Position: Project Manager
Category: Project Manager
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 5


I have been in the innovation and tech industry for more than 6 years now, working closely with more than a 100 start-up teams from different corners of the world on their business and product development strategies. I have built relationships with public & private ecosystem players, designing and implementing business development programs like acceleration and incubation, mentoring intrapreneurs within the government and corporate organizations like BP, Coca-Cola, Draper University in San-Francisco and etc.


In 2019 I got offered to manage another Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center called Barama, which is Azerbaijan’s first business incubator that had recently gone under the administration of Innovation Agency Azerbaijan - a governmental agency responsible for regulating the innovative ecosystem where I also got recruited as a Deputy Head of Startup Support and Acceleration Department. Here I had the opportunity to work with government organizations and ecosystem players, participated in designing of “Innovation map of Azerbaijan'', facilitated the opening of the biggest startup community “Startup Grind” Baku Chapter, 500 startups, deploying of EON Virtual Reality technologies in the universities, opening the first ever government technology incubation centre “Simbioz” under the administration of High Tech Park Mingacavir, stimulating the growth of entrepreneurship in the regions like Lankaran by facilitating the establishment of Startup Grind X Lankaran Chapter and conducting certification and accreditation initiatives for innovation managers and university-based entrepreneurship centres, designing the international capacity building programmes for the developing countries.