As Chief Financial Officer of Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, Bernd Stangl is accountable for company finances, internal auditing, office management, and the legal organisation. Bernd leads ALE’s financial strategy with an agile and digitalized approach.
He is an energetic trilingual with experience in long-term construction, telecommunications, and more recently deploying subscription models for SaaS.
Since joining the company in 2015, he has transformed the finance and legal teams of ALE into a highly efficient organisation recognized in the industry as a benchmark on digital transformation. Bernd has been a guest speaker in many financial summits and was nominated as one of the most impactful CFOs in France in 2021.
Bernd has a personal ambition to create paperless office environments, and he strongly promotes virtual collaboration long before work-from-home became a health requirement.
Prior to joining ALE, Bernd was the CFO of ASN, general project manager for large transoceanic projects, and held the CFO position of the Optics Division of Alcatel-Lucent (now Nokia) in Milan.
He holds an MBA from the Vienna University of Economics. His master thesis on international project management was worked in cooperation with MIT in Boston. Bernd also holds post-graduate management certificates from INSEAD on Corporate Finance and Advanced Negotiations.