About Barry Litwin

Barry Litwin is a highly experienced CEO with a diverse list of accomplishments in industrial distribution and consumer retail firms in various industries. With an extensive background in the public and private sectors, he has also worked with many companies funded by private equity.

Throughout his professional career, Barry has achieved a solid reputation for his exemplary ability to drive revenue and margin growth. He has a stellar track record of increasing operating profits, enhancing operational excellence, and fostering innovation by developing high-performance, collaborative teams.

Barry’s excellent background as a CEO has made him a valued advisor to several business figures and organizations, including management boards, analysts, and investors. For the valued partners he has worked with over the years, Barry’s wide range of skills and capabilities are effective for spurring transformational growth.

As CEO, Barry’s leadership style is transformational and adaptive. It is characterized by championing collaboration, associate engagement, operational excellence, a focus on customer problem-solving, and accountability and ownership. He is adept at using his Five by Five strategic planning framework to identify and leverage initiatives that maximize value, increase organizational prioritization, and drive innovation and operational efficiency. He has also exhibited exceptional skill in aligning key talent to improve an organization’s effectiveness.

Barry’s ability to improve financial performance is due in large part to his belief that improving a company’s end-to-end customer experience generates higher customer satisfaction, lowers customer churn, establishes a competitive differentiation, and creates long-term value. To this end, his signature is building great teams to drive growth and efficiency initiatives, including strengthening digital and omnichannel capabilities, focusing on end-to-end quality, improving sales force efficiency and scale, speeding product development, reducing COGS through global product sourcing, leveraging AI and automation to shorten the order to case journey, and optimizing and automating supply chain operations. These areas all improve the customers’ everyday buying experience.

Barry also has a proven ability to leverage pricing intelligence to strengthen the value proposition and expand gross margin, differentiate the assortment by innovating private brands, and improve vendor relationships and service-level compliance. His adeptness in financial engineering and cost management has frequently played a key role in driving operating leverage.