Prior to Gaia, Emmanuel worked for several vendors such as Misys, Infinity or Calypso in different management roles. Before that, he ran his own consulting firm for 5 years, FIRST Consulting, servicing banks, asset managers, and other financial institutions.
He started his career in 1991 as an FX Option Trader at Société Générale during 3 years. He holds a degree from the top French “Grande Ecole” TELECOM Paris.

He is knowledgeable in quantitative analysis and an expert in financial software engineering.

He started his career as a developer at Société Générale and Crédit Lyonnais in equity dealing rooms. He gradually moved up until he took over business analysis in places like AXA-IM and SGAM-AI.

Benjamin is an “Ecole Polytechnique” graduate (France’s most prestigious academic institution).

Jawhar brings a wealth of technical expertise in software architecture with the use cutting edge technology such as multi-agent systems (MAS).

After 2 years developing the real-time reporting application "VGO-Reporting" (Winner of Office Mobile 2005), he spent 5 years working on the architecture of customer extensions to Calypso.

He was embedded in teams at Natixis and BNP.