W. Barry Gilbert

Executive Lecturer in Business Administration and E-Commerce Office: CS-4-110A Carol Simon Hall Phone: (585) 273-4815 Email: barry.gilbert@simon.rochester.edu

Mr. Gilbert is currently C.E.O. and chairman of the board of IEC Electronics Cor­po­ration and has served on a number of advisory boards.

He served as president of the Thermal Management Group of Bowthorpe Plc. from 1991 until 1999, where he had responsibility for eight manufacturing locations in the U.S., Mexico, Hong Kong, Malaysia, England, Italy and Germany.

Prior to Bowthorpe, Gilbert served as corporate vice president and division president for Milton Roy Company, a mid-sized N.Y.S.E. company, and held several senior leadership roles for Bausch & Lomb, Inc., concluding with becoming a division president for the company. Gilbert started his commercial career at Ernst & Young in New York City in its public accounting and management consulting groups.

In 1992, Gilbert was given the Simon School Distinguished Alumnus Award.

B.S., Accounting (Honor Society),

The Ohio State University

M.B.A., Finance, Applied Economics,

University of Rochester