Strategic ReportStrategic ReportStrategic Report Financial Additional Overview Strategy Performance Governance Statements Information Board of Directors Diverse and balanced team who govern with experience Neil Janin Non-Executive Chairman Neil Janin was appointed Non-Executive Chairman of Bank of Georgia Group PLC on 24 February 2018. Mr Janin serves as Chairman of Bank of Georgia Group PLC’s Nomination Committee, as well as being a member of the Remuneration Committee. Mr Janin also serves as a member of the Supervisory Board of the Bank. Mr Janin previously served as Chairman of BGEO Group PLC from October 2011 until May 2018, which included positions on BGEO Group PLC’s Nomination and Remuneration Committees. Mr Janin also served as a Non-Executive Director of Georgia Healthcare Group PLC, from September 2015 to April 2018. Skills and experience: McKinsey & Company, Mr Janin worked for Chase Mr Janin serves as counsel to CEOs of both for-profit Manhattan Bank (now JP Morgan Chase) in New York and non-profit organisations and continues to provide and Paris, and Procter & Gamble in Toronto. Mr Janin has consulting services to McKinsey & Company. Prior to practised in Europe, Asia and North America. Mr Janin is joining the Bank in 2010, Mr Janin was a Director of also a Director of Neil Janin Limited, a company through McKinsey & Company, based in its Paris office, for over which he provides his ongoing consulting services. 27 years, from 1982 until his retirement. At McKinsey & Company, he conducted engagements in the retail, asset Education: management and corporate banking sectors, and was Mr Janin holds an MBA from York University, Toronto, actively involved in every aspect of organisational practice, and a joint honours degree in Economics and Accounting including design, leadership, governance, performance from McGill University, Montreal. enhancement and transformation. Before joining Archil Gachechiladze CEO Archil Gachechiladze was appointed as Executive Director and CEO of Bank of Georgia Group PLC on 28 January 2019. Mr Gachechiladze serves as a member of the Risk Committee and as CEO of the Bank. Prior to his recent appointment Mr Gachechiladze served as CEO of Georgian Global Utilities from January 2017 to January 2019. Mr Gachechiladze joined the Bank in 2009 as Deputy CEO, Corporate Banking (2009- 2013) and has since held various roles with the Bank and the Group, such as Deputy CEO, Investment Management (2013-2015), CFO of BGEO Group (2015-2016) and Deputy CEO, Corporate Investment Banking (2016- 2017). Skills and experience: Education: Mr Gachechiladze has over 17 years of experience in Mr Gachechiladze received his undergraduate degree in the financial services, including various senior positions Economics from Tbilisi State University and holds his MBA both in local and international organisations, such as with distinction from Cornell University. He is also a CFA TBC Bank (2008-2009), Lehman Brothers Private Equity Charterholder and a member of the CFA Society in the (currently Trilantic Capital Partners) (2006-2008), Salford United Kingdom. Equity Partners, KPMG and the World Bank’s CERMA (1998-2004). Annual Report 2018Bank of Georgia Group PLC 111