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]
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.
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.
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, CSDS, 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.
