Delphine BERNARD
Board Member | CFO | Qualified Financial Expert
Delphine Bernard is a Global Chief Financial Officer and board director with over 20+ years of experience. She partnered with C-suite and Boards to help high-tech companies through worldwide hyper-growth expansion. Bernard groomed startups to become public companies and prepared 2 multi-billion-dollar high-profile IPOs as well as closed +10 global M&A transactions that ranged from $200M to $7B+. She has served on boards of subsidiaries of Fortune 500 companies (NYSE: UBER, NASDAQ: MSFT).
Bernard is board advisor at BRANDED is a consumer goods e-commerce start-up building and acquiring innovative brands.
She first led the startup as Chief Financial Officer where over the last 2 years, she worked on 40+ acquisitions, two successful equity rounds, debt refinancing, turned the company profitable, and free cash flow positive. She was also responsible for the Product and Technology organization.
Prior to Branded, Bernard was the Chief Financial Officer of Kinship, a new business division of Mars Inc., the global leader in pet health and nutrition. Bernard developed the Go-To-Market strategy for the new product range and optimized the subscription pricing, improved the CAC/LTV ratio, and reduced churn rate by 30%. She was appointed interim CEO during the CEO paternity leave. She was also an advisor to a $100M companion fund, investing in pet care startups.
From 2015 to 2020, Bernard was the Global Head of Finance Operations at Uber and oversaw a $40M budget. Over five years, she built a centralized global organization and transformed the finance department to operational excellence. She is technology-savvy and implemented digital transformations of the finance function. She improved financial accuracy and implemented controls, policies, and corporate governance for an $84B+ IPO, three regional divestitures, and three major product acquisitions. Prior to her move to San Francisco, she started with Uber in Amsterdam as International Financial Controller in charge of 65+ countries. With in-depth knowledge of worldwide statutory accounting and USGAAP, she established legal entities and ensured local compliance in APAC, APJ, EMEA, LATAM, and the Americas. She excelled in optimizing the close process and accuracy of the financials, as well as bringing local companies to compliance.
Before moving to the US, Bernard was the Senior Group Controller at Microsoft for the Skype division at the company headquarters in Luxembourg. She joined Skype in 2008, when it was part of the eBay family. She assisted with the spinoff in 2009 and led the treasurer function during the interim period. After the spinoff, she helped the company become IPO-ready and implemented systems, policies, and controls globally. Bernard collaborated on the August 2010 S1 filing and addressed SEC, legal, and investor questions. One month later, Microsoft announced the acquisition of Skype, and closed at $8.5B.
Bernard was a member of the Uber GDPR committee and director on the board of Uber Freight Inc. In the past, she held multiple board of director seats for Uber and Skype international subsidiaries.
Bernard has a Master of Business Engineering from Louvain School of Management. She is also an alumnus of Stanford Law School, where she attended the Directors’ college and Harvard Business School Executive Education on leadership and strategy. Bernard is currently preparing for the NACD directorship certification.
Outside the office, she enjoys traveling to discover new cultures. She has lived in 6 different countries and embraces diversity and inclusion.
Passionate about people and leadership, Bernard is the founder and co-chair of multiple women's employee resource groups. Bernard has supported women in all of the leadership positions she has held. Finally, Bernard has authored several articles on Leadership, Growth, and Managing Global Teams.
Bernard has a Master of Business Engineering from Louvain School of Management. She is also an alumnus of Stanford Law School, where she attended the Directors’ college and Harvard Business School Executive Education on leadership and strategy. Bernard is currently preparing for the NACD directorship certification.
Outside the office, she enjoys traveling to discover new cultures. She has lived in 6 different countries and embraces diversity and inclusion.
Passionate about people and leadership, Bernard is the founder and co-chair of multiple women's employee resource groups. Bernard has supported women in all of the leadership positions she has held. Finally, Bernard has authored several articles on Leadership, Growth, and Managing Global Teams.