Meet The Team
Meet the Beamery leadership team and board members driving our mission to create equal access to work, and putting skills at the heart of talent management.
Meet the Beamery leadership team and board members driving our mission to create equal access to work, and putting skills at the heart of talent management.
Sultan Saidov
Chief Executive Officer
Sultan oversees all global operations—bringing together product, go-to-market, and customer success teams to deliver measurable value and scale strategic outcomes for Beamery’s customers. He is a frequent speaker on the future of work, ethical AI, and workforce strategy, and has been recognized for his thought leadership on how organizations can embrace disruption with intelligence and humanity.
Press Kit Abakar Saidov
Executive Chairman
As Executive Chairman, Abakar represents Beamery in the external market—engaging with global enterprise leaders, strategic partners, and industry thought leaders to shape the future of skills, work, and workforce transformation. A passionate advocate for ethical AI and equitable opportunity in the workplace, Abakar frequently speaks on the intersection of technology, policy, and workforce transformation.
Press KitErinn Tarpey
Chief Marketing Officer
Erinn leads Beamery’s brand, positioning, and go-to-market strategies. She specializes in scaling marketing for high-growth B2B SaaS companies, focusing on HR and Finance technologies for global enterprises. Previously, she led marketing at iCIMS, Namely, and Visual Lease.
Press KitPhilipp Becker
Chief Financial Officer
Philipp has held various growth CFO roles over the last 10 years. Previously a TMT investment banker for Goldman Sachs and Barclays, Philipp holds a finance degree from St. Gallen. Philipp is an active angel investor in startups across Europe and the US.
Pavel Kilovatiy
Chief Technology Officer
Pavel directs Beamery's technology vision, leading the team to embed AI into its SaaS platform. Previously, he co-founded an acquired e-commerce SaaS company, and he scaled Maxymiser's operations towards 4x growth and integration with Oracle. Pavel holds an MSc in Mathematics.
Nicolette Nowak
General Counsel
Nicolette is the General Counsel, Company Secretary, & DPO – focused on all things AI compliance. Prior to joining, she worked at high-growth SaaS companies such as Celonis and Collibra. She is an alumnus of University of Florida and UC Hastings Law.
Scott Morrison
Global Head, People
Scott is a global HR executive with 13+ years of experience aligning people strategy to business goals across sectors and regions. He leads with empathy, driving change, inclusion, and resilience. With expertise in transformation and culture-building, he makes work smarter, more equitable, and more human.
Ghassan Khoury
Senior Vice President and Managing Director EMEA
Ghassan leads Beamery’s EMEA & APAC business, helping clients align their talent strategies with their business goals. Prior to Beamery, he was a Partner at EY and a Managing Partner at Gallup.
We want our clients to be wildly successful, and build a company that people are proud to work for, where they grow and have amazing experiences. With our team, I know we will achieve our mission to build a truly talent-first world.
Avid Larizadeh Duggan, OBE
Avid is Senior Managing Director of Teachers' Venture Growth (TVG) and co-founder of The Operator Network, mentoring entrepreneurs. Previously COO of Kobalt Music and co-founder of Boticca, she was a General Partner at GV. A Non-Executive Director at Barclays UK, she holds degrees from Stanford and an MBA from Harvard. Avid is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and an Honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, for services to the economy, business and education.
Jan Hammer
Jan, a leading investor in data and financial services, has backed companies like Adyen, Robinhood, and Wise. Ranked first on Forbes' Midas List in Europe for four years, he invests in firms like Alan, Collibra, and SafetyCulture. Previously at General Atlantic and Morgan Stanley, Jan holds an MBA from INSEAD and a degree from Oxford. He also works with the TATE on its art collection.
Dr Mary Meaney
Mary is a Board member of GBL, Syensqo, and Imperial College London, and an angel investor in tech companies like Beamery. She also serves on Imperial College Business School’s Advisory Board and leads Solidarite Ukraine. Formerly a Senior Partner at McKinsey, she co-authored a book called Leading Organizations and has lectured at top universities globally.
Sultan Saidov
Sultan oversees all global operations—bringing together product, go-to-market, and customer success teams to deliver measurable value and scale strategic outcomes for Beamery’s customers. He is a frequent speaker on the future of work, ethical AI, and workforce strategy, and has been recognized for his thought leadership on how organizations can embrace disruption with intelligence and humanity.
Abakar Saidov
As Executive Chairman, Abakar represents Beamery in the external market—engaging with global enterprise leaders, strategic partners, and industry thought leaders to shape the future of skills, work, and workforce transformation. A passionate advocate for ethical AI and equitable opportunity in the workplace, Abakar frequently speaks on the intersection of technology, policy, and workforce transformation.
Beamery’s latest innovations in work design and AI-powered talent management have been highlighted in a recent Mercer briefing.
Beamery has achieved ISO 42001 certification, the world’s first international standard for Artificial Intelligence Management Systems.
Meet the individuals and organizations using Beamery to transform talent strategies and create meaningful business impact – our Beamie Award winners for 2025.
Beamery wins a Bronze Stevie® Award for Company of the Year in the Artificial Intelligence category in the second annual Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence.
New Workforce Intelligence Suite, embedded with an agentic AI consultant, gives HR and C-suite leaders unique task-level visibility to drive smarter talent and automation decisions with ease.
The recognition reflects Beamery’s ability to deliver a broad and differentiated suite of capabilities to complex, enterprise-scale organizations tackling workforce transformation.
New integration empowers talent teams to streamline sourcing and deliver greater ROI from HR tech investments.
Beamery announces Sultan Saidov as CEO and Abakar Saidov as Executive Chairman, marking a new era of AI-driven, skills-based workforce transformation.
Recognition reflects Beamery’s unique ability to give global enterprises a dynamic understanding of the skills they have and need, in order to power data-driven talent decisions.