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Traditional business models experience tremendous pressure and making the right portfolio choices where one can build and leverage a competitive advantage will be key for sustainable success.

Dr. Benoit Gerard

EY EMEIA Financial Services Strategy and Transactions Leader

Impact-driven strategic thinker with a technical edge. Passionate about financial services. Father of three daughters.

Benoit is EY EMEIA FSO Strategy and Transactions Leader (SaT).

He has been serving clients across Europe and in emerging markets, assisting them with the design and implementation of strategic transformations to improve their performance in a sustainable manner. He is also supporting them across all stages of the transaction process including M&A advisory, due diligence, valuation, restructuring and post-deal integration or separation.

Benoit holds an engineering degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Louvain and a PhD in Mathematics from Brandeis University, US.

How Benoit is building a better working world

“Financial services are the oil that help our sophisticated economies work smoothly.

My purpose is to help EY clients think through their strategic options in this complex and fast-changing world, and help optimize their resource allocation and capital deployment accordingly.”

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