Biographical note

Prof. Dr. Richard Geibel heads the E-Commerce Institute which develops business management concepts for companies and associations based on scientific research. He was Dean of Master Program "Digital Management" and Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Fresenius University of Applied Sciences. His research focuses on digital transformation, e-commerce and digital entrepreneurship. As an alumnus of MIT, Cambridge, Mass., USA, he regularly works with researchers from Sloan School of Management.

Prof. Dr. Shalva Machavariani is Vice-rector for Scientific Affairs at East European University, Tbilisi, Georgia. He is also the Chairman of the Dissertation Council of the Faculty of Business and Engineering at the EEU. Throughout various years he held the position of the head of investment Department of Scientific-Research Institute of Economics and Planning; the Reform Group of the Chancellery of the Government of Georgia; Senior Advisor to the Economic Commission of the Parliament of Georgia; Head of the “O” component of the World Banks’ Program “Higher Education Reform in Georgia”; Co-Chair of the American University and Georg Masson University Program on “Economic Crime and Money Laundering in Georgia;  Vice-Rector for Scientific Affairs at Tbilisi State Institute of Foreign Economic Relations and Caucasus University. He is the author of several manuals, participant and organizer of dozens of scientific conferences, seminars, and research. Scientific editor of up to 20 collection of scientific papers. Supervisor and scientific editor of Georgian translation’ projects of 4 global editions, author of 64 scientific publications and 2 inventions (patents).