Prior to Putnam Lovell, Gurgenidze served as Head of Technology Corporate Finance, Head of M&A and held other positions at ABN Amro advising such clients as Swift, Reuters, Moneyline Telerate, Wirtualna Polska, Marconi, Andrew Corporation, Merloni Elettrodomestici, News Corp, Global One, Golden Telecom and UPC.

After the armed conflict between Russia and Georgia, in August 2008, Gurgenidze has played a vital role in stabilising the Georgian economy and financial services sector.

[citation needed] He obtained (in September 2008) US$750 million stand-by loan facility from International Monetary Fund and brought into country US$4.5 billion donor aid.

As a result of his efforts, the Georgian economy stabilised after the Russian invasion of Georgia in August 2008 which coincided with the world financial crisis.

[citation needed] On 26 May 2010, Gurgenidze was awarded the Presidential Order of Excellence for leading the country’s government during an armed conflict with Russia and introducing innovations to the Georgian business.

[citation needed] In 2017, Gurgenidze joined the 4finance, one of Europe's largest online and mobile consumer lending groups, as the chairman of the supervisory board.