Shred America, Carolina Shred, and MedWaste Services, Owner and Chief Sales Officer
Ray Barry is one of the owners and Chief Sales Officer at Shred America, Carolina Shred, and MedWaste Services. He is also well known as the Dean and founder of Shred School, a popular industry training course that contributed to the success of many of the well-known secured destruction and information management companies around the globe. Shred America has become the fastest growing destruction company in the U.S. They now have 25+ trucks in 4 short years! They were just named the 217th fastest growing privately held company in the US by Inc. Magazine and #1 fastest growing company in South Carolina for 2022. This is the 2nd shredding company Barry has led to the Inc 500 list in 20 years!
Prior to his current role as a Partner at Shred America, and MedWaste Services, Barry worked in sales leadership positions for national and international secure destruction companies, trained industry professionals at more than 600 companies (over 1,400 industry professionals), and served as NAID President, Secretary, and Director and spent 2 years as NAID Deputy Executive Director. He has also been a presenter at NAID Global Conferences the past 15 years including conferences in Australia, Belgium, Italy, the United Kingdom, and here in the U.S.. He also was a recipient of the 2017 NAID President’s Award for his contribution to the entire information destruction industry.
Ray is a graduate of The Citadel in Charleston, SC and resides in Spartanburg, SC with his much better-looking wife Christy, and his son Corey (24), and daughter Ella Grace (20).
Ray can be reached at 864-809-9111 or [email protected]
i-SIGMA, CEO
Campbell returns to the helm of the association as CEO after having served on the board of directors for NAID and PRISM International, the two trade associations that merged to form i-SIGMA in 2018. With over 25 years of executive leadership experience, he was previously the president of Rylyn Associates, offering business consulting plans. Campbell brings more than 25 years of executive leadership, specifically in the information governance space, first from Recall and more recently Access. He is also a Stanford University Executive Program graduate.
Over The Wall Thinking
Andy grew up in Emerson, N.J., the son of Greek immigrant parents, where he spent his youth involved in sports. In high school, he was an All-American in track and field as a shot-put thrower. He earned a college football scholarship to Stanford University and started all 4-years of eligibility. He received his undergraduate degree in economics and master’s in sociology concentrating in organizational behavior. Soon after graduation, Andy discovered NASCAR and worked with pit crews for 28 years at Hendrick Motorsports, as Director of Human Performance. Hendrick Motorsports is NASCAR’s modern-day dynasty, fielding teams for NASCAR greats, Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson among other winners and series champions. Andy participated in over 250 race wins and 16 series championships. He has the distinction of being NASCAR’s first, “pit crew coach.” From 2006 to 2012 he was elected as Executive Director of the North Carolina Motorsports Association which represents North Carolina’s six billion dollar motorsports industry. He remained on the board through 2021. Andy speaks and conducts teambuilding events which teach the athletic mindset – what he calls, “Over The Wall Thinking.”
i-SIGMA, Vice President of Marketing & Events
Gina Lentine has nearly 15 years of information governance experience. She currently works with the executive team for i-SIGMA as the Vice President of Marketing & Events. Prior to this, Gina co-founded Assured Shred, which successfully operated for ten years until it was bought out. During this time, Gina’s primary responsibilities included oversight of business development, marketing, and operations.
Gina has most recently served as Secretary on the i-SIGMA Board of Directors and participates on the Corporate Partner Engagement Committee. She has a long history of volunteering over the past decade and serving on numerous NAID committees and its board of directors, before continuing service with all under i-SIGMA. She also is a member and volunteer with the Daughters of the American Revolution.
i-SIGMA, Vice President of Member Services
Jennie Gift, CSDS, CRA is a 20 + veteran of the RIM industry. Jennie was a Managing operator at Paxton Record Retention, a full suite Records Management company based in the Washington DC Area. Paxton specialized in records storage, media vaulting, shredding, and scanning. During her time at Paxton, Jennie helped oversee the company’s day-to-day operation as well as head up the company’s sales and marketing efforts prior to moving to Denver Colorado where she joined the vendor side of the industry with Shred Nations and Record Nations.
While at Shred Nations and Record Nations, she headed up the Network sales team. She oversaw customer advocacy and helped partners group their Shredding and RIM businesses. In 2021, Jennie joined the CSR Privacy Solutions team as Vice President of Sales, a company dedicated to partnering with associate members to provide privacy as a service with its new uRISQ online privacy platform. Jennie also served as the Corporate Partner Director for i-SIGMA and chaired the Corporate Partner Engagement Committee and Conference Planning Committee, as well as serviced on the CSDS Board of Regents.
Jennie has brought her love for the information governance industry and decades of experience to i-SIGMA in a new capacity, by joining the association staff full time as the Vice President of Member Services, where she can more fully serve the mission and people she has worked with all along. She is also very active in the ARMA International community where she serves as the Denver Chapter president.
Corodata, General Counsel
Greg Bullard has been involved in the information management and secure destruction industries for almost 25 years. Today, Greg is General Counsel for Corodata, one of the largest, independently owned information management companies in the country. Prior to joining Corodata, Greg founded, built and sold successful businesses in this industry and, as outside legal counsel and M&A advisor, has represented many industry companies. Greg has been on the board of directors of both PRISM and i-SIGMA and has spoken several times at industry events.
Greg began his career as a corporate attorney with the law firm DLA Piper and also worked as a Senior Attorney with Delta Air Lines.
Greg grew up in the Atlanta area, attended Kennesaw State University, and earned his law degree from DePaul University College of Law, where he was a member of the DePaul Law Review editorial board. Greg now lives in Charlotte, NC and is active in his local community and has founded and invested in a number of other businesses.
Data Security Inc.
Renee Schafer, CSDS® has been with Data Security Inc.® since 1999. As Chief Operations Officer (COO), Renee
leads the company through strategic decisions and effective management of all departments of our business as we design, manufacture, sell and support our own product line. She works directly with the National Security Agency (NSA), data destruction scientists, and electronic media storage experts. She is a member of the IEEE Security in Storage Working Group, Forbes Business Council, the FBI’s InfraGard and FBI Citizen’s Academy, the iSIGMA America’s Advocacy Committee and was the first Certified Secure Destruction Specialist® (CSDS®) in the state of Nebraska. Renee is passionate about protecting data at end-of-life as well as helping others grow their businesses like she has, and she speaks around the world on these subjects. She leads an active family-life as well as participates in various community fundraising efforts and volunteers regularly at local outreach centers and her church.
