biznik
encompasses the consulting and professional activities of George Perfect.
Colleagues bring additional or specialist skills to projects under the
biznik
umbrella as required.
Based in the North East of England, we work throughout the UK and
world-wide.
George is a serial entrepreneur who over 25 years has
founded, run and grown to success several high-technology businesses. He
has performed consulting and advisory roles within the boardrooms of major
UK banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions as well as a
wide range of commercial, manufacturing and distribution businesses in the
UK, Europe, the USA, Asia and Australia. He brings the same breadth of knowledge,
experience, creativity and enthusiasm to organisations regardless of their
size, whether multi-nationals or startup
businesses.
He is a Fellow
of the Institute of Directors and a Business Mentor with the Prince's Trust,
supporting young people taking their first steps into business, and
occupied the voluntary role of Branch Secretary within the Alzheimer's Society
(being CRB cleared in both roles).
Operating on the global stage from the outset, George has
"done business" throughout much of Europe, the USA, Japan, China,
Singapore, Australia and Africa building a network of contacts and friends
in all those places.
Until 2003, he was Managing Director of the Byline Group - a software and
computer systems business he founded in 1987 that grew to become the
principal provider of specialist investment and accounting systems to
owners of very large property portfolios. The company also provided ERP
systems of its own design to manufacturing and distribution companies.
Byline was based in the UK with a wholly owned
subsidiary in Sydney, Australia.
An earlier company, Derwent Data
Systems (DDS) was founded in 1980 and went on to develop the
AlphaControl accounting software and the Retrieve
database package. A desire to test the 'natural language' capabilities of
Retrieve took him to Japan where the software was quickly shown to work.
The software package ChitChat that he
designed and developed proved to be the pivotal product that popularised
and made practical public email services in the UK and Europe.
After selling DDS to the Sage Group in 1983, George started
another business in partnership with Japan's largest software company, SMC
for which he successfully developed the world's first Kanji (Japanese
script) windowed operating system for PCs. Research into voice recognition software
for IBM and Texas Instruments followed.
He keeps up to date with new technological developments,
runs several web sites (and the servers that host them) and is actively
involved in developing new software for the next generation Internet.
Business networking presence
Business interests
- Edudigi - IPTV
broadcasting for schools and communities
- The Primary Channel - Digital media broadcasting
for primary / elementary schools
Greyridge Software Ltd - >Non-exec, Web based software
development and delivery with SAAS product offerings
Personal interests
