Allan Barkin is a highly respected Toronto business person and has won the coveted Consumers' Choice Award for Business Excellence multiple consecutive years attested by surveys conducted by renowned polling organizations like Goldfarb Consultants and Gallup Organization.

Since first establishing  a web presence in 1997, Barkin's successfully catapulted his company to the forefront of leading edge print technology companies. His success as president of Amazing Print has resulted in becoming one of the foremost innovators of print procurement technology and is now focusing his attention to programming software for PDAs and other personal devices.

Lately, Barkin was featured panelist and speaker at Print Ontario, Canada 's foremost print trade exhibition. Barkin has been quoted in the Globe and Mail , Canada 's national business newspaper, Toronto Star, Toronto 's largest newspaper, and was seen on the nationally syndicated TV program, Investors On-Line hosted by Pat Bolland, a leading financial news personality and also veteran business news broadcaster on CBC Newsworld.

Barkin has participated on Toronto taskforce committees. He is an elected member of the Liberty Village Business Improvement Area . Barkin's other interests include investments in a variety of real property in Southern Ontario and is owner of Jiffy Self-Storage, one of Toronto's best known self storage companies.