About Benjamin Akinteye
30+ Years. 3 Continents. The Consultant Who Actually Builds.
Benjamin Akinteye has spent more than 30 years in the rooms where enterprise transformation succeeds and fails. He has seen every pattern. He knows the difference between advice that sounds credible and execution that actually works.
Credentials
Every credential earned. Every credential applied.
The full list: not an alphabet-soup flex. Each one earned deliberately, each one applied to specific kinds of work.
- PMPProject Management Institute (PMI)
Project Management Professional
The industry-standard credential for senior project leadership.
- PMI-ACPProject Management Institute (PMI)
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner
Evidence-based agility across Scrum, XP, Kanban, Lean, and TDD.
- CBAPInternational Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA)
Certified Business Analysis Professional
Senior-level requirements, process, and data analysis.
- SAFe SPCScaled Agile, Inc.
SAFe Program Consultant (5.0 / 6.0)
Authorized to lead PI planning and launch Agile Release Trains.
- Prosci-CCPProsci
Prosci Change Management Practitioner
ADKAR-grounded organizational change design at enterprise scale.
- ISC2 CC(ISC)²
(ISC)² Certified in Cybersecurity
Foundational security controls for regulated environments.
- MBA
Master of Business Administration
Strategy, finance, and operations across value chains.
- B.Pharm
Bachelor of Pharmacy
The regulatory and clinical-workflow grounding that started the career.
The arc
Pharmaceuticals → Healthcare → Fintech → Government → BEXAI.
The pattern that makes BEXAI unusual is the breadth. The regulatory reflexes from pharma inform the compliance stance in fintech. The clinical-workflow respect from healthcare shapes the public-sector work. Every stage earned the next one.
Late 1980s → 2000s
Pharmaceuticals
Nigeria · United Kingdom
B.Pharm foundation into supply-chain and regulatory practice across two regulated pharmaceutical markets. Early exposure to what "compliance-first" really costs when it is not designed in from the start.
Late 2000s → early 2010s
Healthcare transformation
United Kingdom · Canada
Moved from drug supply to clinical operations and digital health. Led process and systems work that had to survive real clinical workflows, not slide-deck workflows.
Mid 2010s
Fintech & banking
Canada
Core-banking modernization, payments infrastructure, and regulated-fintech programs. SAFe SPC and CBAP practice hardened through delivery at scale in risk-sensitive environments.
Late 2010s → early 2020s
Government & public sector
Canada: federal, provincial, Crown corporations
P3M (PMO as a Service), OCM, and cybersecurity GRC programs inside the institutions where "taxpayer value" is the only KPI that matters. PIPEDA, PHIPA, and ISC2 controls embedded into day-one governance.
2024 → present
BEXAI Consulting
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Founding the AI-native consulting intelligence platform. 15 interactive tools, 7-framework BEXAI-ENGINE™, BEXAI-RIR™ Risk Intelligence Register, built to make boutique delivery scale without handoffs.
The BEXAI Philosophy
Three principles. No slogans.
Compliance-First
Regulatory requirements are never a later-stage cost centre. PIPEDA, CASL, PHIPA, SOC 2, and ISC2 controls are designed into the first architecture diagram, because retrofitting them at launch is the most expensive mistake a transformation can make.
Original Thinking
BEXAI frameworks: BEXAI-5P™, BEXAI-RIR™ (with its exclusive Driver Register), BEXAI-OASIS™, the BEXAI-ENGINE™ 7-framework pipeline, were not borrowed. They were synthesized from more than 30 years of what worked and what did not, across three continents. If the textbooks were enough, the textbooks would have solved it already.
No Junior Handoffs
Every engagement is run by Benjamin end-to-end. There is no pyramid where a senior wins the work and a second-year analyst delivers it. Enterprise-Grade Consulting with Boutique Agility means the person who sold the engagement is the person building it, and the AI tooling is what makes that economically possible.
PIVOT at 60 · Book in progress
This is not a retirement plan. This is an acceleration.
Benjamin turned 60 on 30 May 2026. He is writing PIVOT at 60, a book about building a second arc on top of a foundation of more than 30 years. BEXAI Consulting is the working laboratory for that book: founder-led, AI-native, legacy-first. The goal is not income. It is outcomes at a scale a career had been preparing for.
If your challenge is real, the conversation will be valuable.
If it is not a fit, I will tell you directly and point you to someone who is. No pitch. No qualification gauntlet. One conversation, human to human.
- benjamin.akinteye@bexai.ca
- +1 (431) 588-0556
- Benjamin on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada