George leads globally product management, innovation and strategy at Ericsson’s Digital Services business unit, for OSS products, focusing on next generation AI/cognitive solutions for the Telecom and IoT industries. Previously, George was heading product management for IoT Analytics & CEM portfolio covering Telecom and IoT vertical industry solutions. Prior to joining Ericsson, George was a founder of a startup involved in the growing areas of IoT and AI. He has also worked at Orange's Research Innovation division in the UK, initially as researcher and later as Senior Network Design engineer. Also worked at Vodafone, responsible for Mobile Services and as Innovation New Growth Areas manager at WIND Hellas. George holds a MEng. in Electronic Engineering & Computer Science and an M.Sc. in Communication Systems both from the University of Bristol in UK, as well as a postgraduate degrees in Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing from Stanford University and MIT respectively.