Frank Barbieri

Background

About Frank Barbieri

As the Vice President of Specialty Brands for the Home Group, I lead three profitable, direct-to-consumer brands with revenue scale, Art.com, Hayneedle.com, and AllswellHome.com. My closest colleagues know my rare combination as a serial entrepreneur who has built and sold three companies and also held leadership positions in Fortune 20 companies. I'm proud that I have had such versatility in my career to build start-ups from nothing, manage public company boards and lead at some of largest and most respected global brands. I define leadership as making others better in a way that lasts through my absence. Of all my endorsement, one that defines me well is from a direct colleague who said,"Frank's rare combination of strategic vision, operational prowess, and people-first leadership style make him a uniquely versatile, high-impact leader." I’ve been a CEO, CPO, CMO, CBO, and CSO for companies in the retail, digital media, and advertising sectors. My first experience in retail was at Microsoft, back when the software was delivered on store shelves! During my 7 years at Microsoft as a Group Product Manager, I launched businesses in 23 countries.I worked as a photojournalist in my early career. I shot for the likes of Time, USA Today, NBC, and The San Francisco Chronicle. As a founding team member of MSNBC, I built some of the first digital journalism experiences. Experience: • Leadership at DTC and B2B businesses at scale• Customer centric innovation: founding, fundraising and go-to-market• Growth exec leader • Scaling teams, product, marketing, merchandising, engineering, operations • Mergers and acquisitions, corporate development, public financings• Non-profit leadershipHighlights: • Industry firsts in online content, publishing, journalism, mobile content deployment and mobile advertising • Successful exits for five companies, three as founder, two through IPO• Successful turnarounds for four companies: Spin out, private equity, asset acquisition and public company. • Drove the IPO for advertising platform company on the NYSE• Angel investor and advisor