Bernie Collins

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Coffee with the Council By PCI Security Standards Council · Coffee with the Council Podcast: Meet This Year’s Europe Community Meeting Keynote Speaker, Bernie Collins · 21 Jul 2025 podcast

Thank you so much for having me.

And I'm looking forward to our chat over the next few minutes.

And I'm looking forward to joining you all as the keynote speaker at your event at the Europe Community Meeting.

I think F1 strategist probably best suits me.

That's the role that I'm most widely known for.

It's a role that I guess I felt most comfortable in.

And yeah, you know, first and foremost, I'm an engineer, but I think that final role as the F1 strategist is the one that suits my expertise within the field the best, I think.

Yes, it's a bit of an unusual story.

I think lots of people always want to work in F1.

They enjoy trying to make it to that field.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do.

I really enjoyed mathematics and physics at school and I was sort of a bit unsure what to do with those subjects or where I could bring it.

So I did engineering, I did a mechanical engineering degree because that was quite broad and there was lots of things I could do with that at the end.

I didn't really have a target, I didn't have a goal.

Midway through that degree, I sort of became involved in some motorsport and I seen the opportunity to maybe go into some motorsport.

I went on to join McLaren in their graduate program, which was sort of a year long program.

At the end of that, I moved into their design office and spent a few years working there.

I had this real desire to work at the track and I spent a lot of my weekends trying to work in junior formula or more grassroots motorsport in order to try and achieve that ambition to be at the track.

And I spent the 2014 season as Jenson Button's performance engineer.

So quite a different road strategy.

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