Barry James Folsom is CEO of Leenback TV. Leenback TV is focused on bringing a compelling and engaging TV-like experience to Gen Y-ers leveraging the vastness of on-demand video available on the Internet. The business is monetized with contextual mid-roll video ads that are relevant to the viewer and have"telescoping" capabilities.
Barry James has over 35 years of executive management and strategic marketing experience with a successful track record of growing divisions and companies rapidly into category leaders. He has played pivotal roles in the creation of 4 major market categories: PCs, Workstations, Internet Data Centers and Web Conferencing. He also has extensive Internet, interactive entertainment, strategic marketing, network-based applications, groupware, consumer devices, computing devices and retail channel experience.
As a respected company leader, Barry James was Frost & Sullivan's 2002 CEO of the Year. He is also a frequent speaker, e.g. Ad:Tech, Media Summit, Digital Hollywood, & Digital Connections.
As Motorola Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Connected Home Solutions. Barry James led the Home Mobility Solutions business unit, overseeing a very talented team that was responsible for a next-generation Set Top Box, codenamed ICEbox. Additionally, he was a strategic adviser to the CEO and served on the Corporate Marketing Council, Microsoft/Motorola Partnership Board, and Co-Chaired the Content and Services Council. Additionally Barry James was Executive Sponsor for several strategic relationships including Sony, Google, Yahoo, Sling, Sony Pictures, ABC/Disney, NBC/U and Movielink (Blockbuster).
As President and CEO of PlaceWare, Barry James's team pioneered the Web Conferencing category and was one of the fastest growing private companies in Silicon Valley. At Exodus, he drove a singular focus on Internet Data Centers, reducing the sales cycle and increasing sales approximately 400% in seven months.
Barry James was previously President of Spectrum HoloByte, an electronic entertainment company, which grew in one year from $13M to $70M, helped by the strategic acquisition of Microprose. He also led the turnaround of Radius, Inc., as President and CEO, growing revenues 47% in 12 months.
Barry James was a Sun executive during its four-year hyper-growth from $100M to $1.7B. As GM of Sun's 386i start up East Coast Division, he built the team and its ease-of-use culture. In the early '80s, Barry James was named Digital Electronics Corporations first Entrepreneur of the Year for taking the DEC Rainbow PC line to market and $300M of revenues.
Barry James has a BS Electrical Engineering and a MS Computer Science from Georgia Tech. He serves on Georgia Tech's College of Computing Advisory Board and Intel's Digital Home Consumer Board of Advisers. He has been a mentor for Women's Unlimited, a leadership development company for executive women.

Barry James Folsom has spoken at events across the US and abroad, and have participated in events of all varieties: executive retreats, sales meetings, industry conferences, corporate training seminars, client appreciation dinners, and trade shows.

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