Vody

AI Commerce Advisory

Through CoNet Consulting: landing-page audit and content, design and technical recommendations for an enterprise AI company building multimodal models for retail and food technology.

Confidential engagement documentation

09LumosTech

Business Development

Business-development consulting, market analysis and overseas collaboration design that helped initiate a clinical-research project in Georgia.

Confidential engagement documentation

10Globenet Telecommunications

U.S. Market Strategy

Business audit, U.S. market and competitor analysis, growth strategy, operating roadmap and financial model for a DBE-certified North Carolina telecommunications contractor.

Confidential engagement documentation

11We Grow, We Care

Agriculture & Impact

Market analysis, strategic plan, five-year financial projections, operating roadmap and funding-path assessment for a 50-acre mango and ginger orchard in Jamaica.

Confidential engagement documentation

Additional advisory work

  • STARTA

    strategy mentor to 25 women entrepreneurs

  • GSnail · Israel

    business strategy, commercialization and growth roadmap

  • Innovative Oncology Hospital

    business model, market strategy and operating roadmap

  • Autobani

    growth strategy and business development

  • VR Holding

    commercial and marketing strategy advisory

  • TV First Shop

    platform business model and operating strategy

05 / Cross-border platform

CoNet

Business Club · New York

A Georgian–American business bridge.

Founder and CEO of a U.S.-based platform created to connect Georgian companies and Georgian-American founders with expertise, networks, market-entry resources and advisory support.

First Georgian-American business club founded A new opportunity for investors in the U.S.
Black and white view of the New York City skylineCoNet

New York · Georgian-American business club

06 / Recommendations

What leaders say

Trust, documented.

Selected excerpts from signed recommendations supplied for this portfolio.

“She knew where we were, where we had to go and how we could execute it.”

Shao Xiaojin

General Director · Hualing International Special Economic Zone

“An exceptional ability to take a helicopter view, focus on what is most critical—and then execute it.”

Giorgi Jakhutashvili

Chairman · Kazakh-Georgian Economic Union

“Her ability to pull together diverse players from different domains has been instrumental in successfully initiating the project.”

Biquan Luo

Founder & CEO · LumosTech

“Smart, fast and efficient—result oriented, respecting deadlines, identifying risks and eliminating them.”

Vano Chaladze

CEO & Co-Founder · Cargon

Full signed letters and confidential engagement documents are retained as supporting evidence and are not exposed publicly.

07 / Academic & Educational Leadership

Education & academic leadership

Associate Professor · Researcher · Executive Educator

Primary evidence: official GIPA faculty profile.

  1. NYU Stern School of Business

    Executive MBA

    Strategy, Entrepreneurship & Innovation

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  2. GIPA

    Associate Professor

    Entrepreneurship · Business Strategy · Leadership

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  3. Caucasus International University

    PhD Candidate

    Business Psychology · Entrepreneurship & Startup Decisions

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  4. UNIMAN — Academy of International Management, Grenoble

    Master of Business Administration

    Corporate Management Strategy

  5. Tbilisi State Medical University

    Doctor of Medicine

    Cardiology

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  6. University of Foreign Languages

    Translation & Simultaneous Interpretation

    Foreign Languages

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Interviews · Ideas · Public record

08 / Media, Recognition & Public Impact

A public record of the work and the thinking behind it.

Recognition through the ICC Georgia Women in Business series.

09 / Documents

Selected evidence

Substance behind the portfolio.

PDF · 4 pages

Executive CV · 2026

PDF · Client brief

Vody Enterprise AI Solution Brief

Verified · private

Project agreements, strategy decks and signed recommendations

Available for relevant due diligence on request.

Board · Executive · Advisory

Build the next consequential chapter.

Open to select board, executive and transformation mandates where strategic clarity must become operational reality.

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