Ben Salama

Background

About Ben Salama

An experienced software industry executive with extensive international experience building & leading teams in high growth product and consulting companies selling to clients globally, now involved with the not-for-profit sector. Currently, I am chair at Citizens Advice Richmond; a trustee of The Felix Project and a trustee at Catch 22. Previously, I was a manging director at Accenture where I held a number of roles over 8 years including: lead of UK & Ireland's Industry X.0 practice, delivering digital transformation to our industrial and manufacturing clients; global lead for our Connected Operations/Industrial Internet of Things practice and UK and Ireland Mobility sales and consulting lead. Prior to joining Accenture in 2011, I spent 7 years in various senior executive regional general manager and sales management roles at Teleca AB, a €100M consulting services business specialising in the mobile device marketplace. This included establishing the Teleca China consulting services practice and offshore outsourcing centre as well as leading Teleca’s Obigo software product business to a successful divestiture in 2008. My industry experience covers mobility, telecoms and financial services risk management. I have executed successfully in large, small and highly matrixed organisations. I am familiar with VC backed and private equity owned business, have successfully raised capital and led m&a activity. Specialties: Digital, IoT, Mobile industry; leadership; successful execution; complex sales; communications & presentation skills