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1981 Azerbaijan National Economy Institute named after D.Bunyadzadeh, distinction graduate.

1981 Ecaonomist, Shamakhi branch of the USSR State Bank.

1981-1983 Military Service.

1983, June December Economist, Shamakhi branch of the USSR State Bank.

1983, December – 1988 Inspector at Azerbaijan Republic bureau of the USSRState Bank, chief inspector in Supervision Department.

1988–1993 Leading Inspector at Joint Stock Agri-Industrial Commercial Bank, Chief Inspector in Department of Control and Inspection; later Deputy Chairman.

1993, January National Bank of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Head of Banking Supervision Division.

1995, March Director of Banking Supervision Department and Deputy Chairman.

1995, October – 1996, June, Joint Stock Savings Bank, Chairman of the Provisional Management Committee.

1996, June 14 Member of the Management Board in the National Bank of the the Republic of Azerbaijan.

1996, September 24 First-deputy Chairman of the Management Board.

2001, December Member of the Management Board for the second 5-year term by the Order of “Milli Meclis”.

2002 Candidate of economic sciences. Author of seven scientific works and one monograph.

2006, December Member of the Management Board for the third 5-year term by the Order of “Milli Meclis”.

2012, February Member of Management Board for the fourth 5-year term by the Order of “Milli Meclis”.

2012, February awarded with Order for the Service to the Motherland of the 3rd degree for services in development of banking in the Republic of Azerbaijan.

2017, March Member of Management Board for the fifth 5-year term by the Order of Milli Madjlis

Married with two children.

1980-was born in.

1997-2001 - Studied at the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and received a Bachelor’s degree (with honours) in Public and Municipal Administration.

2001-2003 - Attained a Master’s degree (with honours) in Public Administration from the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

2004-2007 - Earned a PhD in Economics. His research focused on the problems of sustainable economic development.

2004-2012 - worked as Deputy Director of the Business Development Department, then as Director of the Banking Operations Department at “Azerpocht” LLC.

2012-2014 - worked as the Corporate Governance Advisor at “Azercosmos” OJSC.

2014 - Continued his studies at the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) where he completed the Business Sustainability Planning program. Member of the BCI since 2014.

Received “Progress” medal by the Order of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

2018 - He was appointed Deputy Chairman of “Azercosmos” OJSC by the Order of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan dated June 4, 2018.

2021 - Appointed as Deputy Minister of Transport, Communications and High Technologies by the Order of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan dated June 14, 2021.

Fluent in Russian and English.

Married.

Orkhan Vidadi oglu Mammadov was born in Baku in 1984.

In 2005, graduated from International Relations Faculty of Baku State University.

In 2005, completed Business and Finance program at Regent’s University London.

In 2009, earned an MBA degree at Odlar Yurdu University.

In 2012, earned a second bachelor’s degree in Finance and Credit at Azerbaijan State University of Economics.

In 2006, started to work at the Ministry of Industry and Energy.

From March 2007 to February 2018, held various positions at the Ministry of Economy, including serving as senior advisor and deputy head of business development policy sector, deputy head of foreign economic relations sector and head of interstate economic cooperation sector.

During his employment in the Ministry of Economy, participated in nearly 100 international meetings of various working groups and joint intergovernmental commissions, and was directly involved in the organization of a number of international events.

On February 27, 2018, was appointed Chairman of the Management Board of the Small and Medium Business Development Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Fluently speaks Azerbaijani, English, Russian and Turkish.

Married and has three children.

He was a Head of Department at the Centre for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan in 2011-2016, expert in the European Union in 2009-2010 and president of “ANS-PRESS” Publishing House from 2005-2007.

He graduated Azerbaijan State Economic University and received his Master degree in Economics in 1997. He received his MA in journalism from the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (based on the study program of Louisiana State University) in 2004. He received PhD on Economics in 2009, and Doctor of Science on Economics in 2017 in Baku State University. Being a results-driven researcher with strong background in macro-economics, he focuses his studying on the economic development, competitiveness, modernization and geo-economics.

