
Managing Director, North River Ventures
Greater New York City Area

Managing Director, North River Ventures
Greater New York City Area
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 drives profitable revenue growth fast by multi-sourcing external innovation targeted at well-defined revenue acceleration models. Thus, it is revenue-driven rather than investment-driven. Details are at www.northriver.com/CorporateInnovation.pdf
Francis' management grading system gauges your ability to scale profitably enough to make innovative top line initiatives accretive.
(Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)
1988 — Present (21 years )
Managing Director of New York-based North River Ventures LLC, a consultancy that grades managements to determine their ability to leverage innovation and scale their business models profitably and rapidly.
Wrote the template for the 2000-2006 restructuring of 350,000 employee Panasonic Corporation, the largest corporate restructuring in history. See his book, "Panasonic" (St. Martins).
(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.
BA , Economics , 1969 — 1974
Reading: history, economics, science. Golf: Member Branton Woods GC, Stormville NY