Barry Lee Myers is a native of Philadelphia, PA. A graduate of Philadelphia's Central High School, he received his B.S. in business administration and economics from the Pennsylvania State University

Pennsylvania State University

The Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU, is a public research university with campuses and facilities throughout the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1855, the university has a threefold mission of teaching, research, and public service...

 and his J.D. from Boston University School of Law

Boston University School of Law

Boston University School of Law is the law school affiliated with Boston University, and is ranked #22 among American law schools by US News and World Report magazine. It is the second-oldest law school in Massachusetts and one of the first law schools in the country to admit students regardless...

. Myers served for 18 years on the Graduate School faculty at Penn State in Penn State’s nationally recognized Smeal College of Business

Smeal College of Business

The Smeal College of Business is the business school of Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1953, and is named after Mary Jean and Frank Smeal. The College offers undergraduate, graduate, doctoral degrees, including a Master of Business Administration Program,...

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Myers is Chief Executive Officer of AccuWeather

AccuWeather

AccuWeather is an American media company that provides for-profit weather forecasting services worldwide.AccuWeather was founded in 1962 by Joel N. Myers, then a Penn State graduate student working on degrees in meteorology. His first customer was a gas company in Pennsylvania. While running the...

, Inc. Prior to becoming CEO of AccuWeather in September 2007, Myers served as the company’s Executive Vice President and General Counsel. In this role he was responsible for directing the strategic initiatives and developing many of the company’s acquisitions and major business relationships.

Since 1990, Myers has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Commercial Weather Services Association the weather industry’s trade association, serving as the industry’s chief federal-relations office. Myers is recognized as an expert in weather information exchange and public/private relationships in the weather field. He has also served as advisor to the Director of the U.S. National Weather Service

National Weather Service

The National Weather Service , once known as the Weather Bureau, is one of the six scientific agencies that make up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States government...

 at the U.N.’s World Meteorological Organization

World Meteorological Organization

The World Meteorological Organization is an intergovernmental organization with a membership of 189 Member States and Territories. It originated from the International Meteorological Organization , which was founded in 1873...

 Meetings in Geneva

Geneva

Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...

, Switzerland in 2001 and 2008.