Cofounder, Vice Chairman and Director
NavLink, Inc.

George Chammas is cofounder, vice chairman and director of NavLink, Inc. (www.navlink.com), the leading managed services provider in the Middle East. He served as copresident and CFO of NavLink from its inception in 1996 until April 2010, and then as vice chairman and chief strategy officer until February 2012.

Prior to founding NavLink, Mr. Chammas was executive vice president and director from 1983 to 1999 for Niray International, based in San Francisco. At Niray, he held senior management roles where he oversaw Niray’s investments in North America. From 1978 to 1983, Mr. Chammas was operations manager for Medco, Inc., a leading petroleum company in the Middle East based in Beirut, Lebanon.

Mr. Chammas is a director of the French American Chamber of Commerce where he served as president from 1989 to 1993.

He also serves on the advisory board for the Center for Middle East Public Policy of the RAND Corporation.

Upon graduating from the GSB, Mr. Chammas began his entrepreneurial career focusing on investments in information and communication technologies. In 1978, Mr. Chammas cofounded CIS (www.cis.com.lb), currently a leading Hewlett Packard distributor in over 40 Middle East and African countries. In 1995, he founded Data Management, the first internet service provider in the region. Mr. Chammas is a director of the Chammas Group (www.medco.com.lb), a diversified multi-national corporation based in Lebanon, which focuses on petroleum, general manufacturing and IT services, and IDM (www.idm.net.lb),

a leading ISP in the region. Mr. Chammas is also a charter member of TechWadi (www.techwadi.org), a leading nonprofit organization focused on bridging the gap between Silicon Valley and the Middle East, and is a founding member of Berytech (www.berytech.org), a leading technology incubator based in Beirut, Lebanon.

Mr. Chammas holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering, cum laude, from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1976, and was inducted in the engineering honor societies, Tau Beta Pi and Pi Tau Sigma.

Mr. Chammas resides in Hillsborough, California, with his wife, Dolly, and three sons, Nicolas (GSB ’09), Rony and Patrick. He enjoys contemporary art, food and wine, and is participating in the preservation of the Abbey of St. Vivant in Burgundy, France. Mr. Chammas is a U.S. and Lebanese national and is fluent in Arabic, French and English.