INTRODUCTION
Barry Shrier is a well educated and charismatic Leader, with a proven Board-level General Management track record demonstrating entrepreneurial courage, outstanding salesmanship, and passionate marketing flair. He also is very IT literate; with a passion for the digital revolution.
Barry has founded and managed two businesses, and a Deutsche Bank subsidiary, and brings substantial experience including full profit responsibility, cost control & credit management, budgeting and forecasting, personnel management and motivation, managing investor relations, negotiation, etc.
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Barry Shrier is the Founder and Chief Executive of The Liberty Europe Network, focusing on Wireless Internet expansion throughout the EU. The Liberty Europe Network is a leader in providing public internet access - with a complete package of services allowing venues to sell internet access to their customers - and metropolitan wireless broadband networks.
Also, Barry is a Director of the Washington DC-based satellite venture LeoTerra, who are launching a new constellation of low earth orbit satellites to deliver global, mobile broadband for the first time in history.
Previously, Barry was hired by Deutsche Bank to launch Paybox, the world’s first international mobile payment system. Barry was Managing Director for the UK and European spokesman for Paybox and a leading speaker on Mobile commerce.
Prior to Deutsche Bank, Barry worked for several strategic marketing consultancies where he developed his expertise in the application of cognitive psychology to understand consumer behaviour. He managed various international projects for Unilever, Guinness, Procter & Gamble, Mars and Nestle.
Barry speaks regularly at international events in Europe and North America on the subjects of wireless telecommunications, eCommerce & Web 2.0, and consumer behaviour. He is recognised as a charismatic and admired public speaker known for delivering informative, entertaining, and provocative speeches, lecturing to MBA level and often being voted ‘Best Speaker’.
Barry was also the author of the published market research report ‘Wireless in London - Observations in 2002 on the status of high-speed Public Access WLAN’s’. Documented as an industry leader he continues to be in demand as a wireless expert and an ambassador for the mobile Internet industry.
As an active member of the Institute of Directors (I.O.D), Barry is a passionate promoter of entrepreneurial innovation. He is also a Board Member of the Wi-Fi Group, Europe’s leading business organisation promoting future Wireless Technologies.
Barry has an MSc in Philosophy from the London School of Economics, and a BA in Politics from Middlebury College, Vermont, USA.
From April 2007, Barry Shrier is the newly-appointed CEO of Feefo »