He has hosted and participated in more than 20 academic research projects, published about 500 articles, wrote or co-authored 10 books. Dr.Gasimli's book entitled "Resource-rich countries" was printed by German Academic Publishing House in 2013. Dr.Gasimli laid the foundation of new geo-economic concept in his recent published book in Turkey - "Geo-economics". Dr. Vusal Gasimli got the award of Astana Economic Forum for outstanding research achievements in 2012.

 Prof. Dr. Vusal Gasimli delivered public lectures at prestigious universities such as Washington, California, Hanyang, Milan Catholic, Warsaw, Hankuk, Cairo, Rio de Janeiro etc. He worked as a guest scholar in Korea Institute for International Policy in 2013.

 He is member of the  State Commission has been established pursuant to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on "Additional measures to improve business climate in the Republic of Azerbaijan and further improve our country's position in international ratings" since 2016. He knows Azerbaijani, English, Russian, Spanish (elementary) and Turkish.

 lham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan Republic awarded Dr. Vusal Gasimli with the “Taraggi medalı” ("Progress Medal") for improving business environment and position of the country in international rankings.

After graduating from the secondary school he was admitted to the department of “Accounting” at Azerbaijan State Economic University and completed the full course on the speciality of “Economist” in 1981. Zakir Nuriyev started his labour activity as Leading Accountant at the “Control and Inspection” department of the Ministry of Communications, Azerbaijan Republic in 1981.

 Zakir Nuriyev did his military service during 1981-1983. He worked in the capacity of Accountant – Inspector, Chief Inspector and Deputy Chief Accountant at the “Control and Inspection” department of the Ministry of Communications, Azerbaijan Republic from July, 1983 until January, 1989 after having served in the military.

 He was appointed to the post of Manager of the “Control and Accounting” division at “Regional Communication” Production Association of the Ministry of Communications, Azerbaijan Republic in 1989. Zakir Nuriyev worked in the capacity of Chairman of the Management Board at “Rabitabank” Joint-Stock Commercial Bank during 1993-1998 and has been acting as Chairman of the Supervisory Board at “Rabitabank” Open Joint-Stock Company since 1998 up to date. He was elected President of the Azerbaijan Banks Association in 1996 and worked in that capacity until 2006. He has been member of the Presidium at Azerbaijan Banks Association from 2006 till 2015. He was re-elected President of Azerbaijan Banks Association in 2015.

Mr. Osmanov has about 20 years of experience in information technologies, implementing a number of digital transformation initiatives in banking sector. During his professional career, Mr. Osmanov focused on both adoption of information and payment systems, covering ever-changing business needs and business process optimization to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of business process management. Nowadays, his main strategic focus is to establish cashless economy and accelerate the creation of a digital ecosystem in Azerbaijan.

Mr. Osmanov holds MSc on information systems and management; and certified as ITSM expert, practitioner in project management and ISO/IEC 27001 information security standard implementer.

Mr. Javanshir Abdullayev graduated from faculty of Finance & Credit of the Azerbaijan State Economic Institute in 1982 with honors. He has 6 months study of strategic management, HR management, risk management and others management issues in 10 leading European banks and businesses.

His career began in 1982 as Credit Specialist in one of branches of USSR State bank and he was promoted up to leading auditor of controlling department of USS State Bank.

After becoming of Azerbaijan as independent country  in 1991 he was the Chairman of Management Board of one of the first private bank “Azinvestbank”. Later he became Chairman of Management Board largest State controlled Agro-Industrial Bank.

In 1992-1993 he was Governor of Central Bank of Azerbaijan.

From the first days of establishment of Azerbaijan Bank Training Centre in 2000 Mr. J. Abdullayev was appointed the Director. In short period of time he could establish the Centre, created highly qualified team and together with his team made Centre fully self sustainable and leading training provider of Azerbaijan.

Since ABTC’s establishment than 100 consulting projects, created close partnership with 10 international institutions which involved Centre in 30 international projects, personally conducted more than 200 trainings on strategic planning, HR management, organization of efficient business processes, risk management, as well as soft skills topics.

