Bernie is currently Senior Vice President, Global Benefits & Well-being, with AECOM, the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for generations to come. AECOM has 53,000 employees in 50+ countries worldwide. He is the Corporate COE leader responsible for health care, retirement, group, voluntary, lifestyle, perks, well-being and wellness benefits programs and benefits communications, benefits compliance, benefits delivery and M&A benefits activities globally.

Previously, he was Sr. Director, Global Benefits & Mobility with Yahoo!, in Sunnyvale, CA and Vice President, Strategic Benefits with ACS, A Xerox Company, in Dallas, TX. He was also Senior Director, Global Benefits with Hilton Hotels and Senior Vice President, Benefits with Countrywide Financial/Bank of America, both headquartered in Los Angeles, CA. Bernie was also Senior Director, Global Benefits/Total Rewards with Gap Inc. headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Previously, he was Senior Manager, Global Benefits with Accenture, headquartered in Chicago, IL. Prior to that, he held Benefits Leadership positions with Morton International, CT&T, Continental Bank and AM International, all located in Chicago, IL.

He has acted as a Moderator, Speaker and Panelist at sponsored Defined Contribution and Defined Benefit Conferences managed by Euromoney/Institutional Investors, both in the U.S. and Europe (UK, Spain, Italy and Hungary), since 2007. He has been the Chair of The Corporate Board of the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans (IFEBP) and has attained his Certified Employee Benefits Specialist (CEBS) designation and spoken at numerous conferences offered by them. He was a faculty member for World at Work and has attained his Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) designation and spoken at numerous conferences offered by them. He also served on the Board of the Council on Employee Benefits (CEB), been elected to both the Council on International Compensation and Benefits and the Council on Employee Benefits of The Conference Board and has been a Speaker at many of their sponsored Conferences on Health Care Benefits, Benefits Communications and Compensation Rewards. He has served on Employer Councils for the NCQA and the HR Policy Association, and Advisory Councils for Employee Benefits News (EBN) and AirVet. Bernie has been featured in numerous industry publications, and earned several benefits industry awards.

He holds a BS in Accounting from Truman State College and served an internship with the US Department of the Treasury, IRS.