Brian Barnier is a global performance improvement leader. He brings practical insight to investors, boards and management to help them bridge from strategy to execution while continually balancing risk and return. He accelerates improvement in business results, and risk program efficiency and effectiveness by drawing on his practical library of cross-discipline, country and industry experience -- testing what works, where, when and why.

Currently principal analyst and advisor at ValueBridge Advisors, his career has been about growth. Internationally, he maintains relationships in over thirty countries and has a passion for economic development. Technologically, he has led teams to nine U.S. patents. He has worked across several industries and served on boards of several private companies and non-profit organizations.

He was named one of the exclusive fellows of OCEG, a cross-discipline professional association focused on improving principled performance through more integrated governance and risk management.

Mr. Barnier serves on the editorial panels for EDPACS, ISACA Journal and Association for Financial Professionals Risk! newsletter. He is a contributor to Risk Management in Finance (2009) from Wiley & Sons and author of The Operational Handbook for Financial Companies (2011) from Harriman House.

He has presented popular keynotes, conference sessions, professional education classes, webinars and podcasts. He has been quoted widely (including from the NYSE and NASDAQ Market Site), and penned over 100 articles for business operations, finance, technology, audit, risk, security and business continuity audiences.

Active in professional circles, he has brought his practical perspective to  several best-practice committees including the task force for ISACA's Risk IT Based on COBIT Framework and Practitioner's Guide, the review committee for OCEG's Redbook and several committees of the BITS/Financial Services Roundtable Shared Assessment Program.

He has taught operations, finance and economics at the graduate and undergraduate levels in the U.S. and Russia. He earned graduate and undergraduate degrees with several honors from The University of Michigan.