Summary
George Adams is a strategic program advisor and finance transformation leader with over 25 years of experience helping large financial services, insurance, and industrial organizations align finance, technology and operations to drive measurable results. He has deep CFO-function expertise—shared services, controllership, decision support and financial systems—and a strong track record leading cross-functional change, outsourcing programs, and greenfield operations across international environments. George has held senior finance and technology finance roles at institutions including Bank of America, ABN AMRO/LaSalle, Aviva and BP Amoco, and now advises the Office of the CIO at Scotiabank on strategic programs. He blends pragmatic financial control with portfolio and vendor management skills to deliver cost reduction, productivity gains and business transformation. An MBA from Chicago Booth and a background in accounting underpin his analytical rigor, while a long-standing interest in AI and AGI signals curiosity about how emerging tech can reshape finance and operations.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Finance and International Business, MBA Finance and International Business at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Bachelors of Science Accounting, Bachelors of Science Accounting at University of Illinois Chicago
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