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

But then in 2015, I decided to move teams and I moved from McLaren to Aston Martin.

And it was during that switch that the job role that was available at Aston Martin had a portion of strategy involved.

And that was the beginning of my journey into the world of strategy where I sort of remained until the middle of 2022.

What I enjoyed about being a strategy engineer was the adrenaline, that like sort of impulse decision on the pit wall.

I liked in many ways influence that you had over the race results.

So those split second decisions when you got it right and, you know, everything came together well and you got a better result than the team expected.

There was a really good feeling in that, that teamwork element I quite enjoyed.

There was obviously difficulties, you know, there was events that went badly or decisions that went badly.

And that was the bit that was more of a struggle, sort of taking that responsibility on your shoulders.

But I enjoyed those aspects.

I also enjoyed, you know, no job was the same.

It was never a nine to five day.

There was always a different challenge, always a slightly different environment.

And so, yeah, I enjoyed the not routineness of it.

I enjoyed the sort of everyday being a little bit different.

Yeah, so I think there are lots of

similarities between F1 and many, many other industries, I think it must be said.

But when we look at strategy on the pit wall, we think about when we're going to do our pit stop, what tires we might fit.

So the default plan, the plan A is actually reasonably easy to organize because it's just the best race to the end, the quickest race to the end, it's checkered flag.

Whereas

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