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Francis McInerney is Managing Director of New York-based North River Ventures LLC, a consultancy that advises CEOs in the information industry and grades their management performance. He is a limited partner in London-based GMT Communications Equity Partners Fund II and III, Europe's only telecom and media specialist fund, and is a member of GMT's Industry Council.
Francis is part of the general partner of Denver-based Centennial Ventures Funds VI and VII that specialize in early-stage telecom and media investing. The limited partners he brought into Centennial Ventures include: NBC, NTT Communications, NTT DoCoMo, Harris, GE Capital, Bell Canada, Nortel Networks, Alcatel-Lucent, 3Com, Crown Castle, Sony, and C2HM-Hill.
In 1976, Francis McInerney co-founded Northern Business Information, a telecommunications industry market research company. In 1988, after building NBI into the largest firm in its market worldwide, McGraw-Hill Inc. made an unsolicited offer to buy the company. Francis also wrote the template for the 2000-2006 restructuring of 350,000 employee Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (Panasonic) , the largest corporate restructuring in history.
His venture clients range from annual sales of a few hundred thousand dollars to sales of a few hundred million. His corporate clients have sales of up to $100 billion. He specializes in building their business models and strategic partnerships. | 