Mr. Belaicha brings more than 20 years of consulting, private equity, and corporate experience. He specializes in post-merger integrations, performance improvement, and complex transformation and turnaround programs for a wide range of corporate and private equity clients. Mr. Belaicha has worked with clients across multiple industries, including healthcare, power and utilities, manufacturing, media, financial services, and fast-moving consumer goods.

Since joining A&M, Mr. Belaicha has served for over a year as Chief Transformation Officer of AccorInvest, securing the delivery of a transformation plan delivering €300+ million of recurring savings out of a €2.7 billion cost base. Mr. Belaicha’s other notable assignments include: co-leading a major investigation for the board of Orpea; supporting the transformation of a leading car spare parts distributor in France; designing the efficiency program of a leading French TV broadcasting company; and undertaking a group-wide cost-out program for a leading European DIY retailer.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Belaicha independently served on several turnaround and post-merger integration projects in Europe and North Africa, mainly for family businesses and private-equity-invested companies in various sectors, including banking, insurance, pay TV, aerospace and defense, and dairy manufacturing. Before that, he was Vice President for two and half years at Swicorp covering Maghreb countries and also spent one year at French pay-TV company Canal+ setting up a new business unit in the Maghreb region. Previously, Mr. Belaicha was a consultant at Boston Consulting Group in Paris, where he delivered over 15 projects in a diversified range of industries. Most notably, he served in major domestic and cross-border post-merger integration programs in financial services and manufacturing.

Mr Belaicha earned a master’s degree from HEC Paris Grande Ecole. He is a World Fellow at Yale University, an Oxford Saïd Business School executive education graduate, and an Archbishop Tutu Fellow at the African Leadership Institute. Mr. Belaicha is fluent in French, Arabic, English, and Italian. He is a regular lecturer at the HEC Paris Business School, where he teaches classes on strategy and investment within North Africa and the Middle East.