Francis McInerney

Current

Managing Director at North River Ventures

Past

Managing Director at Northern Business Information Inc.

Education

University of Toronto - Victoria University

Connections

377 connections

Industry

Venture Capital & Private Equity

Websites

Francis McInerney’s Summary

Francis McInerney is Managing Director of New York-based North River Ventures, which manages The Corporate Innovation Project, a virtual venture capital operation.

Virtual venture capital multi-sources external innovation to accelerate profitable revenue growth. It does away with the high risk, fixed portfolios of legacy VCs that must be defended for years to maturity and that may or may not have strategic value for corporate investors.

Details on the Corporate Innovation Project are at www.northriver.com/CorporateInnovation.pdf

Francis McInerney’s Specialties:

Francis created a new system of management designed to grade management ability to scale profitably enough to make innovation and top line initiatives accretive.

Francis McInerney’s Experience

Managing Director

North River Ventures

(Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)

1976 — Present (33 years )

Managing Director of New York-based North River Ventures LLC, a consultancy that advises CEOs in the information industry and grades their management performance.

Wrote the template for the 2000-2006 restructuring of 350,000 employee Panasonic Corporation , the largest corporate restructuring in history.

Venture clients range from annual sales of a few hundred thousand dollars to sales of a few hundred million. Corporate clients have sales of up to $100 billion.

Specializing in building their business models that scale profitably and rapidly.
Managing Director

Northern Business Information Inc.

(Management Consulting industry)

1976 — 1988 (12 years )

NBI was the world's largest supplier of telecommunications market research.

Francis co-founded NBI with Sean White in Toronto in 1976. They moved the company to New York in 1979. McGraw-Hill made an unsolicited offer for the company in 1988. NBI has since become part of Gartner Group.