George Chase

Group President and Chief Operating Officer

George Chase currently serves as Group President and Chief Operating Officer for Fujitsu Network Communications. With more than 30 years of experience in the telecom industry, George oversees the company’s operations, engineering and development, product planning, product marketing and sales divisions. His communications career began with 16 years tenure at AT&T Network Systems (now Lucent Technologies), where he had a number of assignments of increasing responsibility. He went on to Rockwell Transmission Systems, Inc. to serve as Director of Product Management, Central Region Sales Director and Vice President of Sales.

In 1990, George joined Fujitsu Network Transmission Systems, Inc. as the Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, responsible for all transmission and switching product sales, business management and marketing. When Fujitsu Network Communications formed in 1996, George was appointed to an identical position within the new company. In April 1997, he was promoted to the position of Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing. He left Fujitsu to join Hook Partners, a Dallas-based Venture Capital firm, and returned in 2002 to assume his current position.

George serves on the board of the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS), a United States based body accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) that is committed to rapidly developing and promoting technical and operations standards for the communications industry. He is also a member of the Lamar Engineering Advisory board.

George holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Lamar University and an MBA from Oklahoma City University.