Bernard Duverneuil

Chief Information Officer, Essilor, France

Bernard Duverneuil joined Essilor in February 2009 as Group CIO. He is in charge of Information Technology activities across the group, responsible for IT strategy from definition to implementation and coordinating IT projects and operations.

Graduated from "Ecole Polytechnique" and "Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications", Bernard Duverneuil has developed an expertise of 20 years in information systems. The first years of his career took place in services companies (GSI) and consulting firms in management and strategy (Coopers & Lybrand and AT Kearney). He then joined the Lagardere group where he spent 8 years as Group CIO with additional responsibility from 2006 to 2008, for the animation of Innovation Center, transverse process to boost the development of innovative media offerings related to digital technologies.