Bernard R. Cantournet
Bernard R.
Cantournet
Bernard R. Cantournet is managing partner in the Milan office. Previously, he spent 13 years as managing partner of the Milan office of another international executive search firm. Prior to entering the executive search profession, Bernard was a logistics consultant to the automotive industry with SOI in I-Turin, where he was able to expand his connections with large firms such as Fiat in Italy. In 1973, he founded and ran a company that was the dealer of the first true global tourism airplane manufacturer (Cessna) in Paris. Bernard studied history at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris where he obtained his doctorate. He fluently speaks Italian, French and English.
Industries & Functions
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Board & CEO
As world-class organizations grapple with the global challenges of the 21st century, it is their leaders that define success.
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Consumer Products & Services
Technological advances, globalization and the Internet are reshaping the rules in today's consumer & retail services market, demanding exceptional talent at the top.
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Financial Management
As the role of the finance function in corporate decision-making becomes ever-increasingly important, so the demands on finance leaders are rising.
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Financial Services
Financial services firms require strong leaders, global visionaries and superbly qualified professionals to move them forward in the 21st Century.
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Healthcare
The growing focus on the healthcare sector from a population with spiralling expectations and often an ageing profile, requires leaders who can manage opportunity and challenge in equal measure.
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Human Resources
With increasingly fierce competition for leadership talent and a compelling focus on intellectual resources, the human resources field is experiencing a renaissance.
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Technology
In technology, with apparently boundless application and insatiable markets, it is the human factor - leadership - that differentiates the stellar successes from the rest.
Search Professionals
- Bernard R. Cantournet
- Managing Partner
- Eduardo Salvia
- Managing Partner
- Laura Barettini
- Lorenza Di Giovanni
- Franco Starace
Ray & Berndtson
Milan office