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Eric Benhamou

Founder of Benhamou Global Ventures; IT Expert

Founder of Benhamou Global Ventures; IT Expert

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Eric Benhamou Biography

Eric Benhamou has over 40 years of experience in the IT industry, including 14 years of active venture capital experience. He founded Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV) in 2003 and made active investments in early stage information technology Silicon Valley firms focused on global enterprise and telecommunications markets. In fund I, he leads investments in Swan Labs (F5), Dasient (TWTR), Voltaire(MLNX), Finjan(FNJN), Contextream (HP) and Load Dynamix. Eric currently serves on the boards of Grid Dynamics, Ayehu, Totango, Secret Double Octopus and 6d bytes, portfolio companies of BGV’s fund II and III.

Eric Benhamou has extensive corporate governance experience, having served on more than 25 corporate boards, including 10 publicly traded companies such as 3Com, Palm, Netscape, Legato Real Networks and Cypress Semiconductors (CY). He continues to serve on the boards of Silicon Valley Bank (SVBFG) and of Finjan Holdings (FNJN). Through his career, Eric Benhamou participated in 7 IPO’s and 36 M&A’s.

Prior to his venture capital career, Eric Benhamou built and operated several IT companies and experienced all the stages of growth from start-up to Global Fortune 500. Principally, he served as CEO of 3Com from 1990 to 2000 and as Chairman until 2010. Revenues grew 25-fold during his tenure. In his last year as CEO, 3Com was ranked 294 in the Global Fortune 500 rankings. He was the first 3Com CEO to formalize a corporate venture investment strategy and started 3Com Ventures, a $250 million corporate venture fund in 1998. He also served as CEO of Palm until 2003, and subsequently as Chairman of the Board. Both 3Com and Palm were sold to HP in 2010. Prior to 3Com, Eric Benhamou was a founder of Bridge Communications, an early networking pioneer which he helped take public on NASDAQ in 1985. He started his career as a software engineer at Zilog in 1977.

Eric Benhamou Speaking Topics

  • Strategic Convergence: The Path To Sustainable Profits

    In this speech, Mr. Benhamou discusses the problems companies face as they travel the rocky and lonely path from start-up to Fortune 500. Drawing on his experience, he traces the transitions which force leaders to fight and win internal battles against bureaucracies and politicking, along with external forces that would have them run their companies to satisfy the financial community's obsession with ever-increasing quarterly profits. Identifying the corruptive forces that destroy a start-ups spirit, Mr. Benhamou offers the tools and solutions needed to create effective organizational structure. As Mr. Benhamou points out, visionary leaders build companies that communicate, cooperate and collaborate. They share values, vision and mission with their organization and its customers. They create purpose-driven organizations that achieve goals, meet objectives and provide satisfaction for owners, employees and customers alike.

  • Firing the Engine of the New Economy: Making Innovation a Core Company Value

    Innovation is a hallmark of leading companies as they change the game in order to stay ahead of the competition. Many think of innovation in terms of breakthrough discoveries and fortunate accidents rather than as the result of a focused effort to introduce new ideas and ways of doing business. Mr. Benhamou teaches audiences that successful innovation is not an event; rather it occurs 24/7 enabling companies to keep pace. Drawing from his extensive experience, Mr. Benhamou recognizes that companies lose ground when the pace of change outside the company is greater than the pace of change within the company, and that innovating effectively requires concentrating on gaining the right structure, focusing on interdependencies, targeting the right capabilities and making it happen. Companies that follow this course make innovation a sustained and perpetual part of their management and operational disciplines.

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Eric Benhamou is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Strategic Convergence: The Path To Sustainable Profits and Firing the Engine of the New Economy: Making Innovation a Core Company Value. The estimated speaking fee range to book Eric Benhamou for your event is available upon request. Eric Benhamou generally travels from San Francisco, CA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Avi Rubin, Michael Dell, John Wood, Josh Linkner and Simon Sinek. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Eric Benhamou for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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