Bernie is a creative and energetic leader and has been involved in the software sector for a number of years in both executive and non executive director roles.

Prior to this, Bernie was CEO of SteelTrace, an Irish company which was very successfully sold to Compuware Corporation in Detroit. Prior to SteelTrace, Bernie was COO of Performix Technologies for five years. Performix Technologies domain is people performance management, a closely allied domain to Clarigen.

Bernie is currently a non executive director of Supplierforce, an Irish company providing procurement and supplier management solutions and is the immediate past Chairman of the Irish Software Association, the representative body of the technology sector in Ireland.

In addition, Bernie has had many challenging roles driving business turnaround and then growth within organisations with difficulty meeting their goals and objectives here in Ireland, the UK and Australia.

Bernie has a BComm from UCD, an MBA from UCD and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.