Barry McCarthy is a Fortune 1000, NYSE-listed company Board Director and CEO with broad experience helping Boards and management unlock shareholder value. He has experience delivering transformations, turn-arounds, M&A, and scaling innovation in small- to large-cap, private and public companies. His multi-industry experience includes: Payments, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), FinTech, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Distribution and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG). Currently, Barry serves as the President, CEO, and Board Director of Deluxe, a 109-year-old, $2.2B revenue, NYSE-listed (DLX) company. Through Barry's leadership, Deluxe is in its fourth consecutive year of organic growth. Previously, the company had not grown organically in more than a decade, and likely not since 1996. The company has now transformed from a check printer into a Trusted Payments and Data company. Today, Deluxe processes nearly $3 trillion in electronic payments, about 15% of the US GDP while still producing the industry’s leading check product.Barry spent the first 12 years of his career at Procter & Gamble. He later applied these classic product/brand skills at Wells Fargo, Verisign and at First Data (now Fiserv). He led the collaboration between Apple and First Data, supporting the launch of ApplePay. At Verisign, he built their payment business leading to its acquisition by PayPal. At Wells Fargo he led the team that created the first cloud-managed ATMs and their modern UI/UX that continues today. He helped launch dozens of new products while at P&G. He understands leadership grit as the only senior leader at First Data to survive and thrive from the KKR-led LBO to IPO and beyond, serving 7 different CEOs. Barry has served on multiple US non-profit and industry boards, joint venture boards in Asia, and Chair of two US venture-backed start-ups both with successful exits. He is also a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, has been featured on the cover of multiple industry magazines, is a Newsweek and Forbes columnist, a twice EMMY-Nominated Producer and an EY Entrepreneur-of-the-Year. His book ”Small Business Revolution, How Owners and Entrepreneurs Can Succeed” was published by Wiley and debuted at #2 on the Wall Street Journal Best Seller list.He earned an MBA from Kellogg/Northwestern University.
Listed skills include Strategy, Product Management, E Commerce, Payments, and 46 others.