Barry Lowry

Irish Government CIO with extensive experience in IT leadership

Barry Lowry is a results-driven business development and sales leader with over 15 years of experience in Fortune 500, enterprise, and mid-market segments. He has a laser focus on sales process improvement and successful go-to-market launches. Barry has vast experience in IT and business solution sales, with expertise in cybersecurity SaaS, XaaS, UCaaS, cloud, IoT, blockchain, AI, BI, and hosted and managed services. He is a multiple President's Club achiever and was the highest producing branch in UCaaS and colocation services.

Barry has studied IBM Blockchain Essentials at IBM DeveloperWorks and Microsoft Blockchain as a Service at Microsoft Virtual Academy. He also holds a degree in Applied Avionics from the Community College of the US Air Force and has studied business at Weber State University.

Barry's previous positions include Cyber Security Sales Leader Cloud Solutions - Financial Markets at IBM, Enterprise Channel Leader - SaaS - Cloud - Cyber-Security - Data Privacy - Risk Analytics - GDPR at MediaPro LLC, Enterprise SaaS Leader - SaaS - Cloud & Hybrid Cloud - A/I - B/I - at Pushpay, Partner Sales Leader - XaaS - SaaS - Cloud & Hybrid Cloud - IoT at Comcast Enterprise, and Market Leader - Managed Services - XaaS - UCaaS - Cloud - IoT - Hybrid Cloud - BI at Verizon (formerly XO Communications).

Experience

Irish Government CIO at Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (April 2016 - Present)

IT Head of Profession at NICS, ESS (April 2004 - April 2016), Director of IT Services at Enterprise Shared Services, DFP (January 2011 - March 2016)

Education

MSc in Innovation Management from Ulster University (2004 - 2006), MSSC in Organisation & Management from Queen's University Belfast (1993 - 1996), BA in General Studies from Queen's University Belfast (1987 - 1989), Sullivan Upper (1972 - 1979)