Mr. Bernal has more than 15 years of experience in growth strategy, marketing, sales, new products and ventures with multinationals and leading organizations in the U.S., Latin America and Asia. Formerly a strategy consultant at Booz Allen & Hamilton, Mr. Bernal has built and run several businesses and assisted companies to conceive, develop, build and launch new products and businesses and solve complex growth strategy problems at corporate and business unit levels.

Mr. Bernal holds an M.B.A. from The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Masters in Finance and Marketing from Universidad de los Andes and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. He is an Adjunct Professor of International Management at the Graduate School of Communications at Northwestern University and also Adjunct Professor of Management at the School of Business Administration at Loyola University. He is a native speaker of Spanish, fluent in English and has working knowledge of Portuguese.