Bernardo Sestini joined The SIAD Group in 1996, since than he has undertook increasingly important managerial roles.

In 2018 he became CEO, Chief Executive Officer of SIAD S.p.A, the parent company of the group. Bernardo Sestini is also the CEO of the others SIAD Group European industrial gases companies.

In addition, Bernardo Sestini is the President of the Board of Directors of European Industrial Gases Association, EIGA, a Member of the Board of Directors of International Oxygen Manufacturers Association, IOMA and the Vice President of the Director Council of Italian Industrial and Specialty Gases Association, Assogastecnici and Vice President – plant safety, health and logistics delegate – of the Presidency Council of Italian Chemical Association, Federchimica.

He is married and has two children.

He graduated at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Milan.

SIAD, founded in 1927 by Prof. Quirino Sestini and Bernardo Sestini, is a leading chemical group in the production and supply of industrial gases and in the Engineering, Healthcare, LPG and Natural Gas sectors. In the industrial gases SIAD  products and sales the full range of industrial, medical, specialty gases and associated services, such as health care (both home care and hospital-based). Through its subsidiary Istrabenz Plini, the SIAD Group also operates in the LPG and natural gas market.

Through its subsidiaries SIAD Macchine Impianti, Tecno Project Industriale and ESA, SIAD is active in the engineering sector all over the world, designing, manufacturing and installing systems for air separation, conversion of biogas into biomethane, and carbon dioxide purification plants, process gas compressors and industrial combustion plants.