Mikhail Lomtadze — businessman with roots in the USSR
Mikhail Lomtadze is a Georgian-born entrepreneur and CEO of Kaspi.kz — Kazakhstan's dominant fintech super-app and one of the most valuable companies in the former Soviet space. He grew up in Soviet Georgia, lives in Almaty, and runs Kaspi's global operations entirely in Russian, his primary business language.
Tracing the roots — Georgia
Born in Soviet Georgia and building his career in Kazakhstan, Lomtadze represents the pan-Soviet Russian-speaking business elite — people whose identity transcends national borders but is united by the Russian language and post-Soviet business culture. His partnership with Vyacheslav Kim built one of the former Soviet space's most successful technology companies.
Georgia. At the time, this region was one of the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union.