David Bernardino

David Bernardino is a growth leader and C-suite executive with more than 25 years of experience helping organizations build brands, enter markets and accelerate growth. His career spans startups through Fortune 100 companies, with leadership and consulting experience across building products, homebuilding, technology, consumer packaged goods and healthcare. David has worked with and for leading organizations including Procter & Gamble, Merck, Pinnacle Foods and Samsung, bringing the strategic discipline of world-class consumer businesses to emerging companies and industries undergoing transformation. His experience has taken him across North America and international markets and includes growth strategy, brand building, go-to-market strategy, commercialization, innovation and executive leadership. Today, as Founder and Managing Director of Bernardino Enterprises, David focuses primarily on the building industry, helping established companies, emerging technologies and growth-stage businesses identify where growth will come from, and then helping them make it happen. He works with organizations as a strategic advisor, fractional executive and embedded growth leader, with engagements spanning market entry, positioning, commercialization, investor strategy and business development. David is also an active leader within the NAHB and a frequent speaker at industry events, including the International Builders’ Show and Steel Horizons. His approach is grounded in an operator’s perspective: growth requires more than a good strategy - it requires leadership that can turn strategy into action and action into results. He is also co-host of the Nails & Networks podcast with Jeff Wilson.