George joined what is now Brakeley Briscoe Inc. in 1969 after four years in sales and marketing with Humble Oil (now Exxon-Mobil).

During his more than five decades counseling non profits, George has served more than 190 institutions and organizations in the United States and overseas in campaign management and strategic consulting, organizational development, capacity-building, and executive search. He has counseled campaigns with goals ranging from $750,000 to $700 million, including 17 campaigns with goals of $100 million or more and recruited fundraising executives for organizations in multiple sectors of the non profit world. His current and recent clients include Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (NY), American University of Armenia, Little Rock Zoo (AR),, Christopher Newport University (VA), Infectious Diseases Society of America (VA), the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History (PA), Cone Health System (NC), Finger Lakes Museum (NY), Norwalk Community College (CT), Centers for Disease Control Foundation (GA), York College (CUNY-the City University of New York), and the Rochester Institute of Technology ( NY). He is a past chairman of the American Association of Fund Raising Counsel (now The Giving Institute).

A graduate of St. Andrew’s School, Princeton University (A.B. in History), and the University of Connecticut (M.B.A.), George served as a Captain for four years in the U.S. Marine Corps (Artillery) and won a bronze medal in the 1,500-meter freestyle (swimming) in the 1964 Military Olympics, in Barcelona, Spain.

A practicing volunteer, he is in his 31st year as secretary of his Princeton class, of which he was president from 1976 to 1986, and Class Agent for his St. Andrew’s School class. At Princeton he has served two terms on the Alumni Council Executive Committee and on the Advisory Council of the Department of History and the Annual Giving Committee. He recently received the Princeton Alumni Council Award for Service to the University. He is a former Trustee of the University of Connecticut Foundation as well as a number of non-profits.

George and his wife Tamara reside in Manchester, VT, he having lived in New Canaan, CT, for more than four decades.