George Schussel

George Schussel (born 1941) is an American businessman, entrepreneur, and writer. Schussel became best known as the founder and chairman of the Digital Consulting Institute (DCI) and promoting computer technology in conferences and expos.

Schussel's expertise on database, computing architectures, the internet and information management issues inspired him to travel to many countries presenting lectures that gave his views on the latest computer technologies and probable directions for the future of computer technology. As of 2004, Schussel had given over 1,000 seminars for other technology professionals in countries such as France, UK, Belgium, Venezuela, Canada, Mexico, South Africa, Japan, and Australia.

George Schussel was the inventor and chairperson of computer industry trade shows such as ''Database World'', ''Client/Server World'', and ''Creating the Real Time Enterprise''. His lectures had scored 9 on a 10-point scale and were noted for underlining and explaining technical issues, while focusing on the business benefits and uses of technology.

Schussel wrote the 1985 book ''Data Management: Past, present and future'' (Critical technology report), as well as co-authored the 1994 book ''Rightsizing Information Systems (Professional Reference)''. He has also authored or co-authored over 100 articles or columns in leading computer industry journals such as ''Computerworld'', Datamation, Client Server Today and Data Based Advisor. Provided by Wikipedia