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An expert in strategic business, marketing and financial communications issues, George has advised CEOs, senior executives, corporations and nonprofit associations over 40 years on strategic growth initiatives, financial services and financial communications issues. A journalism graduate of the University of Illinois, Urbana, George has an MBA from The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School executive management program. He began his career as director of public relations for the Illinois Bankers Association (IBA), after serving a two-year stint in the U.S. Army Intelligence Command. He was named Executive Secretary and Chief Operating Officer of the IBA, a position he held for six years prior to founding Financial Shares Corporation. Active in several organizations, George is a past president of the University of Illinois Alumni Association; past chairman of the State of Illinois Institute of Entrepreneurship Education; past chairman and current board member of EconIllinois; an emeritus advisory board member at Hinsdale Hospital; and, a past chairman of the Deans Advisory Council of the University of Illinois College of Business. He has served on the faculty of the American Bankers Association Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. George has served on the board of directors of SeaBright Insurance Holdings, Inc. (NYSE) and was chairman of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and a member of the Audit Committee. The Company was sold to Enstar Group Limited in February, 2013. He has also served on the Boards of Blue Star Energy (acquired by AEP in 2012) and River Branch Holdings, LLC (acquired by Piper Jaffray Companies in 2016). He currently serves on the boards of directors of two privately held companies: Allsup, Inc. and InteQ. George also serves as a member of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) Retirement Trust Committee. He is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago, the ...