"I was born and raised in Montreux - Switzerland. From this small town - which benefits from a worldwide reputation for international congresses and Festivals, I got a taste for international challenges and projects of a wider scope. This brought me to Russia since 1996, where I worked successively as a Marketing Director for Nestle Food LLC, VP Marketing for ru-Net Holdings (acting as Marketing Director of different portefolio companies, amongst which Yandex.ru - Russia's largest internet poprtal and search engine). Later I spend 3 years in NESPRESSO SA, a new, innovative Nestle Venture based on a direct customer relationship approach "

Bernard holds a MA of Political Sciences of Lausanne University, and has attended an IMD Venture Booster program..

He is member of the Advisory Board of the Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe. In summer 2005, Bernard was offered the position of CEO of OZON.ru, Russia's largest e-tailer. In 2008, OZON.ru's sales reached $ 102 mln, a progression of 55 % vs. previous year. The company enlarged its product offering and launched a series of new features (a personal recommendation engine, a wishlist functionality and recently a C2C trading platform for second-hand books) which consolidated its position at the top of the Russian e-commerce market.