Bernard Ziade

Background

About Bernard Ziade

Bernard Ziade is Founder and CEO of Grandear (launched 2007), an international consultancy in the areas of Infrastructure and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). He has 20+ years’ experience in corporate environments (Construction, Fabrication, Oil & Gas, Power Generation, ITS), holding roles in finance and business development and 10 years in consulting. A Lebanese-French national, he has called “home” Lebanon, Switzerland, France, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and the USA. With a career that took him around the world and a mastery of eight languages his “comfort zone” knows no boundaries. Bernard holds an MBA and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with degrees earned in Europe (ESCP) and the US. A networker with a “give not get” mentality, he is a member of several associations most notably Rotary International. The name of his consultancy, Grandear, implies careful and astute listening of clients needs in order to provide solutions where he draws upon a pool of seasoned and global multi-cultural consultants. A project typically starts with an audit often evolving into large-scale missions of several months, with assignments in France (Logistics, Strategy, Marketing), Algeria (M&A, Tramways), Tunisia (Renewable Energies), Nigeria-Libya (Oil & Gas), Denmark-Sweden (M&A), Europe-Australia (toll systems), South Korea (trains), Europe and Asia (Power Generation) with companies such as Veolia, Alstom, Sanef-Abertis and KPMG. His networking associations include CGPME (French SMEs), ESCP Alumni Association and most notably Rotary International where he is on several committees and the Nominated President (2016-17) of Paris-Nord. The RI mission “to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through service to others” speaks to his sense of social responsibility. In his professional life or volunteer activities, Bernard is a connector, bridge and conduit across continents and cultures and quite naturally lives by the Rotary motto "One profits most who serves best”.