Barry S.

Skills

Analytics
Artificial intelligence
Business Analysis
Business Development
Business Profitability
Business Strategy
Capital Markets
Capital raise
Carve-outs
Change Management
Churn reduction
Cloud Marketing
Clustering analysis
Communication
Competitive Analysis
Consulting
Corporate Development
Customer Acquisition Strategies
Data science
Derivatives
Digital Infrastructure
Digital Transformation
Disruptive Technologies
Earnings preparation
Electronic Trading
Equities
Equity Trading
Executive communications
Executive Team
Finance
Financial Literacy
Financial Markets
Financial Services
Financial Technology
FinTech
Fixed Income
Generative AI
Global Business Development
Global market expansion
Go-to-Market (GTM) Strategy
Hedge Funds
Interpersonal Skills
Investments
Investor relations
Location intelligence
Machine learning
Machine Learning
Management
Management Consulting
Market analysis
Market Development
Market Structure
Marketing Strategy
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft Office
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
New Business Opportunities
Performance Motivation
Portfolio Management
Predictive Modeling
Predictive modeling
Presentation skills
Private Equity
Prompt Engineering
Public speaking
Relationship management
Sales
Sales Management
Segmentation Strategy
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Solution Selling
Spin-offs
Start-ups
Strategic Leadership
Strategic partnerships
Strategic Planning
Strategy
Team leadership
Trading
Trading Systems
Trend analysis
Venture Capital

About

Barry is a seasoned leader with over 20 years of experience driving transformative growth across financial services, technology, and digital infrastructure. His expertise spans strategic planning, market & business development, capital introduction, data-driven decision-making and leveraging AI/ML to optimize business performance. Barry has a proven track record of delivering value to institutional investors, including private equity (PE) firms and their portfolio companies, venture capitalists and infrastructure investors.

Core Expertise
- Growth Acceleration: Organic and inorganic strategies through advanced go-to-market strategies, acquisitions, spin-offs and carve-outs.
- Digital Infrastructure Leadership: Scaling multi-tenant data centers, advising on AI/ML-driven strategies and industry specific growth strategies.
- AI/ML Integration: Developing predictive analytics programs to enhance operational efficiency & precision targeting.
- Strategic Advisory: Partnering with investors to unlock value in high-growth sectors like data centers, towers & digital ecosystems.

Key Achievements
- Scaled the largest multi-tenant data center REIT through global industry specific strategies and AI/ML-driven market development programs.
- Spearheaded predictive Machine Learning programs at Equinix to optimize global platform expansion.
- Grew two successful private equity portfolio companies to exits while advising top-tier funds on portfolio optimization.
- Revolutionized electronic trading systems responsible for over 50% of equity trading volume today.

Value Proposition
Barry combines deep expertise in financial services with cutting-edge digital infrastructure capabilities, enabling investors to maximize returns while mitigating risks in evolving markets like AI-infrastructure, various data centers segments and adjacent industries.