Teymur Taghiyev has over 20 years of experience in strategy development and implementation, business development, project management, compliance, risk management, and corporate affairs.

Teymur Taghiyev
Chief Operating Officer, Head of Operations in Ukraine

Teymur Taghiyev has over 20 years of experience in strategy development and implementation, business development, project management, compliance, risk management, and corporate affairs.

Mr. Taghiyev serves as Chief Operating Officer and Head of Operations in Ukraine at NEQSOL Holding.

Teymur Taghiyev acts as a key partner to the CEO, ensuring that the Holding’s strategic priorities are translated into clear, coordinated, and disciplined execution across the Group. His focus also includes strengthening cross-functional alignment, driving business process optimization and resource mobilization, improving performance visibility, and supporting the delivery of key initiatives across the Group’s businesses.

He also leads selected Group-level strategic initiatives in alignment with relevant stakeholders. He supports the CEO in resource mobilization and the efficient allocation of capabilities across the Group, in close cooperation with the leadership of group companies. In addition, he plays a central role in coordinating Group-level response capabilities to potential crises and advancing corporate resilience in an increasingly complex operating environment.

He joined NEQSOL Holding in 2018 as Head of Strategy and Project Management Office and has continued to oversee these critical functions since then. Since 2023, Mr. Taghiyev has served as Chief of Staff, leading the Office of the CEO, overseeing corporate resilience, and driving transformation and digitalization initiatives.

Teymur Taghiyev earned his degree in International Law from Baku State University and his Executive MBA from Bayes Business School, formerly Cass Business School, City, University of London. He has also completed the Chief of Staff certification program at Harvard and the Strategy Execution program at Duke University, further strengthening his expertise in executive leadership, organizational alignment, and disciplined strategy implementation.