THE LEADERS

As a student in Paris at the end of the 1960s, Bernard Nguyen set up a business venture which rapidly went on to become a true success story. The talented and visionary designer entered the exciting world of jewellery and soon turned a small-scale artisanal project into a leading French company, and then an international Group. He continues to head the company today as its President.

In 1978, young ESSEC graduate Patrick Martin-Prével, with expertise in both finance and marketing, and armed with a first professional experience, joined Bernard Nguyen as Vice-President of the company. With the shared ambition of growing the company, they introduced a new, daring dynamic and successfully industrialised CHRISTIAN BERNARD.

In 1996, Damien Verrier, then head of the luxury products branch of a large international consulting firm, was introduced to Bernard Nguyen and Patrick Martin-Prével, a meeting that was to grow into a bond founded on mutual understanding and trust. When the Group entered a new phase of development (acquisition of a European retail chain, international distribution partnerships), Bernard Nguyen naturally turned to Damien Verrier, who joined the Group in 2005 as C.E.O to take up the challenge.

It is the association of three unique men with different but complementary personalities, and who share a belief in the company spirit and entrepreneurship, that has taken a French jewellery designer to a Group operating on a global level.