George is a highly skilled technologist with over 30 years ICT and business experience predominately in the Software as a Service (SaaS), big data, Internet of Things (IoT), and network infrastructure areas. He holds a Bachelor of Business (Computing), a Graduate Certificate of Management, and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD).In 2007, George was recognised by Bulletin Magazine as a member of their "Smart 100" list, which identified the 100 brightest individuals in Australia.George has held executive and senior management positions in the Technology, Telecommunications, Banking & Finance, Consumer, and Government sectors.In 2000, George was commissioned by Telstra (Australia’s largest telecommunications company) to lead and personally manage the team which installed Australia’s first national broadband infrastructure network. He was subsequently responsible for $80+ million annual spend to maintain the backbone Internet infrastructure across Australia and overseas.In 2005, George founded a start-up technology business, which specialised in developing and selling world-first multi-award winning digital media technology for the automotive, carrier, smartphone, and consumer electronics sectors. These included media directory services, cloud-based streaming media services, hardware design and manufacture, and infrastructure services.George successfully listed his company, Connexion Media Limited (ASX:CXZ), on the ASX in August 2014. During his time as CEO, George oversaw the development and commercialisation of a number of innovative multi-award winning ICT products and services to an international market, and has extensively travelled across Europe, USA, Asia, and India promoting and marketing the Company’s products and services.In April 2016, Connexion’s partner General Motors (NYSE:GM) officially launched the new Commercial Link service to vehicle customers in the USA, developed by Connexion. Commercial Link is the world’s first service of its kind to be designed and developed using embedded in-vehicle connectivity. George has extensive experience in corporate strategy, product commercialisation, and international trade, providing a unique mix of product and service innovation, infrastructure planning and deployment, structured corporate governance, senior management experience, stakeholder management, and global market experience.
Listed skills include Mobile Applications, Networking, Telecommunications, Governance, and 11 others.