{"id":6195,"date":"2026-04-06T16:25:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/trustees\/?post_type=people&#038;p=6195"},"modified":"2026-10-08T13:24:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:24:58","slug":"dave-barrett","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/trustees\/meet\/dave-barrett\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Barrett"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David Barrett, BS \u201978, has over 40 years of executive leadership, entrepreneurial &amp; venture investing experience in the technology &amp; healthcare industries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dave has been a Managing Partner of Polaris Partners, a venture capital &amp; growth equity firm focused on healthcare technology &amp; life sciences, for over 26 years. He has served as a founder, founding investor, or chair for many of the companies he\u2019s partnered with, as well as a mentor to hundreds of innovators across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier in his career, he helped scale &amp; lead three software companies through industry leadership &amp; public operations, serving as both an entrepreneur &amp; executive.&nbsp; He has helped to create thousands of jobs and build billions of dollars in market value as an operator &amp; investor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He serves on the Board of Trustees&#8217; Finance &amp; Facilities and Risk &amp; Compliance committees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, Dave also serves as Vice Chair of the URI Foundation Board of Directors, on its executive &amp; investment committees, as an Edwards Society advisor to President Parlange, and previously served on the College of Business Dean\u2019s Advisory Board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He has also served on the Board of Trustees of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, on its investment committee, and as an advisor to its venture investment efforts for over 17 years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5419,"featured_media":6292,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"peoplegroups":[2,5],"class_list":["post-6195","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","peoplegroups-trustees","peoplegroups-voters"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/trustees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/6195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/trustees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/trustees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/trustees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/trustees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/6195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6302,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/trustees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/6195\/revisions\/6302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/trustees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/trustees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"peoplegroups","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/trustees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/peoplegroups?post=6195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}