Vato is the Founder/Creative Chairman of communications agency Windfor’s, founded in 2004 in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Throughout these years, under his leadership, Windfor’s became one of the leading agencies of the region, being awarded at some of the most prestigious global forums, like Golden Drum, Eurobest, Ad Black Sea, ADCE, Epica and Cannes Lions.

Vato is the founder of two international festivals of creativity, Ad Black Sea and Tbilisi Design Festival, co-founder of Association of Communications Agencies of Georgia (ACAG), co-founder of ArtArea – Multi-media Platform on Culture, and Producer of two feature films, Subordination (2006) and Disorder (2012).

In 2019, Vato was awarded with the first ever prize in honour of late Nick Gujejiani – for the lifetime contribution into the development of Georgian communications industries.

He holds an executive MBA degree from the Berlin School of Creative Leadership.