I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done.

Between March and July 2009 construction crews working for Barksdale's Spread Networks completed a nearly straight fiber-optic link between Chicago and New York City. James Love Barksdale (born January 24 1943 in Jackson Mississippi) is an American executive who served as the president and CEO of Netscape Communications Corporation from January 1995 until the company merged with AOL in March 1999. He has three children and five grandchildren.