ACDM Profiles

Bertrand Le Bourgeois

ACDM Role: Vice-Chair of ACDM

Employed role: CEO, PharMarketing GDPR Life Sciences

Get to know Bertrand

Bertrand Le Bourgeois graduated as an engineer from Ecole Centrale in France, with a marketing specialisation from HEC Business School. He has spent his career in Management and IT Consulting, in the healthcare and life science industries at major service providers for Clinical Research and Data Management, and as CIO for a key manufacturer.

Now Bertrand runs PharMarketing GDPR Life Sciences, a consulting firm which helps life sciences companies to become compliant with Data Privacy Regulation in Europe (GDPR), in the US and abroad, with Good Data Management and Good Clinical Practices (GCP) and with IT Good Practices (GAMP, ISO 27001). PharMarketing also provides Legal Representation in the EU and UK for Data Privacy and other EU schemes, performs CSV and audits. Bertrand is vice-chair of the Association for Clinical Data Management and is President of the French Association of Medical Professionals for Healthcare Products Industry (AMMIS).

Besides business, Bertrand is a happy father of 3 children, ranging from 15 to 19. He is a French Navy officer and holds a diploma in surf teaching and of sailing boat skipper.

If you were on a desert island, what three things would you take with you and why?
My wife, my children and our pets, because with your family you are never lost!

If you were not in the job you are in, what would you do?
Architect

What is your idea of a perfect day?
Customers satisfied

What do you do to relax / what are your hobbies?
Cycling

If you had a dinner party, and could invite 1 famous person, who would you invite and why?
Probably Jimmy Carter for his negotiations talents and making fighting people become friends

What’s the best piece of advice you have ever been given?

When applying regulations, try to understand the spirit of it, instead of implementing as they are written. This was given by my CFO when I was a young CIO

If a movie was made of your life who would play you?
Jean Dujardin, a French actor

What is your favourite food?
Couscous from Morrocco

What would the title of your autobiography be?
A European man

What’s your favourite place of all the places you’ve travelled and why? 

Probably Brazil as people are so kind and enjoy life with smile even if they are very poor

As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
A scientist

What is your favourite song or who is your favourite band?

Very difficult question as I like all kinds of music and I’m a musician myself; all rock and roll bands from the 60s are fantastic, but probably the one I would select are the Stones

If you could learn one new skill today, what would it be?
Speak Arabic – to reconnect with my roots in Morrocco, my native country (although I don’t have the Moroccan nationality)

Who was your role model as a child and why?
Jean-Paul Belmondo as he was living a tremendous life in his films and was always winning against the odds

What is your favourite film or box set?
All films from Hitchcock

What do you think is the greatest invention in your lifetime?
Clearly internet

Do you collect anything?
No

If there were 25 hours in a day, how would you spend the extra hour?
Learning Arabic and Russian