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 Web 2.0 - the
next generation Internet.
Personal interests:
