Barry M. George (born October 28, 1956) an innovated technology executive, billed by some as the "Father of Disciplined Distribution and Managed Market Development,"
Early Life
Barry grew up in San Francisco attending Saint Gabriel's Elementary School and St. Ignatius College Preparatory. The only son of first generation Italian Americans, Barry was influenced by the seemingly contradictory elements of Catholicism and the Hippie Movement. In reality Barry was impacted by the fluidity of Socio-Economic change. His family was part of the lower-middle class and struggled to make ends meet.
St. Ignatius proved to be a highly influential segment of Barry's life. All of his instructors had Masters degrees and many had or were pursuing a PhD. In addition this Jesuit environment instilled a responsibility to serve not just personal gain. Unknown to Barry, his parents could not afford the tuition at SI. It was only due to the generosity of Father Carlin that Barry was able to continue. Fr. Carlin made arrangements for 7 semesters of tuition to be provided in return for the endless fund raising work on the part of Barry's parents; Angelo and Dorothy. Barry was also blessed with sponsorship into the exclusive Olympic Club in 1972 at the age of 16. Two years later at 18, Barry became the youngest commissioner (physical fitness) in the history of the club.
As a late athletic bloomer, Barry worked hard to become the starting center on the SI Varsity football team his senior year. This one-year-wonder, achieved all league, all section and second team all Northern California status. This success led Barry to the University of California at Davis where he joined the Variety Football team as a Freshman in 1974. Injury and immaturity resulted in Barry returning to San Francisco after his Freshman year. Barry graduated from University of San Francisco in 1979, having worked nights parking cars on at night and attending classes by day. He graduated with a Bachelors degree in 1979 in Economics.
Personal Life
Life changes for the better, much better, in February 1982, when in February Barry met Evy Melgaard at a travel agency in Covina, California. Not only would Evy and Barry get married in October of that same year, but Evy brought Barry to his first non-demoninational Christian Churck, Calvary Chapel in Huntington Beach. Not only did Barry accept Jesus as his personal Lord and Savior that Sunday, but Barry's life changed that day. Now the obligation to give from his Catholic- Jesuit upbringing was replaced with a joyous desire to be a servant of all.
During the years since 1982, Barry, Evy and their children, Christin and Lauren have sought to preach the gospel and impact the lives of their neighborhood, street and city. In addition, Barry helps Christian Business Owners & Executives through .
Job Jumping
Like so many others within the technology industry, Barry has 9 different jobs in his 30 years of employment. It’s difficult to determine why there was so much job jumping in the technology field. Much has been written to suggest that it is simple greed. Actually, it seems that as public companies become more and more short sighted to meet the “fast money” demands of shareholders that mid and senior level management has become more transient.
There were times that Barry struggeled with blending his Christianity with the money first world of technology. He recieved guidence from Al Houghton of Word ad Work Ministries in Yorba Linda, California.
Sales Director at Toshiba
VP/General Manager at SMC Networks
VP/General Manager at Siemens Business Services
Executive VP at Impact Ventures
Executive Vice President at D-Link
Regional VP at CORE International
Regional Vice President at CompuCom
Owner of Computerland, Lafayette, California
Operations Manager at Computerland Corporation
References
* TechBiz: http://new.techbizconnection.org/events-2009-01.html
* ChannelWeb : http://www.crn.com/it-channel/18817535
* Business Wire: http://www.thefreelibrary.com/D-Link+Executive+Leaves+To+Form+Marketing+Firm%3B+Barry+M.+George...-a018840922
* BuyTV: http://www.buy.com/videoclip/Toshiba-Portege-R500-S5001X/366.html
Early Life
Barry grew up in San Francisco attending Saint Gabriel's Elementary School and St. Ignatius College Preparatory. The only son of first generation Italian Americans, Barry was influenced by the seemingly contradictory elements of Catholicism and the Hippie Movement. In reality Barry was impacted by the fluidity of Socio-Economic change. His family was part of the lower-middle class and struggled to make ends meet.
St. Ignatius proved to be a highly influential segment of Barry's life. All of his instructors had Masters degrees and many had or were pursuing a PhD. In addition this Jesuit environment instilled a responsibility to serve not just personal gain. Unknown to Barry, his parents could not afford the tuition at SI. It was only due to the generosity of Father Carlin that Barry was able to continue. Fr. Carlin made arrangements for 7 semesters of tuition to be provided in return for the endless fund raising work on the part of Barry's parents; Angelo and Dorothy. Barry was also blessed with sponsorship into the exclusive Olympic Club in 1972 at the age of 16. Two years later at 18, Barry became the youngest commissioner (physical fitness) in the history of the club.
As a late athletic bloomer, Barry worked hard to become the starting center on the SI Varsity football team his senior year. This one-year-wonder, achieved all league, all section and second team all Northern California status. This success led Barry to the University of California at Davis where he joined the Variety Football team as a Freshman in 1974. Injury and immaturity resulted in Barry returning to San Francisco after his Freshman year. Barry graduated from University of San Francisco in 1979, having worked nights parking cars on at night and attending classes by day. He graduated with a Bachelors degree in 1979 in Economics.
Personal Life
Life changes for the better, much better, in February 1982, when in February Barry met Evy Melgaard at a travel agency in Covina, California. Not only would Evy and Barry get married in October of that same year, but Evy brought Barry to his first non-demoninational Christian Churck, Calvary Chapel in Huntington Beach. Not only did Barry accept Jesus as his personal Lord and Savior that Sunday, but Barry's life changed that day. Now the obligation to give from his Catholic- Jesuit upbringing was replaced with a joyous desire to be a servant of all.
During the years since 1982, Barry, Evy and their children, Christin and Lauren have sought to preach the gospel and impact the lives of their neighborhood, street and city. In addition, Barry helps Christian Business Owners & Executives through .
Job Jumping
Like so many others within the technology industry, Barry has 9 different jobs in his 30 years of employment. It’s difficult to determine why there was so much job jumping in the technology field. Much has been written to suggest that it is simple greed. Actually, it seems that as public companies become more and more short sighted to meet the “fast money” demands of shareholders that mid and senior level management has become more transient.
There were times that Barry struggeled with blending his Christianity with the money first world of technology. He recieved guidence from Al Houghton of Word ad Work Ministries in Yorba Linda, California.
Sales Director at Toshiba
VP/General Manager at SMC Networks
VP/General Manager at Siemens Business Services
Executive VP at Impact Ventures
Executive Vice President at D-Link
Regional VP at CORE International
Regional Vice President at CompuCom
Owner of Computerland, Lafayette, California
Operations Manager at Computerland Corporation
References
* TechBiz: http://new.techbizconnection.org/events-2009-01.html
* ChannelWeb : http://www.crn.com/it-channel/18817535
* Business Wire: http://www.thefreelibrary.com/D-Link+Executive+Leaves+To+Form+Marketing+Firm%3B+Barry+M.+George...-a018840922
* BuyTV: http://www.buy.com/videoclip/Toshiba-Portege-R500-S5001X/366.html
Fred M. Levin is a practicing psychotherapist in Chicago, Illinois as well as an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago and Evanston, Illinois.
He is a member of a number of psychoanalysis medical societies such as the International Psychoanalytic Association, the American Psychoanalytic Association , American College of Psychoanalysts, the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society and a life fellow at the American Psychiatric Association.
He has contributed to scholarly publications and written books, including: Mapping the Mind (1991), Psyche and Brain (2003), Psychotherapy Pearls (2006) and Emotion and the Psychodynamics of the Cerebellum (2009) .
After graduating from medical school during the Vietnam War, he volunteered to serve his country and was the director of an army hospital in Vietnam.
He is fluent in both Japanese and Sign language and has conducted pioneering work on mental illness of the deaf and establishing the MENDAC Institute (Mental Health Needs of Deaf Adults and Children) while at Michael Reese Hospital. While in Japan, he taught at Fukushima University.
He is a member of a number of psychoanalysis medical societies such as the International Psychoanalytic Association, the American Psychoanalytic Association , American College of Psychoanalysts, the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society and a life fellow at the American Psychiatric Association.
He has contributed to scholarly publications and written books, including: Mapping the Mind (1991), Psyche and Brain (2003), Psychotherapy Pearls (2006) and Emotion and the Psychodynamics of the Cerebellum (2009) .
After graduating from medical school during the Vietnam War, he volunteered to serve his country and was the director of an army hospital in Vietnam.
He is fluent in both Japanese and Sign language and has conducted pioneering work on mental illness of the deaf and establishing the MENDAC Institute (Mental Health Needs of Deaf Adults and Children) while at Michael Reese Hospital. While in Japan, he taught at Fukushima University.
Elixir Technology is a Singapore based company with a R&D arm in the United Kingdom specializing in the development of Business Intelligence (BI) software. The company currently has over 600 customers across 50 countries.
History
Elixir was founded in 1993 by Shih-Hor Lau and Jonathan Priddey, where both were co-workers in Singapore Government’s applied R&D institute, Information Technology Institute, involved in development of several software engineering tools.
*1994: Launched a series of CASE tools developed in Visual Basic including Elixir Rite Scenario Editor and Elixir Rote State Model Editor, and subsequently LORE Enforcement Toolset to supporting Elixir’s own LORE object-oriented method. Provided training, consultancy and software development services for several years based on Object technology.
*1997: Launched LOREx2 for Java for forward and reverse engineering of Java code and design. Subsequently renamed to Elixir CASE to signify support for UML. Received JARS.com award.
*1998: Launched Elixir IDE, a programmer's editor targeted at professional Java developers, built entirely in Java Swing. Received JARS.com award.
*1999: Launched Elixir Report, a standalone Java reporting tool with royalty-free embeddable runtime. Received JARS.com award.
*2001: Launched Elixir Report Server for high scalability report generation.
*2003: Ceased support for Elixir IDE and Elixir CASE due to viable open source alternatives. Company turned its focus to Business Intelligence.
*2004: Launched Elixir Ensemble, a data transformation tool that addresses Extract-Transform-Load requirements as well as an embedded data engine for reporting.
*2005: Launched Elixir Report with Elixir Ensemble as its data engine. The beginning of an integrated business intelligence suite.
*2006: Launched Elixir Dashboard and Elixir Choreographer for Event Scheduling, completing the Elixir Repertoire Suite for Integrated Business Intelligence.
*2007: Launched Elixir Repertoire 7.0 on SOA with REST-based Business Intelligence Web Services. Won awards from Mittelstand in Germany, APICTA in Singapore, Red Herring Asia, and Deloitte Technology.
*2008: Introduced Web Content Mashup for Business Intelligence. Named Red Herring 100 Asia Finalist for the Most Innovative Technology Companies.
Products
Elixir Repertoire (Version 7 is the latest release) is an Integrated Business Intelligence(BI) suite that provides out-of-box the below BI services in a SOA-based environment:
* Data ETL: Data Aggregation, Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) with Cube and Data Cleansing
* Reporting: Enterprise Reporting and Information Delivery for Web, Print and Mobile
* Dashboard: Information Dashboard for Data Analysis and Scorecard Navigation for Performance Management
* Scheduler: Data Activation and Process Automation for Performance Monitoring
Achievements
* Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2007
Awarded one of the 500 fastest growing technology companies from Australia, China, Japan, India, South Korea and other countries in the Asia Pacific region.
* APICTA Award Team Singapore 2007 - Tools & Infrastructure Application Category
Winner in Asia Pacific Information and Communication Technology Alliance Award for Team Singapore in Tools and Infrastructure Application category.
* Red Herring 100 Asia Finalist for the Most Innovative Technology Companies in 2007 and in 2008 for the top 100 cutting edge companies amongst 1,000 submissions from Asia.
* German Middle Innovation Award 2007 by Initiative Mittelstand - Reporting Category
Winner of the German Middle Innovation Award 2007 in the category of Reporting.
