DAVID BARRY

STRATEGIC ADVISOR

David Barry is a successful and innovative business leader with significant experience in the hospitality, luxury travel, technology, financial services, consumer brand, private equity, real estate development, sports, and experiential driven segments of industry.

David’s strong track record of achievement includes:
A successful leader of a publicly-traded and fast-growing hospitality and attractions business; doubling revenue and EBITDA in the past 48 months. He’s a creator of a unique and entrepreneurial hospitality culture – uniting multiple geographies and countries under one brand, one clear mission, and a set of core values accelerating growth through the execution of a Refresh, Build, Buy strategy.

Prior to joining Viad and creating Pursuit, David served as the CEO of a financial services and technology company, driving $3.5B in AUC growth since 2011, $2.1B in new assets, and $1.4B of organic growth from existing clients. He experienced significant new product development success with the introduction of Liberty functionality; converting TCA to the Agile development process and rebuilding confidence in the firm with key constituents. David has had a market-beating performance as CEO of a private equity portfolio company and successful COO tenure of a $500M division of a publicly-traded resort, lodging, ski, and travel company.

This experience is bolstered by a proven history of strong community relations and unmitigated business courage in multiple resort communities and countries.