Ray BarryCo-Owner and President, Shred America
Ray Barry is Co-Owner and President at Shred America. 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 40+ trucks in 8 short years! They were named the 217th fastest growing privately held company in the US by Inc. Magazine and #1 fastest growing company in South Carolina for 2022. They also placed 272nd on the Inc. list for 2023. They were most recently named the INC 490th fastest growing privately held company for 2024. This is the second shredding company Barry has led to the Inc 500 list multiple times in 20 years!
Prior to his current role as a Partner at Shred America, Barry worked in sales leadership positions for national and international secure destruction companies, trained industry professionals at more than 600 companies (over 1,500 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 18 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 in his career. He is referred to as “The Dean” of the information destruction industry. He is also creator of the highly acclaimed “Music to Shred to Vol 1 & 2”and shares vocals with Shred America Texas Managing partner Jason McCray, which is the Shred America music on hold entertainment for your listening pleasure.
Ray is a proud graduate of The Citadel in Charleston, SC and resides in Spartanburg, SC with his much better-looking wife Christy, and his son Corey (26), and daughter Ella Grace (22).In his free time, he enjoys music, watching college football (Go Irish), comedy, playing basketball, and traveling with his family.
Ray can be reached at 864-809-9111 or [email protected]
Nathan CampbellChief Executive Officer, i-SIGMA
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.
Andy PapathanassiouOver The Wall
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.”
Nick AdamsPresident and Chief Executive Officer, WebVitality
W. Price BrannonDirector of Certification, i-SIGMA
Price is a technology-oriented practitioner and transformational leader with over 35 years of experience in management roles including 20 within the information governance industry. Price’s areas of expertise include performance management, master data management, and information security. He worked in various roles with Pierce Leahy, Iron Mountain, Retrievex and Access CIG. In addition to his work experience, he earned an MBA from Rutgers University, New Jersey and completed his undergraduate degree at Lycoming College, Pennsylvania.
Greg BullardGeneral Counsel, Corodata
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.
Jennie Gift, CSDS, CRAVice President of Member Services, i-SIGMA
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.
Gina Lentine, CSDSVice President of Marketing & Events, i-SIGMA
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. After selling Assure Shred, Gina was the Director Marketing & Events for Legal Shred and MedXwaste.
Gina also served as Secretary and President on the i-SIGMA Board of Directors and participated in a number of committees including the Complaint Resolution Council, Communications and Marketing , Events Corporate Partner Engagement and Membership Committees. Several of which she served as chair. 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.
Renee Schafer, CSDSChief Operations Officer, 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 i-SIGMA 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.
Doug FerranteBusiness Development Manager, Translease, Inc.
Gaines Garrett, CSDS
Jacque Dreeszen, CSDSBusiness Development, Data Security, Inc.
Jeff GreenVice President of Business Development, Annex.com
Stephen HalstensgardRegional Sales Manager, Vecoplan, LLC
Austin HicksEast Coast Sales Manager, Vecoplan, LLC
Steven Innerfield, CSDSFounder and Chief Technology Officer, ShredMetrics
Rick JacksonFounder and President, American Document Services
President of the Board of Directors, i-SIGMA
Randy RauenzahnDirect Sales Manager, Shredfast, Inc.
Scott ReisVice President of Partnerships, uRISQ / CSR Privacy Solutions, Inc.
Scott Reis is currently the Vice President of Partner Development & Advocacy at Shred and Records Nations. Before joining the Shred and Records Nations team in October of 2021, Reis was an owner/operator, in a Director of Sales role for DataSafe, Inc. in Northern California. Reis has over 15 years of experience in the RIM industry, with roles in Operations, Customer Success, and Sales. He has served on various industry committees during his career and is passionate about consultative, solution-based selling.
Reis currently resides in Marin County, 15 miles north of San Francisco with his wife Natacha, son Aston, and his two French Bulldogs – Napoleon and Florence
Jason SpringthorpeExecutive Vice President of Revenue, Wingmate
Ben StreetMarketing Director, Shred-Tech
Alex TarnocziDirector of Partner Development, Shred Nations
Guy WakutzVice President and Director of Sales, Alpine Shredders Limited
Daryl WoytowiczSales Manager, NetGain
Daryl Woytowicz has come full circle in the document industry. He spent 10 years in the document creation industry (printing & copying) then another 10 years in the document retirement industry (shredding, storage, & scanning). Now Daryl has gone digital with NetGain SEO. But with his deep roots in the shredding industry, he now focuses on helping local shredding companies beat their competitors online. (Daryl says he won’t miss the occupational hazard of paper cuts.)
