Bio

Mr Barry is a Venture Partner at OpenView. A 25-year IT veteran, Mr Barry brings extensive operating and business development experience to his work with venture capital backed businesses. Prior to OpenView, Mr Barry spent 15 years at Microsoft in various executive positions in enterprise sales, channel development, consulting and support services. While at Microsoft, he was responsible for building and leading high performance teams and achieved several top revenue growth and other awards for his achievements. Most recently, Mr Barry was Founder and Managing Director of Microsoft's Emerging Business Unit where he was responsible for managing worldwide strategic relationships with venture capitalists and emerging venture capital backed businesses. Mr Barry led the effort to institutionalize Microsoft's worldwide sourcing and value-add programs for venture capital backed businesses, as well as Microsoft's M&A and IP strategies with product/vertical industry groups and corporate development. Prior to Microsoft, Mr Barry held senior management positions in enterprise sales and marketing at Wang Laboratories and was the co-founder of a startup, CAS Inc, focused on small business applications. Mr Barry graduated from West Virginia University with a BS in Business Administration and has studied Graduate Business Management at Southern Methodist University. He is active on several advisory boards and is a former President of the Southeastern Software Association.