Barry has worked in data for the whole of his career and is currently the Chief Data and Insight Officer at John Lewis Partnership where he leads the data management, governance, analytics, data science and research teams for the group.

Prior to JLP Barry was Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Lloyds Banking Group and previously spent the majority of his early career at Ernst & Young helping to establish and lead the data and analytics practice and has subsequently headed up data and digital teams in organisations such as Bupa and Virgin.

Barry champions the power of data, not just for organisations but for society as a whole and has worked on numerous initiatives across both private and public sectors as well as promoting the importance of digital skills in our society.

Barry is also a Non Executive Director for both OFGEM, the UK's energy regulator and Reach Plc, the UK’s and Ireland’s largest commercial news publisher.

His role at OFGEM includes highlighting the data and digital opportunity to help the UK achieve its ambitious energy and decarbonisation targets as well as how these technologies can support energy consumers and the market.

As part of the board at Reach, a news publisher who is pivoting from print news to print & digital, the power of data and digital is core to the strategy and continuing to evolve as the industry continues to change at pace.