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Leslie Barry is Vice President of Government Affairs and business Development. In this position she is charged with growing a business development organization and utilizing her relationships within the IT community to further mentor the sales force and drive new sales opportunities. She reports to Todd Leto GTSI Vice President of Sales.
A 20-year veteran of the IT community Ms. Barry has led business development organizations for some of the industry’s largest systems integrators. Most recently the Director of Business Development at CA Inc. (formerly Computer Associates) she represented the firm at several industry forums and helped build C-level client relationships across the federal government. Prior to CA she performed the same functions at CSC Fed Data and other federally-focused organizations.
Active in the IT community Ms. Barry is a two-time Federal 100 award winner the recipient of the 2003 Outstanding Individual Industry Contributor of the Year award from the Industry Advisory Council (IAC) and winner of the 2003 Outstanding Support and Contribution award from the Government Information Technology Executive Council (GITEC).
She is serving her second term on the Board of Directors of IAC as Vice Chair of Professional Development. In 2001-2002 she Chaired the IAC’s successful Partners Program from which she graduated in 1998 an executive development program for emerging leaders in government and industry and in 2005 created a next generation leadership program named Voyagers which she patterned after the Partners Program. In addition for the past eight years she has been actively involved in the IAC Program Committee and has participated in the planning committees for IAC’s two major annual events the Management of Change Conference and the Executive Leadership Conference.
In addition to IAC she is co-treasurer for the Association for Federal Information Resources Management (AFFIRM) and a former Board member of the AFCEA Washington Chapter. She belongs to the AFCEA Bethesda and Germantown chapters the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) and Women in Technology (WIT).
In January 2006 she led a group of 15 IT acquisition and business executives from both the public and the private sectors on a trip to build houses for the poor in rural Nicaragua. In February Leslie was part of a church group that spent the long President’s weekend in Pearlington Mississippi where they helped to gut houses and drywall churches which were left in ruins as a result of hurricane Katrina. Recently she chaperoned her two teenagers and the church’s youth group that worked in a children’s camp in the Ukraine.
Ms. Barry received her BA in International Relations from Bucknell University where she also studied at the London School of Economics and in Vienna Austria and did internships at the offices of Senators Lugar and Warner and at the Washington Office on Latin America. | 