Born in 1966, Marc Benayoun is a former student of the Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales and started his career with the Paribas Group in 1989 before joining The Boston Consulting Group in 1993. He became an Associate Director at the Paris office in 2001 and later at the Moscow office in 2008 . During this period, he held a number of responsibilities including that of skills development in the natural gas sector .