Name: Lilia Stoyanova
Company: Transformify [TFY]
Position: Founder and CEO
Website: https://www.transformify.org
About Lilia Stoyanova
Lilia Stoyanova is an Angel Investor and the CEO of TFY (Transformify Ltd), an AI-powered global contractor management platform founded in May 2015 to solve one of the biggest challenges in modern business: How to hire, manage, and pay global talent at scale while adhering to compliance.
Innovation & Technology
Leveraging AI, automation, and predictive hiring, TFY successfully streamlines contractor onboarding, global contractor payroll, identity verification, compliance, and contractor payments across 184+ countries.
TFY engages with corporate social responsibility programs and empowers NGOs and charities by granting them free unlimited access to the core functionality of TFYs ai-powered applicant tracking system . Furthermore, through its advanced capability, TFY eliminates administrative friction, reduces contractor misclassification risk, and enables companies to scale internationally without establishing local entities.
Traction & Growth
TFY has grown organically and profitably without external funding. Operating with a lean team of approximately 25 professionals, the business supports hundreds of thousands of contractors globally and enterprise clients across multiple industries.
In 2025, TFY achieved 90% year-on-year profit growth, where Lilia’s success was recognised by the Allica Bank Great British Entrepreneur Awards in winning AI Entrepreneur of the Year.
TFY was listed on 2025 UK Fast Growth Index Top 200 among the fastest growing companies in the UK. The beginning of 2026 was even more exciting as Financial Times listed TFY( Transformify Ltd) on FT 1000: Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies.
Scaling internationally without venture capital has required financial discipline, efficient operations, and a strong product-market fit. To achieve this, Lilia has focused on strategic partnerships, referral ecosystems, and building scalable infrastructure early – allowing her to expand TFY globally while maintaining profitability.
Impact & Leadership
TFY contributes to economic inclusion by enabling professionals worldwide – particularly those in emerging markets – to access compliant, cross-border work opportunities. By simplifying global contractor payroll, TFY helps organisations build diverse, distributed teams while meeting regulatory and ESG standards.
Beyond entrepreneurship, Lilia contributes to Europe’s innovation ecosystem as an expert evaluator for the European Commission, assessing high-impact technology projects. She is also a professor at Zigurat Business School, where she mentors founders and 3x3cutives on digital transformation, fintech innovation, and international scaling.
Furthermore, her impressive academic background — including a Postgraduate Diploma in Financial Strategy from Oxford University and membership of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (ACCA) — underpins TFY’s financially sustainable growth model.
Future Vision & Scalability
The global workforce market is accelerating toward borderless, remote-first structures, and TFY is well-positioned to become a leading infrastructure provider for global contractor payroll, cross-border contractor payments in both fiat and crypto, and compliance.
Looking ahead to enhance the capabilities of TFYs ai-powered applicant tracking system (ATS), Lilia is also focused on expanding enterprise integrations and further strengthening AI-powered candidate matching algorithms..
Long-term, Lilia is dedicated enabling businesses of any size to scale internationally without complexity through technology that makes global work frictionless, compliant, and inclusive – all while empowering talent regardless of their geography.
Overall, Lilia is proud to represent women in tech who are building sustainable, internationally scalable companies rooted in innovation, governance, and purpose. At TFY, she successfully showcases that high-growth tech businesses can scale globally, remain profitable, and drive measurable social impact simultaneously if you have the right vision, strategy and sheer determination to succeed.
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