Tony Barreca

Tony Barreca is a seasoned professional with a passion for building innovative products, organizations, and companies. With a strong foundation in technology, he emphasizes human factors to ensure the complete realization of products and services. Barreca has made significant contributions in mobile and core systems software development, email infrastructure, virtualization, and application development. On the business side, he excels in strategy and model analysis, competitive analysis, business plans, new product, and service concepts and definitions, intellectual property development, and mentoring leaders.

Barreca's educational background includes an undergraduate degree in Philosophy from Columbia University in the City of New York and computer science studies at UC Berkeley and Syracuse. His impressive work history includes advising Zahoree and serving as the co-director for Development at OpenOakland, the Code for America brigade in the East Bay. Barreca held various leadership positions in several organizations, including VP, Business and Product Development at Boxbe, Inc., VP, Product Development at LightPole, Inc., Director of Engineering at Sun Microsystems, Inc., and Founder/VP, Engineering at Identive Corporation, among others.

With a focus on motivating, guiding, and mentoring people in the organizations he builds and leads, Barreca thrives on challenges. He loves his work and encourages his co-workers to do the same. Additionally, his volunteer work in OpenOakland demonstrates Barreca's dedication to making the world a better place.