Experienced CEO and Entrepreneur with over 20 years in the software and technology industry. Active board member with particular strengths in starting, growing and scaling innovative software technology businesses. Successful exit of four different software and technology businesses. Substantial experience in managing all aspects of early stage companies through to venture backed and private equity funded growth stage companies. Strengths in strategic market development, building operational sales teams, recruiting excellent management teams, raising finance and setting up international operations across Europe and North America. Key Strength's and Unique skills : Fundraising from both private networks and technology VC's; raising over $30m in growth capital with an established network in the London, West Coast and Boston software communities. Managing and communicating to a large and diverse investor base. Market re-positioning and product go-to market strategy. Planning for exit and running sale process. Building shareholder value by forming strategic partnerships Specialties: Market development,sales and partner development, building and leading management teams. Corporate development, finance raising, international development.

CEO @ Providing strategic leadership and direction, developing the corporate strategy, partnerships, investor relations, fundraising and creating a go-to market plan. Achieved a 10 fold growth in customers in the first 24 months and developed a highly productive content inbound marketing strategy that increased both traffic and sales leads by a factor of 15. Managing a shareholder base of over 100 High Net Worth individuals and successfully raised $20m from this group of investors. I have developed strong corporate governance and communication for the shareholders and hold investor updates in London every six months where 30- 40 regularly attend. Flexiant is the leading provider of cloud orchestration software for on-demand, fully automated provisioning of cloud services. Flexiant’s software gives cloud service providers’ business agility, freedom and flexibility to scale, deploy and configure servers, simply and cost-effectively. Vendor agnostic and supporting multiple hypervisors, Flexiant’s proven cloud orchestration solution is a full business process automation suite from provisioning through to granular metering and billing of resource. Flexiant’s Cloud Orchestration suite is now recognised as a champion in its field and has been awarded by Gartner and Infotech Research for innovation and leadership. From January 2012 to Present (4 years) Chairman @ SynGro is a world leader in enabling large organisations to increase their customer loyalty, retention and profitability by capturing, managing and driving action from a Voice of the Customer programme. By capturing the Voice of the Customer whether it is direct, indirect or inferred across any channel and combining it with clients’ operational systems and data, SynGro enables clients to evolve their customer engagement and create a customer centric culture. In a market where 70% of companies who collect customer feedback fail to respond to customers, SynGro is the only Voice of the Customer provider able to drive action and learning from a Voice of the Customer programme. Our clients capture real-time customer feedback across web, mobile, call centre and face to face channels in 61 countries and 40 languages From October 2013 to Present (2 years 3 months) Non Exec Chairman @ Brightfire are a specialist inbound marketing company and certified Hubspot Platinum partner. The company specialises in building and creating innovative inbound content marketing, online lead generation, and marketing automation for B2B hi growth technology companies. We help our clients, get found online, build an audience,dramatically increase sales leads and customers. Working closely with the CEO and other directors to help shape the business strategy and assist in market development and company positioning. From June 2010 to January 2015 (4 years 8 months) London, United KingdomManaging Director, International @ Responsible for International Sales,Business Development and Partnerships HiSoftware is a leading provider of Web content and social computing compliance software that monitors risk management across disperse e-Content environments – keeping information safe, appropriate and within regulatory guidelines. The company’s solutions provide a Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) platform for automating effective business processes for confidentiality, privacy, brand integrity, site quality, accessibility and inappropriate content for public websites, intranets and SharePoint sites. HiSoftware’s customers consist of many of the world’s largest public and private intranet and public facing sites including US and international government agencies and Global 2000 companies. From January 2011 to January 2012 (1 year 1 month) Investor @ 6Central is a SaaS based web compliance and governance application that was developed on Amazon AWS and was used to monitor web site applications for quality issues and data breaches in the Financial Services, Government and Retail sectors. The company developed a new generation