George Ralph

A highly experienced IT and Business Leader with a proven track record of strategic alignment, process improvement, streamlining workflow and improving delivery to achieve growth based on outstanding service. Successfully completed strategy, growth, transformation, and business planning for many organisations during my career including the founding of RFA’s European and UK Business units doubling the global firms revenue in 10 years. Over twenty years’ technical experience in network and server architecture, large scale migrations utilising leading technology and brands such as Microsoft, Zerto, VMware, Cisco, Citrix, Plate spin through to Red Hat, CentOS and Xen. Over fifteen years' board level experience. A high-level strategic thinker and leader, someone who relishes the opportunity to improve, translate and make a noticeable difference - Ensuring all the team delivery is completed to an exceptionally high standard and well within stage boundaries. An excellent understanding of business demands and powerful team leadership skills, giving sound advice to engineers and business leaders alike, able to work effectively with other professionals while mentoring on budgets, risks, due diligence, strategies, and technical implementations. Long standing experience with a large network of connections within multiple sectors facilitating the joining of people together and actively helping to remove unnecessary costs while streamlining and improving service delivery for all gained from M&A and Due Diligence activities spanning many years. An Assessor for the British Computer Society (The institute of IT) and a Certified IT professional, A member of ‘help for children’ GEMS board and a Caterham racer.