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Biography:

A highly skilled facilitator, he is able to engender positive outcomes in both CEOs, their management teams and their businesses.

Barry has over forty years national and international operations, sales, marketing, corporate rescue and general management experience, twenty of which was at the level of Chief Executive of multi national companies.

Prior to his various CEO roles, his major activity was in the area of sales and marketing. He was Marketing Manager of Kimberly-Clark Australia for a number of years, transferred to the parent company in the USA, promoted to the position of International Marketing Director responsible for providing business advice and mentoring to subsidiaries in Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific.

He was then promoted to Chief Executive and President of the Central American operation of Kimberly-Clark, which was a rescue assignment, as the company was in a severe loss position. The loss was turned around in nine months.  This was followed by a transfer to South Africa where, following a takeover by Kimberly-Clark, he was appointed Managing Director and CEO to merge two like sized competitive operations into one. This assignment was successfully completed and resulted in a doubling of profits during this period.

Barry returned to Australia and was appointed Chief Executive of the Australian operation until 1984 when he was approached to head up a Queensland public company which was subsequently taken over by a multi-national, and at this time he started his own consultancy as a business advisor.

Barry has been a Chair since 1991 and Regional Chair of QLD since 1995.

Education and Associations:

He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, past Chairperson of the Grocery Manufacturers of Australia, past Vice President of the NSW Chamber of Manufactures and past President of the Rotary Club of Mount Coot-tha.