Paul George, Chief Executive Officer
Paul brings a strong track record of entrepreneurial success and experience to Fortune Interactive.
He is a founding partner and president of George Enterprises International (GEI) an early stage venture capital firm and business incubator that provides funding and mentoring to start-ups. In this role, Paul looks at the feasibility of new businesses and provides the support needed in the incubation process.
In 1998, he began creating websites for companies and has been involved in various software life cycle projects.
In 2000 he co-founded Cruise Network, an internet retailer of cruise vacations, where he was instrumental in growing the company's revenue from $1.1M to $20M in four years.
Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Paul spent six years in architectural consulting, design and building construction.
He received a bachelor degree in architecture from MIT, Manipal, India. Paul has been a certified Advanced Search Engine Marketing Strategist since 2004.
Sanjeev Kalanidhi, Director, Finance and Strategic Planning.
Sanjeev has worked at Federal Express, Manugistics and WakeMed in Senior Business Strategy and Corporate Planning positions. He has well-rounded business experience and has worked in new product development, joint venture development, marketing, enterprise software sales and financial planning roles.
Carl Meyers, Ph.D., Technical Advisor
Co Author of “Google PageRank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings” . This is the first published book on the science of search written and is highly acclaimed within the world of Search Marketing. Dr. Meyers is Professor of Mathematics at North Carolina State University. In addition to information retrieval, his research areas include numerical analysis, linear algebra, and Markov chains. He is the author of Matrix Analysis and Applied Linear Algebra.
Amy Langville, Ph.D., Technical Advisor
Co Author of “Google PageRank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings”. Dr. Langville is Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. She studies mathematical algorithms for information retrieval and text and data mining applications.
Al Bender, Ph.D., Business Advisor
Dr. Bender has over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications, data communications and software industry as both a large company executive and as founder and CEO of four startup companies. His business approach is hands-on and focused on practical, workable advice that produces measurable results.