History
Elixir was founded in 1993 by Shih-Hor Lau and Jonathan Priddey, where both were co-workers in Singapore Government’s applied R&D institute, Information Technology Institute, involved in development of several software engineering tools.
*1994: Launched a series of CASE tools developed in Visual Basic including Elixir Rite Scenario Editor and Elixir Rote State Model Editor, and subsequently LORE Enforcement Toolset to supporting Elixir’s own LORE object-oriented method. Provided training, consultancy and software development services for several years based on Object technology.
*1997: Launched LOREx2 for Java for forward and reverse engineering of Java code and design. Subsequently renamed to Elixir CASE to signify support for UML. Received JARS.com award.
*1998: Launched Elixir IDE, a programmer's editor targeted at professional Java developers, built entirely in Java Swing. Received JARS.com award.
*1999: Launched Elixir Report, a standalone Java reporting tool with royalty-free embeddable runtime. Received JARS.com award.
*2001: Launched Elixir Report Server for high scalability report generation.
*2003: Ceased support for Elixir IDE and Elixir CASE due to viable open source alternatives. Company turned its focus to Business Intelligence.
*2004: Launched Elixir Ensemble, a data transformation tool that addresses Extract-Transform-Load requirements as well as an embedded data engine for reporting.
*2005: Launched Elixir Report with Elixir Ensemble as its data engine. The beginning of an integrated business intelligence suite.
*2006: Launched Elixir Dashboard and Elixir Choreographer for Event Scheduling, completing the Elixir Repertoire Suite for Integrated Business Intelligence.
*2007: Launched Elixir Repertoire 7.0 on SOA with REST-based Business Intelligence Web Services. Won awards from Mittelstand in Germany, APICTA in Singapore, Red Herring Asia, and Deloitte Technology.
*2008: Introduced Web Content Mashup for Business Intelligence. Named Red Herring 100 Asia Finalist for the Most Innovative Technology Companies.
Products
Elixir Repertoire (Version 7 is the latest release) is an Integrated Business Intelligence(BI) suite that provides out-of-box the below BI services in a SOA-based environment:
* Data ETL: Data Aggregation, Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) with Cube and Data Cleansing
* Reporting: Enterprise Reporting and Information Delivery for Web, Print and Mobile
* Dashboard: Information Dashboard for Data Analysis and Scorecard Navigation for Performance Management
* Scheduler: Data Activation and Process Automation for Performance Monitoring
Achievements
* Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2007
Awarded one of the 500 fastest growing technology companies from Australia, China, Japan, India, South Korea and other countries in the Asia Pacific region.
* APICTA Award Team Singapore 2007 - Tools & Infrastructure Application Category
Winner in Asia Pacific Information and Communication Technology Alliance Award for Team Singapore in Tools and Infrastructure Application category.
* Red Herring 100 Asia Finalist for the Most Innovative Technology Companies in 2007 and in 2008 for the top 100 cutting edge companies amongst 1,000 submissions from Asia.
* German Middle Innovation Award 2007 by Initiative Mittelstand - Reporting Category
Winner of the German Middle Innovation Award 2007 in the category of Reporting.
"Yesmoke" is a cigarette brand produced by Yesmoke Tobacco SpA of Torino, Italy.
The tobaccos used in Yesmoke cigarettes come from 6 different countries and they are basically three types: Toasted Burley, Virginia (Flue-Cured) and Oriental. A specific combination of these three tobaccos makes up the so-called "American Blend", the most widely used in the world.
Flavors
Available in 4 flavours:
Red (regular)
Silver (medium)
White (lights)
Design
Venturethree, London, UK.
History
The Yesmoke brand was born in Balerna, a little village in the Italian part of Switzerland, on the 1st of January 2000. Before becoming a cigarette brand, Yesmoke was the world’s largest online tobacco store, with more than 6 million cartons of 200 cigarettes sold every year: Marlboro, Camel, Winston and all the most popular brands. For some people this was a cigarette smuggling operation; for others it was the opening of an innovative, legitimate distribution channel.
