Ellen Barry

Ellen Barry is Founder and Principal of E M Barry LLC. Barry provides high-level consultation services during inflection moments around key financial, institutional, reputational or regulatory milestones. Guest lecturer at USC’s Annenberg School for the past decade on financial and crisis communication.

Barry has worked alongside CEOs and boards of directors of Fortune 100 companies, heading up teams dealing with natural and man-made disasters, cyber-attacks, mergers and acquisitions, leadership changes, hostile activist investors, and federal and state investigations. In January 2015, Barry joined a team that climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, raising funds and awareness for LIVESTRONG. An avid runner, she has completed five New York City Marathons, and her volunteer activities include Habitat for Humanity, St. Bart’s Soup Kitchen and Memorial Sloan-Kettering. Barry graduated from Georgetown University in Washington D.C. and lives in the Columbus, Ohio with her husband, playwright Larry Herold.