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Irvin Barash
Mr. Barash has close to four decades of comprehensive experience in venture capital, entrepreneurism, and economic development. As Presidenet of Vencon, a venture capital firm, he created numberous high technology ventures. Vencon has been involved in electronics materials, semiconductors, and renewable energy since the early 1980s. Mr. Barash has broad experience in the growth of enterprises and advises on the complexities and implementation of long range business planning and the management of company growth, particularly for high growth firms which are usually vulnerable to improper asset deployment.
In other affiliations, Mr. Barash was an executive in business planning activities with W.R. Grace, the global chemical company, and EBS Industries, a large holding company that owned subsidiaries in electric power, chemicals, and engineering construction. He was Director of Planning of BASF, a $40 billion manufacturing business. At Belco Petroleum, an international petroleum and coal producer, he was Assistant to the President. During the early 1970s he was Director of Econimic Studies for the Price Commission, a White House initiative to stabilize pricing.
Mr. Barash is an accomplished speaker, having made presentations to a number of companies at various conferences, addressing renewable energy and financing, among other issues.
Mr. Barash received an MBA from the Columbia University Business School and a chemical engineering degree from Drexel University.
Areas of expertise:
Business planning, high technology, entrepreneurism, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, financial analysis.