Summary
Franck Besnard is a seasoned cloud and IT transformation leader with 13+ years driving multi-year, CxO-level IT-as-a-Service programs across banking, insurance, telco, transportation and government. Currently Head of Delivery & Transformation for Randstad Digital (France & Europe), he blends hands-on CTO experience with advisory mastery to design future IT architectures, operating models and financially viable migration roadmaps. He has led cloud, AI-Ops and cloud-native platform teams at scale, launched practices and partner ecosystems, and repeatedly translated complex legacy estates into cloud-native, product-oriented platforms. A pragmatic technologist, Franck co-founded Awels Engineering to apply agentic AI and “Cognitive Twin” concepts to stubborn application modernization problems. He is as comfortable shaping strategy with boards as he is directing delivery teams and presales organizations that produced multimillion-euro revenues. Based in Paris with an engineering background from CentraleSupélec, he combines deep sector knowledge with a rare focus on operationalizing AI in enterprise IT.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat BAC C, Baccalauréat BAC C at Collège-Lycée Les Cordeliers
Master Degree of Engineering Offshore Sea and Harbour Engineering, Master Degree of Engineering Offshore Sea and Harbour Engineering at CentraleSupélec
CPGE P’ Sciences physiques, CPGE P’ Sciences physiques at Lycée Chateaubriand
English, French