Driving awareness and market adoption of RAIN technology, creating a smarter and more sustainable world for the billions of people on the planet using RAIN RFID technology to interconnect trillions of objects simply and inexpensively.

Platform business models and ecosystem are a key part of future Telco strategies, offering the potential for massive growth. At the SPO lab George has lead the development of tools and strategies for managing ecosystem development and Platform business model design.

boobil is an online enterprise SaaS marketplace enabling buyers and sellers to handle the complexity of buying and managing multiple SaaS products. In my role as CMO I have been responsible for establishing the product/market fit using lean startup techniques. I have also been responsible for developing bobbil's online B2B marketing presence and management of sales to vendors and large telcos.

HG Telekom is a small consulting and training firm focused on the communications industry: We have worked on numerous medium and long term contracts for companies such as Huawei, Axiata, TM Fourm, HP, the billing association and the OSS/J initiative. In addition I have mentored the management teams of startups. Key activities of the company have included:- Business strategy development- Providing membership development and executive staff to the TM Forum- Awarded an exclusive partnership with the OSS/J initiative to create and run their training program.- Definition of product benchmarking program for large Asian telco infrastructure provider- Program management of a customer experience big data analytics program for large Asian telco holding company.- Business development and mentoring for startups- Requirements development and program management.

Mercury Creative is a digital agency that helps businesses drive customer engagement. We bring together exceptional design, technology and market leadership to develop and deploy digital, marketing and product strategic plans.In this role I am primarily tasked with growing Mercury Creative's European customer base.

As a senior executive within the Forum I managed the membership global sales and account management teams. I was instrumental in growing membership from 300 to over 800 companies. My team were responsible for over $10M in sales. During this time I also established the Forum’s global training and certification function. In this role I was able to combine a strong technical knowledge with a commercial acumen to ensure the rapid growth into a multimillion dollar business in the space of 2.5 years. I established and ran the industry changing TM Forum conformance program. This program has lead to over 3 out of every 5 SPs requesting product conformance to the Forum standards, and over 60 products assessed in the first 2 years. George lead the Development the Fourm’s benchmarking program in to an industry leading source for performance knowledge. The benchmarking program boasts some of the largest benchmarks ever undertaken including over 40 Telecoms service providers participating in the 2013 Customer experience management program. Training and Benchmarking were then used as a platform to launch more focused advisory professional services.

PurpleAce is a provider of Technology that enables the rapid discovery of content through viral marketing and community services. It is a singapore based company that has considerable success with its products in Asia. I was responsible for development of the European Business for PurpleAce, in particular sales and marketing into European telcos.

I was elevated to the executive team as the head of global development. I was given the responsibility for the turn around of a newly acquired billing company. This was achieved quite quickly in financial terms but significant business development work was required to keep it there. I left CMG in 2002 to set up my own company.

I was promoted from MD to VP of Global R+D, with responsibility for over 500 software engineers.The product portfolio covered WAP, SMS, MMS, email, USSD and other communications products. At the time the SMS products were well established but WAP and MMS were just starting. The role required co-ordination between the executive board, marketing/sales and the development teams. Strong program management skills were required to manage the various groups input. One of the chief challenges was to raise the quality of development output to meet Telco requirements. The CMMI program was introduced and one faciltlity reached CMMI level 4 on its first assessment.

CMG WDS, part of the CMG company, was the leading producer of mobile communications technology, particularly in SMS, MMS and Mobile Email. In my role as MD I was responsible for the establishment of a new R+D facility in Cork and growing that team to over 120 engineers in 6 months. The role also required collaboration with the executive board in Holland, as well as other R+D facilities in CMG WDS. The team worked on SMS and WAP gateways and created the worlds first real time rating capability for data communications.

Motorola in Cork was responsible for the development of the operations and maintenance centre for Motorloa's GSM offering. I ran development teams focusing on- pre-op launch of the first OMC for active deployment in Europe- MMI and Comms infrastructure- Fault tolerant platforms- Use of AI techniques for fault detection.- OMC DBMS

DCA was the world leader in networking infrastructure and pc/mainframe integration. I headed up the new R+D facility in shannon.

CPT was the major competitor to Compucorp in the provision of dedicated word processors. My role there was to work on the design their first laptop: Specifically- Head of software design for the communications sub system (ISO OSI, SNA, SDLC, X.25, RS242/232)- Hardware ASIIC debugging

Compucorp was the leading supplier of dedicated word processors. As an engineer I had responsibility for:- automated integration with SNA based mainframes/DBMS- Design of comes subsystem for first fault tolerant desktop server