Summary
Aziz Benmalek is a global technology CEO and board director with a 25+-year track record of building and scaling cloud, channel and managed-services businesses across Microsoft and major enterprise software companies. He has driven multi-billion dollar P&L growth—leading teams that grew cloud businesses from startup scale to $3B—while transitioning between executive, board and advisory roles most recently as CEO of Aeris and board director at Sylogist. Known for orchestrating complex partner ecosystems and go-to-market transformations, he combines strategic vision with hands-on operational rigor across sales, marketing, technical enablement and business development. His background spans founding regional Microsoft operations in MENA to leading worldwide cloud partner strategy, reflecting a rare blend of international market-building and deep channel expertise. Based in Bellevue, WA, he pairs an engineering foundation from CentraleSupélec with an MBA from ESCP, and brings a subtle creative streak hinted at by a playful GitHub bio that mixes "awesomeness" and "weirdness"—a signal of pragmatic leadership with personality.
9 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Engineering Applied Mathematics Computer Science, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Engineering Applied Mathematics Computer Science at CentraleSupélec
Classes Preparatoires, Classes Preparatoires at Lycee Louis-Le-Grand, Paris
MBA Business Administration and Management General, MBA Business Administration and Management General at ESCP Business School
Microsoft Leadership Corporate Bench
English, French, moroccan/arabic