Born in England, Barrie Goodridge started his career in 1975 with Thomson Newspapers in the UK and moved to Hong Kong to join Thomson Press in 1982.

In 1983, he joined Asiaweek rising to the position of Publisher before joining the Global Sources Media Group. In 1997, he became the CEO for Asia of Publicitas Promotion Network (PPN), the international division of PubliGroupe.

Goodridge joined Edipresse in 2004 as Regional Director for Asia and was appointed CEO of Edipresse Asia in 2005.