Dimitri Dekanozishvili

Dimitri has over 10 years of experience in building new products and business lines, marketing, and strategy. He is the co-founder of Talkpal, Inc., which, with over 1 million users internationally, is scaling quickly with the mission to revolutionize language learning by providing an engaging, interactive, and personalized AI-powered language tutoring experience across all mobile and web channels. Furthermore, he is an advisory board member of Datamam, a web scraping company.

In the past 6 years, Dimitri has worked in several positions at smava GmbH, Germany's largest consumer lending specialized platform, where he was in charge of building new digital products and business lines, including scaling the mortgage financing business or working on the merger and acquisition of FFG Finanzcheck, another German consumer lending specialist.

Before this, Dimitri was a Product Development Officer at Bank Republic, Société Générale Group, driving the digitalization of consumer loan products and launching competitive financial products.

Dimitri holds an M.Sc. in Management and Marketing from Freie Universität Berlin, completed a Master in Management exchange program at HEC Paris, and earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Free University of Tbilisi.