Vanguardians Board Member Barry Allen

Barry Allen is the C.E.O. of International FieldWorks, Inc., a management consulting firm and host of the radio show, "Business Dialogue Radio". His specialty is in business management, law and technology. Barry's background includes the startup, turnaround and management of businesses in Michigan and California. For many years he was the Deputy Director of Civil Defense in Southfield, Michigan, while owning, operating and building a multi-million dollar Physical and Electronic Security corporation.

Mr. Allen was the youngest Private Investigator in the state of Michigan, built his company from a startup to an enterprise with over a thousand employees, and was the first to computerize and to sell to his competitors. He designed industry-wide training and education programs, set up legislation and designed both workers compensation and liability insurance programs. Elected to the Michigan Private Investigators trade association, Barry created the first national trade association and became a lobbyist for the industry.

Barry managed a Los Angeles business talk radio station, designing marketing programs that built sales by 300% over a six-month period. He located niche markets and methods to approach them for other media and is a sought after resource for editors and writers of the major news media in Southern California.

Barry is published widely in technical and business management and has been included as a reference in several books on networking, law, training and security. In Michigan he was Chairman of a Governors Task Force for Small Business and was a member of the Advisory Board of Los Angeles County Office of Small Business. He attended Wayne State University in Detroit and the Detroit College of Law.