Ed Barr, Consultant, Edward H. Barr & Associates
Ed Barr has over 25 years' experience in education, communications, marketing, and fund-raising. His deep experience in health care and media production includes doing everything from managing large corporate communications departments to effectively writing multi-million dollar grant proposals to managing capital campaigns.

Before founding Edward H. Barr & Associates and Linchpin, a Pittsburgh-based firm that helps organizations and their "Linchpin" people use effective communications to get more things done, Ed:

Served as Vice President of Marketing for Allegheny University Medical Practices, a large group medical practice;
Served as Director of Corporate Communications of the Pittsburgh Mercy Health System, one of the largest regional health systems;
Was Director of Corporate Communications for TPC Communications, a for-profit television production company;
Was Director of Human Resource Development for the Southern Alleghenies Planning and Development Commission, a six-county, central Pennsylvania economic development agency.
Was a football coach and wrestling coach.
Ed teaches communications in the Masters in Information Systems Management program in the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University.