Barry Libert (born in 1954) is a social technology investor, corporate director, and strategic advisor to boards and their leaders. He is based in Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. Libert specializes in helping orgaranizations understand how social, mobile and cloud technologies can be used to drive value and mitigate risks by leveraging the power of customer and employee conversations and interactions.

Libert is the chairman and founder of OpenMatters, a technology investor and strategic advisory firm. He has spent the last ten years investing in and founding companies that deploy new technologies in their businesses. In 2001, he founded Mzinga, a social software and analytics company. He currently serves on the board of directors of Innocentive, a social innovation software company; Activate Networks (ANI), a social analytics company; The Pulse Network, an enterprise social video company; and The SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management and Networked Organizations at the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Us Against Alzheimer's Network, an advocacy network seeking to end Alzheimer's by 2020 using today's technologies.