Bernard is a strategic marketer who works with startups and medium-sized companies as a consultant and outsourced marketing executive. He helps these businesses build their marketing functions and put the structures and strategy in place to effectively drive sales and build brands.

Having worked with businesses across diverse sectors in Southern and East Africa, he speaks to marketing strategy and execution in entrepreneurial environments where budgets are tight and timelines are urgent.

Bernard has been consulting since 2013 through his marketing consultancy, Firejuice. Before this, he worked in the corporate sector as a brand manager, alongside stints as an agency manager and head of marketing at a technology company.

As a speaker, Bernard focuses on the transformative power of marketing in unlocking business growth.

Bernard is 'n strategiese bemarker wat as konsultant en uitgekontrakteerde bemarkingsbestuurder vir startups en mediumgrootte maatskappye werk. Hy help hierdie ondernemings om hul bemarkingsfunksies op te bou en die nodige strukture en strategieë in plek te stel om verkope doeltreffend aan te dryf en handelsmerke te bou.

Met sy agtergrond in uiteenlopende sektore regoor Suider- en Oos-Afrika, praat hy oor bemarkingsstrategie en -uitvoering in entrepreneursomgewings waar begrotings beperk en spertye dringend is.

Bernard konsulteer reeds sedert 2013 deur sy bemarkingskonsultasiefirma, Firejuice. Voor dit het hy in die korporatiewe sektor as 'n handelsmerkbestuurder (brand manager) gewerk, tesame met tydperke as 'n agentskapbestuurder en hoof van bemarking by 'n tegnologiemaatskappy.

As spreker fokus Bernard op die transformerende krag van bemarking om besigheids groei te ontsluit.