Dwayne Bernal Email & Phone Number

An industry-leading executive, Dwayne has 20+ years of service as a public and private sector executive. He is recognized by his peers as a proven leader and a demonstrated visionary. At the age of 26, Dwayne established Royal Engineers to meet the vast infrastructure development, disaster recovery program management, and coastal restoration needs of the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina – growing Royal to be one of the largest African American owned engineering firms in the South. Subsequently, he served as the Director of Data Center Construction for Eastern US and Latin America for Microsoft, responsible for $2B+ of datacenter development and construction spanning two continents.A cancer survivor, Dwayne serves on the Mid-South Regional Board for the American Cancer Society, and speaks widely on African Americans having the highest death rate and shortest survival rate of any racial/ethnic group in the US, complex reflections of social and economic disparities more than biological differences. Dwayne earned his Bachelor’s in Engineering Management from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and holds an MBA from Tulane University’s A.B. Freeman School of Business. Upon graduation from West Point, he served as an Officer in the United States Army and medically retired due to injuries sustained during training. He is a member of the 2016 Class of Henry Crown Fellows and the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute.

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