Barry Schiffman is a Partner, Senior Advisor and Board member to Mandala Capital. Mandala is the only institutional private equity fund manager that invests exclusively in the food supply and agribusiness sector in India and South Asia. Prior to joining Mandala, Barry worked with a private family office where he was the co-founder of Next Frontier Capital, an emerging markets private equity firm. 

While at Next Frontier, he focused on technology and natural resources transactions in the CIS and Africa, and co-founded Viewdle, a facial recognition software company. Barry served as Viewdle’s COO and General Counsel, and was a member of its Board of Directors; Viewdle was acquired by Google. He has also served as a board member and General Counsel of The Frayman Group, and has served on the boards of numerous privately held companies in which he has been an active and engaged investor.

Barry began his career as an attorney for Bracewell and Giuliani, and has also worked for Fulbright and Jaworski. He graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University with a degree in government, received a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center, and is a member of the New York State bar. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Moise Safra Center in New York, and is the Founder and Chairman of the Algemeiner Editor’s Club. Barry is a supporter of the Virunga Fund in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Mugie Conservancy in Kenya.