Chairman and President of The Bartech Group

Jon E. Barfield was appointed President of The Bartech Group in 1981 and was also named Chairman in 1995. Prior to his current position, Mr. Barfield also served as President of Barfield Manufacturing Company. Earlier in his career, he practiced corporate and securities law at one of the nation’s leading law firms, Sidley Austin LLP in Chicago.

Mr. Barfield serves on the board of directors of National City Corporation, BMC Software and CMS Energy Corporation. He was also a member of the board of directors of Dow Jones & Company until its acquisition by News Corporation in December 2007. Jon volunteers his time as a director of several major, non-profit institutions. He is a Charter Trustee Emeritus of Princeton University and serves as a director of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Detroit Renaissance and New Detroit. He also has served on the boards of Reading is Fundamental, The Children’s Center and the Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan. He is Past President of the National Technical Services Association, historically one of the staffing industry’s leading trade associations.

Mr. Barfield graduated with honors from Princeton University in 1974, and received a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School in 1977.