Brian Barnier is focused on growing companies, investments and countries, bringing practical insight to investors, boards and management to help them bridge from strategy to execution. He accelerates improvement in business results through a "risk lens" that incorporates both growth and turnaround lessons learned across industries, professional disciplines and countries.
Director/Head of Analytics at ValueBridge Advisors (U.S.)/Burnt Oak Capital (UK), he brings a unique synthesis on change ranging from global economics to technology that is reshaping time-space. This synthesis stems from his experience in both business model investing, and general and product management. These perspectives are why his accomplishments have tended to be in initiatives requiring foresight and thoughtful execution in complex and dynamic environments.
Internationally, he maintains relationships in over thirty countries and has a passion for economic development. Technologically, he has led teams to nine U.S. patents. Previously, he led
initiatives at Ameritech (now AT&T), Lucent (now Nokia) and IBM.
Active in professional and industry circles, he:
Mr. Barnier is the author of The Operational Handbook for Financial Companies (Harriman House, Great Britain, 2011), and a contributor to Risk Management in Finance (Wiley, 2009) and Risk and Performance Management: A Guide for Government Decision Makers (Wiley, 2014).
He is a founder and editor of Fed Dashboard and Fundamentals, where economic and market risk myths are busted.
He has been quoted widely (including in The Wall Street Journal, and interviewed from the NYSE, NASDAQ Market Site, Yahoo! Finance and thestreet.com with translation into at least 4 languages)
and penned over 100 articles. He serves on the editorial panels for EDPACS, ISACA Journal and Association for Financial Professionals Risk! newsletter.
He has taught operations, finance and economics at the graduate level in the U.S., and guest lectured in Russia and Mexico. In 2014, served on the faculty of the Wharton / ABA Stonier Graduate
School of Banking. He earned a MBA and BBA both with Distinction and other honors (including Beta Gamma Sigma and Financial Management Honor Society) from The University of Michigan Ross School of
Business Administration.