Georgy Agadzhanov
Adviser, People
Georgy advises on the human side of corporate work — organisational design, senior hiring and exits, incentive structures, and the people mechanics of transactions and restructurings.
He spent seven years at a global luxury e-commerce group as Senior Head of People Business Partnering and Regional HR Director, latterly across the Middle East, and has since served as Chief People Officer of a luxury marketplace and as a fractional HR director to clients across the MENA and EMEA regions.
Where a transaction, a restructuring or a market entry turns on people rather than paper, he is the person who makes that side of it work.
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- Directed the human resources function across the Middle East and for a global platform solutions business unit, supporting more than 600 employees across seven regional offices in the United Kingdom, Portugal, the United States, China and Japan.
- Managed the people workstream of a New York listing across the Middle East, implementing post-IPO policies and procedures and delivering more than 200 training, testing and certification campaigns at completion rates above 95%.
- Directed the human resources integration of two acquisitions, retaining more than 90% of identified key talent following completion.
- Developed and implemented a three-year people strategy for a business of more than 300 employees, restructuring the people function around eight specialists and establishing business partnering across ten departments.
- Built scalable people infrastructure — recruitment, onboarding, performance and administration — for five early-stage companies, supporting annual headcount growth in excess of 50%.
- Managed workforce reductions of up to 50%, maintaining operational continuity through transparent process design.
- Implemented human resources information systems on three occasions across international businesses, together with performance review processes achieving full completion.