Barry is the Group Deputy General Counsel and Director of the Centre for Resilience in the Environment, Water and Waste (CREWW) at Pennon Group plc. His role includes oversight of M&A, Group Legal Compliance & Data Governance, Environmental Assurance, Legal Operations and running CREWW which is an environmental research and development joint venture with the University of Exeter. Prior to joining Pennon, Barry trained and qualified at Hogan Lovells before embarking on a career in-house with ITV where he held numerous Divisional GC roles combined with commercial roles including Managing Director of the ITV Third Party Sales business. He moved from ITV to Meggitt Aerospace to take up the position of SVP General Counsel, UK and EMEA where he led on the legal operations transformation of the global legal function and was part of the team that led on the multi-billion sale of the business to Parker Hannifin in 2022.


The Legal Social Mobility Partnership (LSMP) founded by Barry in 2014 evolved into a registered charity (Social Mobility Business Partnership – www.smbp.org.uk) in 2017 increasing its focus to provide students experience of business in its widest sense and lifetime career mentoring. The SMBP was awarded the 2018 UK Social Mobility Leadership award in its first year of existence and now facilitates over 3000 days of work experience annually across the UK and access to lifetime career mentoring and job opportunity notifications for its 2500 plus alumni through its SMBP Student App. It also launched its first cluster in Chicago in 2023


Barry sat on the board of the Solicitors Regulation Authority for 6 years ending in January 2022. He was also a member of the DCMS Tackling Loneliness Taskforce during the pandemic and served on the City of London & HM Treasury Social Mobility Taskforce in 2022/23