Bernard Lirola is a retired Investment Banker, with expertise in Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Finance and Asset Management. He has held senior positions at Needham, Swiss Bank and First Boston. He currently co-manages Lirola Capital, his family office. He is the co-trustee of a private foundation, involved in art and philanthropy.

He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and is a graduate from Ecole Polytechnique, Paris.