As Vice President of Yahoo’s Connected TV Group, Patrick Barry manages the company’s digital home business.
The Connected Life business unit encompasses Yahoo!’s mobile products, broadband services, digital home initiative, PC client experience, and strategic partnerships with companies including AT&T, BT, Nokia, and Motorola. This includes the Yahoo! Go suite of services, a revolutionary way to seamlessly connect users to their favorite Web services, wherever they happen to be.
Barry has overall responsibility for the digital home business, including the strategy, products and partnerships that extend Yahoo!’s content, communities and services to “10-foot interfaces” in the digital home. Barry leads Yahoo!’s Digital Home product efforts on network operator, consumer electronics and PC-based platforms, including programs with AT&T, Intel, Sony, TiVo, Philips and Microsoft.
Before joining Yahoo!, Barry was an active venture investor in the areas of networking, consumer electronics and web services. Prior to that, he worked with numerous start-up technology companies, both as an operating executive and as a practicing corporate and securities lawyer. He is a regular speaker at industry events, including Digital Hollywood and the Intel Developer Forum.
Patrick received his undergraduate degree from Columbia College and holds a JD from Hastings College of the Law.
Talking MIPTV: Patrick Barry, Yahoo! Connected TV
Added: 10/12/09