The shop, after a legal war with Philip Morris, was forced to surrender on November 16th, 2004 when two hundred U.S. agents stormed the J.F. Kennedy Airport in New York, blocked a DHL Boeing 757 cargo coming from Switzerland, and seized 150'000 cartons of cigarettes destined for distribution in the United States, where Yesmoke had the majority of its customers.
In the summer of 2005 Yesmoke began moving to Italy. And on August 7th 2007, 7 years, 7 months and 7 days after Yesmoke’s birth, they inaugurated at Settimo (literally "Seventh"), near Torino, a cigarette production factory, identical to those of multinational cigarette manufacturers, with a production capacity of 50 million cartons per year of the new cigarette brand "Yesmoke".
Conflicts
Philip Morris in 2001 started up a lawsuit for “unfair competition” and “copyright violations”, accusing the Yesmoke shop of selling to American citizens Marlboro cigarettes destined for the European market. Philip Morris’s lawsuit went on for more than two years, bringing the company into the headlines of newspapers and televisions.
A federal law, known as the Imported Cigarette Compliance Act of 2000, prohibits the importation of cigarettes into the United States bearing registered U.S. trademarks without the authorization of the trademark owner. That law is enforced by the United States Customs Service, and PM USA has notified Customs that it has not authorized the importation of any PM USA-branded cigarettes into the United States.
In January 2000, Yesmoke had started selling online to American customers Marlboro cigarettes, made in the European Union, Switzerland and the Philippines, that were not destined to the American market. Philip Morris invoked the above federal law and in December 2003 won the lawsuit.
After the 2003 sentence in its favour, Philip Morris made a claim of 548 million dollars in damage compensation. In the history of United States legislation, this would have been the highest claim for damages for the alleged offence of Copyright Infringement and Unfair Competition.
In spite of the 2003 sentence in favour of Philip Morris, the USPS (United States Postal Service) continued to deliver the cigarettes regularly to Americans smokers, under the American Federal Law, that sanctions the right of the citizens to import cigarettes from abroad, with customs declaration and payment of the customs duties (which, however, the Customs Bureau continued to ignore).
After August 20th 2004, when Philip Morris took possession of the Yesmoke.com domain and the online store transferred to its Swiss address Yesmoke.ch, the USPS went on delivering the cigarettes.
On November 16th, 2004 200 U.S. agents blocked a DHL Boeing 757 cargo coming from Switzerland, and seized 150'000 cartons of cigarettes. At the same time, newspapers and televisions programs reported: "No one had ever seen a blitz like this one: no less than nine Federal, State and local investigation agencies began an interminable inspection at New York's JFK Airport”.
Goals
"Yesmoke’s project goes well beyond competition against other producers. It is a battleship ready to direct all its resources to the financial downfall of the cigarette manufacturing cartel. The final objective is to extirpate the Big Tobacco blister from society".
External links
History:
*The blitz at New York's JFK Airport
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Conflicts:
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*[http://www.philipmorrisusa.com/en/about_us/media/press_releases/articles/PR_August_20_2004_FCTODNTPMU.asp Philipmorrisusa.com: Federal Court Transfers Otamedia (Yesmoke) Domain Names to Philip Morris USA]
*[http://www.philipmorrisusa.com/en/about_us/media/press_releases/articles/PR_3_14_2005_FCOOTPPMUMIDFTI.asp Philipmorrisusa.com: Federal Court Orders Otamedia (Yesmoke) to Pay Philip Morris USA $173 Million in Damages for Trademark Infringement]
*Yesmoke.com (Philip Morris USA)
The tobaccos used in Yesmoke cigarettes come from 6 different countries and they are basically three types: Toasted Burley, Virginia (Flue-Cured) and Oriental. A specific combination of these three tobaccos makes up the so-called "American Blend", the most widely used in the world.
Flavors
Available in 4 flavours:
Red (regular)
Silver (medium)
White (lights)
Design
Venturethree, London, UK.
