Barbara Bry

Barbara Bry is a San Diego entrepreneur in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors. She was on the founding team of ProFlowers.com that became Provide Commerce.
Currently she is the chief operating officer of Blackbird Ventures that invests in and incubates early stage technology companies. She and her husband Neil Senturia write a weekly column on entrepreneurship for the San Diego Union-Tribune, and they were recognized as "Small Business Journalists of the Year" for 2014 by the SBA for San Diego and Imperial Counties. For their work helping grow the San Diego innovation economy, they were recognized by CONNECT in 2008 with the "Technology" Lifetime Contribution Award. Barbara had served as the first Associate Director of CONNECT, which has received international recognition for its work in nurturing early stage companies. She is a lifetime board member of the organization. In August 2015, Barbara published an op-ed in the Times of San Diego that focused on expanding employment opportunities in the high tech sector for all residents of San Diego.
Bry has helped to promote and advance women in the sciences and technology fields. She started Athena San Diego under University of California, San Diego Extension with that goal in mind, and it has grown into an organization with more than 500 members. She was an Inductee into the "2012 San Diego County Women's Hall of Fame". Additionally, Bry was named Woman of the Year in 2014 by California State Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins. Bry was the founding President of Run Women Run (2008) a non-partisan organization which advocates for encouraging and supporting qualified women to run for public office.

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