Abdelkrim BENAMAR
President & CEO ◾ POWERUP
Abdelkrim Benamar Ph.D. serves as President & CEO of PowerUp since November 2021. He brings over 30 years of experience in the energy and telecom industries with proven leadership, business transformation and change management skills. Before joining PowerUp, Dr. Benamar was successively COO (2015) and CEO (2016-2018) of Astellia, and then Vice-President Service Assurance at EXFO after Astellia’s acquisition in 2018. He previously held several executive roles at Alcatel-Lucent (2007-2015) including Vice President EMEA and CEO Alcatel-Lucent International. He has also worked for leading telecom companies such as Ericsson Group (2000–2007), Motorola (1996–2000) and Alcatel Mobile Phones (1993-1996), in areas such as R&D, Communications & Public Affairs, Strategy and Sales. Mr. Benamar holds an engineering degree from Telecom SudParis and a PhD in electrical engineering from Paris-Saclay University.