Francis McInerney

Mr. McInerney co-founded New York-based North River Ventures in 1990 with a simple mission: to build the shareholder value of its clients.
He is an advisory council member of CSP.
NRV builds shareholder value by creating strategic investment vehicles between telecommunications carriers, manufacturers, and investors the world over.
In 1998 with partners Centennial Ventures, Bell Canada, Matsushita Electric Industrial, Vanguard Venture Partners, and Vulcan Ventures, NRV formed CenCom V, an telecom venture accelerator located in Palo Alto.
In 2000, with partners Centennial Ventures, NTT, NTT DoCoMo, ICG, Bell Canada, Harris, Williams Telecommunications, 3Com, Sony, PSINet, GE Capital, NBC, Lucent Technologies, and Crown Castle, NRV formed the Centennial Strategic Partners program, located in Denver.
In 1976, Mr. McInerney co-founded Northern Business Information which became the pre-eminent supplier of telecommunications market research information for the world's top 46 economies.
In 1988, McGraw-Hill Inc. made an unsolicited offer to buy Northern Business Information.