Bruce Barshop is President and a Director of Texas-based Barshop Ventures, LLC, a diversified venture capital investment and portfolio investment management firm. Barshop is also a Director of Barshop & Oles Company, Inc., a commercial real estate development and management company. Barshop is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Texas School of Law, and has studied at the London School of Economics.

Barshop has served on the Boards of SiTV, an English-language Latino-themed cable television and online network of which he was also a co-founder; HorseTV, an equestrian-oriented cable television and online network; Fusion Mobile, Inc., a cell phone service targeting the Latino and private label markets; and MyToons, Inc., an internet animation community and content aggregator. Barshop Ventures has invested in a number of other early-stage enterprises in media and telecommunications, life sciences and medical devices, and other fields.

From 1977 through 1997, Barshop was actively engaged in the practice of law. From 1984 through 1989, Barshop acted as a Director and General Counsel of Laredo National Bancshares, Inc. and The Laredo National Bank, then Texas' largest independent bank with assets in excess of $1 billion, and activities in both the U.S. and Mexico.

Barshop currently serves as Chairman of the San Antonio Technology Accelerator Initiative (SATAI). He is also on the Board of the Texas Research and Technology Foundation, where he is Vice Chairman of the Technology Enterprise Committee. Barshop is a member of the Princeton University Psychology Department Advisory Council, a member of the Advisory Council of the University of Texas at San Antonio College of Engineering, and is a member of the Board of the Institute of Texan Cultures.

Barshop also serves on the international Lay Review Committee (LRC) and Research Policy Advisory Committee (RPAC) of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, and is a Director of the JDRF's South Central Texas Chapter. As a member of the LRC and the RPAC, Barshop is involved in reviewing JDRF research grants, which total approximately $100 million annually, and conducting periodic site visits to medical and research facilities funded by the JDRF.