{"position":"Chairman","bio":"Bill Barney is Chairman of Asian Century Equity. During his 25-year tenure as an investor, \r\nboard member and CEO in Asia, Bill Barney assembled and managed some of the \r\nstrongest performing management teams in the region. These teams consistently \r\nachieved the industry's highest growth rates for both EBITDA and revenue growth. \r\nMost recently, Bill co-founded and is Chairman of Modularity, a pioneering company \r\ndedicated to transforming the creation and development of large-scale undersea \r\ncommunications networks through its American-built modular edge data centers and \r\nmodular cable landing station solutions.\r\nEarlier Bill was founder and CEO of Turbidite which he sold in 18 months. Before that, \r\nBill served as Chairman and CEO of Global Cloud Xchange and Reliance Communication.\r\nPrior to these roles, he spent a decade as CEO of Pacnet. He also served as APAC \r\nPresident at MCI Worldcom, VP of AMEA at Global One (now Orange Business Services) \r\nand held leadership roles at AT&T.\r\nAcross the telecom and technology sectors, Bill has been an advocate for regulatory and \r\nindustry change and a major proponent of Cloud Computing and Open networks. He \r\ncurrently serves as Chairman of the Board of Governors for the Pacific \r\nTelecommunications Council (PTC) and is host of PTC\u2019s Digging Into the Future, a Vlog \r\ntalk show featuring discussions with tech CEOs from all over the world. \r\nOver the past two decades, Bill has received numerous accolades for his industry \r\nleadership including DataCloud Asia\u2019s Thought Leadership awards in 2018 and Data \r\nCenter Achievement Award in 2017. Earlier he was voted Best APAC Telecom \r\nExecutive by CommsDay readers in 2009 and named 2008 CEO of the Year by \r\nTelecomAsia. \r\nBill received his MBA from Columbia University and BA from Wesleyan University"}