Bernardo Silva is a Senior Managing Director with Teneo’s Management Consulting business, based in Chicago. Bernardo serves as the food & beverage industry lead within Teneo’s Management Consulting team.
With over 25 years of experience as a senior advisor and operating executive, Bernardo works closely with management teams, boards of directors and private equity investors to unlock transformative growth and accelerate value creation. He brings extensive capabilities in business strategy, new market entry, commercial effectiveness, margin enhancement and operational improvement, as well as M&A, divestitures and partnerships.
Prior to joining Teneo, Bernardo was a Partner and Managing Director at AlixPartners and held senior management consulting roles at Monitor Deloitte, Roland Berger and Kearney. He started his career at The Coca-Cola Company, where he held various brand marketing and sales operations roles.
Bernardo holds an M.B.A. with honors from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a B.S. cum laude in Industrial Engineering from UFRJ in Brazil. He is fluent in four languages, holds dual U.S.–Brazilian citizenship and brings a global, multicultural leadership perspective shaped by his extensive work across North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia.
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