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As founder and CEO of Forrester Research George is one of the most influential thought leaders in the world of technology. During his 25-year career George has become a trusted advisor to CEOs of leading global companies by providing forward-looking and pragmatic analysis on the impact of technology change on business.
Under George's leadership Forrester operates with the vision that "technology changes everything" business society government and consumers. Since Forrester's inception in 1983 its commitment to this vision has created one of the most successful technology and market research firms worldwide garnering accolades from Forbes magazine as one of the "200 best small companies in America" for five consecutive years. In 2006 Forrester was included in the Business 2.0 magazine list of the "100 fastest growing technology companies."
George's "direct approach and refreshing candor " as noted by BusinessWeek is one of the key reasons why executives seek his guidance on technology strategies IT and personal technology trends and a range of leadership issues. Throughout his career George has made provocative tenacious and groundbreaking technology calls including the birth of client/server computing the dot-com implosion the rise of Social Computing and the burgeoning opportunities enabled by the extended Internet (X Internet) which connects the physical world of things to the digital world of information.
George has participated in the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos Switzerland for the past five years. There he has spoken on panels covering key business technology issues such as the demise of the Internet bubble the future of open source and the evolution of global Innovation Networks. George has also addressed other national and international audiences including the 2006 Fortune Brainstorm conference in Aspen Colo.; the Houston CIO Executive Summit; the Fortune Global Forum 2005 in Beijing; the SBS Seoul Digital Forum 2005; the United Nations conference "The Net World Order: Bridging the Global Digital Divide"; and the ICT World Forum @ CeBIT the most prestigious IT and communications event in Europe.
George's analysis has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal The London Times The Economist Wired BusinessWeek Forbes The Financial Times and The New York Times among numerous other publications and he has been interviewed on prominent broadcast outlets such as CNN CNBC and National Public Radio.
George was a 2006 recipient of the national Ernst & Young "Entrepreneur of the Year Award" in the Services category.
George is a graduate of Harvard University. | 