Arthur Bernard , London, United Kingdom

Arthur is a senior executive with 10+ years of successful experience in the sports and media industry across strategy, investment, operations and innovation functions.
Deeply passionate about media and technology, Arthur has been working all along his career on the evolution of content distribution and audience monetization, observing first-hand recent trends of digital transformation within the media industry.
In his latest role as Executive Vice President, Global Strategy and Operations at Lagardère Sports and Entertainment, sitting on the Board, Arthur worked closely with the CEO on all aspects of the management of a global €450m business, including strategy, investments, structuration of the business, innovation and digital transformation, and eventually the sale of the business to a private equity investor.
Prior to Lagardère Sports and Entertainment, Arthur was successively co-founder of a consumer start-up (Les Nouveaux Fromagers), strategy consultant (Greenwich, now EY), product development manager in an online betting scale-up (Betclic) and venture capital analyst (Alven Capital).
Throughout his career Arthur has worked in a wide variety of company development stages from creation to fund raise, from accelerated growth to business rationalization, and from global structuration and transformation of a mature business to its sale.