Christophe Bernard

Christophe J. Bernard is a New York–based finance executive with more than 20 years of experience financing transactions in the power & renewables, mining & metals, and infrastructure sectors across the Americas, on deals collectively totaling more than $15 billion. In his banking career he is a Managing Director at Crédit Agricole CIB, where he serves as Head of Portfolio Project Finance for Latin America (also described as Head of Portfolio Project Finance, Americas). His expertise spans origination, execution and syndication of project-finance debt, credit-risk analysis, financial modeling, valuation, technical and legal due-diligence management, acquisition finance, financial advisory, commodity hedging, credit-portfolio management, and private equity.

Alongside his banking role, Bernard is the Co-President and Founder of Vincere Resource Group, a private equity vehicle established around 2013 and based in Harrison, New York, that invests in companies and assets in the mining sector. Through affiliated entity Vincere Resource Holdings LLC, the group has held direct equity stakes in U.S. copper assets.

Bernard holds an M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Arts & Métiers ParisTech (Paris, France), an M.B.A. in Finance from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University (Dallas, Texas), and is a CFA charterholder. He speaks English, Spanish, and French fluently — a profile consistent with his cross-border focus on Latin American and U.S. resource and infrastructure financings.

• Sector: Concentrated on mining & metals and natural-resource assets, particularly copper and base-metals projects in the Americas; informed by a deep project-finance and infrastructure background.
• Structure: Operates as a principal/private-equity investor through Vincere Resource Group / Vincere Resource Holdings LLC, taking direct equity interests in mining projects (rather than running a traditional broad startup venture portfolio).
• Stage & geography: U.S.- and Latin America–focused; comfortable with early-stage and development-stage resource projects given his origination, due-diligence, and acquisition-finance experience.
• What makes him say yes: A banker's lens — credit quality, technical and legal due diligence, financial modeling/valuation, and clear paths to syndication or strategic exit. Note: the source stub lists him under "Angel Investors / Seed Round," but the verifiable record points primarily to resource-sector private equity; check size and a formalized startup thesis could not be confirmed from public sources.