Jabril Bensedrine, Senior Advisor, specializes in the financing and development of new ventures. He is the founder and managing director of TRIANA Venture Partners, Inc., which focuses on high-growth international companies in the life science and lifestyle sectors entering North American and European markets. Before founding TRIANA, Bensedrine helped design and fund projects totaling several hundred million dollars as an expert for the financial consulting firm Kenneth J. Dalto & Associates. He also held training and management positions at higher education institutions in France and the United States, including as a Chair at the University of Phoenix, and a tenured faculty member at the University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée. At Marne-la-Vallée, Bensedrine helped develop a new high-tech business incubator.

Bensedrine holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Paris-Dauphine, and a PhD in Business Administration with Highest Honors and Best Dissertation Award from the ESSEC Graduate School of Business. Bensedrine was also a post-doctoral scholar from 1998 to 2002 at the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley.