Kathy Barber

Kathy Barber has extensive experience in the medical/biotech industry, specializing in sales and marketing. She has worked for Ventrex Laboratories, G.D. Searle, Abbott Laboratories and IDEXX Laboratories. Products and markets managed include the human pharmaceutical and diagnostic areas as well as veterinary diagnostics. She also has worked within the food safety industry in diagnostics and education.

Kathy is a past board member for Barber Foods, the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Piper Shores LLC and the Robotics Institute of Maine. She is a current Trustee at Bangor Savings Bank and chairs the Human Resource Committee and is a member of Audit, Governance and Nominating Committees. She is a past Trustee of MaineHealth where she chaired the Finance Committee. Post system unification, she joined Maine Medical Center’s board where she is a member of the Board Quality and Safety Committee and also serves on MaineHealth’s Educational Committee and the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council.

Kathy received a BS from Skidmore College, Certificate from the London School of Economics and an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (Chicago Booth). She enjoys the outdoors with her husband, two children and three farm dogs.