Benjamin Thomas Email & Phone Number

Dubai, AE

Al Barsha 2, Dubai, AE

• Leading a team of 40+ talented people for the largest company in the United Arab Emirates, employing over 15 000 people.

Menlo Park, CA, US

• Orchestrated the ecosystem development across 12 specialities (adtech, performance, data, creative, measurement, messaging …) growing it from $300M to over $1B (fastest growth globally).
• Conducted the Messaging EMEA Go-to-Market strategy (events, marketing & partner) resulting in a $500M business.
• Managed complex stakeholder and cross functional relationships leading to the creation of a new partner ecosystem & business model.

Menlo Park, CA, US

• Built & led the digital native teams, advising Amazon, Noon, Careem, Swvl, ADSS, and many more on how to get the best business results via media strategies (including strategy, planning, buying, measurement &.
• Hired, trained & managed (directly/indirectly) 40% of the current Facebook MENA sales workforce contributing to growing the business from $50M to $500M.

Menlo Park, CA, US

• As the leader of the Datack & of the global Sales data & tools network, I guided the development of the Sales & Partnerships Solutions' business intelligence strategy and technology roadmap. This resulted in the.
• Conceived & delivered the Sales Data programs & communities, on 4 continents (27 Offices) to thousands of Sales people that redefined how data is used at Facebook.

• Led the teams of Client Solutions Managers across all verticals for MENA - Supporting a $500M Business with 70% YoY Growth.
• Developed the Expectation Grip for each individual contributor level, used in regional Performance Management and calibration cycles.

• Supported $50 M business achieving a target of 120% on quota on a variety of DR focus verticals (Travel, E-commerce, Finance, Dating & Professional services) reaching a growth of over 70%.
• Designed pionering testing plans for companies such as Blablacar, Accor Hotels or Match.com, identifying & developing company Unique Selling Point (USPs) resulting in up to 50% lower CPA.

Managing our client-facing vendor team (17 persons), I lead the team to implement and optimize our processes and responses resulting in a sustainable improvement in customer satisfaction (+18 points).

Redmond, Washington, US

Working with on clients (discrepancies, API, Rich Media...), analyzing large datasets as IP records, log files and unfiltered data (up to hundreds of millions of records), running SQL queries, back-end reports and creating custom solutions (code snippets and workarounds).

Redmond, Washington, US

Developed and supported technical solutions to code & traffic over 350 Rich Media campaigns. Cost saving - 5 M$ in 2011 - Languages: Flex 2 & 3. AS2 & AS3. Flash CS4 & CS5.

Linux (Ubuntu Server LTS 8.04), Java J2EE, SQL, Hibernate, Mysql, Apache Tomcat.Flex 2 & 3. AS2 & AS3. Flash CS4 & CS5.SAP Project management, PMBoK (Project Management Body of Knowledge).

Paris, Ile-de-France, FR

Building and selling national and international tailor-made events & trips to student unions. 250K turnover.

Executive Education - Winning Strategies

Master 2 : Miage, Système D'Information, Gestion De Projet Et Conduite Du Changement

Licence, Mathematics