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As the sole director of the state-recognized “INU – Innovative University of Applied Sciences”, he is responsible for the management of the university as Chancellor, which he also represents externally. As CDO (Chief Digital Officer), he is also responsible for all digital matters relating to the administrative and academic online operations of the innovative INU.

From the beginning of 2018 until the end of 2021, Dr. Bernhard worked at 3P Assistant GmbH and AachenInstitut GmbH as a management and IT consultant with a focus on education and higher education. His core tasks included interim management projects in the IT and development sector of various companies, with a focus on education. The focus was primarily on business intelligence projects and process optimization in various companies of the COGNOS Group, which includes the Fresenius University of Applied Sciences and the Ludwig Fresenius Schools as well as a number of other well-known national and international educational institutions.

Prior to this, he worked as a management consultant and authorized signatory at Bronk & Company GmbH from 2014 to 2017. In addition to IT management, his activities there focused primarily on consulting mandates in the areas of business intelligence for dimensioning production, process optimization and simulation of production processes as well as university administration programs in the education sector.

Dr. Bernhard can also look back on many years of experience as a university lecturer in the fields of computer science, SAP and project management. Between 2011 and 2014, he also managed the cross-location introduction of a Salesforce-based sales platform at Fresenius University of Applied Sciences and other educational institutions in the COGNOS Group as Head of IT. This also included the migration of various legacy systems and the centralized introduction of a uniform university administration and student platform for all Fresenius University locations.

After his engineering studies and parallel to his doctorate (Dr.-Ing.) at RWTH Aachen University, he worked from 1995 to 1999 as a research assistant and group leader at the Foundry Institute of RWTH Aachen University. This was followed by various professional positions from 1999 to 2011, including at DaimlerChrysler AG at the Ulm Research Center and PSI Metals Non Ferrous GmbH, before he turned his attention increasingly to the education sector.