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Barry Patton

Advisory Managing Director, Strategy - COE, KPMG US

Irvine, CA
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Barry Patton

Advisory Managing Director, Strategy - COE

Barry specializes in information technology transformation and transactions involving technology enabled businesses including extensive experience with media/telecommunications, industrial manufacturing, and retail clients. His primary areas of concentration are rapid results improvements for tech enabled businesses, technology management support, and technology enabled merger integration. Barry has also served in interim roles as the CIO for multiple companies ​that require transformation or transaction support. Some sample projects are listed below:

  • Interim CIO role leading the merger/consolidation of multiple manufacturing companies into a single manufacturing company while transforming multiple onsite technologies into a SaaS/Shared Service environment foundation with mature delivery and operations capabilities delivering effective metrics and balanced scorecards.​
  • Performance Improvement for a national colocation and cloud managed service provider that was missing profitability projections due to non-standard services and inefficient operations/technology support. Identified multiple opportunities to improve EBITDA by $25M​.
  • Established technology governance office for an Fortune 100 aerospace company to ensure government compliance and to improve accountability for continual improvement related to technology projects. Delivered 50% improvement in project completion metrics – time and cost.​
  • Developed technology strategies for multiple retail clients focusing on omni-channel, point of sales, and online/store integration as key factors.
  • Supported the renegotiation of a $2B multi year technology outsourcing services deal for a major healthcare provider resulting in greater service quality delivery, accountability, and transparency.
  • Supported the merger of three technology enabled recruiting and staffing firms focused in the technology and medical support labor markets as the lead for the technical integration office. Specific work included performing due diligence on two of the targets, defining the deal execution through close, and supporting the initial integration for the first 100 days.
  • Supported the merger of two physical therapy clinic networks as the interim CIO. Specific work included initial deal diligence, transaction execution definition/close, and first 100 days initial support as well as recruiting a full time replacement for the CIO position.
  • Approximately 100 technology due diligence efforts for companies preparing for mergers, separations, or acquisition focusing on technology enabled businesses including financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, data center hosting, managed service providers, security SaaS, infrastructure SaaS, and application hosting companies.​

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