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Ivelina Nikolova

AI Transformation & Workforce Director

€1,058/day
London, GB
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Ivelina

I step into high-growth, PE-backed technology and B2B SaaS businesses to stop operational friction, eliminate revenue leakage, and accelerate delivery speeds by up to 50%—without disrupting daily business continuity.When a technology business secures private equity backing or undergoes an M&A integration, the pressure to scale rapidly usually breaks the operating model.

Areas of expertise:
- AI Transformation and Adoption
- Workforce Readiness Audit and strategy to accelerate AI adoption
- Organisational Restructuring
- Target Operating Model
- AI Automated PMOs
- Project Management Governance
- Post M&A Integrations

Product delivery slows down, multi-entity workflows become redundant, workforce adoption of new AI tools stalls, and profit margins begin to leak through invisible process gaps.

I bridge the gap between board-level investment targets and day-to-day execution.With deep expertise leading enterprise transformations across scaling tech environments (including managing global operating models for 2,000+ person organizations), I provide CEOs, CFOs, and PE Operating Partners with the immediate, high-impact leadership needed to recover failing projects and secure the investment thesis.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
London (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Aptean • · ERP Technology (Multi-Region)
    Business Change & Transformation Director
    May 2024 - April 2026 (1 year and 11 months)
    London, UK
    Embedded senior transformation lead for a 2,000+ person PE-backed ERP business. Trusted advisor to the EMEA President. Diagnosed, designed, and delivered a high-impact transformation roadmap spanning operating model redesign, digital adoption, AI strategy, M&A integration, and field performance improvement — across EMEA and North America simultaneously.
    organisational development TOM PMO AI Automation Workforce Models
  • Lucid Group • · Pharmaceutical Start-Up
    Business Change & Transformation Director
    October 2021 - May 2024 (2 years and 7 months)
    London, UK
    First transformation director for a fast-scaling pharma start-up growing through Series A. Built operating model, governance, and people capability from the ground up while advising C-suite on strategic direction.
  • Fabriik • · Asset Management Start-Up
    Operations Director
    July 2020 - October 2021 (1 year and 3 months)
    London, UK
    • • M&A Integration. Led UK and US M&A lifecycle transactions — strategic, operational, and cultural fit evaluation; pre/post integration through to full embedding.
    • • Results. £5M revenue growth through strategic operations redesign and cross-functional alignment. £150k annual savings and 20% reduction in spend.
    • • Function Build. Built Operations function from scratch; managed team of 10 PMs; designed PM frameworks and OKRs delivering measurable business value.

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Education

  • Strategy Management & Organisational Leadership
    Harvard Business School
    2022
    Strategy Management & Organisational Leadership
  • Business & Transformation Coach
    Coaching & Positive Psychology Institute
    2021
    Business & Transformation Coach

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