History
The Yesmoke brand was born in Balerna, a little village in the Italian part of Switzerland, on the 1st of January 2000. Before becoming a cigarette brand, Yesmoke was the world’s largest online tobacco store, with more than 6 million cartons of 200 cigarettes sold every year: Marlboro, Camel, Winston and all the most popular brands. For some people this was a cigarette smuggling operation; for others it was the opening of an innovative, legitimate distribution channel.
The shop, after a legal war with Philip Morris, was forced to surrender on November 16th, 2004 when two hundred U.S. agents stormed the J.F. Kennedy Airport in New York, blocked a DHL Boeing 757 cargo coming from Switzerland, and seized 150'000 cartons of cigarettes destined for distribution in the United States, where Yesmoke had the majority of its customers.
In the summer of 2005 Yesmoke began moving to Italy. And on August 7th 2007, 7 years, 7 months and 7 days after Yesmoke’s birth, they inaugurated at Settimo (literally "Seventh"), near Torino, a cigarette production factory, identical to those of multinational cigarette manufacturers, with a production capacity of 50 million cartons per year of the new cigarette brand "Yesmoke".
Conflicts
Philip Morris in 2001 started up a lawsuit for “unfair competition” and “copyright violations”, accusing the Yesmoke shop of selling to American citizens Marlboro cigarettes destined for the European market. Philip Morris’s lawsuit went on for more than two years, bringing the company into the headlines of newspapers and televisions.
A federal law, known as the Imported Cigarette Compliance Act of 2000, prohibits the importation of cigarettes into the United States bearing registered U.S. trademarks without the authorization of the trademark owner. That law is enforced by the United States Customs Service, and PM USA has notified Customs that it has not authorized the importation of any PM USA-branded cigarettes into the United States.
In January 2000, Yesmoke had started selling online to American customers Marlboro cigarettes, made in the European Union, Switzerland and the Philippines, that were not destined to the American market. Philip Morris invoked the above federal law and in December 2003 won the lawsuit.
After the 2003 sentence in its favour, Philip Morris made a claim of 548 million dollars in damage compensation. In the history of United States legislation, this would have been the highest claim for damages for the alleged offence of Copyright Infringement and Unfair Competition.
In spite of the 2003 sentence in favour of Philip Morris, the USPS (United States Postal Service) continued to deliver the cigarettes regularly to Americans smokers, under the American Federal Law, that sanctions the right of the citizens to import cigarettes from abroad, with customs declaration and payment of the customs duties (which, however, the Customs Bureau continued to ignore).
After August 20th 2004, when Philip Morris took possession of the Yesmoke.com domain and the online store transferred to its Swiss address Yesmoke.ch, the USPS went on delivering the cigarettes.
On November 16th, 2004 200 U.S. agents blocked a DHL Boeing 757 cargo coming from Switzerland, and seized 150'000 cartons of cigarettes. At the same time, newspapers and televisions programs reported: "No one had ever seen a blitz like this one: no less than nine Federal, State and local investigation agencies began an interminable inspection at New York's JFK Airport”.
Goals
"Yesmoke’s project goes well beyond competition against other producers. It is a battleship ready to direct all its resources to the financial downfall of the cigarette manufacturing cartel. The final objective is to extirpate the Big Tobacco blister from society".
External links
History:
*The blitz at New York's JFK Airport
*
*
*
*
Conflicts:
*
*[http://www.philipmorrisusa.com/en/about_us/media/press_releases/articles/PR_August_20_2004_FCTODNTPMU.asp Philipmorrisusa.com: Federal Court Transfers Otamedia (Yesmoke) Domain Names to Philip Morris USA]
*[http://www.philipmorrisusa.com/en/about_us/media/press_releases/articles/PR_3_14_2005_FCOOTPPMUMIDFTI.asp Philipmorrisusa.com: Federal Court Orders Otamedia (Yesmoke) to Pay Philip Morris USA $173 Million in Damages for Trademark Infringement]
*Yesmoke.com (Philip Morris USA)