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Mr. Bennaceur is a Tunisian-American entrepreneur who moved to the United States of America  in 1983. He holds hands on experience and knowledge in enterprise transformation for global 100, operational management, competitive positioning, business risk mitigation, human capital development, organizational design and thought leadership. He started his corporate career with American Express (mutual funds division formerly IDS), as Assistant Vice President in charge of defined contribution plans. He later joined First American Bank in Washington DC, $20 billion in assets under management. His first position was Senior EDP Auditor and then promoted to Assistant Vice President  in charge of problem and change management function of the bank. Mr. Bennaceur joined Ceridian formerly (Control Data), as the Head of Management Information Systems during that time he led the full enterprise information technology transformation programs, budget exceeded $100 million. He was later promoted to lead the company’s products development function with sales value of approximately $300 million per year. In 1996, SAP Americas-the world leader in ERP, with a revenues in excess of $17 billion a year;  hired Mr. Bennaceur as their first Chief Information Officer responsible for the Americas market place, the budget responsibility was approximately $500 million per year. After mounting a very successful corporate career, he decided to lead medium size companies ranging from $50 million to £150 million in sales revenue per year. During his leadership he took companies public raising funds between $20 million to $50 million per company. Mr. Bennaceur, was Chief Operating Officer for AlphaNet Solutions; Executive Vice President for Intelligroup and Chief Executive Officer for Pegasus Consulting. In early 2000, he created his first boutique management consulting firm focused mainly on business transformation and enterprise resource planning. In 2004, he was asked by senior executives at Safeguard Scientifics to join the effort in building their Financial Services consulting practice and was Executive President for Alliance Consulting, a wholly owned subsidiary of Safeguard. In 2008, he created yet another niche management consulting firm that reached $75 million in revenues; the focus of the firm is business transformation, best practices implementation, operational management and business intelligence for global banks. During his career, he acted as close and trusted advisor to global institutions such Merrill Lynch for the area of Anti-Money Laundering and Broker Compliance, AIG in the area of Corporate Finance, Credit Suisse in the area of MIS; Moody’s in the area of best practices for the Ratings Business; JPM Chase in the area of Corporate Finance and Business Intelligence; Barclay’s Capital in the area of Commodities Operations; UBS in the area of Program Management and Governance; ANZ Bank in the area of Financial Systems Migration; Royal Bank of Scotland in the area of Finance, Risk and Treasury transformation, governance and business intelligence. In addition to the banking industry and his capacity as senior adviser, he worked directly for  executives and board of Directors for Tech Data; Avaya; Pitney Bowes; Bayer and Philip Morris.