Bernie Waldron

Board Mentor
Criticaleye

Bernie is an international leader and experienced mentor with over 15 years non-executive board experience and 25 years of executive and management experience, spanning Private Equity, UK plc and global blue-chip corporates.

His current responsibilities include being Senior Independent Director of Digital Barriers plc, a specialist surveillance technology company and Non Executive Director of Servelec plc, a software and systems company for Healthcare and Industrial organisations: of Node4 Ltd, a data centre services business: of IPPLUS plc, a company providing software and services for Contact Centres: of PSE Ltd, advanced chemical modelling tools and of the Venture Partnership Foundation, who support rapidly growing entrepreneurial charities. He is an experienced coach, mentor and board advisor, with clients across private and public organisations of a variety of sizes

In the recent past he was also a Non-Executive Director of Kneip, a Luxembourg-based service provider to the global investment fund industry, and a Visiting Professor of Leadership and Corporate Governance at Cass Business School.

During his executive career, Bernie worked in Copenhagen as Executive Chairman of the Maersk Data Group, a group of 4000 employees across 30 companies. Prior to that he ran IBM's Industrial Sector division for Europe, Middle East and Africa. In the late 1990s, at the height of the tech stock boom, Bernie was Director of Corporate Strategy based at IBM's global New York headquarters.

Bernie has an MA in Mathematics from Churchill College, Cambridge. He is married with three teenage sons and is enthusiastically involved in most sports, where possible as a participant, but increasingly as a spectator.