{"id":6824,"date":"2025-09-15T05:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T05:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sonova.com\/blog\/people\/eric-bernard-2\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T18:35:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:35:47","slug":"eric-bernard","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/www.sonova.com\/de\/people\/eric-bernard\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Bernard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biografie<\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eric Bernard (Geburtsjahr 1967, franz\u00f6sischer Staatsb\u00fcrger) trat im Juli 2025 in die Sonova Gruppe ein und ist seit dem 15. September 2025 Chief Executive Officer (CEO).Eric Bernard verf\u00fcgt \u00fcber mehr als 30 Jahre internationale F\u00fchrungserfahrung sowie umfassende Expertise im Aufbau und in der Skalierung wachstumsstarker, kundenzentrierter Unternehmen. Von 2019 bis 2024 war er Chief Executive Officer von WS Audiology und verantwortete die erfolgreiche Fusion und Integration von Widex und Sivantos zu einem weltweit f\u00fchrenden Anbieter von H\u00f6rl\u00f6sungen.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zuvor war er w\u00e4hrend 25 Jahren in nationalen, regionalen und globalen F\u00fchrungsfunktionen bei Essilor t\u00e4tig, dem weltweit f\u00fchrenden Unternehmen im Bereich Optik. Neun Jahre lang war er zudem Mitglied des Executive Committee von Essilor. Seit 1992 f\u00fchrte ihn seine berufliche Laufbahn nach Japan, Singapur, in die USA, nach Australien, China und D\u00e4nemark. Dies unterstreicht seine globale Sichtweise und ausgepr\u00e4gte internationale F\u00fchrungserfahrung in verschiedenen M\u00e4rkten.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eric Bernard hat einen Masterabschluss (\u201eMa\u00eetrise\u201c) in Angewandter Mathematik und Sozialwissenschaften der Universit\u00e9 Paris Dauphine\u2011PSL, Frankreich, und ist Absolvent der ESSEC Business School in Cergy, Frankreich.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Externe Mandate<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">B\u00f6rsennotierte Unternehmen:<\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">n.v.<\/li><\/ul><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Weitere Mandate:<\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">n.v.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biografie Eric Bernard (Geburtsjahr 1967, franz\u00f6sischer Staatsb\u00fcrger) trat im Juli 2025 in die Sonova Gruppe ein und ist seit dem 15. 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Von 2019 bis 2024 war er Chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":372245,"template":"","brand":[],"class_list":["post-6824","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Eric Bernard - Sonova International<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sonova.com\/de\/people\/eric-bernard\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Eric Bernard - Sonova International\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Biografie Eric Bernard (Geburtsjahr 1967, franz\u00f6sischer Staatsb\u00fcrger) trat im Juli 2025 in die Sonova Gruppe ein und ist seit dem 15. 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