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.