Prior to joining TBC Bank as a Senior Advisor in December 2024, Otari served as a Managing Director at Galt & Taggart, Georgia based investment Bank, since 2014. While at Galt & Taggart he took an active part in developing Georgian Capital market through active involvement in ECM/DCM, Advisory, Brokerage, Research and Wealth Management. Before Galt & Taggart, he served as a Chief Investment Officer at Partnership Fund, a Georgian state-owned private equity fund. Previously, he worked as an Associate at Arjil – Altium Capital, a Paris-based investment bank. While at Arjil, he participated in numerous transactions throughout Eastern and Western Europe. Otari holds a master’s degree in Corporate Finance from Paris Graduate School of Management and a master’s degree in Economics from Pantheon-Sorbonne University.