Erdem Çakar, who has been serving as the Vice President of Turkey and Azerbaijan region at Mastercard as of 2019, graduated from Kadıköy Anatolian High School. After high school, he spent 1 year in the United States with the AFS student exchange program. After graduating from Boğaziçi University, Faculty of Economics in 1998, he started his career at Citibank Turkey as a managerial candidate. After working in the Risk department for 4 years, he transferred to the Brussels office of Citibank, which is the center of the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. Here, he worked as a manager in regional and global roles in Operations, Technology, Sales and Marketing Departments. In 2009, he started to work as the Customer Relations Director at the Mastercard Turkey office. He also serves as the Azerbaijan Country Manager in addition to his duty as the Deputy Director of Turkey and Azerbaijan region.

Kornelijus Sisla has more than 5 years of experience in implementing outsourcing projects of acquiring networks in the Caucasus region and Baltic countries.

Kornelijus has been working in different business areas at BS/2 since 2013.

Currently, he holds the position of Head of Sales Department.

Žoržas Šarafanovičius is an expert in acquiring industry with 25 years’ experience.  He is an Executive director in ASHBURN International that develops software solutions for managing POS terminal fleet and transaction routing. Žoržas has been working in ASHBURN International since 2012.

Guliev Farid Fuad was born in Baku in 1986. He is an economist. He started his professional career in 2007 in the finance industry and from 2012 he held a position in board of directors of different financial organizations.

Since February 2018 he is appointed to the post of Head director of “Azəricard” LLC.

A seasoned public speaker, who has more than a dozen global publications, has also participated in Security and Availability projects in Strategic Accounts in several countries.

A graduate Engineer and MBA with over a decade’s experience in the Information security industry. This has included a Financial Services Key Account Executive role with OneSpan, Symantec, and Strategic Account Management for Enterprise Financial and Banking customers with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Security.

Can Avunduk has been working on digital payments and fintech since 2008. Prior to his work at Google, where he currently oversees Strategy & Operations for Payments in EMEA region, he was at Garanti BBVA as the mobile financial services lead and at 3pay, Turkey's first micro payments start-up.

Mr. Avunduk received his B.Sc. Degree from Bilkent University with a major in Industrial Engineering and hIs M.Sc. degree from Bogazici University's Engineering and Technology Management program.

 Outside of his duties at Google, he acts as an ambassador for the Kodluyoruz.org, an NGO that aims to create pathways for driven young people seeking careers in technology industry. He has previously co-authored the Turkey chapter of "The Book of Payments: Historical and Contemporary Views on the Cashless Society", published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2016.

Vitaly Nikiforov was born in Volgogradsky region of Russia in 1983.

He graduated “RUDN University” in 2006.

The same year he started working in the “Hyosung” company as a sales manager. After 15 years of successful work he became a Head of Sales Department of “Hyosung RUS”.

Vitaly made a huge contribution to the development of the company. Under his leadership “Hyosung RUS” became the biggest supplier of ATMs in Russia and CIS. During his work “Hyosung RUS” has implemented the project of supply in the “Sberbank”, the largest Russian bank. For the last 3 years “Hyosung RUS” shipped about 40 000 ATMs to Russian customers and about 1 000 ATMs to CIS.

Agil Abdullayev has been providing legal support to a series of IFC’s advisory projects from 2008 and currently works for Electronic and Digital Financial Services and Azerbaijan Investment Climate and Agribusiness Competitiveness Projects. He has master degree from Baku State University and graduated from ABA (American Bankers Association) National Graduate School of Banking in 2010. Furthermore, he studied in the School of American law for Azerbaijan (Chicago-Kent College of Law) in 2017-2018. 

Melih is the Fintech Project Director at the Financial Strategies and Analysis Department of Finance Office of the Presidency of Türkiye. He earned his bachelor's degree from Bilkent University, Department of Accounting Information Systems. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Economy of the Middle East at the Institute of the Middle East and Islamic Countries, Marmara University. He held senior roles in financial technology and banking.

