George bednarz
George is an accomplished senior executive with over 35 years experience in technology-enabled information and marketing businesses. He has a strong track record of building high-performance teams and organizations that are tightly aligned and focused on executing upon common missions, strategies and game plans to achieve and surpass organizational goals. George possesses a unique set of executive skills from his experience managing a wide-array of business functions and units and also from leading large-scale strategic initiatives including business re-engineering and merger-driven integrations.
Prior to joining Cobb Bay Partners, George was a senior executive at local marketing solutions provider Dex One Corporation (formerly R.H. Donnelley), most recently as Executive Vice President of Enterprise Sales and Operations where he drew upon his experience in strategic planning and digital operations to lead the company’s transformation from a yellow pages advertising business to a provider of a comprehensive suite of print and interactive marketing solutions. During his tenure with R.H. Donnelley/Dex One, George also led the publishing, IT, strategic planning, interactive customer service and communications functions and business units. George also was the co-lead and lead for the successful integrations of the RHD acquisitions of Sprint Publishing & Advertising and Dex Media, respectively.
Prior to joining R.H. Donnelley, Bednarz worked at The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, where he held executive positions of increasing responsibility from 1976 to 1995 in telephone call center operations, marketing database management, customer service, information technology and strategic planning. He holds an MBA from Duke University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Vanderbilt University.
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