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Mr. Barbera has been Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive of MSGI and its predecessor businesses since April 1997 and has served as Director and Officer since October 1996 when MSGI Direct was acquired in an exchange of stock. He founded MSGI Direct in 1987 which was twice named to the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing private companies in America. Mr. Barbera pioneered the practice of database marketing for the live entertainment industry in the 1980's achieving nearly one hundred percent market share in New York. Under his leadership MSGI originated the business of web-based ticketing in 1995 and became the dominant services provider in every major entertainment market in North America. Their principal areas of concentration also included: financial services fundraising and publishing.
MSGI was named one of the 50 fastest growing public companies in both 2001 and 2002 by Crains New York Business. In April 2004 Mr. Barbera completed the divestiture of the MSGI legacy businesses and re-birthed the company in the homeland security industry as MSGI Security Solutions.
Prior to founding MSGI Direct Mr. Barbera was a research scientist based at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center working on such groundbreaking missions as Pioneer Venus and the Global Atmospheric Research Program. Mr. Barbera has more than 20 years of experience in the areas of technology software marketing and database management services. Mr. Barbera is a Physicist educated at New York University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. | 