Barney founded his first business in the bars and nightclubs of the north of England in the 1980s aged just 16. He was a pre-IPO team member at ARM. Barney was one of the first adopters of digital technologies in the music business and grew revenues from zero to hundreds of millions of dollars in six years. He has held board-level positions in several multinational media companies, and recently completed a turnaround of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s global businesses.