New appointment for AmCham Procurement committee

AmCham Azerbaijan is pleased to announce the new appointment of Mr. Tural Vazirov, Chief Commercial Officer at PMD Projects LLC, as a Chairperson, Ms. Natavan Mammadova, Supply Chain Manager at BP and Mr. Farhad Parvizi, Co-founder of iBloom consulting company, as a Deputy Chairpersons of the AmCham Procurement Committee.

Natavan Mammadova accomplished Tax and Legal professional with extensive experience in finance control, performance management, Supply Chain and Procurement with more than 20 years of experience in the Oil and Gas, Pharmaceutical, Tobacco Production and Professional Advisory industries with such countries like Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan.  

Born on 23 July 1977 in Baku, Azerbaijan.  Graduated from Azerbaijan University with Bachelor and master’s degree in law (1994 – 2000).  Specialized in tax and customs advisory with focus on oil and gas special taxation regime.  International Taxation course with Duke University, ACCA Professional Level.

Farhad Parvizi is a co-founder of iBloom consulting company. The company’s major focus is organizational growth through individual development: ‘Organization grows when I bloom” is company’s motto.  With major focus on transformation support, leadership development programs and strategic HR consulting, iBloom aims to support transformation of both private and government enterprises. 

Prior to establishing iBloom iBloom, Farhad has spent 24 years in both private and government enterprises and has diverse experience in both public finance, supply chain and procurement operations, aviation and logistics fields.

Farhad holds Master of Science is Supply Chain Management from Arizona State University, MBA in Operations Management from State Oil Academy and Georgia State University (Atlanta, US), Bachelor degree in Management and another Bachelor degree in Aerospace Engineering. Farhad is also Micromasters credential holder in Supply Chain Management from MIT. He is the author of the first popular book on economics in Azerbaijan - “Economic Self Defense Lessons”, the only economics book by Azerbaijani author in the Library of the US Congress. His is active economics blogger, news commentator and free market advocate. 

We would like to thank Mr. Kanan Tabasaransky who previously served as a Chairperson of the committee for the dedicated and hard work, and wish him success in his new role as AmCham Board Member! 

Also, we would thank Mr. Ahmad Hasanov, Former Deputy Chairperson of the committee for his commitment and passion for the work of the committee and wishing him success in all future endeavors. 

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27 May 2022
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