Teneo hires Bernardo Silva as senior managing director in Chicago
Teneo, a New York-based consulting firm, has hired Bernardo Silva as a senior managing director in its management consulting practice in Chicago.
In his new role at Teneo, Silva will serve as leader of the food and beverage industry within the management consulting practice.
He brings more than 25 years of experience as a management consultant and operating executive. Silva has extensive expertise in business strategy, M&A, new market entry, commercial effectiveness, margin enhancement, and operational improvement.
Silva joins Teneo from AlixPartners, where he was a partner and managing director. Before that, he was a partner and managing director at Monitor Deloitte, a principal at Roland Berger, a principal at Bridge Strategy Group, and an engagement manager at Kearney. Before entering consulting, Silva was a brand manager at The Coca-Cola Company.
He has an MBA from Northwestern University a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
“Bernardo’s appointment is an important step in the continued expansion of our consumer and economics capabilities within Teneo’s Management Consulting business. Bernardo will join a number of other new hires in the consumer space in the coming months as we dramatically grow our capabilities in this sector,” said Gee Lefevre, global head of consumer and economics at Teneo.
Teneo has more than 1,700 people across 40 offices worldwide. The firm has practices in financial advisory, management consulting, people advisory, risk advisory, and strategy and communications.
“I’m excited to join Teneo and bring the firm’s incredible set of capabilities to a wider roster of clients in the food & beverage sector,” Silva said.

