Bio: Graham R. Barnes - for more, see Resume

Senior Management Executive

• CEO, Concerro, Inc. (current)
• CEO (and founder) NextWeb, Inc. (sold to Covad Communications, NASDAQ DVW, 2006)
• Sr. VP Sales, Marketing and Service, Western Multiplex Corp ($600M IPO 2000)

Graham Barnes is currently CEO of Concerro, Inc. a VC-funded early-stage healthcare SaaS provider based in San Diego serving nearly 200 hospitals nationwide. He is also a founding member of the Board of Advisors of the Santa Clara University Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. In November 2006, Graham was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Sunol Glen Unified School District.

Previously, Graham was on the Board of Advisors and a Senior Vice President at Covad Communications as well as the General Manager of the NextWeb Wireless division until November 2006. Prior to the merger between NextWeb and Covad (completed in February 2006) he was the CEO and founder of NextWeb, Inc. He has over 25 years of experience in wireless telecommunications and expertise in most aspects of management, strategic planning, business development, sales, marketing, systems engineering, service and operations in wireless telecommunications domestically and internationally. 

NextWeb was California and Nevada's largest fixed-wireless provider for business, delivering broadband Internet and VOIP service to more than 3,000 enterprise customers. In 2005, Graham was named finalist for the Entrepreneur of the Year Award by Ernst & Young's San Jose office. Also in 2005, NextWeb was named to the prestigious Inc 500 list at position #104, being the #8 company in telecommunications on the Inc 500 list. Additionally, for the second year in a row, NextWeb placed in the Top 5 of the 50 fastest growing Bay Area companies by the East Bay Business Times. NextWeb's service is available to over 200,000 business locations in more than 175 cities throughout California and Nevada.

Previously, as Senior Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Service with Western Multiplex Corporation (subsequently Proxim, now owned by Terabeam), Graham was responsible for sales growth from less than $4M to over $50M through the introduction of the market-leading Lynx and Tsunami spread spectrum radios. He was also a key leader in the team managing the M&A transitions from a private company to a division of a public company (Glenayre Technologies, Inc. - NASDAQ: GEMS) and then back to a private company through a second M&A deal with Ripplewood Holdings. The company was subsequently positioned for a successful initial public offering (IPO) in 2000 at a valuation of approximately $600M. 

Graham entered the USA in 1980 with Harris Corporation (a $2 billion international communications firm, now partly split off to form Harris Stratex) and has completed major projects in six countries in the roles of Resident Engineer, Program Manager, Systems Engineering Manager and Product Manager. Graham has a BSc (Hons) in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College, University of London, and an MBA (Beta Gamma Sigma) from Santa Clara University.