Barre Seid

Barre Seid (born 1932) is an American businessman from Chicago. He was the owner of Tripp Lite, an electrical products manufacturer. Seid donated the company to Marble Freedom Trust, a funder of conservative causes, which in 2021 sold Tripp Lite to American Irish power company Eaton for $1.65 billion.

Early life and education Seid was born in 1932 to Dr. Reuben Seid and Anne R. Seid, who were Russian Jewish immigrants. He grew up on the South Side of Chicago. Seid has two brothers.

Career After attending college, Seid served for two years in the U.S. Army. He then returned to Chicago to take a job as an assistant to investor and businessman Graham Trippe, owner of Trippe Manufacturing. He has donated to the University of Chicago's Becker Friedman Institute for Economics and the Heartland Institute. His donation was later made public by a former student who examined tax filings. In January 2009, Thomas Lindsay became president of the school, with goals to increase the school's name recognition and build its board of trustees. In 2010, Lindsay moved to rewrite the school's mission statement, though he was faced with overwhelming opposition by the school's assembly of faculty, staff, and students. Seid is married to Barbara Landis. Since 2005, Landis is the general and artistic director of Chamber Opera Chicago, which was founded by Seid.

Seid identifies as a libertarian. He has used the pseudonym Ebert or Elbert Howell.