George Billings, Board of Directors
George Billings is president of Billings & Co., a management consulting firm specializing in strategic and operating services in the communications and other high technology industries.
As head of Billings & Co., and separately, as president of Mobile Management Corporation, Billings has:
- Led the commercialization of many mobile communications licenses in the United States, including business plan development, staffing, engineering, vendor negotiations, construction, financing, marketing, customer service, billing and all administrative support services;
- Developed and implemented successful distribution strategies for major U.S. cellular operators;
- Reorganized and decentralized a leading wireless enterprise to fuel growth and reduce costs;
- Rationalized the strategy and national network operations of a dominant paging carrier, resulting in a successful turn-around and sale for $645 million;
- Developed strategic and operating initiatives for a leading interexchange carrier;
- Led, as trustee and president, the successful turn-around and sale of a failed cellular carrier serving the oil and gas exploration and production industries and marine sectors in the Gulf of Mexico;
- Developed strategies and market positioning for a major communications equipment provider; and
- Sold wireless properties to consolidating carriers.
He has served on the Boards of Directors of Cambridge Strategic Management Group, Transcept, Inc., and Priority Telecom, NV, a publicly held company based in Amsterdam, and he has been a member of the advisory boards of a number of venture funded technology enterprises. He also has served on the Board of Directors of Cignal Global Communications, as vice chairman of the board of Symmetry Communications Systems, Inc., on the executive committee of the Brown University Annual Fund, as member and secretary of the Brown Alumni Association Board of Governors, as president of Brown’s Association of Class Leaders, as vice chair of Brown’s capital campaign, as a member of the Search Committee charged with selecting Brown’s 19th president, and on the Phillips Academy (Andover) Development Board.
He has worked as a volunteer in fundraising and admissions for Brown, Harvard and Andover. He currently is a member of the board of overseers of the Marine Biological Laboratory, board member of the Brown University Entrepreneurship Program, president of his Brown class, president of the Brown Alumni Association and a trustee of the Brown Corporation. As a Brown trustee, he is a member of the Corporation’s Committees on Advancement, Trustee Vacancy and the University’s 250th Anniversary.
