Alain Bernard

Founder, Abbey Road Advisory

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2026
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Board Member
Jun 2025
- The sports lingerie of the future - Have you ever dreamt about what would be the perfect underwear for sports ? Comfortable, functional, high-tech and still stylish ? 👏🏻 At HÄSTKO we believe sports lingerie shouldnt be "just" a side product in a huge range of other products. NO WAY 🙅🏻‍♀️ Underwear for sports is very complex to design, to produce and it deserves proper R&D and effort. 💁🏻‍♀️ Wouldnt it be nice to have the choice in shapes, functionalities, fabrics, colors, level of support...? Wouldnt it be nice to have good personalized customer service to help you find out whats the right size for yourself and the best products to get according to your morphology or to the sports you do ? We assume the answer is "YES, PLEASE !" 😃 Today HÄSTKO underwear is worn by olympic gold medalists athletes. Our first range of products has been designed with biomechanics doctors 👩🏼‍⚕️ and osteopaths👨🏼‍⚕️. We always put in the technology and the technicity in our products. (Pssstt ☞ FOA Innovation award, French Tech BPI award, Inovizi award... Our underwear is super legit.) Stay tuned, we have great plans to revolutionize the lingerie for sporty women all over the globe ! 💪🏼
Board Member
Nov 2024
PS is the airport experience reimagined. Commercial travel with unwavering service, seamless TSA and immigration, and direct access to your aircraft.
late stageHospitality
Board Member & CEO Americas
Oct 2024
Driven by a desire to create diamond fashion jewelry of unwavering beauty, Valérie Messika created her own jewelry House in 2005. In her work, she reinvents the richly symbolic and meaningful stone into a desirable and disruptive object that lends self-confidence to anyone who wears it. Valérie constantly innovates to realize this vision, creating new designs and new techniques. She conceives jewelry that is as individual as it is explosive. She is a jewelry designer, of course, but above all, she is a trend-setter. Valérie Messika brings a liberating breath of fresh air to the jewelry industry. In her hands, the diamond comes alive: it moves, it dances, it has fun and most importantly, it is never boring. Messika pieces are jewelry with character, reflecting the designer’s own femininity and modernity. Messika creations are admired by the most influential women in the world, women respected for their talent and personality. Between 2017 and 2018, the House collaborated with Gigi Hadid, the highly regarded global supermodel, with whom the House co-designed two capsule collections. For 2019, Valérie Messika goes further with, not 1 but 3 muses : Kate Moss, Joan Smalls and Sylvia Hoeks. For 2020 and 2021, Valérie Messika and her muse, Kate Moss, co-created a High Jewelry collection composed of 2 opus. A collection honoured through a unique High Jewelry show in the gardens of the Ritz Paris. In 2022, the Maison chose the emblematic model Kendall Jenner to become the face of its latest campaign. This year promises to see Valérie Messika, the rulebreaker of the jewelry industry, push the boundaries even further. New collaborations, new designs, new and innovative design shapes and more.
Board Member
Mar 2022
Loa Carbon is a pioneer in low-cost, high-efficiency e-fuel production technologies. Our mission is to reduce humanitys reliance on fossil fuels by synthesizing circular, fossil-free hydrocarbons from captured CO2 and zero-emission energy. Loa’s proprietary Nyx™ reactor converts waste CO₂ and renewable hydrogen into e-methane, a cost-competitive, carbon-neutral alternative to fossil methane. Loa Carbon was founded by veteran climate-tech engineers and is backed by leading climate tech, energy, and infrastructure investors.
Board Member
May 2021
le gramme est une marque de joaillerie pour hommes, co-fondée en 2013 par Erwan le Louër, un passionné d’art contemporain et de design industriel. les créations le gramme s’inspirent de formes élémentaires ancrées dans l’inconscient collectif. chaque objet révèle une recherche minutieuse autour de la matière guidée par une obsession du détail et de la précision. un esthétisme revenant aux origines de l’objet qui se distingue par ses lignes absolues. une approche systématique qui offre une liberté dans la répétition et les associations de ses formes entres elles par des jeux d’accumulation.
