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Dr. Orhan Ibrahimzade

Dr. Orhan Ibrahimzade

Chief Executive Officer, Adventa Group

Physician, strategist and technology executive — across healthcare, strategy, HR, IT and AI.

Dr. Orhan Ibrahimzade has led Adventa Group as CEO since 2015. His career spans five disciplines: he trained as a physician, spent more than thirteen years at BP Azerbaijan in HR and then upstream IT leadership, and today builds production AI for Azerbaijani organisations.

That combination shapes how Adventa works — technology chosen for the business problem, deployed with the people and processes that have to use it, and measured by what it changes in operations.

Areas of expertise

Five disciplines, one career

01

Healthcare

A physician and surgeon by training, he owns an aesthetic clinic and leads Adventa’s medical business.

Experience

  • Built a network of laser aesthetic centres in Azerbaijan (2015–2025)
  • Owns and manages Paramed Aesthetic Clinic in Baku
  • Leads Adventa Medical — medical systems for hospitals, clinics and aesthetic centres in Azerbaijan

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Medicine (MD), Azerbaijan Medical University
  • Residency in General Surgery, Azerbaijan Medical University
02

Strategy

Sets direction and builds management structures for a diversified group.

Experience

  • CEO of Adventa Group since 2015 — growth, partnerships and commercial strategy
  • Built independent management structures for each business unit
  • Served on BP governance boards overseeing multi-year investment portfolios

Qualifications

  • MBA, Heriot-Watt University
03

Human resources

Began his corporate career in reward and HR systems at BP.

Experience

  • Compensation & Benefits Manager, BP — Azerbaijan and Georgia (2001–2006)
  • Implemented integrated HR systems and market benchmarking frameworks

Qualifications

  • Certified Compensation Professional (CCP)
  • Certified Benefits Professional (CBP)
  • First Certified Global Remuneration Professional (GRP) in Azerbaijan
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Social Psychology, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
04

Information technology

Nine years accountable for upstream IT at one of the Caspian’s largest operators.

Experience

  • Business Information Manager (CIO-equivalent), BP — Drilling, Subsurface and Exploration (2006–2015)
  • IT for the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli and Shah Deniz offshore assets
  • Led large-scale digital infrastructure and collaboration initiatives
  • Speaker on regional collaboration strategy, Intelligent Energy Conference, Utrecht (2012)

Qualifications

  • ITIL certification
05

Artificial intelligence

Builds applied AI for production and researches Azerbaijani language technology.

Experience

  • Developed Azerbaijani automatic speech recognition (ASR) models
  • Fine-tuned large language models for Azerbaijani
  • Production AI: retrieval-augmented knowledge systems deployed on-premises with human oversight
  • Leads ALMAZ (Advanced Language Model for AZerbaijan) — open corpora, models, benchmarks and speech-recognition diagnostics
  • Seven publications in 2026 on Azerbaijani and Turkic NLP and speech

Qualifications

  • Open research on GitHub and Hugging Face (almaz-nlp)
  • Publications listed on ORCID

Career

  1. 2015 — present

    Chief Executive Officer · Adventa Group

    Diversified group across industrial technology, AI and healthcare.

  2. 2006 — 2015

    Business Information Manager · BP Azerbaijan

    Upstream IT for Drilling, Subsurface and Exploration; ACG and Shah Deniz; investment governance boards.

  3. 2001 — 2006

    Compensation & Benefits Manager · BP Azerbaijan

    Azerbaijan and Georgia; integrated HR systems and market benchmarking.

Education

  • MBA, Business AdministrationHeriot-Watt University 2006 — 2009
  • Postgraduate Diploma, Social PsychologyAzerbaijan National Academy of Sciences 2005 — 2007
  • Residency in General SurgeryAzerbaijan Medical University 1999 — 2001
  • Doctor of Medicine (MD)Azerbaijan Medical University 1993 — 1999

Selected publications

  • Article · 2026

    ALMAZ-Corpus: The Azerbaijani Text Data Landscape for Large Language Models

  • Catalogue · 2026

    ALMAZ Resource Roster: A Curated Catalog of Azerbaijani NLP Artifacts

  • Dataset · 2026

    The ALMAZ ASR Roster: A Curated Catalog of Azerbaijani Speech-to-Text Artifacts

  • Preprint · 2026

    The Azerbaijani Speech-to-Text Landscape: Data, Models, and the Gap Between Claimed and Demonstrated Support

  • Preprint · 2026

    When Cross-Lingual Transfer Writes the Wrong Language: A Grapheme-Recall Diagnostic for Low-Resource Turkic Speech Recognition

  • arXiv preprint · 2026

    Cross-Lingual Transfer and Parameter-Efficient Adaptation in the Turkic Language Family: A Theoretical Framework for Low-Resource Language Models
  • Preprint · 2026

    Empowering Educators in the Age of AI: A Curriculum Integration Framework for Developing Countries

Full publication list on ORCID

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