Kirill Ovsiannikov is a technology communicator, banktech expert and marketer with 10 years’ experience. Since 2017 he has been responsible for building and performing a promotional strategy for BS/2 software products for banking and retail. Kirill’s extensive media background helps him to popularize innovations and explain sophisticated IT things in layman’s terms.

Gela Aivazishvili is an expert in banking industry with 25 years’ experience. He is a Head of a Cash Center at TBC Bank JSC, one of the biggest bank in Georgia. Gela Aivazishvili has been working at TBC Bank JSC since 1998

Irina is a seasoned business development and government engagement executive with over 20 years of experience in financial services industry. She started her carrier at one of the leading banks in Georgia followed by a solid track record of managing Visa Inc. business development in CIS countries out of different locations. She also led government relations for Visa Inc. in CIS and SEE countries (the Commonwealth of the Independent States and South-East Europe).

Irina holds advance degrees from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland) in Advocacy in International Affairs and Policy Making. Currently, she is studying at Columbia Business School, the Global Banking Program, Executive education on FinTech, Digital, and Analysis. Also, she holds bachelor’s degree in Linguistics from the Tbilisi State University.

Irina is a Georgian citizen.  She is married and raises a daughter.

Electronics and Communication Engineering degree at Istanbul Technical University, Ayşim worked in the IT organizations in finance sector for 25 years, which she has specialized in IT Security. She accomplished the CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) and Information Security Group Manager roles in leading banks in Turkey. She managed information security and cyber security teams as well as the the operations in the leading banks, covering global operations abroad. She served as a member of the Executive Board, IT Strategy Committee, Information Security and Risk Committee.

Since 2018, Mrs Niksarli is the Director of Cyber Security Consultancy Services at Forcerta A.S., managing all the “CISO As A Service” services portfolio at Forcerta.

Besides her  career as CISO in the leading banks, Ayşim is active with mentoring activities, providing support to students and new graduates for career development. She participates in events aimed at increasing the presence of women in IT sector.

Ayşim  Niksarlı was awarded as “Best Mentor” and “Cyber Security Champion” in 2018 IDC Women in Technology event.

Over 10 years of experience in information technologies, from software development to managing IT projects in the financial sector.

Project manager of the Blockchain-based platform in Azerbaijan, aiming to implement Digital Identification System in order to develop trusted, secured and transparent banking services for individuals and legal entities. Responsible for developing a strategy for introducing innovative solutions in the financial sector and plan to introduce new initiatives.

Section Lead at the Department of Information Security at Bank of Russia. In charge of financial technology information security and cyber resilience, responsible for information security during implementation of new technologies, such as open banking, in the financial sector.

Alper Gul is working in Verifone for the last 12 years and has witnessed both the company and payment industry evolution throughout the years he served in several sales responsibilities in Eastern Europe, Turkey, and CIS territory. He is managing both direct and indirect markets where his main competencies are based on conventional payment terminals, integrated ECR solutions, and recently the introduction of android payment systems.

Mr. Ramil Mahmudov is a Chief of the National payment system development division at Central Bank of Azerbaijan Republic. He is responsible for development of cashless payments in Azerbaijan and for regulating its activities in accordance with the legislation. He is an experienced professional in payment systems, electronic banking, mobile banking, card business, e-money, e-payments and retail banking. As an co-author of several regulations and recommendations for banks and other stakeholders, he also familiar with regulations, recommendations and experience of ECB, EU, CIS, BIS about payments systems ecosystem and payment instruments and also with risk management, fraud management, chargeback procedures of Visa and Master Card.

Mr. Mahmudov holds Master’s degree in Banking and Finance from Luxembourg School of Finance, University of Luxembourg and Master’s degree in Finance from Azerbaijan State Economic University. He received Certificate on “Management Development Program” from Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy in 2014 and Executive education Certificate from New York University Stern School of Business in 2015. He received a numerous training certificates in the field of cashless payments and management in Europe and Asia.

