About BRI
Management Team
Jeff Cornejo
As cofounder of Blue Ridge InternetWorks, Jeff Cornejo, is responsible for providing customers with the best technological strategies by drawing on his experience with large business information systems, Internet technologies, and business processes.
Prior to this he was the Director of Information Technology Systems at Crutchfield Corporation, the nation’s leading catalog and Internet supplier of audio and video products for car and home. In this position he was responsible for designing and maintaining Crutchfield’s computing, networking, and telecommunications infrastructure across multiple call centers and distribution centers.
Mr. Cornejo has extensive experience in many aspects of the Information Technology arena including networks, operating systems, databases, programming languages, project management, design and development methodologies.
Baylor Fooks
Prior to co-founding Blue Ridge InternetWorks, Baylor Fooks served both as President of internet service provider RLC Internet and Chief Technology Officer of Musictoday.com. During his seven-year tenure, these companies grew from small organizations to multi-site businesses serving more than a hundred e-commerce clients.
In addition to being a top personalized music portal site, Musictoday.com offers complete ticketing and merchandising services to entertainment industry clients including Dave Matthews Band, Santana, Napster, and SFX Entertainment. Operations consisted of e-commerce, phone/mail order, fulfillment, customer service, and accounting. Mr. Fooks oversaw operation and development of all systems. Major technologies included products from Microsoft, Great Plains, Nortel, and Cisco.
Musictoday.com owned and operated RLC Internet, a local ISP serving local Internet access and hosting demand. Mr. Fooks oversaw the construction and implementation of a reliable data center for this operation.
Ralf Mann
VP of Business Development
Ralf Mann is a native of the Central Virginia area. He grew up in Lynchburg, Virginia and came to Charlottesville in 1989. Mr. Mann graduated from the University of Virginia in 1995 with a degree in Civil Engineering. During his two year tenure with the Albemarle County Service Authority, Mr. Mann introduced the Internet, GIS and GPS Mapping. This innovative approach using technology sparked his interest in IT technologies and ultimately resulted in a career change to Information Technology.
Mr. Mann has enjoyed a 12 year history providing IT Consulting Services and Software Development Services in the Central Virginia area. As an original founder of a Local SMB VoIP Vendor and an Internet development and hosting firm, Mr. Mann has taken the lessons and successes he acquired from these experiences and applied to the management of the BRI Consulting Group and heading Business Development for Blue Ridge InternetWorks.