Ryan Adams is the founder and CEO of Professional.me, an agentic-AI powered talent management platform transforming how organizations define, discover, and develop talent. Based in the UAE, Ryan has over a decade of experience building and scaling technology startups, including two successful exits in the region. He holds a certificate from MIT’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) program and is known for making complex technology accessible, ethical, and practical for real-world use. Under his leadership, Professional.me launched with proprietary expert systems trained on hundreds of millions of data points and quickly expanded into multiple markets. Ryan was named one of Inc. Arabia’s 25 Gamechangers in AI for 2025 and has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine. He is passionate about building inclusive technology that reduces bias and helps companies make smarter, fairer talent decisions at scale.

The “pop” in the job:
“I’m passionate about turning unstructured hiring chaos into clear, actionable intelligence. I love building tools that make work more fair and decisions more defensible.” – Ryan Adams

Professional.me is an agentic-AI powered talent management system built on proprietary expert systems to transform how organizations define, discover, and develop talent. Rather than relying on unstructured résumés and inconsistent job descriptions, Professional.me creates structured, AI-enriched talent intelligence that improves sourcing, evaluation, internal mobility, and workforce planning. Built over 2.5 years with models trained on hundreds of millions of data points and refined through human-in-the-loop annotation, the platform delivers bias-reduced, context-aware insights at scale. Since its public launch in October 2024, Professional.me has processed over 300,000 skill-based profiles and grown to over 130,000 LinkedIn followers. With a majority-female, globally distributed team, Professional.me is committed to building ethical, inclusive AI that helps employers make smarter, fairer talent decisions while expanding opportunities for professionals worldwide.