Bernard Charlès

Bernard Charlès is the current CEO and Chairman of the Board at Dassault Systèmes. Bernard previously served as the company's CEO from 2001 to 2014.

Bernard Charlès started their educational career by obtaining a Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical engineering with a major in automation engineering and information science from the Laboratoire d’automatique ISMCM. Bernard then completed a Mechanical Engineering degree at Agrégation (senior teaching qualification) and finally obtained an Engineering degree from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Cachan.

Some individuals on their team include Rouven Bergmann - EVP, CFO, Florence Hu ‑ Aubigny - EVP of R&D, and Elisa Prisner - VP, Business Platform Transformation.