Mr. Bernard became CEO of Van Cleef & Arpels Japan in 2009, where he leads the business expansion and a deep transformation process. Prior to that, in eleven years with Cartier, he held several global and regional executive positions, including managing director of Southeast Asia in Singapore and international customer service director at the Paris HQ.

Mr. Bernard began his career as a consultant, first for the French government and then for Ernst & Young International. He graduated from Ecole Centrale Paris.