Mr. Barber is a senior financial executive with a broad and solid track record in leading business and financial operations, including budgeting, management of transactions, financing and banking relationships in the high-tech and life science industries.
Mr. Barber’s accomplishments include having raised over $100 million of venture capital financing for start-up and development phase companies, the successful merger and integration of OpenROUTE Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPEN) with Netrix Corporation and the successful merger of LANart Corporation, with Transition Networks, a subsidiary of Communications Systems, Inc. Earlier in his career, Mr. Barber led the successful IPO of Mitek Surgical Products (now a division of Johnson & Johnson).
Mr. Barber holds an MBA from Suffolk University and a BS in Business Administration from the State University of New York at Buffalo.