Barry Rivelis is President of PBC Solutions, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pacific Blue Cross (PBC) that was created in 2022. PBC Solutions delivers health benefits services to governments and other large payer organizations and its first customer is Health Insurance BC (HIBC).
Barry has extensive experience in health, insurance, government, and telecommunications and held executive roles ranging from strategy to operations. Most recently, he was Sr. Vice President and Chief Strategy and Information Officer at PBC, where he led the transformation of its enterprise-wide technology environment and new corporate strategy. Barry also led the effort to secure the business of HIBC and the subsequent creation of PBC Solutions going back to August 2020.
Before joining PBC, Mr. Rivelis was the Chief Information Officer of the Provincial Health Services Authority, Vancouver Coastal Health and Providence Health Care, and before that, Vice President, Health Care at TELUS Corporation, where he was instrumental in the creation of TELUS Health. Prior to joining TELUS, Mr. Rivelis was a Vice President of Cap Gemini in Vancouver and a partner with Ernst & Young in Toronto – one of the youngest consulting partners in the Canadian firm's history.
Barry is a Board Director of the Royal Canadian Mint, Member of the Information Technology Advisory Council of the University of British Columbia, and a Member of the Honorary Governor’s Council of the Vancouver Foundation. He is a past member of the Boards of the Vancouver Foundation and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. In 2021, Barry was named as one of Business in Vancouver's (BIV) 500 most influential business leaders in British Columbia in its inaugural BC 500 list, and chosen as BIV’s Chief Information Officer of the Year in 2019.
Barry holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from York University and a MBA from the Schulich School of Business. He also hold the ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors.