Bill Barney is Chairman of Asian Century Equity. During his 25-year tenure as an investor, 
board member and CEO in Asia, Bill Barney assembled and managed some of the 
strongest performing management teams in the region. These teams consistently 
achieved the industry's highest growth rates for both EBITDA and revenue growth. 
Most recently, Bill co-founded and is Chairman of Modularity, a pioneering company 
dedicated to transforming the creation and development of large-scale undersea 
communications networks through its American-built modular edge data centers and 
modular cable landing station solutions.
Earlier Bill was founder and CEO of Turbidite which he sold in 18 months. Before that, 
Bill served as Chairman and CEO of Global Cloud Xchange and Reliance Communication.
Prior to these roles, he spent a decade as CEO of Pacnet. He also served as APAC 
President at MCI Worldcom, VP of AMEA at Global One (now Orange Business Services) 
and held leadership roles at AT&T.
Across the telecom and technology sectors, Bill has been an advocate for regulatory and 
industry change and a major proponent of Cloud Computing and Open networks. He 
currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Governors for the Pacific 
Telecommunications Council (PTC) and is host of PTC’s Digging Into the Future, a Vlog 
talk show featuring discussions with tech CEOs from all over the world. 
Over the past two decades, Bill has received numerous accolades for his industry 
leadership including DataCloud Asia’s Thought Leadership awards in 2018 and Data 
Center Achievement Award in 2017. Earlier he was voted Best APAC Telecom 
Executive by CommsDay readers in 2009 and named 2008 CEO of the Year by 
TelecomAsia. 
Bill received his MBA from Columbia University and BA from Wesleyan University