Barry joined Alphemy Capital as Head of Portfolio Risk Management in January 2025 after spending 9 months prior as Risk Management Advisor to develop new tools and analytics while enhancing the firm’s existing risk management framework.

Barry has served in executive management roles in hedge funds since 2000. He has led the risk management function at all these institutions, which include Caxton, SAC, Balyasny, and Moore, serving on their management committees as well. At three funds he was a member of the pre-launch team, designing, implementing and then leading the risk function. He began his career in academia and followed that with government service for the U.S. CFTC and U.S. Comptroller of the Currency. He is a fellow of the MSc Program in Mathematics of Finance at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and he is a research associate at EDHEC Business School (Nice, France).

He is a member of the advisory board of the International Association for Quantitative Finance (IAQF), and former board members of the IAQF and the Professional Risk Managers Int’l Assoc. He is advisor to FFI Solutions, helping investors navigate the energy transition and Rixtrema, helping investment advisors evaluate portfolio decisions for their retail clients. He publishes and speaks on risk management issues to both practitioner and academic audiences. In 2015 he and his coauthors received the Peter Bernstein best published paper award from Institution Investor for their work on portfolio stress testing. He received both MA and PhD in economics from Cornell University and BS in Economics from Bentley University.