NASDAQ IPO. Two SaaS company exits. Founder of a private peer circle for CEOs who don't make their hardest calls alone.
⌄CPA to CFO to CEO. Across three decades in technology, George founded a software company and grew it from startup to a NASDAQ IPO — past $100 million in revenue and more than 1,000 employees. He went on to build and sell two more software businesses at premium valuations, one acquired by a global financial institution.
He credits a single discipline above all: never making the most important decisions alone.
Not a course. Not a cohort that ends. An ongoing table of CEOs who have carried the same weight, there for as long as you're building. Your team, your investors, your board each come to the table with an agenda. A true peer comes with none but your success — the rarest counsel a CEO has, and the hardest to find inside your own walls.
Bring your bet-the-company decisions to a room of CEOs who have faced them, and leave with conviction instead of doubt.
Pressure-test your strategy against operators who have scaled and exited — before the market tests it for you.
Trade the lonely view from the top for judgment that compounds.
The climb was never only the company. Guard the family, the health, the life the work is meant to serve.
George has the operating experience to cut through noise fast. He asks hard questions and sits with hard answers. He listens, decides, and moves. If you're a tech CEO looking for someone who's actually been in the seat, navigated scaling and selling a company, and genuinely wants to help other operators do the same, George is the real deal.
George exhibited strong management and excellent leadership. His dedication and commitment were second to none. Any business leader would be hard pressed to learn from a better person.
I worked with George at epaCUBE, where he was CEO and I served as his fractional CMO. The demand funnel was thin. George gave me the time and trust to do the work — we repositioned the brand and built a system that filled the funnel. What sets George apart: he sees marketing as a growth lever, not a cost center. He reads SaaS metrics fluently and drives accountability against the plan. If you're a tech CEO considering George as an advisor: he's lived the SaaS journey end-to-end, through a PE exit. Pay attention.
A private conversation to see whether this is the right table for you.
Sit in as a guest. Feel the room before you commit to anything.
Take your seat, and lead with the counsel of peers beside you.
The table is small by design, capped at 14 seats and filled by introduction. Not every CEO is a fit, and that is what protects the room for those who are.
Clivus takes its name from the Clivus Capitolinus, the road that wound up Rome's Capitoline Hill — the path a victorious general and his legions walked in triumph toward the temple at the summit. Not a ceremony. A covenant. They did not make that climb alone. They ascended surrounded by those who had carried the same weight beside them.
That is Clivus. The long work of building something that lasts, made among peers who have climbed it too.