Jabril Bensedrine is Managing Director and founder of The Triana Group. In addition to managing the firm and being involved in most client projects, he also acts as advisor to CEOs of midmarket companies for all matters related to their US business development. Since founding the company, has advised more than 60 companies ranging in size from start-up to Fortune 100. Dozens of additional companies have benefited from the firm’s collective programs.

He brings to The Triana Group a 20 years career as a strategy consultant and business faculty in Paris, California, Michigan, and New York. Worked for organizations ranging in size from $1M-to-$18B in annual revenue. He started his career as a strategy consultant and faculty in Paris, California, Michigan, and New York. Over the years, he was instrumental in the execution of market analyses and competitive studies for companies from start-ups to large corporations. He worked for research firms, including Financial Times’ sister company Eurostaf, Elm, Intelligentsia; for foundations and institutions, including European Commission programs, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the City of San Francisco, the Paris Chamber of Commerce, the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, the University of California; for corporations, including Pfizer, Apollo Group’s University of Phoenix, Microsoft, Visteon; and numerous engagements with financial and management firm Kenneth J. Dalto for Midwestern midmarket companies’ investment projects totaling several hundred million dollars.

A graduate of the University of Paris Dauphine in Entrepreneurship, he holds a Ph.D. in Strategy from ESSEC for which he received the AIMS International Strategy Association’s Annual Best Dissertation Award, and is an alumni of U.C. Berkeley’s Haas School of Business post-doctoral program. The author of strategy-related articles and chapters with publishers including John Wiley & Sons and Oxford University Press, he continues to lecture courses in business, including International Marketing at Pace University and Management of New & Emerging Technology at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University.

An active entrepreneur, and member of ESSEC Business Angels, in 2008 he founded and provided the seed-capital for The Triana Group. He has lived extensively on three continents.

A shareholder of The Triana Group, David-Alexandre Baranes is a Country Manager for AppNexus, the real-time advertising platform backed by investors including Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Ron Conway, First Round Capital, Venrock, Kodiak Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, and Microsoft.

Prior to joining AppNexus, David was a co-founder and partner at The Triana Group. At Triana, he worked with portfolio companies, one of which bringing 100-time multiple, and was instrumental in several successful engagements with clients. He helped board members and executives of several midmarket technology companies to successfully source and negotiate partnerships and joint-ventures with customers and channel partners overseas, made strategic introductions, and helped companies expand their corporate development reach through VIP meetings with world leaders such as now-IMF Director Christine Lagarde, Doubleclick founder Kevin Ryan, LinkedIn Founder and CEO Kevin Ryan, and many others.

He holds a Masters in Finance from Columbia University, and an Engineering Degree from the French Ecole Polytechnique. He has traveled worldwide.

Frederic Champavere joined the Triana Group as a shareholder in 2010. He started his career at Eli Lilly, where he held a number of executive positions in Europe and the United States, and from Managing Director at the European level, to President of Lilly France. In 1996, he joined Johnson & Johnson as a Managing Director and was promoted to President of Janssen-Cilag France. Later, the Wockhardt group of India hired him as President of Negma to restructure the company.

He is also an investor, business owner and successful entrepreneur. In 2005, he founded the company Pharma Omnium, for which he raised 100 million Euros.

The CFO at BOTTEGA VENETA Americas, Jacques-Olivier d’Halluin has been a Triana Group shareholder since 2008. Prior to Triana, Jacques-Olivier was a Director of Finance at American Express, where he oversaw and prioritized the $500m strategic investment portfolio of the merchant-services business, and tackled the technical complexities involved with interacting with partner technology and distribution companies. Earlier in his career Jacques-Olivier was Manager at the Paris office of Arthur Andersen, in charge of performing financial due diligence for numerous international acquisitions totaling several hundred million dollars.

He studied at UCLA and is a graduate of the Institute of Higher Economical and Commercial studies, Paris.