Barry Libert is a technology investor, corporate director, author/speaker and strategic advisor to growing organizations. He is based in Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. Libert specializes in helping boards and their leaders become social enterprises in order to improve customer loyalty, employee engagement, partner participation and shareholder returns.
Barry Libert (born 1954) is the Chairman and founder of OpenMatters a technology investor and strategic advisory firm. He has spent the last 10 years investing in and founding companies that deploy new technologies (social, mobile and cloud) in their businesses. In 2001, he founded Mzinga, a social software and analytics company.[1]. He currently serves on the board of directors of Innocentive - an social innovation software company, Activate Networks(ANI) a social analytics company (board of advisor), The Pulse Network an enterprise social video company, The SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management and Networked Organizations at the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania.[2] and the Us Against Alzheimer's Network - an advocacy network seeking to end Alzheimer's by 2020 using today's technologies.
Libert has (co) authored 5 books on the value of social interactions and communications in business, healthcare and government. His 5th book, Social Nation, was published in the fall of 2010 by John Wiley & Sons. This book, and its reviews, can be found at http://www.amazon.com/Social-Nation-Customers-Motivate-Employees/dp/047059926X/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top.
In 2007, Libert co-authored We Are Smarter Than Me with Jon Spector (CEO of the Conference Board) which focused on the power of open innovation. Using a Wiki and the contributions of more than 4,500 people, We are Smarter than Me illustrated through practical applications (e.g. the first business book to be written by a crowd using a wiki) how businesses can profit from the wisdom of crowds using today's technologies.[3]
Prior to publishing We Are Smarter Than Me, Libert also published Value Rx: How to Make the Most of Your Organization's Assets and Relationships (2001) and Cracking the Value Code: How Successful Businesses Are Creating Wealth in the New Economy (2000).[4] Both of these books focused on research done by him on the value of social interactions among and between constituents of an organization. He also published the book, Barack, Inc, which showed how Barack Obama used social media to win his presidential campaign and what lessons can be drawn by his win by business leaders seeking to win the loyalty and support of their customers and employees.
Libert also authored more than 10 e-books on the value of social media, mobile and cloud technologies. His newest ebook title is called the 'Revolution will be Tweeted'. These titles can be found at http://www.amazon.com/Barry-Libert/e/B001H6MZB8/ref=sr_tc_img_2_0?qid=1286495110&sr=1-2-ent.
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Libert holds a B.A. from Tufts University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University. He currently resides in Boston with his wife and two sons and serves on the boards of a number of a number of charitable, academic institutions and for-profit organizations .