George is Senior Vice President for Client Relations for Innovative Resources Group. For nearly twenty-five years, George has guided a broad spectrum of organizations and institutions including some of the nation’s leading private and public universities, independent schools, arts and cultural organizations, and environmental and social service organizations.

Renowned for his ability to take the reins for open key staff positions on an interim basis, George has provided astute leadership to dramatically build capacity for growing and evolving institutions and organizations. He has helped to transform development operations with his unique ability to energize, focus and mobilize staff to get out of their offices and meet with prospects and steward donors. He brings significant expertise in the design and implementation of comprehensive campaigns that do not allow essential operating support to erode as capital and endowment funds are successfully obtained.

George has earned a reputation as a “hands on” counsel who does not offer advice from 33,000 feet. The organizations he works with consider him a trusted advisor who rolls up his sleeves and works side by side with the CEO, Board and the senior staff to set strategic priorities that attract major support to the mission and impact of nonprofits nationwide.

George has extensive experience as a speaker and chair of numerous professional conferences for such nationally-recognized organizations as the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), National Annual Giving Directors Consortium (NAGDC), Sharing the Annual Fund Fundamentals (STAFF), and the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP).

An active volunteer, George has worked with the Providence Black Repertory Company, the Utica Symphony Orchestra, The Genesis Group, an economic development organization in his native Utica, New York, and serves as President of the Providence Regional Alumni Association and the Alumni Council for his alma mater Hamilton College. Fluent in Arabic and Spanish, George has traveled widely and has a keen interest in politics, international relations and diplomacy, and his two favorite professional sports teams, the Boston Red Sox and the New England Patriots.

George earned an A.B. from Hamilton College and studied international relations at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He resides in Providence, Rhode Island.