Legends of Barter

In celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the International Reciprocal Trade Association, in 2009 IRTA created the Legends of Barter Award to recognize certain extraordinary individuals that have served the organized trade industry since 1979.

The Legends of Barter Award is an honor that recognizes those organized trade industry members who have served and helped to shape and define the industry over a period of ten or more years, through positive and identifiable actions. It is an industry wide award and includes individuals from all industry sectors, including Commercial barter, Corporate Barter and the Community Currency Movement. Honorees need not be an IRTA member, current industry member or be present at an IRTA Convention to receive this award.

The following individuals are hereby recognized for their extraordinary efforts during the past forty-five years in shaping and defining the organized trade industry.

Christie Acevedo

Pascal Alexandre

Commercial Barter; Corporate Barter 1988-Present

IRTA Paul St. Martin Distinguished Service Award. 4years service IRTA European Board; founding member IRTA European Board. He was one of the first European exchanges to combine elements of commercial barter with the corporate barter process.

Heather Aucoin Long

John Attridge

Col. Bill Austin

Commercial Barter 1977-2000

Member Barter Hall of Fame, IRTA Paul St. Martin Distinguished Service Award; IRTA Outstanding Achievement Award. 12 years of IRTA Board service; two terms as IRTA Board President; chair of IRTA Ethics and Government Relations Committees. Led in the creation of the IRTA Code of Ethics; very active and productive in the lobbying efforts to pass the Barter Bill of Rights.

Bob Bagga

Commercial Barter 1992-Present

IRTA Outstanding Achievement Award. 7 years of IRTA Board service; IRTA Global Board Vice President. Secretary, Treasurer. Marketing Committee; member. Certified Trade Broker, Ethics, Universal Currency and Bylaws committees. Led several IRTA presentations and seminars; He participated in the creation and launch of the Universal Currency system by taking a leading role in writing the UC Bylaws and Regulations.

Mark Bastarache

Ray Bastarache

Commercial Barter 1984-2002

Two IRTA Paul St. Martin Distinguished Service Awards; IRTA Mentorship Award; Numerous IRTA Barter Ambassador Awards. 10 years service on IRTA Board, served as IRTA Board President, Vice President and Treasurer. Participated in and led numerous convention seminars and panels. Was an early proponent of industry use of advanced technology and created and successfully produced some of the first exchange management software.

Rob Benson

Joyce Bingham

Paul Bolte

Retail Barter 2007-Present

IRTA Global Board member 4 years, speaker at the IRTA Convention 4 years. Previously CEO of Bartercard New Zealand before launching Bartercard USA as the founding President & CEO. Paul has helped the IRTA Board with his spreadsheet skills allowing for decisions to be made based on accurate forecasting. Paul is an industry expert on the use of social media, videos and new technology and is always will to help other members when asked.

Debra Bonsignore

Graham Brain

Lee Brandfass

Commercial & Corporate Barter 1979-Present

Numerous committees including the UC Board of Governors & Ethics Committee. Played an active role in constructing and adopting policy and procedures within the Universal Currency system. Played a key role in producing the IRTA Sales Training and Trade Brokering Manual. Speaker on various IRTA convention panels and convention sales training seminars.

Terry Brandfass

Commercial Barter 1979-Present

Two IRTA Paul St. Martin Distinguished Service Awards; IRTA Outstanding Achievement Award. 12 years IRTA Board and North American Board service. Numerous committees; UC Board of Governors. Played a key role in producing the IRTA Sales Training and Trade Brokering Manual.

Karen Brown

Kevin Brown

Dariusz Brzozowiec

Jeff Burkhardt

Lee Anne Busman

Commercial Barter 1992-2009

IRTA Ambassador Awards. 4 years IRTA Board service, IRTA Membership, Universal Currency Committees; IRTA Convention speaker; panel participant; as a Board and committee member took an active role in constructing and adopting policy and procedures within the Universal Currency System.

Edgar S. Cahn

Community Currency 1980-Present

Authored “No More Throw Away People” and “Time Dollars”. Created the concept of Time Dollars and founded TimeBanks USA, a local, tax-exempt currency which is designed to validate and reward the work preformed by volunteers and the disadvantaged in local communities.

Jeffrey Chamblin

Perry Constantinides

Commercial Barter 1977-Present

IRTA Paul St. Martin Distinguished Service Award; numerous IRTA Ambassador Awards. I2 years of IRTA Board service; served the IRTA Ethics, Membership, Government Relations, Convention and Finance committees; led several IRTA seminar and panels. Participated in the founding of IRTA; was part of test case that gave rise to 1099-B reporting.

Lois Dale

Commercial Barter 1979-Present

Doug Dagenais

Commercial Barter 1981-2009

IRTA Paul St. Martin Distinguished Service Award. Presented extremely effective and powerful seminars focusing on selling exchange memberships; participated in several IRTA seminars and panels. Created the IRTA sale and sales management training manual.

