is a seasoned executive and educator in the financial services industry. After
receiving an MBA from University of California at Berkeley, Mr. George was a McKinsey consultant before joining Citibank.

During a 29-year career with the bank, he served as a Senior Credit Officer and in a variety of senior managerial positions in the US and several international locations.

Mr. George’s accomplishments include: managing the turnaround and sale of a retail bank in the US; effecting a turnaround of Citibank’s Middle East regional loan administration and treasury operations centre; negotiating a sovereign debt restructuring and workout plan for a major developing country; establishing a business development strategy and executing a marketing plan for retail products in east Asia; underwriting numerous commercial real estate projects for national developers; assessing problem resolution strategies for major real estate workouts in the US, Canada and Australia; managing a secured finance and securitisation business; launching global sales financing partnership programmes with major corporate customers.

Throughout his career at Citibank, Mr. George participated as an educator and consultant at the bank’s Institute for Global Finance, focusing on improving the credit and product skills of bank officers.

Since 1999, Mr. George has been an independent consultant and educator. Contracts have included: 1) as CEO, a 16-month engagement to stabilise the
operations and divest a Washington, DC-based Internet / Community bank; 2) as a consultant, a continuing engagement to introduce sophisticated corporate finance techniques to the largest commercial bank in Korea; and 3) as an advisor to a New York law firm specialising in bank litigation.

Mr. George is an Adjunct Professor instructing graduate students in global finance at the Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.

Mr. George lives with his family near Lake Tahoe, California, and in New York City. He travels frequently to Washington, DC, and to Seoul, Korea.