Barry Silbert

Current

• Founder & CEO at SecondMarket, Inc.

Past

• Chief Executive Officer at Restricted Stock Partners
• Associate at Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin

Education

• Emory University - Goizueta Business School

Connections

496 connections

Industry

Financial Services

Websites

• My Company

Barry Silbert’s Summary

Barry E. Silbert is the Founder and CEO of SecondMarket, the largest secondary market dedicated to creating liquidity for illiquid assets, including auction-rate securities, bankruptcy claims, collateralized debt obligations, limited partnership interests, residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities, private company securities, warrants/restricted stock and whole loans.

In 2009, Mr. Silbert was a category winner of Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award, a winner of Crain’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award and was included on Treasury & Risk’s list of the 100 Most Influential People in Finance. He was recently recognized by Fortune as “One to Watch” in the publication’s annual 40 Under 40 issue. In addition, SecondMarket was named the top start-up in the entire Northeast by AlwaysOn Media and was named one of the Top Fifty Tech Startups You Should Know by BusinessWeek.

Mr. Silbert is a frequent speaker at conferences on the topic of trading illiquid assets and has appeared in many leading publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Financial Times, USA Today, BusinessWeek, and Forbes. He has been featured on CNBC, CNN Money, Bloomberg News, Fox Business News, Business News Network and TheStreet.com.

Prior to founding SecondMarket in 2004 (fka Restricted Stock Partners), Mr. Silbert was an investment banker at Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin, where he focused on financial restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate financing transactions. Before joining Houlihan Lokey, Mr. Silbert worked at Bear Stearns, Smith Barney and Rydex Funds. Mr. Silbert graduated with honors from the Goizueta Business School of Emory University, and holds Series 7, 24 and 63 licenses.

Mr. Silbert is also the chairman of Pluris Valuation Advisors, LLC, a New York-based valuation firm specializing in illiquid assets.

Barry Silbert’s Experience

• Founder & CEO

  SecondMarket, Inc.

  (Privately Held; Financial Services industry)

  September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

• Chief Executive Officer

  Restricted Stock Partners

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Financial Services industry)

  January 2004 — September 2008 (4 years 9 months)

• Associate

  Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin

  (Privately Held; Investment Banking industry)

  August 1998 — January 2004 (5 years 6 months)

Barry Silbert’s Education

• Emory University - Goizueta Business School

  1994 — 1998

Additional Information

Barry Silbert’s Websites:

• My Company

Barry Silbert’s Contact Settings

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