Fred Detwiler

Tony Dewsnap

Trevor Dietz

Commercial Barter 1993-Present

Worked with IRTA (Australasia) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission on the introduction and enforcement industry regulation in 1997, gained approval from the Australian Bankers Association for the introduction of variable Direct Debit Requests (DDR) 1998 – a first in Australia and now the accepted norm in commerce, worked with the Australian Tax Office (ATO) to develop the Barter Industry Standards for the introduction of Australia’s Goods and Services Tax (GST), 2000, lead the development and introduction of the world’s first processing for value of Barter transactions via Bank EFTPOS networks in 2005, lead and arranged the finance for the $25.5m Management Buy Out (MBO) of Bartercard Australia, 2007, created he Bartercard Charity Foundation as a registered Charity with tax deductable status – only such organization in Australia, 2012.

Alan Elkin

Corporate Barter 1984-2009

Member Barter Hall of Fame; IRTA Paul St. Martin Distinguished Service Award; IRTA Outstanding Achievement Award . 10 years IRTA Board Service, President IRTA Corporate Council. Founding member of IRTA Corporate Council, central in creating bylaws and standards. Played a significant role in establishing the IRTA Universal Currency System.

Patti Falus

Andrew Federowski

Commercial Barter 1991-2008

Member Barter Hall of Fame. He was a leader in the early development and use of online technology as a platform of opera- tions within the Modern Trade and Barter Industry.

Sabina Gage

Steve Goldbloom

Commercial Barter 1984-2009

Member Barter Hall of Fame; IRTA Paul St. Martin Distinguished Service Award; IRTA Outstanding Achievement Award. 10 years IRTA Global Board; 2 terms as President, 2 terms as treasurer; 1 term as Secretary; IRTA UC finance committee. Participated in and led numerous convention seminars and panels. Took lead in developing the Universal Currency system; accomplished positive results in both the Corporate Barter and Commercial Barter sectors of the Modern Trade and Barter industries.

Thomas H. Greco, Jr.

Community Currency 1987-Present

As an economist, professor and author he writes and consults on monetary exchange alternatives, including private credit clearing systems, complementary and local currency; Has authored three books: New Money for Healthy Communities; Money and Debt: A Solution to the Global Crisis and his latest, The End of Money and the Future of Civilization. Has made several presentations during IRTA conventions and is active worldwide working with and developing Community Currency systems.

Art Goehring

Commercial Barter 1976-2003

Member Barter Hall of Fame; IRTA Paul St. Martin Distinguished Service Award and several other Industry pioneer awards; 15 years of IRTA Board service; was a founding member of IRTA and served on the first IRTA Board. He chaired several IRTA committees, Ethics, Contracts, Membership, and Governmental. He took a leading role in the successful effort to secure the legal standing and win government recognition of our industry.

Susan Groenwald

Commercial Barter 1981-2003

Member Barter Hall of Fame; IRTA Paul St. Martin Distinguished Service Award. 15 years IRTA Board Service; IRTA Board President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary. Played a significant part in the lobbying effort in Washington, to pass Barter Bill DC 1982-83. Was central in establishing and forming the Universal Currency system.

Allan Hackel

Corporate Barter 1954-2009

Member Barter Hall of Fame; IRTA Paul St. Martin Distinguished Service Award; IRTA Outstanding Achievement Award; IRTA CBC Lifetime Achievement Award. He is considered the “founding father” of the corporate barter industry and is credited with the invention of the accounts receivable concept that is to this day the basic principle of a Corporate Barter Transaction.

Chris Haddawy

Valerie Hale

Brian Hall

Commercial Barter 1991-Present

With over 22 years experience in the Barter industry Brian lead the development of many of the new member sales, trading, and franchise training and management systems that has been used as key IP for Bartercard ‘s domestic and international expansion collateral. Brian has held many roles over the years in Bartercard and during his time as the Sales and Marketing Director he developed national sales campaigns which achieved record breaking results of over 725 new member sales in one month, two years running. In the early years of 2000s Brian served as an active director and chairman of the Australasia chapter of the IRTA

Richard Harris

Heavily involved in IRTA since its inception. Attended and participated in all early IRTA conventions as well as hosting several in St. Louis. Served on numerous IRTA committees. Was a founding members of NATE and participated in many seminars, and held most elected officer positions. Owned one of the largest mid-west independent trade exchange, and sold it to the largest trade exchange in the country.

Paul Hebbink

Michael Hering

Reiner Husemann

Commercial Barter 1989-2009

Two IRTA Paul St. Martin Distinguished Service Awards. 10 years IRTA Global Board service. Founding member of IRTA European Board, 2 terms as President of IRTA European Board; chaired IRTA Website and Marketing committee. He has introduced one of the first International web based trading platforms that includes a loyalty element. He continues to actively support a single currency that would include all members of the Modern Trade and Barter industry.

Niki Inlow

Kent Johnson

Bruce Kamm

Commercial Barter 1992-Present

IRTA Paul St. Martin Distinguished Service Award; Member IRTA Legends of Barter; IRTA Ambassador Award; 20 year member of IRTA. Assumed a leadership role in acquiring, assisting and training new industry members; Participated in and led numerous convention seminars and panels. Took lead in developing software and transaction processing technology for the barter industry.

Michael Katchur

Phillip Ronald Keister

Commercial Barter 1973-Present

IRTA Paul St. Martin Distinguished Service Award. Served as Vice President of the first IRTA Board; many committees and seminars. One of the founding members of IRTA. Responsible for design of IRTA logo.

Justin Krane

Mike Krane

Dr. Kee Oi Kum

Steve Lamp

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