application that incorporated the latest development technology and cloud services. The company initially went to market quickly gaining a number of customers. The product came to the attention of a Ephox a San Francisco based software company with Global Partners and Distribution who were looking to add innovative technology to their portfolio. The product and technology was bought and is now part of the new companies portfolio of software products. From September 2010 to January 2012 (1 year 5 months) Executive Chairman @ Appointed new Boston based CEO to deliver and execute on North American expansion and growth. Moved to a new role to concentrate on development of strategic sales and marketing partnerships across the US and Europe. Responsibilities also included management of external investors and shareholders and working with CEO on strategy and direction. Business acquired by T-Systems the System Integration arm of T-Mobile a $11Billion company and major IT supplier to many of the largest Enterprises across Europe. From May 2010 to October 2010 (6 months) Chief Executive Officer @ Investor and major shareholder in Vamosa, the world leader in Enterprise Content Governance and migration software. In 2009 were named by Gartner as a " Cool Vendor” in content management. The company has offices in Glasgow, London and Boston with major customers being Fidelity, IBM, Deloitte, Oracle, Met Life, Astra-Zeneca, Novartis, Bank of America and Statoil. Responsible for Strategy, Corporate Sales/Development, Fund Raising, Setting Company Goals and Objectives. Company grew rapidly from a start-up product idea to multimillion dollar in sales in 20 different countries across the globe. It was recognised as a leader and innovator in its field and successfully built global strategic partnerships with IBM and T-Systems. Successfully built a strong management team and created a strong results orientated company culture with employee share options. Successfully raised $5m from Private Equity and Banks From January 2004 to April 2010 (6 years 4 months) Executive Chairman @ Founder and majority shareholder in Business Intelligence Consultancy focused around Enterprise clients across the UK. Company grew rapidly on the back of strong partnerships with Business Objects and we developed new partnerships with Microsoft and Oracle BI products. Rapid growth in revenues were built using strong internal lead generation and large client wins at FTSE 100 customers throughout the UK. Hired and built strong executive management team and worked with fellow directors on strategy and market development. Company was approached and subsequently acquired by UK AIM listed in a multimillion dollar deal. The company and is now part of Maxima Group PLC, a UK-listed public company. From June 2000 to January 2006 (5 years 8 months) Chairman and Investor @ Marcat were a leading Web design and consultancy company. Specialist services included web services for Tourism and local government. Marcat were also the leading technology implementor of Web CMS systems from Open Text. Major customers included Scottish Enterprise, British Council,East Renfrewshire Council and Visit Scotland From July 2000 to January 2004 (3 years 7 months) Head of CRM/E-Business @ Druid Systems were a 700 person SAP and Siebel systems integration company publicly listed on the FTSE 350 London market. They acquired Gamut Technologies and I subsequently ran their 120 person Siebel CRM and E Business division across the UK, US and Asia Pacific offices. Druid was subsequently acquired in March 2000 by FI Group (Xansa) for $1 bn. From January 1999 to March 2000 (1 year 3 months) London, United KingdomManaging Director @ Founder and Managing Director of UK based CRM and Business Intelligence consultancy. Developed early strategic partnerships with Siebel Systems and Business Objects. Rapidly grew revenues and staff to 60 people. The company was recognised as the leading Siebel CRM implementor in the UK market and was subsequently bought by SAP consultancy Druid Systems, a FTSE 350 IT technology company. The company was sold for $15m in cash and shares. Druid was sold 15 months later to Xansa for $1bn at the peak of the tech market. From May 1994 to January 1999 (4 years 9 months) Business Development Manager @ Opened up Scottish operation for CA during 1989 and won award for UK top sales person the same year. Promoted to Business Development Manager responsible for sales execution and strategy across Scotland, North of England and Ireland. Ran the sales and support teams based out of the Edinburgh, Manchester and Dublin Offices. Won the award as top Business Development Manager and top UK Sales Person was awarded to a team member. Responsible for recruiting and managing a multi-disciplined Enterprise sales team working in large corporate accounts, selling both medium and large multi million pound software licenses and contracts. From January 1989 to April 1994 (5 years 4 months)

George Knox is skilled in: Corporate Development, Raising Venture Capital, Exit Strategies, Software Sales, Pipeline Building, International Business, Business Management, Entrepreneurship, High Growth Companies, Venture Capital, Management, SaaS, Pipelines, Cloud Computing, Strategy