John George

Senior Director, Solutions Engineering and Fusion Splicers
OFS

John George has served with AT&T, Lucent Technologies and now OFS in various engineering and marketing roles. He currently leads the Solutions Engineering and Fusion Splicer group for OFS’s optical fiber, cable, connectivity, fusion splicer, and solutions business. George has published and presented numerous papers and articles on fiber optics and FTTH in numerous forums including the first 10 Gb/s multimode fibers at BICSI in 1999, and been active in industry standards including IEEE and TIA. He has been supporting the Fiber Broadband Association (former FTTH Council) from 2001, served on its board of directors from 2008 – 2018, and now leads the Association’s technology committee. George, who holds 10 patents, has a bachelor of mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech and a master of science in engineering administration from Virginia Tech.