Barry Papoff

Advisor, Founder Services

Barry has 20+ years’ experience in the technology sector, having held senior management roles in engineering and operations at technology start-ups and publicly traded companies. Previous roles include COO of ARCX, V.P. Operations of Encelium Technologies, V.P. Engineering of Leitch Technologies / Harris Corp BCD Division, and President/Co-founder of Baranti Group Inc, a Deloitte Fast 50 & Profit 100 winner. Barry has overseen and acted as advisor on the design, commercialization, manufacture, fulfillment, and support of over one hundred products in electronics, automation, IoT, video, wireless, consumer/commercial products, sportstech, and fintech.  Barry also has extensive M&A experience working with multiple start-ups from ideation through scaling to exit and is a Sr Consultant with Apex Capital Advisors a boutique investment banking firm.

Barry holds a B.Tech in Electronic Engineering from Ryerson University, MBA from California State University, a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt from McGill University, and is certified in Product Management.