Bernardo comes originally from the Life Sciences Industry. He graduated as a Physician at only 21 and post-graduated in Head & Neck Surgery and Craniofacial Surgery at University of São Paulo (USP). He followed the medical career successfully for more than a decade, starting up his own residency program and managing four emergency services. In parallel with his medical career he also did drug R&D for big pharmaceutical industries, trained sales reps, acted as the ambassador of new products and technologies for multinational medical device companies and supported healthcare procurement and auditing.

His career in executive search and talent management started in 2009, at AIMS Brazil. He led AIMS Brazil for many years, resulting in an intense growth and geographic expansion. In 2013 he became the LATAM VP for AIMS International and rolled out a geographical expansion of AIMS in the Latin-American region and in 2014 he had the opportunity to be one of the main pivots of the merge of two Outplacement organizations, Career Net International and OI Global Partners that resulted in one of the largest Outplacement players in the world: OI Global Partners. Bernardo was a Board Member for OI Global partners from 2014 until 2018.

Bernardo serves as the global President of AIMS International since 2019. In 2015 he moved to the United States as a Managing Partner responsible for the US market.

Besides serving traditional clients in the Life Sciences Industry, he has gradually built up new competences in other markets (e.g. industrial, automotive and consumer). Today Bernardo is part of the Life Sciences, Industrial and Automotive Global Practice teams.