George is a strategic government affairs executive with 25 years’ experience, currently serving as the Vice President of lobbying and political affairs for the Mortage Banker’s Association (MBA). Prior to MBA, he was the Managing Partner of the bipartisan Republic Consulting LLC. Prior to Republic, George served as the CEO of Wexler | Walker, a division of the global communications company WPP.

Previously, George spent nearly fourteen years in key leadership roles in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives, including serving as a senior Policy Advisor and Counsel to the Speaker of the House and to the Minority Leader of the House. He also served as General Counsel of the Committee on Rules, as Oversight and Investigations Counsel for the Government Reform Committee and the Technology & Procurement Policy Subcommittee; and as Legislative Counsel to the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

George has been instrumental in both crafting landmark legislation and stopping bills through his strategic thinking and mastery of congressional procedure. George served as the Leader’s chief financial services advisor during the Financial Crisis, and he coordinated House Republican activities on the Dodd-Frank Act. He also helped broker the first major patent reform legislation in decades, and worked extensively with the Senate to enact legislation important to House Members. George was the architect for the creation of the permanent Homeland Security Committee. He has testified before Congress, most recently on the intersection of House rules, continuity legislation, and the U.S. Constitution.