{"id":12536,"date":"2020-09-27T17:41:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T13:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/?p=12536"},"modified":"2025-04-18T00:37:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T20:37:03","slug":"kyriba-appoints-hamza-benamar-and-thomas-butta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/kyriba-appoints-hamza-benamar-and-thomas-butta\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyriba appoints Hamza Benamar as CFO and Thomas Butta as CMO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kyriba\u00a0announced it has appointed Hamza Benamar as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Thomas Butta as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). The executive appointments accelerate Kyriba\u2019s efforts to embed Active Liquidity Management within the office of the CFO and its IT partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHamza and Thomas have delivered financial, operational and transformative, category-defining programs for some of the most innovative, global <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/saas\/\">SaaS<\/a> companies. Most recently, Hamza operationalized a high-growth enterprise for Wolters Kluwer and helped execute a $5.1B acquisition of SunGard by FIS, and Thomas positioned SignalFx in real-time cloud performance monitoring, which culminated in a $1.05B acquisition by Splunk,\u201d said <strong>Jean-Luc Robert, Chairman and CEO of Kyriba<\/strong>. \u201cTheir expertise will be critical in helping Kyriba enhance its position as trusted guide to global finance and IT teams needing to extract value from new ways to actively manage liquidity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Hamza-Benamar-inside.jpg\" alt=\"Hamza-Benamar-Kyriba-techxmedia\" class=\"wp-image-12539\" width=\"143\" height=\"161\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have been working directly with CFOs and <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/business-leaders\/\">business leaders<\/a> for years. Kyriba\u2019s team has revolutionized treasury and financial management solutions, which have proven to be especially critical during these challenging times for multinational corporations,\u201d said<strong> Hamza Benamar, CFO of Kyriba<\/strong>. \u201cI look forward to leveraging my decade-long fintech experience and track record of finance leadership in Fortune 500 technology companies to accelerate Kyriba\u2019s growth and help position the company as the leader of Active Liquidity Management.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Benamar has engineered and executed double-digit growth for innovative global organizations for the past 25 years. With 12 years of international experience in Europe, Asia and Latin America, Hamza has driven financial performance, assessed risk and spearheaded transactions, acquisitions and divestitures for industry-leading public and private companies, including Amgen, Wolters Kluwer and SunGard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Thomas-Butta-inside.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas-Butta--Kyriba-techxmedia\" class=\"wp-image-12538\" width=\"131\" height=\"155\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cKyriba has pioneered the new market space of Active Liquidity Management, which is fundamental to managing risk, fostering growth and optimizing costs, especially in times of disruption and volatility,\u201d <strong>said Thomas Butta, CMO of Kyriba<\/strong>. \u201cKyriba has the rare opportunity to be seen as vital to the strategic interests of our customers and partners. I look forward to shaping and elevating this hugely strategic, real-time, value-creation opportunity for the office of the contemporary CFO and its IT partners.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Butta joins Kyriba with more than 20 years of CMO leadership roles across disruptive <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/saas\/\">SaaS<\/a> market categories, including open source, product lifecycle management, customer experience management, and cloud monitoring and observability. As CMO for SignalFx, Butta most recently took the company from a venture-backed start-up to an acquisition by Splunk. Before that, he was CMO at Sprinklr where he created the Digital Customer-First Transformation System that has helped big brands become more relevant in the digital era. Butta was also CMO at Red Hat, PTC, and AppNexus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both executives join Kyriba as it expands its international footprint, partners with major international organizations, and delivers innovative, new solutions. Kyriba\u2019s 100% <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/saas\/\">SaaS<\/a>, multi-tenant cloud-native<a href=\"https:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kyriba.com%2Factive-liquidity-network%2F%23%3A%7E%3Atext%3DThe%2520Kyriba%2520Active%2520Liquidity%2520Network%26text%3DThe%2520network%2520unifies%2520best%252Din%2Cplatforms%2520and%2520third%252Dparty%2520applications.&amp;esheet=52293113&amp;newsitemid=20200924005120&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=Active+Liquidity+Network&amp;index=2&amp;md5=6524e22c3ae81407c2bdd0c2bf03e12c\"> Active Liquidity Network<\/a> connects systems, applications, and data that expands an organization&#8217;s capability to improve financial performance and add agility and resilience to its finance function. More than 20% of the global Fortune 500 use Kyriba, as well as thousands of other Kyriba clients, including the addition of nearly 300 multinationals in the past 12 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both executives join Kyriba as it expands its international footprint, partners with major international organizations, and delivers innovative, new solutions. Kyriba\u2019s 100% SaaS, multi-tenant cloud-native Active Liquidity Network connects systems, applications, and data that expands an organization&#8217;s capability to improve financial performance and add agility and resilience to its finance function.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":12540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9639,9621],"tags":[2990,3716,3714,521,3715],"contributor":[],"class_list":["post-12536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fintech-emerging-technologies","category-emerging-technologies","tag-business-leaders","tag-digital-era","tag-kyriba","tag-saas","tag-signalfx"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/d7fae66a-71f5-48a2-a2f7-90d23cd88940-original-fetaured.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Rabab","author_link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/author\/rabab\/"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12536"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=12536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}