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Barry Rubenstein
Barry is a General Partner and co-founder of Wheatley Partners.
Barry has been a founder and/or founding investor in several technology companies, including Applied Digital Data Systems, Inc. (Founding Chairman and CEO, 1969), Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. (1980), Novell, Inc. (1983), Cheyenne Software, Inc. (CEO, 1985) and FalconStor, Inc. (Founding Chairman and initial CEO, 2000).
Barry has been investing in technology companies since 1976. He co-founded Woodland Venture Fund in 1976 and Seneca Ventures in 1979. Together, these partnerships have invested in over 200 private and small capitalization public technology companies. Barry was also a General Partner of 21st Century Partners, a private equity partnership invested in companies at the intersection of media and technology.
From 1985 to 1987, he served as Chairman and CEO of Cheyenne Software, a public company and industry leader in providing back-up and archival solutions for networked computers. Cheyenne was sold to Computer Associates in 1996.
Barry also served on the Boards of Cornerstone Internet Solutions, Picazo Communications (acquired by Intel), Callwave and US Web. Barry currently serves on the Boards of CosmoCom, FatWire and Certpoint Systems. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from City College of New York and an M.S. in Computer Sciences from New York University.
Barry is also Vice Chairman of the North Shore-LIJ Health System, a $4 billion 15 hospital network -- the third-largest, non-profit, secular healthcare system in the United States. Northshore-LIJ is the largest employer on Long Island and the ninth largest in New York City.
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