Francis McInerney

Current

Managing Director at North River Ventures

Past

Managing Director at Northern Business Information Inc.

Education

University of Toronto - Victoria University

Connections

381 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 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 McInerney’s Specialties:

Francis' management grading system gauges your ability to scale profitably enough to make innovative top line initiatives accretive.

Francis McInerney’s Experience

Managing Director

North River Ventures

(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).
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.