| UCLA, BA | 1985 |
| Economics/Business | |
| Stanford GSB, MBA | 1991 |
| Business |
Barry is a co-founder and Managing Director of Lightspeed Venture Partners and focuses primarily on investments in the areas of infrastructure technologies, communications and networking, digital media and internet. He has fifteen years of venture capital experience and ten years of operating experience. Prior to joining Lightspeed, Barry held senior business development and operational roles at Cisco Systems from 1991-1997. While at Cisco, Barry established several of the company’s largest distribution channels with OEMs, system integrators and VARs. Barry also developed Cisco’s initial M&A process and directed the first wave of acquisitions and integrations.
Barry has been named multiple times to the Forbes Midas List of top venture capital investors and appeared on the initial AlwaysOn VC100 published in 2009.
Barry holds a BA in Economics and Business from UCLA and an MBA from Stanford University.
Selected investments include: Arbor Networks (DHR): Broadband services platform Broadview Networks: Facilities-based CLEC Calista Technologies (MSFT): Desktop virtualization solution Growth Networks (CSCO): High-performance switching fabrics Maker Comms. (MAKR): Communications semiconductors MapR Technologies: Map Reduce data center solutions MetaSolv Software (MSLV): Operations support software Nimble Storage: Enterprise storage solutions Pivot 3: Scalable virtualized storage Pliant (SNDK): High-performance enterprise flash SSDs Sirocco Systems (SCMR): Wide-area networking systems Telogy Networks (TI): VOIP embedded software solutions Traverse (AV): Enhanced voice messaging platform WeFi: WiFi aggregation, analytics, and location platform
