Barry Weiss | Barry Weiss House Pics| Barry Weiss Bio Barry Weiss is an American music managerial. He hand round as chairman and CEO of The Island Def Jam Music Group and Universal democracy Recorded from 2011 to 2014, RCA/Jive Label Group from 2008 to 2011 and was also the CEO of its essential Jive Records from 1991 to 2011. However, both companies were below the purview of Sony Music amusement. Weiss is most excellent known as an essential force in the profession of Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, ‘N Sync, among various others. His late father, Hy Weiss, was a harmonic industrialist from the generation of rock’n’roll and Doo Wop music (Black and White vocal groups from Harlem), owning and operating Old Town Records from 1953 awaiting 1996. Weiss was a constituent of Sigma Pi fraternity at Cornell University.