Barry Kurland

Barry Kurland is the Chief Commercial Officer at Arkatechture. Barry has extensive experience in research and evaluation, having worked as the Director of Research and Evaluation at YW Boston from June 2017 to April 2019. In this role, they created a new enterprise-wide infrastructure for data collection, storage and reporting, which decreased data entry by 90% and data analysis wait times by 50%. Barry also directed all aspects of the research process from question formulation, method selection and implementation to reporting, presentation and interpretation. The research output supported learning, partner services, strategic planning, program performance and fundraising. Additionally, they created a new program to share data, research, and sentiment analysis results with clients, which resulted in partner organizations using a data-informed approach to creating and changing their diversity and inclusion strategies. Partner engagement with the organization increased from 6 weeks to 1 year as a result of this program. Barry also built and promoted a measurement and data-informed culture within the organization. Barry supervised research and evaluation interns and was promoted from Senior Manager to Director in October 2018. Prior to their work at YW Boston, Barry interned at the US Government Accountability Office from May 2016 to August 2016.

They are on a team with Tyler Schneider - Head of Sales, Katie Eagan - COO, and Susmi Sengupta - CTO. Devin Cook - Sales & Marketing Manager, Peter Doyle - Business Analyst, and Lindsey Foster - Service Delivery Manager report to Barry Kurland. Their manager is Jamie Jackson, Founder & CEO.