
Bernard Schmid
Partner
Former McKinsey consultant advising institutions and onchain organizations on strategy.
Bernard heads Areta’s Strategic Governance unit working with some of the leading DAOs and foundations in the space working on large-scale governance and growth initiatives from governance inception to optimization and ecosystem growth.
Prior to Areta, Bernard spent his time in Management Consulting at McKinsey & Company across London and Berlin, where he led business building projects and growth initiatives for tech scale-ups and S&P 500 companies. Prior to this, he was involved in scaling early- and growth-stage ventures on the founder and investor side.
Bernard holds a Master’s in Business from London School of Economics and spends his time between San Francisco, Lisbon, and Berlin.