Leila Alieva, graduated from Baku State University. After bachelor degree, she completed her education at Khazar University with a Master degree in Business Administration. After graduating from Baku State University, Faculty of Applied-mathematics cybernetics in 2014, she started her career at Central Bank of Azerbaijan as a business analyst in the project "Interbank Card Center". Within the framework of close cooperation with international and local card organizations, she succeeded that existing experience has been applied in the implementation of the "Interbank Card Center". After working in the Interbank Card Center for 3 years, she involved to the project "Instant Payments System". Here, she was closely involved in all stages of the product implementation and development process. Since 2021, she has been serving as Senior specialist of Instant Payments System maintenance division.

Gökçe Gence is a senior professional with 15+ years of experience, specialized in pre-sales, solution design and project management in the computer software, information technology & services and financial services. Gence has her MBA and BSc degrees in Computer Science and Engineering. She is the Director of Solution and Project department at Fineksus, a member of the executive board and the single point of contact for all communications within portfolios.

Born in Trabzon, Turkey on 1981, graduate of Istanbul University Business Management Faculty and has a 17 years experience on Financial Institutions. After working more than 11 years in Finansbank, Murat K. has shifted his career path towards fin-techs. Currently, Murat K. is acting as Head of International Partnerships and Executive Vice President of Turkey’s first licensed money transfer company – UPT Ödeme Hizmetleri ve Elektronik Para A.Ş. Murat K. is managing partnerships with more than 130 companies globally and running Operations in 11 network countries where UPT brand is actively conducting business directly.

Katarzyna has broad experience in issuing and acquiring business with results driven throughout 20 years of working in Diners Club Poland.

Katarzyna through 20 years build, developed and managed successful Diners Club organization in Poland, with the roles of: Sales and Marketing director, Business Development Director and finally as the Chief Executive Officer.  She negotiated, implemented and managed partnerships with biggest Polish banks, acquirers and airlines loyalty programs providers.

 Katarzyna worked closely with Financial Supervision Authority and the Central Bank in order to guarantee Diners Club compliance with European and local regulations.

She also managed implementation of new technologies in issuing and acquiring: EMV, contactless and 3DSecure.

In March 2018 she joined Diners Club International (member of Discover Financial Services) as Senior Relationship Manager, responsible for Diners Club business development in CIS countries.

Doctorate of the Economic Reforms Research Institute under the the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan Rustamov Tamerlan has worked in the field of development and control of payment systems at the Central Bank of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Financial Market Supervisory Authority in different years.

Currently, he is Deputy Director of Payment Systems Department of Bank of Baku OJSC. He is also the head of the Expert Group on Payment Systems and Digital Banking at the Azerbaijan Banks Association, and the project manager at the Azerbaijan Fintex Association.

During these years of career, he was closely involved in the formation of the digital payment ecosystem in the country, the creation of a regulatory legal framework in this area, the application of innovative payment tools and technologies.

He is the co-author of the "Digital Payments and Electronic Banking Services" textbook, published for the first time in the field of digital payments in the country. He is the author of more than 10 scientific articles and many publicist articles in the field of digital transformation and digital payments.

Deputy Executive Director, Payment Systems and Financial Technologies Department, the CBRT

Dr. Serdar Murat Öztaner graduated from Middle East Technical University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering. He received his Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering and his Ph.D. in Informatics from Middle East Technical University.

Dr. Öztaner started his professional career as a research assistant at Computer Engineering Department in Middle East Technical University, in Ankara in 1992 and moved thereafter to Netaş, the Department of Research and Development in 1996 in İstanbul. After working as a team leader in some nation-wide software projects, he started to work at the CBRT in 1998.

He participated in many research studies in the field of payment systems and has worked in many diversified projects pertinent to the CBRT Payment Systems including the large-scale project conducted in-house during 2011-2013 by the CBRT. He also contributed to FAST project which was launched on Jan 2021. He has been representing the CBRT as a member in the joint BIS/CPMI-IOSCO Working Group for Cyber Resilience in FMIs (WGCR). He is currently studying on the emerging FinTech use cases such as Faster Payments, Open Banking, QR-Codes, Digital Currencies, Distributed Ledger Technology etc.

