Douglas Barrett

Douglas Barrett is the Principal of barcode SDG, a strategic and governance advisory firm. He is also an Advisory Board Member of the Vancouver based Feldman Agency and an invited member of the City of Toronto’s Film, Television and Commercial Production Industry Committee, the Toronto Film Board. In June 2013, Mr. Barrett received the John Peace Part-Time Faculty Teaching Award for his work at the School of Business.

From 2006 until the company’s sale in mid-2013, he was President & CEO of PS Production Services Ltd., one of Canada’s leading film and television equipment rental houses. PS was a mid-sized company with approximately 150 employees and operations in Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax.

From 2004 to 2008, he was Chair of the Canadian Television Fund’s Board of Directors, having served as a board member from 1994 to 1996, and legal counsel from 1996 to 2004. The Fund is the principal federal agency responsible for supporting television production in Canada.

For 20 years until 2006, Doug was the senior partner practising Media & Entertainment law at McMillan LLP under the KNOWlaw banner. He has repeatedly been listed by the legal directory LEXPERT as one of Canada’s 500 Leading Lawyers.

He has served on the Boards of the Canadian Media Production Association, the Banff Television Foundation and the Feature Film Project of the Canadian Film Centre. He was instrumental in founding the Alliance Atlantis Banff Television Executive Program.

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