David Barash — Senior Consultant

Dave Barash is a senior consultant with Brimstone Consulting Group. He helps teams and organizations transform operations and develop new growth opportunities. Dave’s expertise and background is in developing and instituting operational and organizational systems with high growth companies, typically ones with a strong social mission and active founders.

Dave has worked in emerging, entrepreneurial businesses in a variety of general management roles for two decades, leading companies to achieve financial goals and create lasting social impact. He has held executive positions with some of the most successful innovative businesses in the country including Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Ice Cream, Stonyfield Farms, Organic Cow of Vermont, Catamount Brewery, Autumn Harp and Burton Snowboards.

As a founding senior executive with Ben and Jerry’s Homemade Ice Cream for over ten years, Dave pioneered many of the areas that have since become hallmarks of the Ben and Jerry’s ground-breaking approach to business, including New Business Development, Human Resources, Organizational Development, Social Ventures, Philanthropy, Community and Media Relations, Environmental Affairs, Investor Relations, Consumer Affairs, and Public Relations. Sales in this period rose from $2 million to $140 million, while the company grew from 20 to 600 employees, built several factories and became a national brand.

While VP and General Manager of Autumn Harp, the leader in botanical skin care serving such powerhouse brands as The Body Shop and Gap, Dave led a restructuring resulting in a successful strategic sale of the company. As Director and General Manager for Burton Snowboards Manufacturing Center, the global leader in its industry, he led a reorganization of an under-performing factory garnering significant improvements in profitability.

As a member of the Brimstone team working with Best Buy, he helped lead a fourperson transformational team that worked across the enterprise from the CEO and executive staff to regional senior staff. He was responsible for monitoring and leading project teams and designing and leading diagnostic and coaching projects with a focus on operational implementation of transformational concepts. Significant cultural, retail and financial results were achieved.

He has also held the position of Interim COO for ForesTrade, the global supply leader in organic coffee, vanilla and spices, where he was significantly involved with refinancing and capitalization efforts.

Recently, Dave has become a small business owner and serves as Director of Business Development for Vermont Investment Corporation, the national leader in energy efficiency programming.

Dave has a BS in Education and Environmental Studies from the University of Vermont, and an MA in Administration from the Graduate School of Business at St. Michael’s College. He enjoys hiking, canoeing, gardening and reading in his leisure time. He lives in Waterbury Center, Vermont with his family.