Corporate Staff Bio

Dr. George J. Matthews
Collegiate Enterprise Solutions
Chairman & CEO

Dr. Matthews served as a Trustee at Northeastern University from 1978 through 1999, and was Chairman of the Board for his last 10 years of service. As the current Chairman Emeritus, he is the University's senior advisor to the Board Chair and the President. A well-known entrepreneur, he has been instrumental in founding over thirty business ventures. In addition to serving as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CES, he is currently the Chairman of the Gorbachev Foundation of North America, which he founded with the former President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail S. Gorbachev; he serves on the Executive Committee of the Club of Madrid, which is an international resource center for the formation and support of democratic nation states; he is the Managing Director of Hickory Hill Advisors, LLC, a venture capital firm; and he is the Chairman of Pinnacle Training Corporation.