Scott Barna

President and Chief Integration Officer Stretto

Last Reviewed: September 29, 2026

Executive Summary

Scott Barna is President and Chief Integration Officer of Stretto, the Irvine, California firm that provides bankruptcy administration, claims and noticing services and legal technology to attorneys, trustees and restructuring professionals. As one of the company’s co-Presidents he is responsible for its organizational-optimization work, both organic and through acquisitions. His route into the business is unusual for legal services: Stretto describes him as a trained intelligence officer who has held senior roles in government and the private sector, and he came to the company from Computershare. He arrived as chief integration officer as Bankruptcy Management Solutions rebranded as Stretto in 2019, the point at which its owners were stitching together a series of acquired businesses, which is the job his title describes.

Career Highlights

• Co-President and Chief Integration Officer of Stretto, leading organic and inorganic organizational-optimization opportunities.
• Named by Stretto as President in company pages dated from March 2024 to February 2026.
• Joined as chief integration officer around the January 2019 rebrand from Bankruptcy Management Solutions to Stretto.
• Previously held executive oversight at Computershare for North American vendor management and procurement and for the cross-functional operational demand fulfillment division.
• Co-authored a February 2026 ABI Journal article on how reciprocal deposit programs can maximize FDIC coverage for bankruptcy estates.

Professional Journey

Barna’s early career was in intelligence. Stretto’s biography calls him a trained intelligence officer with senior roles in government, and says his assignments ranged from covert action national security findings to financial-services administration, directing teams from both field and head-office positions. The company does not name the agency or give dates.

He moved into financial services at Computershare, the share registry and financial administration group, where he had executive oversight of several regional departments, including North American vendor management and procurement and the cross-functional operational demand fulfillment division.

He joined Stretto’s predecessor, Bankruptcy Management Solutions, during a period of rapid change. Industry veterans Eric Kurtzman and Jonathan Carson had acquired BMS in 2017 in partnership with Stone Point Capital and set out on a buy-and-build strategy that brought in CINgroup, maker of the Best Case bankruptcy software, among other businesses. When the company unveiled the Stretto name in January 2019, it said Barna had recently joined as chief integration officer, alongside a new chief operating officer and general counsel. Integration was the central problem of that strategy: combining a Chapter 7 trustee services leader with attorney-facing software and a growing corporate-restructuring practice into one platform.

He has since become one of Stretto’s co-Presidents while keeping the integration brief. Over the same period Stretto has expanded into treasury and cash management, including an insured deposit program for trustees, launched legal claims administration services for class actions, and built AI-driven research tools. Barna has become one of the company’s public voices on consumer bankruptcy, quoted by GOBankingRates on bankruptcy trends in 2024 and 2025, and in February 2026 co-authored an ABI Journal article with attorney Simon E. Rodriguez on using reciprocal deposit programs to maximize FDIC coverage for bankruptcy estates after the 2023 bank failures.

Education

No education record was found in any first-party or primary source.