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2026
Board Member
Mar 2026
Since 1764, Baccarat crafts the ultimate Frenchart de vivre. Rooted in exceptional know-how, the Maison continues to set the standard for contemporary elegance. Driven by the boldness of a crystal collective, Baccarat stands forunapologetic creativitywith a free spirit. With a global vision, it constantly explores new territories of expression and new object categories. From lighting to home décor, from the world of barware to celebration, its creations reveala dialogue of contrastsbetween heritage and avant-garde. Guided by an innovative vision, Baccarat collaborates with designers who define the essence of the times. From Paris to Tokyo, New York to Seoul, the Maison shines in over 80 countries through its boutiques, houses, bars, hotels, and restaurants. Discover the world of Baccarat at www.baccarat.com Depuis 1764, Baccarat façonne le meilleur de l’art de vivre à la française. Héritière d’un savoir-faire d’exception, la Maison continue de définir les standards de l’élégance contemporaine. Portée par l’audace d’un collectif du cristal, Baccarat revendique une créativité libre, sans compromis ni concession.Inscrite dans une vision globale, elle explore sans cesse de nouveaux territoires d’expression et catégories d’objets. Du luminaire à la décoration, de l’univers du bar à celui de la célébration, ses pièces révèlent un jeu de contrastes entre héritage et avant-garde. Animée par un esprit dinnovation, Baccarat collabore avec les designers qui signent l’air du temps. De Paris à Tokyo, de New York à Séoul, la Maison rayonne dans plus de 80 pays à travers ses boutiques, Maisons, bars, hôtels et restaurants. Découvrez l’univers de la Maison surwww.baccarat.com et sur Instagram @baccarat.
2025
Board Member
Jun 2025
- The sports lingerie of the future - Have you ever dreamt about what would be the perfect underwear for sports ? Comfortable, functional, high-tech and still stylish ? 👏🏻 At HÄSTKO we believe sports lingerie shouldnt be "just" a side product in a huge range of other products. NO WAY 🙅🏻‍♀️ Underwear for sports is very complex to design, to produce and it deserves proper R&D and effort. 💁🏻‍♀️ Wouldnt it be nice to have the choice in shapes, functionalities, fabrics, colors, level of support...? Wouldnt it be nice to have good personalized customer service to help you find out whats the right size for yourself and the best products to get according to your morphology or to the sports you do ? We assume the answer is "YES, PLEASE !" 😃 Today HÄSTKO underwear is worn by olympic gold medalists athletes. Our first range of products has been designed with biomechanics doctors 👩🏼‍⚕️ and osteopaths👨🏼‍⚕️. We always put in the technology and the technicity in our products. (Pssstt ☞ FOA Innovation award, French Tech BPI award, Inovizi award... Our underwear is super legit.) Stay tuned, we have great plans to revolutionize the lingerie for sporty women all over the globe ! 💪🏼
2024
Board Member
Nov 2024
PS is the airport experience reimagined. Commercial travel with unwavering service, seamless TSA and immigration, and direct access to your aircraft.
late stageHospitality
Board Member & CEO Americas
Oct 2024
Driven by a desire to create diamond fashion jewelry of unwavering beauty, Valérie Messika created her own jewelry House in 2005. In her work, she reinvents the richly symbolic and meaningful stone into a desirable and disruptive object that lends self-confidence to anyone who wears it. Valérie constantly innovates to realize this vision, creating new designs and new techniques. She conceives jewelry that is as individual as it is explosive. She is a jewelry designer, of course, but above all, she is a trend-setter. Valérie Messika brings a liberating breath of fresh air to the jewelry industry. In her hands, the diamond comes alive: it moves, it dances, it has fun and most importantly, it is never boring. Messika pieces are jewelry with character, reflecting the designer’s own femininity and modernity. Messika creations are admired by the most influential women in the world, women respected for their talent and personality. Between 2017 and 2018, the House collaborated with Gigi Hadid, the highly regarded global supermodel, with whom the House co-designed two capsule collections. For 2019, Valérie Messika goes further with, not 1 but 3 muses : Kate Moss, Joan Smalls and Sylvia Hoeks. For 2020 and 2021, Valérie Messika and her muse, Kate Moss, co-created a High Jewelry collection composed of 2 opus. A collection honoured through a unique High Jewelry show in the gardens of the Ritz Paris. In 2022, the Maison chose the emblematic model Kendall Jenner to become the face of its latest campaign. This year promises to see Valérie Messika, the rulebreaker of the jewelry industry, push the boundaries even further. New collaborations, new designs, new and innovative design shapes and more.
Operating Partner
Jan 2024
Turmeric is an Asia-centric consumer-sectors focused private equity fund combining brand, market and investment expertise. We invest in exceptional businesses and entrepreneurs, offering flexibility across growth and buyout transactions.
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