Barbara Bry has been a successful entrepreneur in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors. Currently, she is the chief operating officer of Blackbird Ventures that invests in and incubates early stage tech companies, and she and her husband Neil Senturia write a weekly column on innovation and entrepreneurship for U-T San Diego. In 2014, they were recognized by the SBA as “Small Business Journalists of the Year” for San Diego and Imperial Counties. Last year, Barbara was appointed by Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker to the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. She is the first San Diegan to be selected. In 2014, Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins picked Barbara as her “Woman of the Year” for the 78th Assembly District. “Barbara Bry has broken the glass ceiling in business and technology, paving the way for women in fields that have not traditionally been the province of women,” says Atkins. “Her tireless dedication to opening doors for others, while achieving success in her own right, makes her a role model for us all, whether female or male.” Barbara was on the founding team of ProFlowers.com that started in 1998 in a small office in La Jolla. She is the founder of San Diego Athena, which has become the leading organization for women in the San Diego tech and life science community.
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