During his years in school, he founded an events management company in 2014 to energize the lifestyle of the city. Following a successful year, he moved on to the finance industry. Shafiq Amiri began trading commodities and currencies in 2015, and within 2 years founded a private investment fund, Keystone Capital. Today, Keystone Capital  continues in the vision of the founder, whilst also investing in tech start ups.

In 2016, he started his research in blockchain projects and initiated an investment strategy into cryptocurrencies. He is avid on integrating blockchain technology in the real world. Shafiq Amiri is an investor, entrepreneur, trader and leads FARI Solutions' public sector Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) projects, with a focus on central bank digital currency (CBDC), digital identity and supply chain management.

He is Head of Distributed Ledger Technologies Association of Belarus. He is continously attending banking and fintex conferences, events devoted to blockchain and cryptocurrencies as a speaker.

Ashley Lannquist is a Digital Expert within the Digital Advisory Unit of the International Monetary Fund. She contributes to the IMF's activities related to central bank digital currency technology considerations and design. Ashley previously led CBDC efforts at the World Economic Forum, where she developed the "Central Bank Digital Currency Policy-Maker Toolkit" which has been employed by numerous central banks to evaluate CBDC. Ashley also participates in the Bank of England's CBDC Technology Forum and numerous global events related to emerging technology and CBDC. She holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA with honors in Economics and European Studies from Barnard College of Columbia University.

Kerimzadeh Zeynal was born in 1986 in Baku.

He received his secondary education at school No. 138 in Baku.

In 2004-2008 he studied Management at the “Engineering Economics and Management” faculty of Azerbaijan Technical University..

He started his career in 2006 as a specialist in the IT department of Kochbank Azerbaijan CJSC.

In 2007-2008, he worked as a sales manager at BestComp Group.

In 2008-2010, he worked as a specialist, leading specialist, chief specialist in the Bank Cards Department of Bank Respublika OJSC.

In 2010-2013, he worked as an acquiring expert at PASHA Bank OJSC.

In 2013-2016, he worked as the head of Shuvalan Business Center at PASHA Bank OJSC.

In 2016-2018, he was the Head of the Service Quality Assurance and Service Channel Management Departments at PASHA Bank OJSC.

In 2018-2020, he worked as the Head of the Bank Cards Department at PASHA Bank OJSC.

Since 2021, he has been the head of Global Innovations LLC and DataPay CJSC.

Internationally certified Chief Auditor of Quality Management System (IRCA, SGS).

Rashad Aliyev graduated Baku State University in 2003 with a Bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Applied-mathematics and Cybernetics, and in 2005 with a Master's degree with honors. He has conducted research at the UPV Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain. He is the author of several scientific articles.

With more than 20 years of experience, he has participated in many Web programming, Cybersecurity projects.

He is the founder of several startups on information security, IaaS, SaaS.

At various times, he has been teaching Web Programming, Database, and Information Security at Khazar University, Technical University, and Baku State University. He is a Zend Certified Engineer and Certified Ethical Hacker.

He is currently the Chief of the IT Innovations Division at Bank Respublika.

Experienced specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the banking industry. Skilled in Processing, Project Management, Risk Management, Customer Service, Banking, and Business Process Improvement.

Zakir is responsible for BirBank mobile application and BirKart installment credit card, including end-to-end management of products, sales activities, service and support. He also plays a key role in the continued development of strategic relationships with International Payment Systems.

Executive Master's degree in Maastricht School of Business and Azerbaijan State Diplomatic Academy (2018), Master's degree in Economic Assessment of Investments at the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy (2012), Bachelor of Management at the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan (2008).

Kazimov Sattar Chingiz oglu, graduated from ADNSU and GSU joint MBA program in 2005 and started working as a specialist of IT department at Unibank CB OJSC. To date, he has worked in various departments at Unibank and has implemented a number of projects.

Among them are the creation of a Helpdesk structure in the IT department and the organization of work, the BARS system (personnel accounting and etc.), Internet Banking projects, the establishment of a Scoring system in the Risk Management Department.

