Richard Peyton George

Current

• Managing Director at SciTech Miner

Past

• Energy Advisor at Post Carbon Institute
• CTO at WorldTech Inc.
• Manager at BearingPoint

• COO at Galileo Interactive
• Associate at Webridge Ventures
• Manager at YellowGiant.com

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Education

• Capella University
• University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business
• University of Virginia

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Richard Peyton George’s Summary

Expert in the evaluation, competitive analysis, and due diligence review of emerging technologies and startup ventures. Developed text data mining technology to extract, clean, analyze, summarize, and report on science and technology research, patents, and funding transactions at the topic, country, organization, and researcher levels. Tech mining research topics include photovoltaics, energy storage, smart materials, nanotechnology, nanotubes, bioinformatics, gene expressions, data fusion, wind turbines, biogas, search engines, and quantum computing.

Richard Peyton George’s Specialties:

data mining; text data mining; technology opportunity analysis; bibliometrics, bioinformatics; citation analysis, research evaluation, venture capital due dilligence, technology scouting and evaluation, entrepreneurship; venture capital; management of startups; competitive intelligence; market research; OLAP; startups; consulting; research; artificial intelligence; photovoltaics; solar electric; solar concentrators; alternative energy

Richard Peyton George’s Experience

• Managing Director

  SciTech Miner

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)

  Data mining of the global science and technology literature, patent, and funding transaction abstracts. Topic areas include photovoltaics, biogas, wind turbines, data fusion, smart materials, bioinformatics, energy storage, and nanotubes. NASA subcontractor.

• Energy Advisor

  Post Carbon Institute

  (Non-Profit; Think Tanks industry)

  September 2005 — December 2007 (2 years 4 months)

  Member of Post Carbon's Local Energy Farms Advisory Panel advising the Post Carbon Institute on alternative energy technologies, community supported manufacturing, and the energy farm pilot project.

• CTO

  WorldTech Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Defense & Space industry)

  June 2001 — May 2005 (4 years )

  WorldTech provides technology search and assessment services to a variety of U.S. government agencies, defense prime contractors, and investors. The company also helps selected portfolio companies to commercialize their defense, homeland security, advanced manufacturing, and energy technologies. Developed the company's technology search, due diligence, and competitive intelligence methodologies. Completed technical and financial due diligence on hundreds of potential portfolio companies and technologies from China, Japan, Poland, United Kingdom, France, Israel, Germany, Sweden, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Russia, and the United States. Managed the pilot project that served as a proof of concept that helped the company win over $8 million worth of technology search and development contracts from NASA and the Department of Defense.

• Manager

  BearingPoint

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2000 — May 2001 (10 months)

  Responsible for providing finance and strategy consulting to a variety of clients, with an additional focus on business development as part of a team that successfully sold over $7 million in consulting contracts.

• COO

  Galileo Interactive

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 1999 — August 2000 (11 months)

  Managed day-to-day finance, budgeting, strategic planning, due diligence of potential incubation investments and valuation of investments for this Internet incubator developing a variety of streaming media and digital rights management projects. Galileo was a Webridge Ventures portfolio company.

• Associate

  Webridge Ventures

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  June 1999 — August 2000 (1 year 3 months)

  Performed venture capital due diligence of proposed portfolio investments in Internet, New Media, and eCommerce startups for a regional $25 million venture capital fund.

• Manager

  YellowGiant.com

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  March 1997 — June 1999 (2 years 4 months)

  Served as the project lead on a year long project to research and model the Yellow Page publishing industry to identify weaknesses, problems, and opportunities for re-engineering existing industry practices using internet technologies.

Richard Peyton George’s Education

• Capella University

  PhD , Information Technology , 2003 — 2006

  Ph.D. Dissertation Title: Scaling the Technology Opportunity Analysis Text Data Mining Methodology: Data Extraction, Cleaning, OLAP
  Analysis, and Reporting of Large Multi-Source Datasets
  
  Ph.D. Dissertation Abstract: Because the existing applications of Technology Opportunity Analysis (TOA) text data mining framework developed by Alan Porter et al used small datasets, previous research never pushed the limits of the methodology and failed to identify areas for future research associated with using larger datasets. This dissertation proposes data importing, data cleaning, OLAP visualization and analysis, and reporting extensions to the TOA framework to improve its performance and scalability when analyzing large datasets.

• University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business

  MBA , Information Technology & Finance , 1995 — 1997

• University of Virginia

  BS , Finance & Management , 1988 — 1992

Additional Information

Richard Peyton George’s Interests:

Alternative energy technologies; Peak Oil; Climate Change; relocalization; community supported manufacturing; entrepreneurship

Richard Peyton George’s Honors:

Books Published:
Virtual Private Networks: Market Opportunities and Implications for Service Providers and Their Suppliers, Communications Industry Researchers, 1999, 279 pages. www.cir-inc.com

Conference Presentations:
Global Technological Co-operation Networks, Conference on Technology Development of Industrial Clusters (TDIC) organized by the Toolmakers Cluster of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia, November 7, 2003
Object-Based Video Surveillance, World Customs Organization, Budapest, Hungary, September 24, 2003
Blueprint for Slovenian Toolmaking Cluster to Build Competitive Advantages Using LENS, Optomec LENS Seminar, Albuquerque, New Mexico, December 9, 2002
Laser Engineered Net Shaping, WorldTech Technology Showcase Seminar, McLean, VA, October 23, 2002

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