Brian Barnier

Brian Barnier is focused on growth, bringing practical insight to investors, boards and management to help them bridge from strategy to execution. He accelerates improvement in business results by managing risk to performance -- as in sports, the "ultimate differentiator."

In the U.S., he is member/principal at ValueBridge Advisors. For public funds, focused on "authentic alpha" Business Model Investing. For private equity funds, focused on valuation growth during holding periods to improve exits. For companies, business model doctor focused on competitive analysis, product management and exponential technology.

In the Europe, he is research director at Burnt Oak Capital.

He has been at keynote at the AICPA CFO Conference and editorial panel member of the AFP Risk! newsletter.

He has taught finance as an adjunct professor at the University of Detroit Mercy and guest lecturer at Siberian Federal University, economics as adjunct faculty at Western Michigan University, and operational risk management at the American Bankers Association/Wharton Executive Education Stonier Graduate School of Banking.

He is a founder and editorial panel member of Fed Dashboard & Fundamentals -- busting economic and market myths www.feddashboard.com.

He is interviewed frequently from the NYSE and NASDAQ MarketSite, translated into several languages, and has appeared in WSJ, Bloomberg Brief, FT publications, CNBC and more.

More at http://www.brianbarnier.com/bio.html

Linkedin.com/in/bbarnier

Education

BBA with Distinction, Business Economics and Finance : University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

MBA with Distinction, Finance and Computer Information Systems : University of Michigan-Ann Arbor