In addition, the Credit Conveyor has played an important role in the implementation of the Operational CRM project in the Project Management and Analytics Department, including the direct participation in the automation of front, middle and back office work.

Among the recent projects, Albali Mobile Application, Internet Banking for Business Customers, Unibank Mobile Banking and Mobile Application for Individual Entrepreneurs have been launched.

In 2016, he was appointed Chief Information Officer at Unibank, where he was involved in improving the structure of the IT department and implementing the Bank's IT infrastructure projects.

From 2018 to date, he has been appointed Chief Digital Officer of the Bank, and to date has focused on all digital projects of the bank, digital transformation and the creation of new services to our customers.

For the period of 2006 – 2013 he has been working as Senior IT Auditor and Head IT Audit division at Central Bank of Azerbaijan Republic. From 2013 to 2017 he worked for Group of Companies as Head of Management Assurance and Director of Information Security divisions. From 2017 to 2021 Ilgar held CIO position for Port of Baku. Now he is CEO of BISA LLC (Business Information Security Assurance). Currently he is Deputy Chair of ABA IT and Information Security Committee. He supervised and implemented number of audits and consulting projects for Central and Commercial Banks, telecommunication, energy, and manufacturing companies. Ilgar has wide experience on Digital transformation, information security design and implementation, internal control system and cyber-security improvement, operational risk management and assessment. He is member of International ISACA association since 2007. Member of PECB as international certified trainer since 2018.

Anar Guliyev is IT Director at the Central Bank of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Mr. Guliyev has over 15 years of experience working in Information Technology and Information Security. He defines the technological road-map of the company and manages its IT portfolio.

Competencies: Strategic Thinking, Influencing and Collaboration, Security and Privacy Management, Program Management, Technical Competencies.

Gokberk is Business Development Director at Mastercard responsible for Cyber & Intelligence product and service engagements in Turkey and Azerbaijan. Product and services in his responsibility cover a wide span of solutions to address cybersecurity, digital user identification, authentication, card, payments and authorization fraud prevention and dispute management needs for financial instutions and merchants.

A payment industry professional all throughout his career, Gokberk started as a software developer for a Turkish bank where he worked for 4 years developing EMV, authorization, fraud and dispute systems for the bank. Later, he switched jobs and transitioned to technology consultancy practice where he served financial instutions in their payment replatforming programs for 7 years. He then moved to United States and continued to work in payments domain for 4 years focusing mostly on new payments and digital payments for non-financial instutions. As of 2020, he is with Mastercard working with all payment ecosystem players to help establish a more secure payments practice end-to-end.

Tural Mammadov works as a CISO at Special Communication and Information Security State Service. He is also Secretary of the Coordination Commission for Information Security of Azerbaijan Republic and member of Board of Directors of OIC-CERT since 2016.

He has more than 10 years’ experience in Cybersecurity and CERT services. He is Editor in Chief of Information Security Journal since 2015. Tural Mammadov holds master's degrees in Strategic Management and doing his PHD on the topic "The Information Security in Critical Infrastructure".

19+ years’ experience in the infrastructure & security area with Secure Islands and now Microsoft. Focusing on customer security landscape in the areas of Information protection & threat prevention.

Was the tech leader & global presales manager from Secure Islands cyber company, that got acquired by MS late in 2015.

Education: Graduated State Technical University at 2001,

Specialisation: Computer hardware and automated systems software

Previous places of work: 10 years at RSA (The Security Devision of EMC), implementation and maintenance RSA Antifraud solution in Russia;

10 years at R-Style SoftLab, implementation and maintenance Automated Banking Systems

Work Experience: more than 20 years working with IT security bank systems

Professional interests:

1) Cyber security knowledge in finance organisations

2) Deep understanding and solid knowledge of system architecture, network protocols and security practises

At Fuzzy Logic Labs Sergei is responsible for technical strategy, oversees and directly participates in the execution of all engagements, as the global responsible for the execution of every project in Russia and abroad.